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.

 
Georgia Oakley • Director of Blue Jean

"I wanted to create something that was inspired by the classics from the time, rather than a film that alluded to the 1980s"

Georgia Oakley • Director of Blue Jean

VENICE 2022: In her first feature, the British director tells the story of those who were forced to conceal the fact that they were gay in homophobic,...  

04/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Sébastien Lifshitz • Director of Casa Susanna

"For so many years, these people have been invisible; now we need to build this history of the queer culture"

Sébastien Lifshitz • Director of Casa Susanna

VENICE 2022: The French director talks about his new documentary, dedicated to what used to be a refuge for the first-ever clandestine network of cross-dressers  

04/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel • Directors of Vera

“There is a contradiction that we always look for in our protagonists”

Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel • Directors of Vera

VENICE 2022: With their new movie, the Austrian-Italian duo of filmmakers have created a semi-autobiographical vehicle for Italian actress Vera Gemma  

04/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti

Christian Carmosino Mereu • Director of Land of Upright People

"This kind of impassioned involvement in politics took me back to my childhood years"

Christian Carmosino Mereu • Director of Land of Upright People

VENICE 2022: The Italian helmer chats about his documentary, which he shot in Burkina Faso from the 2014 revolution up until the most recent political...  

04/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Isabel Achával, Chiara Bondì • Directors of Las leonas

"Through football, these women feel like they are worth something, like they are the protagonists of their own lives"

Isabel Achával, Chiara Bondì • Directors of Las leonas

VENICE 2022: The directors discuss their Nanni Moretti-produced documentary, which follows a group of South American immigrants in Rome brought together by...  

04/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Florent Gouëlou • Director of Three Nights a Week

“I wanted to pay tribute to the many faces of drag”

Florent Gouëlou • Director of Three Nights a Week

VENICE 2022: With his drag rom-com, the French director truly brings the party to the Lido  

04/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | International Film Critics’ Week

Abel Ferrara • Director of Padre Pio

"This is all happening in a small town where everyone knows everybody and everyone knows what's going on"

Abel Ferrara • Director of Padre Pio

VENICE 2022: We chatted to the US director about his new film, dedicated to the life of Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, which features a visceral performance by...  

03/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Giulia Amati • Director of Kristos, The Last Child

"It was important to try to use this story as a parable and give as little historical context as possible"

Giulia Amati • Director of Kristos, The Last Child

VENICE 2022: In the French-Italian director's documentary, Kristos is the last remaining child on a tiny Greek island and has to decide what to make of his...  

03/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Jafar Najafi • Director of Alone

"Children should be living in a joyful, colourful world; they shouldn't be growing up too fast"

Jafar Najafi • Director of Alone

VENICE 2022: The Iranian director talks about his documentary that centres on a child who fights with all his might to stop his sisters from getting married...  

03/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Cecilia Miniucchi • Director of Worlds Apart

"One of the things we can do when we have a lot of time is to think and revaluate ourselves and the people we are with"

Cecilia Miniucchi • Director of Worlds Apart

VENICE 2022: We met up with the director to talk about her film, which homes in on three couples reassessing their relationships, values and priorities  

03/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Roberta Torre • Director of Le Favolose

"Being remembered for what you were is a universal right"

Roberta Torre • Director of Le Favolose

VENICE 2022: The director talks about her new film that straddles reality and fiction, in which five trans friends reminisce about a friend of theirs who is...  

02/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka • Directors of Stonewalling

"We decided to observe the behaviour, the emotions and the changes in a woman during the months she was pregnant"

Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka • Directors of Stonewalling

VENICE 2022: The Chinese-Japanese duo talk about their film, starring a young woman who, after she finds out she's pregnant, decides to take her destiny...  

02/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Mark Cousins • Director of The March on Rome

"Cinema has told many lies from the very beginning, but this film is also a celebration of good cinema"

Mark Cousins • Director of The March on Rome

VENICE 2022: On the centenary of the event that marked the start of the fascist regime in Italy, the director's new documentary reflects on the manipulation...  

02/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Roberto De Paolis • Director of Princess

“My film is a look at a reality present everywhere in Europe”

Roberto De Paolis • Director of Princess

VENICE 2022: We talked to the Italian director about the extraordinary character played by Glory Kevin and how he conceived the film together with her  

02/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti

Wissam Charaf • Director of Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous

"I didn't want it to be one hour and a half of social film on the suffering of people"

Wissam Charaf • Director of Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous

VENICE 2022: The French-Lebanese director talks to us about his second feature, a love story involving an immigrant from Ethiopia and a Syrian refugee set...  

01/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

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