Interviews

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

8443 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 19/09/2025. 644 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Gianfranco Rosi • Director of Notturno

“This film is more extreme because you don’t know where you are”

Gianfranco Rosi • Director of Notturno

VENICE 2020: We talked to seemingly indefatigable documentary auteur Gianfranco Rosi about his competition entry Notturno  

10/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Edhem Fočo • Director, AJB DOC

"Locally made documentaries will be the highlight of this year's edition"

Edhem Fočo • Director, AJB DOC

We talked to Edhem Fočo about the upcoming edition of AJB DOC, the Sarajevo-based Al Jazeera Balkans' festival dedicated to TV documentaries, taking place...  

10/09/2020 | AJB DOC 2020

Edoardo Natoli • Director of Solitaire

"We have all experienced the feeling of not being able to go out of our own house"

Edoardo Natoli • Director of Solitaire

VENICE 2020: After his 2013 title Secchi, Edoardo Natoli returns to Giornate degli Autori with a new stop-motion short, Solitaire  

10/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Pedro Collantes • Director of The Art of Return

"I wanted to depict this feeling of asynchrony"

Pedro Collantes • Director of The Art of Return

VENICE 2020: The Art of Return is the feature debut by Pedro Collantes, who talks about the challenge of bringing his personal project to fruition on a tiny...  

10/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Biennale College Cinema

Merawi Gerima • Director of Residue

"Gentrification is a symptom of a much larger problem of our powerlessness as black people"

Merawi Gerima • Director of Residue

VENICE 2020: With his feature debut Residue, director Merawi Gerima takes an in-depth look at the burning issues triggering the Black Lives Matter movement  

10/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Ivan Ikic • Director of Oasis

"My challenge was to make people with mental disabilities play fictional roles, not themselves"

Ivan Ikic • Director of Oasis

VENICE 2020: Serbia's Ivan Ikić presents his second feature Oasis, which tells the story of a love triangle within the walls of an institution for young...  

10/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert • Directors of Never Gonna Snow Again

“We wanted to make a film that cannot be classified”

Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert • Directors of Never Gonna Snow Again

VENICE 2020: We met up with Polish helmer Małgorzata Szumowska and her long-time collaborator Michał Englert to talk about their competition title Never...  

09/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Ana Rocha de Sousa • Director of Listen

"Money doesn't ever substitute love in this life"

Ana Rocha de Sousa • Director of Listen

VENICE 2020: We talked to Portuguese actress turned director Ana Rocha de Sousa about her film Listen, centred on a struggling couple fighting to retain...  

09/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Orizzonti

Ivan I Tverdovsky • Director of Conference

"That terrible moment was a story that couldn't not be told"

Ivan I Tverdovsky • Director of Conference

VENICE 2020: In Conference, Russia's Ivan I Tverdovskiy depicts a controversial commemoration of the 2002 terrorist attack on the Dubrovka Theatre in Moscow  

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

Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber • Director and writer of Pieces of a Woman

“I can't tell you how grateful I am to my cast”

Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber • Director and writer of Pieces of a Woman

VENICE 2020: We spoke to Kornél Mundruczó and Kata Wéber, the director and writer of Pieces of a Woman, one of the titles taking part in this year's Golden...  

09/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Peter Marcias • Director of Nilde Iotti, il tempo delle donne

"A well-rounded character who was close to the Italian citizens, engaging in a different kind of politics"

Peter Marcias • Director of Nilde Iotti, il tempo delle donne

VENICE 2020: Peter Marcias dedicates his documentary Nilde Iotti, il tempo delle donne to the great Italian politician, one of the 20th century's leading...  

08/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Giorgia Farina • Director of Romantic Guide to Lost Places

"A romantic relationship between a man and a woman that develops in a rather unusual way"

Giorgia Farina • Director of Romantic Guide to Lost Places

VENICE 2020: Giorgia Farina talks about her new film by Romantic Guide to Lost Places, starring Jasmine Trinca and Clive Owen, presented as a special event...  

08/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio  • Directors of Una promessa

"Out in the fields, the day labourers die shrouded in invisibility and oblivion, like the desaparecidos"

Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio • Directors of Una promessa

VENICE 2020: Brothers Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio talk to us about their second fiction film Una promessa, about a father and a son reduced to slave...  

08/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Antonio Medici • Distributor, Bim Distribuzione

"In a changing world, we have to adapt our policy"

Antonio Medici • Distributor, Bim Distribuzione

Antonio Medici, CEO of Bim Distribuzione, talks about independent distribution in Italy, where the health crisis has accelerated some trends  

08/09/2020 | /Italy

Anders Ølholm and Frederik Louis Hviid • Directors of Shorta

“We’re a little like two bodies with one voice on set”

Anders Ølholm and Frederik Louis Hviid • Directors of Shorta

VENICE 2020: We talked to Anders Ølholm and Frederik Louis Hviid about their film Shorta, centred on a police incident in contemporary Denmark and playing...  

08/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | International Film Critics' Week

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