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.

 
Laurynas Bareisa  • Director of Pilgrims

“I pick out the crimes from the news stories, then I imagine what happens outside of the violent parts”

Laurynas Bareisa • Director of Pilgrims

VENICE 2021: The Lithuanian helmer discusses the relationship between his debut feature and his previous shorts, as well as visiting some strangely sacred...  

10/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Orizzonti

Bogdan George Apetri  • Director of Miracle

“As a filmmaker, you never need to go wide; you need to go deep”

Bogdan George Apetri • Director of Miracle

VENICE 2021: The writer-director talks about his new film, which explores the trials and tribulations of two very different characters, a nun and a police...  

10/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Orizzonti

Sabina Guzzanti  • Director of Spin Time

"Poor people as you've never seen them before"

Sabina Guzzanti • Director of Spin Time

VENICE 2021: At the heart of the director's new documentary is a block of flats in Rome occupied by 180 poverty-stricken families, where an interesting...  

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

Federica Di Giacomo  • Director of Il palazzo

"An extremely free and creative environment, but one that's completely detached from reality"

Federica Di Giacomo • Director of Il palazzo

VENICE 2021: The winner of the Orizzonti Award in 2016 returns to the Lido with her new opus, which follows a group of friends, an eclectic bunch of...  

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

Claude Schmitz • Director of Lucie Loses Her Horse

"The making of a poetic material fascinates me"

Claude Schmitz • Director of Lucie Loses Her Horse

The film and theatre director talks about his feature debut, a hybrid and dreamlike film  

10/09/2021 | BRIFF 2021

Samuel M Delgado and Helena Girón  • Directors of They Carry Death

“It’s a film that we made with many friends”

Samuel M Delgado and Helena Girón • Directors of They Carry Death

VENICE 2021: One Galician filmmaker and another from the Canary Islands make up this hard-working tandem of artists, who have made their feature debut with...  

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

Gabriele Mainetti • Director of Freaks Out

Freaks Out is a child of the historic Trump era”

Gabriele Mainetti • Director of Freaks Out

VENICE 2021: The Italian director speaks about his second work, the film’s music and the production challenges associated with such a colossal project,...  

09/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition

Stefano Sardo  • Director of With or Without You

"The end of a relationship is a testament to how those two people loved each other"

Stefano Sardo • Director of With or Without You

VENICE 2021: The screenwriter of successful films and series presents his first fiction film as a director, in which a couple lovingly break up after many...  

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

Juanjo Giménez  • Director of Out of Sync

"Delay is part of our lives"

Juanjo Giménez • Director of Out of Sync

VENICE 2021: The Catalonian director is presenting a supernatural thriller about a sound designer who, in real life, is no longer able to synchronise sound...  

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

Luca Rea  • Director of Django & Django

“Corbucci wasn’t really considered an artist or an auteur. But that’s what he was and it’s evident in his westerns”

Luca Rea • Director of Django & Django

VENICE 2021: The Italian documentary celebrates the man behind the iconic pairing of Franco Nero and a coffin  

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

Ameer Fakher Eldin  • Director of The Stranger

"It's a character study of a man who is a stranger in his own community"

Ameer Fakher Eldin • Director of The Stranger

VENICE 2021: Fifty years after the Israeli occupation of the territories of the Golan Heights, the director depicts the inner conflict of a man who desires...  

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

Michale Boganim  • Director of The Forgotten Ones

"There is a whole segment of the population that was abandoned during the construction of Israel"

Michale Boganim • Director of The Forgotten Ones

VENICE 2021: The French-Israeli director helms a road movie exploring the past and meeting the various generations of the Mizrahim, or Jews from the Arab...  

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

Fred De Loof  • Director of Totem

"I was looking for a very classic film effect to counterbalance the slightly heavy-handed humour and endless teasing"

Fred De Loof • Director of Totem

We spent a bit of time with the Belgian filmmaker who spoke to us about his off-the-wall first feature film, which is a deliciously coarse comedy shot on a...  

09/09/2021 | BRIFF 2021

Alessandro Capitani  • Director of I nostri fantasmi

"The key to this film is that in life, you always get a second chance"

Alessandro Capitani • Director of I nostri fantasmi

VENICE 2021: The writer-director talks to us about his film, which tells the story of a father and his young son who hide away in the attic of a house,...  

08/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Giornate degli Autori

Bianca Stigter  • Director of Three Minutes - A Lengthening

"I got the chance to pay my respects to all the people that we see in the movie"

Bianca Stigter • Director of Three Minutes - A Lengthening

VENICE 2021: The Dutch historian uses an amateur clip lasting three minutes, filmed in 1938 in a Jewish town in Poland, as her starting point to craft a...  

08/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Giornate degli Autori

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