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.

 
Milo Rau • Director of The New Gospel

"The first black Jesus film in the European film history"

Milo Rau • Director of The New Gospel

VENICE 2020: With The New Gospel, Swiss director Milo Rau adapts the Bible to the present day, depicting immigrants reduced to slave labour, and the fight...  

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

Philippe Lacôte • Director of Night of the Kings

"What interests me is how the power of words manages to make violence step back"

Philippe Lacôte • Director of Night of the Kings

VENICE 2020: The French-Ivorian filmmaker Philippe Lacôte talks to us about his fascinating feature Night of the Kings, a multi-dimensional prison film...  

08/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Orizzonti

Michele Mellara, Alessandro Rossi • Directors of 50 - Santarcangelo Festival

"A festival reaching out into the future of the performing arts"

Michele Mellara, Alessandro Rossi • Directors of 50 - Santarcangelo Festival

VENICE 2020: Documentarians Michele Mellara and Alessandro Rossi celebrate the 50th birthday of the Italian performing-arts festival with 50 - Santarcangelo...  

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

Mauro Mancini • Director of Thou Shalt Not Hate

“I wanted what the characters don’t say to one another to be more important than what they do say”

Mauro Mancini • Director of Thou Shalt Not Hate

VENICE 2020: Cineuropa interviewed Mauro Mancini, the director of Thou Shalt Not Hate, the only Italian film in competition in International Critics’ Week  

07/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | International Film Critics’ Week

Lili Horvat • Director of Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time

"This film is about the role of imagination when we fall in love"

Lili Horvat • Director of Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time

VENICE 2020: Lili Horvát presented Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time, a psychological suspense flick that probes boundaries as a...  

07/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori

Giovanni Aloi • Director of The Third War

“This is not a Paris movie where people kiss in front of the Eiffel Tower, it’s Paris in war uniform”

Giovanni Aloi • Director of The Third War

VENICE 2020: We asked Giovanni Aloi about his Orizzonti entry The Third War, a film depicting Paris as a city frequented by fully armed soldiers ready for...  

07/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Orizzonti

Quentin Dupieux • Director of Mandibles

“I make comedies seriously”

Quentin Dupieux • Director of Mandibles

VENICE 2020: We talked to Quentin Dupieux, the director of Mandibles, about dim-witted protagonists and “creature features”. And Will Ferrell  

07/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Out of Competition

Susanna Nicchiarelli • Director of Miss Marx

“This film is about the private and the public”

Susanna Nicchiarelli • Director of Miss Marx

VENICE 2020: We asked Susanna Nicchiarelli, the director of Miss Marx, about her competition entry hinging on the youngest daughter of the famous thinker  

07/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Competition

Sabine Verheyen • Chair, European Parliament's Culture and Education Committee

"Now we have to think how to help the audiovisual sector recover"

Sabine Verheyen • Chair, European Parliament's Culture and Education Committee

VENICE 2020: European Parliament's Culture and Education Committee chair Sabine Verheyen discusses the brand-new LUX Audience Award, and how institutions...  

07/09/2020 | Venice 2020/LUX Audience Award 2020

Nathan Grossman • Director of I Am Greta

“The great thing is that you can’t stage these reactions – you just have to press ‘REC’ on the camera”

Nathan Grossman • Director of I Am Greta

VENICE 2020: We sat down with Nathan Grossman to chat about I Am Greta, world-premiering out of competition, and its global phenomenon of a protagonist  

06/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Out of Competition

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

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