Interviews

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

8726 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 17/03/2026. 632 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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

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

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