Interviews

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

8509 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 12/11/2025. 644 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Fabrice Du Welz  • Director of Inexorable

"I tried not to play the artist too much with this film, in order to construct a thriller, pure and simple"

Fabrice Du Welz • Director of Inexorable

The Belgian director spoke to us about this new film which is very much in keeping with his previous work, but which also breathes fresh air into his cinema...  

15/09/2021 | Toronto 2021 | Special Presentations

Csilla Kató • Artistic director, Astra Film Festival

“Documentary is cinema’s most democratic genre”

Csilla Kató • Artistic director, Astra Film Festival

The festival is currently unfolding online until Sunday, following a physical edition held between 5-12 September, whose strengths and challenges we...  

15/09/2021 | Astra 2021

Roberto Andò  • Director of The Hidden Child

“For children, violence is an existential means of saying ‘I’m here’”

Roberto Andò • Director of The Hidden Child

VENICE 2021: We chatted with the director about his latest film, which closed the Venice Film Festival  

15/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Out of Competition

Bouli Lanners  • Director of Nobody Has to Know

“I told myself that at 54, I could finally tell a love story”

Bouli Lanners • Director of Nobody Has to Know

Cineuropa met with the Belgian filmmaker who is presenting his latest film, a real departure from his previous work since it is a love story and in English  

14/09/2021 | Toronto 2021 | Contemporary World Cinema

Keti Stamo  • Director of Sons of Cain

"Dreams were the perfect antidote to whisk these children away to a different reality"

Keti Stamo • Director of Sons of Cain

VENICE 2021: The director has crafted a dreamlike documentary that calls into question the strict nature of the Kanun, the ancient Albanian code which...  

14/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Giornate degli Autori

Yvan Attal  • Director of The Accusation

“Today, when you make a movie like this, you have to say clearly… certain things”

Yvan Attal • Director of The Accusation

VENICE 2021: The French director faced several challenges while adapting Karine Tuil’s rape-case novel Les choses humaines, including a delicate...  

14/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Out of Competition

Ciro De Caro  • Director of Giulia

"I love unusual, complex characters who are on the fringes, and I recognise myself in their madness"

Ciro De Caro • Director of Giulia

VENICE 2021: The Italian director is presenting his new film, which centres on a young woman who, one scorching summer in Rome, searches for her place in...  

14/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Giornate degli Autori

Alessandro Gassmann  • Director of The Great Silence

"It's a story of things unsaid, and silences work much better in cinema than they do in theatre"

Alessandro Gassmann • Director of The Great Silence

VENICE 2021: The Italian actor-director brings Maurizio De Giovanni's stage play of the same name to the big screen, in which a once well-off family is...  

14/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Giornate degli Autori

Gianluca Matarrese  • Director of The Last Chapter

“I wanted to convey the proximity and feeling of trust that Bernard and I shared”

Gianluca Matarrese • Director of The Last Chapter

VENICE 2021: The Italian director presents a highly intimate and touching portrait of a wounded and lonesome soul  

14/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | International Film Critics’ Week

Mathilde Pâques  • Co-ordinator, Brussels Co-Production Forum

"The basic idea is to promote co-production know-how in Belgium"

Mathilde Pâques • Co-ordinator, Brussels Co-Production Forum

The 5th edition of this professional gathering unspooled in Brussels on 7 and 8 September under the umbrella of the Brussels International Film Festival  

13/09/2021 | BRIFF 2021 | Brussels Co-Production Forum

Teemu Nikki, Jani Pösö and Petri Poikolainen  • Director of, producer of and actor in The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic

“We didn’t make a film about a handicapped person; we made a film about a person who also happens to be disabled”

Teemu Nikki, Jani Pösö and Petri Poikolainen • Director of, producer of and actor in The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic

VENICE 2021: The Orizzonti Extra entry focuses on a man who would do anything for love – even leave his own apartment  

13/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Orizzonti Extra

Jan P Matuszyński  • Director of Leave No Traces

“I came up with this concept that maybe I made this film out of fear”

Jan P Matuszyński • Director of Leave No Traces

VENICE 2021: A leading light of new Polish cinema, the director talks us through his complex true-life tale of the aftermath of a death in police custody  

11/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Monica Stan, George Chiper-Lillemark  • Directors of Immaculate

"I needed a different perspective because I was very close to the story"

Monica Stan, George Chiper-Lillemark • Directors of Immaculate

VENICE 2021: Set in a drug rehabilitation clinic, the debut film by the duo has received the GdA Director’s Award in the Giornate degli Autori and the Lion...  

11/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Giornate degli Autori

Dina Amer  • Director of You Resemble Me

"My mission as a filmmaker was to go beyond the incorrect reporting of the news"

Dina Amer • Director of You Resemble Me

VENICE 2021: The Egyptian-American journalist presents a potent, dramatic film that explores the roots of the trauma suffered by a young Maghrebi woman and...  

11/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Giornate degli Autori

Stéphane Brizé  • Director of Another World

“Wow, we thought Brizé would do a left-wing caricature – but he shows some truthful things here!”

Stéphane Brizé • Director of Another World

VENICE 2021: The French director explains how he writes screenplays with his trusted collaborator Olivier Gorce, plus his organic way of working with...  

11/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

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