Interviews

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

7803 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 26/09/2024. 608 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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

Brigitte Weich and Judith Benedikt • Director and director of photography of ...ned, tassot, yossot...

"North Korea made such an impression on me that it eventually made me a filmmaker"

Brigitte Weich and Judith Benedikt • Director and director of photography of ...ned, tassot, yossot...

The Austrian filmmakers talk to us about their documentary about four former players from North Korea’s women’s football national team that won the Asian...  

28/08/2024 | Sarajevo 2024 | Documentary Competition

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