Interviews

Weekly feature introducing you to film professionals from all over Europe sorted by name.

7805 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 27/09/2024. 609 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Bernhard Wenger • Director of Peacock

“I find passive main characters exciting – you rarely see them in films”

Bernhard Wenger • Director of Peacock

VENICE 2024: The Austrian helmer’s feature debut pokes fun at society’s excessive need for perfectly curated, albeit fake, personalities  

02/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | International Film Critics’ Week

Andres Veiel • Director of Riefenstahl

“It is not just a finished life story, but a warning for the future”

Andres Veiel • Director of Riefenstahl

VENICE 2024: The German director discusses Leni Riefenstahl’s efforts to rewrite her own history while digging herself an even deeper grave  

02/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Peter Kerekes  • Director of Wishing on a Star

“This film is not about sound or image; it’s about energy”

Peter Kerekes • Director of Wishing on a Star

VENICE 2024: Can spending your birthday under the right star constellation really help you reach your goals in life? The Slovak-Hungarian director tells us more  

02/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Gianni Amelio  • Director of Battlefield

“I haven’t made a war film, but a film about war”

Gianni Amelio • Director of Battlefield

VENICE 2024: The veteran Italian director helps us interpret his film about the arrival of the fatal “Spanish flu” during the last year of the First World War  

01/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Anne-Sophie Bailly  • Director of My Everything

“In drama, humour is a kind of politeness towards the viewer”

Anne-Sophie Bailly • Director of My Everything

VENICE 2024: The French filmmaker evokes the mechanisms and influences of her parent-child duo film revolving around the question of disability and emancipation  

01/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño • Directors of Marco

“Sometimes, we don’t understand our main character, but we didn’t want to judge him or whitewash him”

Aitor Arregi, Jon Garaño • Directors of Marco

VENICE 2024: The Basque helmers reveal their fascination for the real-life case underpinning their film, centring on a man who took lying to an...  

01/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Kohei Igarashi  • Director of Super Happy Forever

"Eternal happiness doesn't exist, but we are all looking for it nonetheless"

Kohei Igarashi • Director of Super Happy Forever

VENICE 2024: The Japanese director talks about his new film, which tells of the upheaval of unexpected grief and recalls the birth of a love affair at a...  

01/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Federica Di Giacomo e Chiara Francini  • Director and actress-producer of The Open Couple

"We wanted to figure out whether or not certain concepts would be called into question after 40 years"

Federica Di Giacomo e Chiara Francini • Director and actress-producer of The Open Couple

VENICE 2024: We chat about polyamory with the director and the producer of the documentary based on the 1983 play of the same name by Franca Rame and Dario Fo  

31/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Amos Gitai • Director of Why War

“I would like to embrace the idea of the filmmaker or the artist as a healer”

Amos Gitai • Director of Why War

VENICE 2024: The Israeli director offers a kaleidoscopic film essay on war, fuelled by a historic exchange of letters between Albert Einstein and Sigmund Freud  

31/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Göran Hugo Olsson • Director of Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

"It was old hat, they reasoned, void of topical importance. Which all changed, of course, on 7 October"

Göran Hugo Olsson • Director of Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

The filmmaker tells us about the genesis of his project reconstituting the history of Israel and Palestine through Swedish TV footage, and his hopes for the...  

30/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Elisa García Grande • Executive Director, ICEX-Invest in Spain

“The incentive framework in Spain is very attractive for companies that choose to film here”

Elisa García Grande • Executive Director, ICEX-Invest in Spain

The executive director of the Spanish Institute for Foreign Trade programme outlines its specific programmes that promote foreign film production in the country  

30/08/2024 | /Spain

Alexandros Avranas • Director of Quiet Life

“At some point, given what is happening to the environment, we might all become refugees”

Alexandros Avranas • Director of Quiet Life

VENICE 2024: The Greek director outlines the mysterious syndrome affecting refugee children as well as other topics tackled in his film  

30/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Deepak Rauniyar, Asha Magrati • Director of and lead actress in Pooja, Sir

“We felt that it was our responsibility to make a film that everyday media could not cover”

Deepak Rauniyar, Asha Magrati • Director of and lead actress in Pooja, Sir

VENICE 2024: The director and the lead actress, who are personal and professional partners, speak about their impetus to collaborate on a film inspired by...  

30/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Aude Léa Rapin • Director of Planet B

“In Planet B, people don’t talk; they act”

Aude Léa Rapin • Director of Planet B

VENICE 2024: In her 2039-set feature, starring Adèle Exarchopoulos, the French director brings science fiction, ecology and politics to the table  

29/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | International Film Critics’ Week

Jonás Trueba • Director of The Other Way Around

“The idea of recycling can also be applied to love and partnership”

Jonás Trueba • Director of The Other Way Around

The Spanish director reveals the latest on his new feature film, winner of the Europa Cinemas Label at the last Cannes Directors' Fortnight  

28/08/2024 | Spain/France

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