Interviews

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

8313 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 11/07/2025. 654 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Kaouther Ben Hania • Director of The Man Who Sold His Skin

"What does it mean to be free?"

Kaouther Ben Hania • Director of The Man Who Sold His Skin

VENICE 2020: Tunisian filmmaker Kaouther Ben Hania talks about her astonishing work The Man Who Sold His Skin, a European production unveiled in the...  

06/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Orizzonti

Andrea Della Monica • Director of James

"We started off by filming the music to capture the essence of the character"

Andrea Della Monica • Director of James

VENICE 2020: Andrea Della Monica talks about his feature debut James, a documentary dedicated to the saxophone player James Senese, whose music fuses...  

06/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Philipp Yuryev • Director of The Whaler Boy

"I felt this is a story of a first love, so it couldn't be depressing"

Philipp Yuryev • Director of The Whaler Boy

VENICE 2020: Russian director Philipp Yuryev talks to us about his feature debut, The Whaler Boy, in which a teenager living in a Russian remote village...  

06/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Claudio Noce • Director of Padrenostro

“As children, we lived in a climate of fear, without much of an explanation from our parents”

Claudio Noce • Director of Padrenostro

VENICE 2020: Italy’s Claudio Noce speaks to us about Padrenostro, in which he takes on a traumatic part of his own childhood  

05/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Lucas Belvaux • Director of Home Front

“It’s a film about the wounds of war rather than the war itself”

Lucas Belvaux • Director of Home Front

Lucas Belvaux talks to us about his latest film, Home Front, showing at the Angouleme Francophone Film Festival and opening the Brussels International Film...  

05/09/2020 | BRIFF 2020

Kamir Aïnouz • Director of Honey Cigar

"A story of a young woman's body torn between two cultures"

Kamir Aïnouz • Director of Honey Cigar

VENICE 2020: French-Algerian director Kamir Aïnouz talked to us about her feature debut, Honey Cigar, which opened the 17th Giornate degli Autori  

05/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Elisa Fuksas • Director of ISola

"Telling a story helps you to forget that it is actually your story"

Elisa Fuksas • Director of ISola

VENICE 2020: Elisa Fuksas talks to us about her documentary iSola, made during the lockdown and filmed entirely on a mobile phone, now selected for the...  

05/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Antonio Pisu • Director of Est

"The journey is the only thing that allows us to empathise and to have a different opinion"

Antonio Pisu • Director of Est

VENICE 2020: Antonio Pisu talks about his spirited and meaningful road movie Est, which opens the Venetian Nights of the 17th Giornate degli Autori  

04/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Daniele Luchetti • Director of The Ties

“If your parents are wrong, it doesn’t mean you will be right”

Daniele Luchetti • Director of The Ties

VENICE 2020: We talked to Daniele Luchetti, the director of this year’s opening film, The Ties, the first Italian title to kick-start Venice in 11 years  

04/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Out of Competition

Nicole Garcia • Director of Lovers

“I have a sort of faith in the glittering darkness of love”

Nicole Garcia • Director of Lovers

VENICE 2020: French director Nicole Garcia decrypts Lovers, a beautifully crafted film noir in competition for the Golden Lion  

04/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Daria Woszek  • Director of Marygoround

“My heroine is a virgin and she is happy about it”

Daria Woszek • Director of Marygoround

We talked to the Polish director Daria Woszek, who puts a new spin on what it means to be “touched for the very first time” on her title Marygoround  

03/09/2020 | Fantasia 2020

Natalya Vorozhbit • Director of Bad Roads

“We are repeatedly making the same mistakes and stepping on the same rake”

Natalya Vorozhbit • Director of Bad Roads

VENICE 2020: We talked to Natalya Vorozhbit, the debuting director of Bad Roads, originally presented on stage at the Royal Court Theatre in London  

03/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | International Film Critics’ Week

Karin Rywkind Segal • Artistic director, Docaviv

"Filmmakers should trust festivals that have a strong, curated programme"

Karin Rywkind Segal • Artistic director, Docaviv

We spoke to Docaviv’s artistic director, Karin Rywkind Segal, to find out more about the hybrid version of the event and the current situation in the...  

03/09/2020 | Docaviv 2020

Christos Nikou • Director of Apples

“I always love movies that change the rules of our society a little bit”

Christos Nikou • Director of Apples

VENICE 2020: Director Christos Nikou tells Cineuropa about Apples, the opening film of Venice’s Orizzonti section  

03/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Orizzonti

Andrea Segre • Director of Venetian Molecules

“Places speak to me in an entirely different way”

Andrea Segre • Director of Venetian Molecules

VENICE 2020: We interviewed Andrea Segre, director of the pre-opening film of this year’s Venice Film Festival, the intimate documentary Venetian Molecules  

02/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Out of Competition

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