Interviews

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

8439 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 13/09/2025. 651 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Gastón Solnicki • Director of The Souffleur

“I think one has to bet high, especially while one is young”

Gastón Solnicki • Director of The Souffleur

VENICE 2025: The A Little Love Package director talks about his new ode to Vienna and working with Willem Dafoe  

05/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Jim Jarmusch • Director of Father Mother Sister Brother

“I’m very intuitive in what I do, not analytical”

Jim Jarmusch • Director of Father Mother Sister Brother

VENICE 2025: The US director shares some thoughts on his stories, his work and his love for cinema, veering off at times into some minute detail  

05/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Carla Simón • Director of Romería

“We should start to remove the stigma surrounding AIDS”

Carla Simón • Director of Romería

The Catalan filmmaker reflects on family and its darker sides, the stigmatisation of Spain’s 1980s generation and the conclusion of the trilogy she began...  

05/09/2025 | /Spain/Germany

Marco Bellocchio • Director of Portobello

“What interested me about the Tortora case was the overlap between the world of criminals in prison and his TV show world”

Marco Bellocchio • Director of Portobello

VENICE 2025: Marco Bellocchio chatted with us about his new series dedicated to the tragic fate of journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora, which is set to...  

05/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Out of Competition

Mark Jenkin • Director of Rose of Nevada

“Every film is a ghost film”

Mark Jenkin • Director of Rose of Nevada

VENICE 2025: The British director discusses his new movie, in which a lost fishing vessel takes two young men into the past in a coastal village in Cornwall  

05/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Giulio Bertelli • Director of AGON

“I’m very interested in the elements hidden within each sport”

Giulio Bertelli • Director of AGON

VENICE 2025: The Italian director unpicks his close-up study of three female athletes competing at an Olympic event  

04/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | International Film Critics’ Week

Stergios Dinopoulos, Krysianna B Papadakis • Directors of Bearcave

"The two protagonists represent the dualism of the people who live in those areas"

Stergios Dinopoulos, Krysianna B Papadakis • Directors of Bearcave

VENICE 2025: The pair of directors talk about their feature debut, which broaches topics such as friendship, bravery and the desire to escape  

04/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Damien Hauser • Director of Memory of Princess Mumbi

"Compared to when I used it in the movie, the AI ​​has improved a lot and it's even a little scary"

Damien Hauser • Director of Memory of Princess Mumbi

VENICE 2025: The Swiss-Kenyan filmmaker whisks us off to the year 2093, on the trail of a director who has to make a documentary about a devastating war, if...  

04/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Cyril Aris • Director of A Sad and Beautiful World

"I try to tell the story of Lebanon today and its ups and downs through the story of a couple with two different worldviews"

Cyril Aris • Director of A Sad and Beautiful World

VENICE 2025: The Lebanese director talks to us about his debut fiction feature, a love story set against the backdrop of a deeply scarred country, Lebanon  

04/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Lucrecia Martel • Director of Landmarks

“When you think of lands that are taken from indigenous people, you think of raw materials – but there is also the beauty itself that is stolen”

Lucrecia Martel • Director of Landmarks

VENICE 2025: The Argentinian director discusses her first documentary film, which was 15 years in the making  

04/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Out of Competition

Maryam Touzani • Director of Calle Málaga

“There was a richness that I felt growing up, and I wanted to pay tribute to this community”

Maryam Touzani • Director of Calle Málaga

VENICE 2025: The director of The Blue Caftan speaks about bringing to the screen the unique beauty and complexity of her home city of Tangier  

03/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Venezia Spotlight

Stephan Komandarev • Director of Made in EU

“We were promised a bright future, but we ended up on the periphery of the periphery”

Stephan Komandarev • Director of Made in EU

VENICE 2025: The Bulgarian helmer elaborates on the sociopolitical message behind his latest feature, while also sharing insights into the development of...  

02/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Venezia Spotlight

Laura Samani • Director of A Year of School

"Men and women don’t speak the same language"

Laura Samani • Director of A Year of School

VENICE 2025: The Italian director tells us about her new film, which centres on a 19-year-old Swedish girl who finds herself being the only girl in an...  

02/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Nastia Korkia • Director of Short Summer

"The film was born from a need to reflect on what was happening in my country"

Nastia Korkia • Director of Short Summer

VENICE 2025: The director of Russian heritage talks about her feature debut, in which a little girl who is spending a quiet summer with her grandparents...  

02/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Yanis Koussim • Director of Roqia

“I write about my wounds”

Yanis Koussim • Director of Roqia

VENICE 2025: The Algerian director takes on his country’s trauma and delivers a personal horror story  

02/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | International Film Critics’ Week

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