Interviews

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

8592 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 20/01/2026. 639 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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

Tommaso Landucci  • Director of Caveman - The Hidden Giant

"Creating a statue where no one would be able to see it is as contradictory as the artist behind it was"

Tommaso Landucci • Director of Caveman - The Hidden Giant

VENICE 2021: The filmmaker dedicates his documentary to artist and spelunker Filippo Dobrilla, the creator of an imposing marble sculpture that lies in a...  

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

Paolo Sorrentino  • Director of The Hand of God

“It’s not my fault; this is how Naples looks”

Paolo Sorrentino • Director of The Hand of God

VENICE 2021: The Italian director shares some thoughts on his youthful memoir of Naples and the number of times it’s been compared to Fellini’s Amarcord  

10/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Aly Muritiba  • Director of Private Desert

"If you open your mind, it's possible to love in another way"

Aly Muritiba • Director of Private Desert

VENICE 2021: The Brazilian director presents his new film about a policeman desperately travelling in search of his lover, whom he met via internet chat and...  

10/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Giornate degli Autori

Ola Jankowska  • Director of Anatomia

"I wanted to leave some space for the viewer and their feelings, projections and reflections"

Ola Jankowska • Director of Anatomia

VENICE 2021: The Polish director reflects on time, memory and identity through the story of a woman who returns to her home country  

10/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Giornate degli Autori

Kaltrina Krasniqi  • Director of Vera Dreams of the Sea

“We have invented traditions and whole cultures to protect a very discriminatory order”

Kaltrina Krasniqi • Director of Vera Dreams of the Sea

VENICE 2021: The Kosovar director breaks down the visual concept for her debut feature, as well as how she combined its many disparate motifs and elements  

10/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Orizzonti

Julia von Heinz, Olivier Guerpillon, Jaco Van Dormael and Michael Winterbottom   • Directors of Isolation

"We pretend to be in control, but we're not controlling anything"

Julia von Heinz, Olivier Guerpillon, Jaco Van Dormael and Michael Winterbottom • Directors of Isolation

VENICE 2021: The directors took part in the anthology documentary, in which they each recount the effects of the pandemic on their respective countries  

10/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Giornate degli Autori

Mario Martone • Director of The King of Laughter

“A film about a theatre genius written like a theatrical comedy”

Mario Martone • Director of The King of Laughter

VENICE 2021: We met with the director of the Eduardo Scarpetta film, which is competing in the festival  

10/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

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