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.

 
Cristina Grosan • Director of Ordinary Failures

"It was interesting for us to see things change and evolve, and our script become more and more alive around this"

Cristina Grosan • Director of Ordinary Failures

VENICE 2022: Hungarian-Romanian director and visual artist talks about her film, which brings together three women whose day is turned upside down by a...  

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

Isabella Carbonell • Director of Dogborn

“I never wanted this film to be just a traumatic experience for a select few”

Isabella Carbonell • Director of Dogborn

VENICE 2022: The Stockholm-based director balances light and darkness in her engaging story of despair, hatred and submission  

07/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | International Film Critics’ Week

Kōji Fukada • Director of Love Life

“To me, a person is basically lonely, despite family or religion or any other community”

Kōji Fukada • Director of Love Life

VENICE 2022: While dealing with the subject of loneliness, the Japanese writer-director inflicts cruelty on his characters, but also shows them some hope...  

07/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Cláudia Varejão • Director of Wolf & Dog

"Sometimes we are wolves, sometimes we are dogs, but in our youth we are everything"

Cláudia Varejão • Director of Wolf & Dog

VENICE 2022: The Portuguese director has shot her film on an island in the Azores, home to a tiny queer community made up of young boys and girls trying to...  

06/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Antonello Matarazzo • Director of Pablo from Neanderthal

"I wanted to maintain a childlike approach while imagining the story of our origins"

Antonello Matarazzo • Director of Pablo from Neanderthal

VENICE 2022: The painter and director meets artist Pablo Echaurren, and together, they wonder about what would have happened if the Neanderthal man had...  

06/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Evelyn Regner • Vice-President of the European Parliament

"At the level of the European Parliament, the parties that support the LUX Audience Award want greater European integration"

Evelyn Regner • Vice-President of the European Parliament

VENICE 2022: The Vice-President of the European Parliament tells us about the political role of the LUX Audience Award, its evolution and the latest batch...  

06/09/2022 | Venice 2022

Philippe Petit • Director of Beating Sun

"There’s growing awareness of the need to have plants around us"

Philippe Petit • Director of Beating Sun

VENICE 2022: The French filmmaker who turned heads with works made outside of the system spoke to us about his highly endearing first feature film  

06/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | International Film Critics’ Week

Tahmina Rafaella • Director of Banu

“A complete storyline is something that we underestimate”

Tahmina Rafaella • Director of Banu

VENICE 2022: We chatted to the promising Azerbaijani director, whose debut feature follows a mother struggling to gain custody of her son in a patriarchal...  

06/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Biennale College Cinema

Adila Bendimerad, Damien Ounouri • Directors of The Last Queen

"It's a story that the Algerians have never seen before and which they need in order to dig deep into their history and culture"

Adila Bendimerad, Damien Ounouri • Directors of The Last Queen

VENISE 2022: The directing duo straddles reality and legend as it retraces a historical event from 16th-century Algeria from Queen Zaphira's perspective  

06/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Karim Ouelhaj • Director of Megalomaniac

“It seems necessary to me to show evil”

Karim Ouelhaj • Director of Megalomaniac

We met with the Belgian filmmaker to talk about his latest film, a bloody and baroque phantasmagoria prized at the recent Fantasia Film Festival in Montreal  

06/09/2022 | BIFFF 2022

Mihai Mincan  • Director of To the North

“I wanted to make a film about the fear one feels when one’s life is under another’s power”

Mihai Mincan • Director of To the North

VENICE 2022: The Romanian director spills the beans on his morally challenging first fiction feature, focusing on a stowaway who’s discovered on board a...  

06/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti

Rachid Hami • Director of For My Country

"It’s not a case of the army against a family of suburban Arabs"

Rachid Hami • Director of For My Country

VENICE 2022: The director sheds light on his second feature, a fiction film inspired by the accidental death of his own brother while training to be an...  

05/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti

Niccolò Falsetti • Director of Margins

“You need to draw upon the humanity around you in order to make a film like mine”

Niccolò Falsetti • Director of Margins

VENICE 2022: The director chatted to us about the universal nature of the punk rock scene, provincial cities and how to shoot a concert scene  

05/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | International Film Critics’ Week

David Wagner • Director of Eismayer

“There are many actors who have a similar background to their character, and I think it's a shame not to use that”

David Wagner • Director of Eismayer

VENICE 2022: We spoke to the Austrian director about his big-screen adaptation of a love story that unfolds within the Austrian army  

05/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | International Film Critics’ Week

Alex Schaad • Director of Skin Deep

“The camera had to portray the inner life of the main character”

Alex Schaad • Director of Skin Deep

VENICE 2022: In the German director’s feature debut, the protagonists literally put themselves in each other’s shoes  

05/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | International Film Critics’ Week

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