Interviews

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

8330 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 24/07/2025. 665 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Alice Diop • Director of Saint Omer

“This is a film based on words. But with so many words, you need silences, too”

Alice Diop • Director of Saint Omer

VENICE 2022: The French filmmaker delivers a stunner of a movie and a real punch to the heart with her latest effort  

10/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Romain Gavras • Director of Athena

"Suddenly, the neighbourhood had kind of become the Cinecittà of the banlieue"

Romain Gavras • Director of Athena

VENICE 2022: The French director talked to us about the genesis of a film as spectacular as it is sensitive and moving  

09/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Michal Blaško • Director of Victim

“There is this balance between an intimate story and one about an individual against society”

Michal Blaško • Director of Victim

VENICE 2022: We chatted to the Slovak filmmaker about his feature debut, in which he takes a deep dive into the xenophobia that’s firmly embedded in society  

09/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti

Benedetta Argentieri • Director of The Matchmaker

“It took a long time for us to strike the right balance, in order to show Tooba exactly how I saw her”

Benedetta Argentieri • Director of The Matchmaker

VENICE 2022: We spoke to the Italian journalist and director about her intriguing documentary portraying a female jihadist  

09/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Out of Competition

Salvatore Mereu • Director of Bentu

"This farmer, whose way of life is so distant from our own, reminds us that we don't have the right relationship with nature"

Salvatore Mereu • Director of Bentu

VENICE 2022: The director follows the day-to-day life of an elderly farmer as he waits for the wind to blow in a moral parable about man defying nature  

09/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Antonio Lukich • Director of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

“Each of us loves and hates our parents at the same time”

Antonio Lukich • Director of Luxembourg, Luxembourg

VENICE 2022: We spoke to the Ukrainian director about his second film, which, in a way, is a continuation of his previous effort, My Thoughts Are Silent  

08/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti

Pippo Mezzapesa • Director of Burning Hearts

“I used black and white in order to make this passion- and vendetta-themed story universal”

Pippo Mezzapesa • Director of Burning Hearts

VENICE 2022: We chatted with the Italian director about his choice of black and white for the film, and singer Elodie’s acting debut  

08/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti

Dušan Zorić and Matija Gluščević • Directors of Have You Seen This Woman?

“We liked the fact that the film would grow alongside us over the years, and become more and more mature”

Dušan Zorić and Matija Gluščević • Directors of Have You Seen This Woman?

VENICE 2022: The Serbian directorial duo present an intriguing first feature made up of three episodes and focusing on the topic of identity  

08/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | International Film Critics’ Week

Jørgen Leth and Andreas Koefoed • Directors of Music for Black Pigeons

“What I don’t like together with my pictures is ‘jazzy’ jazz – and this isn’t ‘jazzy’ jazz”

Jørgen Leth and Andreas Koefoed • Directors of Music for Black Pigeons

VENICE 2022: The thoughtful and “picturesque” side of jazz is studied by the Danish directorial duo, themselves exploring it like two seasoned musicians  

08/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Out of Competition

Gianni Amelio • Director of Lord of the Ants

“There are echoes of the present-day in my film about a homosexual poet’s trial in 1968”

Gianni Amelio • Director of Lord of the Ants

VENICE 2022: In the Italian director’s eyes, the trial of Aldo Braibanti fifty years ago a is an opportunity to denounce homophobia past and present  

08/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Gianfranco Rosi • Director of In viaggio

“The Pope 'in viaggio' is a different Pope to the Pope in the Vatican”

Gianfranco Rosi • Director of In viaggio

VENICE 2022: Examining 37 visits over nine years, Gianfranco Rosi depicts an increasingly progressive Pope Francis, facing up to the world and its troubles  

08/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Out of Competition

Emanuele Crialese • Director of L’immensità

“I told the story that was in my heart”

Emanuele Crialese • Director of L’immensità

VENICE 2022: We chatted with the Italian director about his film based on his own adolescence, before transitioning  

07/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Graham Foy • Director of The Maiden

"I was interested in trying to capture a type of magic that also exists in everyday life"

Graham Foy • Director of The Maiden

VENICE 2022: The feature debut by the Canadian director portrays a summer's day that ends in tragedy, centring on three teenagers who forge an otherworldly...  

07/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Vincenzo Pirrotta • Director of The Bone Breakers

"It's a journey of misery and desperation that often plays out right in front of us without us realising"

Vincenzo Pirrotta • Director of The Bone Breakers

VENICE 2022: Using a horrifying news story as his starting point, the actor-director ponders how much of ourselves we are willing to mangle in order to get...  

07/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Greta De Lazzaris and Jacopo Quadri • Directors of We're Here to Try

"As an artistic pairing, we see Daria and Antonio quarrelling the same way as a real-life couple would"

Greta De Lazzaris and Jacopo Quadri • Directors of We're Here to Try

VENICE 2022: The filmmaking duo document the development of the new theatre project of the Italy's Daria Deflorian and Antonio Tagliarini  

07/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

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