Interviews

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

8295 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 05/07/2025. 658 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Ciro Guerra  • Director of Waiting for the Barbarians

“Some people have called this novel unfilmable, but I could see it very clearly”

Ciro Guerra • Director of Waiting for the Barbarians

VENICE 2019: Ciro Guerra talks about the creative joys and challenges of adapting the JM Coetzee novel in Waiting for the Barbarians, which premiered in the...  

10/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Competition

Peter Mackie Burns  • Director of Rialto

“This man is brought through grief to a place where he doesn't know himself any more”

Peter Mackie Burns • Director of Rialto

VENICE 2019: Peter Mackie Burns chatted to Cineuropa about his Orizzonti film Rialto, which has nothing to do with the bridge in Venice  

10/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Orizzonti

P David Ebersole, Todd Hughes • Directors of House of Cardin

"Pierre Cardin is not an enigma, he's very open, consistent and authentic"

P David Ebersole, Todd Hughes • Directors of House of Cardin

VENICE 2019: American directorial duo P David Ebersole and Todd Hughes talked to us about their documentary House of Cardin, presented in the Giornate degli...  

10/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Giornate degli Autori

Isabel Sandoval, Eamon Farren • Actress-director and actor in Lingua Franca

"The story is not autobiographical, but the issue is very topical and needed to be told"

Isabel Sandoval, Eamon Farren • Actress-director and actor in Lingua Franca

VENICE 2019: Actress-director Isabel Sandoval talks to us about her third feature, Lingua Franca, together with her co-lead, Eamon Farren, in the Giornate...  

10/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Giornate degli Autori

Costanza Quatriglio • Director, artistic director and educational coordinator at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Palermo

“We’re calling on children to question the relationship that each of them has with the world”

Costanza Quatriglio • Director, artistic director and educational coordinator at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia Palermo

VENICE 2019: During the Giornate degli Autori, we spoke to director Costanza Quatriglio about the CSC's Documentary Film Course, which she herself directs  

10/09/2019 | Venezia 2019 | Giornate degli Autori

Bartabas • Director of Time of the Untamed

"It’s a sort of coming-of-age trip through my own work"

Bartabas • Director of Time of the Untamed

VENICE 2019: We spoke to Bartabas, the man behind Time of the Untamed, chosen as the closing film of the Giornate degli Autori  

10/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Giornate degli Autori

Joe Odagiri • Director of They Say Nothing Stays the Same

"The bridge is useful for people, but like that a beautiful culture is going to disappear"

Joe Odagiri • Director of They Say Nothing Stays the Same

VENICE 2019: Japanese star Joe Odagiri presents his feature-length directorial debut, They Say Nothing Stays the Same, in the Giornate degli Autori  

10/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Giornate degli Autori

Jorunn Myklebust Syversen • Director of Disco

“I’m simply a witness. My film is more of an observation than a denunciation”

Jorunn Myklebust Syversen • Director of Disco

At our request, Norwegian director Jorunn Myklebust Syversen unpicks her second feature film Disco, a work presented in the Discovery section of the Toronto...  

10/09/2019 | Toronto 2019 | Discovery

Giuseppe Capotondi • Director of The Burnt Orange Heresy

“I wanted to give my film a Hitchcockian flair”

Giuseppe Capotondi • Director of The Burnt Orange Heresy

VENICE 2019: We talked to Giuseppe Capotondi, the director of this year’s closing film, The Burnt Orange Heresy, starring Elizabeth Debicki, Claes Bang and…...  

09/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Out of Competition

Anastasia Mikova and Yann Arthus-Bertrand • Directors of Woman

“Sometimes, the interviewee would say everything and then collapse”

Anastasia Mikova and Yann Arthus-Bertrand • Directors of Woman

VENICE 2019: Cineuropa sat down with co-directors Anastasia Mikova and Yann Arthus-Bertrand to talk about Woman, a documentary in which women from across...  

09/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Out of Competition

Alex Gibney  • Director of Citizen K

“I thought Khodorkovsky’s story might be an opportunity to talk about how power works in Russia”

Alex Gibney • Director of Citizen K

VENICE 2019: American documentarian Alex Gibney discusses his Citizen K and tells Cineuropa a bunch of Russian tales at the Venice Film Festival  

09/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Out of Competition

Antoine de Bary  • Director of My Days of Glory

“If you don't get along with Adrian, you’ll leave the room after half an hour”

Antoine de Bary • Director of My Days of Glory

VENICE 2019: Cineuropa sat down with French director Antoine de Bary to talk about his debut feature, My Days of Glory, which premiered in Orizzonti and...  

09/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Orizzonti

Costa-Gavras  • Director of Adults in the Room

“This movie is politics, dialogue and action”

Costa-Gavras • Director of Adults in the Room

VENICE 2019: Cineuropa caught up with French-Greek director Costa-Gavras to talk about his new film, Adults in the Room, screening Out of Competition  

09/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Out of Competition

Valentyn Vasyanovych  • Director of Atlantis

“In Ukraine, you have to be an optimist”

Valentyn Vasyanovych • Director of Atlantis

VENICE 2019: With the help of producer Vladimir Yatsenko, this time providing interpretation, Cineuropa chatted to Valentyn Vasyanovych about Atlantis,...  

09/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Orizzonti

Robert Guédiguian  • Director of Gloria Mundi

“I don’t judge my characters; I judge the society that produces them”

Robert Guédiguian • Director of Gloria Mundi

VENICE 2019: Two years after The House by the Sea, Cineuropa reunites with French filmmaker Robert Guédiguian at Venice to discuss Gloria Mundi  

08/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Competition

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