Interviews

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

7795 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 22/09/2024. 603 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Eric Gravel • Director of Full Time

“Laure Calamy has the rare capacity to express drama and comedy at the same time”

Eric Gravel • Director of Full Time

VENICE 2021: The new movie from the filmmaker has as a protagonist an ambitious woman trying to combine family and work  

07/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Orizzonti

Laura Bispuri  • Director of The Peacock's Paradise

“You are all invited to sit down at the table with my family of protagonists”

Laura Bispuri • Director of The Peacock's Paradise

VENICE 2021: The Italian director breaks down her “difficult third work”, her relationship with actress Alba Rohrwacher and more  

07/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Orizzonti

Leonardo Di Costanzo  • Director of The Inner Cage

“Just like a documentary, at a certain point my research began to turn into a dramaturgy”

Leonardo Di Costanzo • Director of The Inner Cage

VENICE 2021: The Italian director speaks to us about his latest film, which is imbued with a suspenseful atmosphere and theatrical tones, and is led by Toni...  

07/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Out of Competition

Valentyn Vasyanovych  • Director of Reflection

“Inhuman torture takes place not somewhere far away, but right here in Europe”

Valentyn Vasyanovych • Director of Reflection

VENICE 2021: There is no looking away in this, the latest take on the ongoing war in Ukraine, which comes on the heels of Atlantis  

07/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Xavier Giannoli  • Director of Lost Illusions

“As a filmmaker, I hope that the audience can see the beauty of this civilisation, but also the cruelty”

Xavier Giannoli • Director of Lost Illusions

VENICE 2021: With his adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s work, a long obsession is finally put to rest, with the director revisiting “the matrix of the modern...  

07/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Alessandro Cassigoli, Casey Kauffman  • Directors of Californie

"Our guideline is always realism"

Alessandro Cassigoli, Casey Kauffman • Directors of Californie

VENICE 2021: The third film (and first fiction feature) made as a joint effort by the two directors was born as a sort of spin-off of their previous...  

07/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Giornate degli Autori

Antoine Barraud  • Director of Madeleine Collins

"For those people who lie, life is always scary"

Antoine Barraud • Director of Madeleine Collins

VENICE 2021: The French director presents his third feature, toplined by Virginie Efira as a woman who leads a double life immersed in secrets and lies  

07/09/2021 | Venise 2021 | Giornate degli Autori

Harry Wootliff  • Director of True Things

“I love music and image; I definitely try to work out how I can make space and have music in the film”

Harry Wootliff • Director of True Things

VENICE 2021: We met the rising British filmmaker on the occasion of her second feature’s premiere at Venice, where she expounded on shaping performances as...  

06/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Orizzonti

Michelangelo Frammartino • Director of Il buco

“We descended 400 metres to film the ungovernable”

Michelangelo Frammartino • Director of Il buco

VENICE 2021: The Italian director joined up with a group of speleologists in a Calabrian cave to recreate the expedition dating back to 1961  

06/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Matteo Tortone  • Director of Mother Lode

“As soon as I knew that the story would be set in Peru, I wanted to limit the exotic vision we normally have of the country”

Matteo Tortone • Director of Mother Lode

VENICE 2021: The Italian director unpicks his black-and-white social drama that follows a young man willing to sacrifice his life in a gold mine in Peru  

06/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | International Film Critics’ Week

Serge Mirzabekiantz • Director of Dark Heart of the Forest

“The forest brings mystery and ambivalence, which shifts the narrative”

Serge Mirzabekiantz • Director of Dark Heart of the Forest

The Belgian filmmaker tells us about his first feature, a sensitive and bewitching drama about the unexpected encounter between two wounded children...  

05/09/2021 | BRIFF 2021

Iván Fund   • Director of Dusk Stone

"What caught my attention was the possibility for these people to believe in something"

Iván Fund • Director of Dusk Stone

VENICE 2021: The Argentinian director presents his new film which depicts a couple who have lost their young son, and the tragic way in which they process...  

05/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Giornate degli Autori

Umberto Contarello  • Director of Parole

"I've always made films about myself"

Umberto Contarello • Director of Parole

VENICE 2021: The Italian screenwriter makes the leap in front of the camera and speaks off the cuff about himself, his work and the great directors he has...  

05/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Giornate degli autori

Chen Guan  • Director of Shen Kong

"I wanted to make a film about how one tries to fill up every second of 24 hours"

Chen Guan • Director of Shen Kong

VENICE 2021: The Chinese helmer is presenting his feature debut, in which a boy and a girl wander the streets of a Chinese city during lockdown, in search...  

05/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Giornate degli Autori

Yuri Ancarani  • Director of Atlantide

“I wanted to create something beautiful; we are not used to beautiful things any more”

Yuri Ancarani • Director of Atlantide

VENICE 2021: In his film, the Italian director focuses on a group of teenagers, showing a side of Venice that normally remains hidden to outsiders  

04/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Orizzonti

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