Interviews

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

8721 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 13/03/2026. 633 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Dušan Kasalica  • Director of The Elegy of Laurel

"My film is a genre mixture exploring the limits of language and communication"

Dušan Kasalica • Director of The Elegy of Laurel

The Montenegrin director talks about his very contemporary portrait of a self-satisfied man cushy in his social position and oblivious to the needs of others  

19/08/2021 | Sarajevo 2021 | Competition

Giovanni Cioni  • Director of From the Planet of the Humans

“What you can't tell with words, you can tell with the form”

Giovanni Cioni • Director of From the Planet of the Humans

The Italian filmmaker presented a suggestive essayistic documentary dealing with a colourful character  

18/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Out of Competition

Francesco Montagner  • Director of Brotherhood

“I wanted to have something that came close to what we would call magical realism”

Francesco Montagner • Director of Brotherhood

The Italian filmmaker’s documentary tells the story of three brothers and their relationship with their severe father  

18/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Cineasti del Presente

Kumjana Novakova, Guillermo Carreras-Candi  • Directors of Disturbed Earth

"The painful past stirs the present, marking the future"

Kumjana Novakova, Guillermo Carreras-Candi • Directors of Disturbed Earth

The filmmaking duo discuss their film, which dives into the Srebrenica horror through a space in silence, where past has captured present  

18/08/2021 | Sarajevo 2021 | Documentary Competition

Cristina Grosan  • Director of Things Worth Weeping For

"What’s the best way to live our lives?"

Cristina Grosan • Director of Things Worth Weeping For

The Hungarian filmmaker discusses her film, which follows a young woman whose life is put upside down after experiencing the death of an old relative  

17/08/2021 | Sarajevo 2021 | Competition

Peter Brunner • Director of Luzifer

“I wanted to show that there is a difference between spirituality, which raises questions, and religion, which, apparently, gives answers”

Peter Brunner • Director of Luzifer

In his new film, the Austrian director seeks a dialogue with the devil himself  

13/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Competition

Bonifacio Angius • Director of The Giants

The Giants is a declaration of love”

Bonifacio Angius • Director of The Giants

The Italian helmer’s thriller with western elements is taking part in Locarno’s international competition  

13/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Competition

Hannes Þór Halldòrsson • Director of Cop Secret

“It's the kind of film I like to watch myself, so it's the genre I felt the most comfortable with”

Hannes Þór Halldòrsson • Director of Cop Secret

This clever satire of an action film offers several layers of complexity and an intelligent way of dealing with important social issues  

13/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Competition

Aurélia Georges • Director of Secret Name

“As women, we have gained some space and some freedom, but corsets take different shapes”

Aurélia Georges • Director of Secret Name

In her Locarno competition entry, the Paris-born filmmaker focuses on women, and women only  

12/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Competition

Gaëtan Liekens • Co-director of Music Hole

“A comedy about the demise of a relationship, or rather the denial of its demise”

Gaëtan Liekens • Co-director of Music Hole

We met with the co-director (alongside David Mutzenmacher) of this dark and off-the-wall comedy written with a Belgian accent, which is released in Belgium...  

12/08/2021 | /Belgium/France

Ruth Platt • Director of Martyrs Lane

“I find it interesting when people say they don’t like horror; I need it!”

Ruth Platt • Director of Martyrs Lane

In the British filmmaker’s third feature, you need not worry about what’s out in the woods, as chances are, what’s inside of your house is much worse  

12/08/2021 | Fantasia 2021

Émilie Aussel • Director of Our Eternal Summer

“In all of my films, I like to tell myself that the landscapes feel the same things as the characters”

Émilie Aussel • Director of Our Eternal Summer

The French director speaks to us about her first feature film, a poetic hymn to adolescence which follows a strong yet tortured, hypersensitive youngster  

12/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Cineasti del Presente

Marí Alessandrini • Director of Zahorí

“The steppe is right on our doorstep but it’s as if it creates some sort of abyss”

Marí Alessandrini • Director of Zahorí

The Argentine director and HEAD graduate speaks to us about her first feature film, which was shot in the Argentine desert and revolves around an...  

12/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Cineasti del Presente

Chema García Ibarra • Director of The Sacred Spirit

“I like to shoot in places where nobody has taken a camera before”

Chema García Ibarra • Director of The Sacred Spirit

The award-winning short filmmaker presents his long-awaited feature debut, shot with non-professional actors in his hometown of Elche, which is dripping...  

11/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Competition

Charlotte Colbert • Director of She Will

“There is this kind of reappropriation of the symbols and the imagery surrounding the things that have, in the past, stigmatised the personal lives of women”

Charlotte Colbert • Director of She Will

Cineuropa caught up with the director at the Locarno Film Festival, where her debut film, a genre-bending gothic horror, had its world premiere  

11/08/2021 | Locarno 2021 | Out of Competition

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