Interviews

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

7199 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 29/09/2023. 610 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
JA Bayona  • Director of Society of the Snow

“Through fiction, we try to give meaning to reality”

JA Bayona • Director of Society of the Snow

VENICE 2023: The Spanish helmer delves into the intricacies of his new project, telling the story of Uruguayan Air Force Flight 571, which crashed in the...  

11/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Out of Competition

Zacharias Mavroeidis  • Director of The Summer With Carmen

"For queer people, friends stand in for their families in many different ways"

Zacharias Mavroeidis • Director of The Summer With Carmen

VENICE 2023: The Greek director discusses his queer comedy that talks about cinema and the rules of storytelling, where the main characters are two friends...  

09/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Giorgio Diritti  • Director of Lubo

“When I saw him doing a breakdance on YouTube, I knew I had my Lubo”

Giorgio Diritti • Director of Lubo

VENICE 2023: The Italian director shares some thoughts and knowledge on the subject of the Yenish minority in Switzerland, which his film revolves around  

09/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Stéphane Brizé  • Director of Out of Season

“If an actor doesn’t make a film or doesn’t show up on stage, who cares?”

Stéphane Brizé • Director of Out of Season

VENICE 2023: The French director moves away from the workplace and out to a quiet seaside resort, where a famous actor is wallowing in an existential crisis  

09/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Giorgio Diritti  • Director of Lubo

"The process of selecting the actors is an obsession for me and carries on until I've fallen in love with 'the one'"

Giorgio Diritti • Director of Lubo

VENICE 2023: The Italian director chats about his latest work, in which a Yenisch busker knows that he will never find peace until he attains justice for...  

09/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Céline Sciamma  • Director of This Is How a Child Becomes a Poet

"Patrizia Cavalli was inspiring because she was so much fun, and her way of life was also an inspiration"

Céline Sciamma • Director of This Is How a Child Becomes a Poet

VENICE 2023: The French director pays tribute to female poet Patrizia Cavalli, documenting the final day in her home, before it all came to an end  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Delphine Girard  • Director of Through the Night

"I wondered, in real life, what would happen to these characters after this story"

Delphine Girard • Director of Through the Night

VENICE 2023: The Belgian director's film revolves around an instance of sexual abuse, the ensuing investigation and the different points of view on what...  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Lina Soualem  • Director of Bye Bye Tiberias

"I wanted these women to reclaim the sheer complexity of their journeys, their battles and also their contradictions"

Lina Soualem • Director of Bye Bye Tiberias

VENICE 2023: The director paints the portrait of four generations of Palestininan women who keep their story alive through the sheer strength of their bonds  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Goran Stolevski, Alina Serban • Director of and actress in Housekeeping for Beginners

“In order to have a meaningful representation, we needed to allow our characters to act like arseholes”

Goran Stolevski, Alina Serban • Director of and actress in Housekeeping for Beginners

VENICE 2023: The Macedonian-Australian director reunites with one of his actresses to break down a movie in which so many dramatic things happen, yet which...  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Moin Hussain • Director of Sky Peals

“I thought of it as a road movie where nobody really goes anywhere”

Moin Hussain • Director of Sky Peals

VENICE 2023: The London-based writer-director opens up about combining the mundane and the fantastical  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | International Film Critics’ Week

Fien Troch • Director of Holly

“My strength has to do with making people wonder what’s real and what’s not”

Fien Troch • Director of Holly

VENICE 2023: The Belgian director keeps viewers guessing in her new film, about a shy girl who may or may not have mysterious powers  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Afef Ben Mahmoud, Khalil Benkirane • Directors of Backstage

"The idea was to start with the show and then get closer to these characters, who are normal people"

Afef Ben Mahmoud, Khalil Benkirane • Directors of Backstage

VENICE 2023: The directorial duo talk about their road movie through the forests of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, where we follow a dance troupe as they...  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of 21 Days Until the End of the World

"It's a film that came intuitively; the only rule was to shoot in 21 days"

Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of 21 Days Until the End of the World

VENICE 2023: The Macedonian director talks about her most personal film to date in it, in which she asks: “What would you do if you only had 21 days left to...  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Kyoshi Sugita  • Director of Following the Sound

"The regret of not having helped her mother always follows the main character"

Kyoshi Sugita • Director of Following the Sound

VENICE 2023: The film by the Japanese director broaches the topics of empathy and altruism through the character of a young woman who can detect the pain in...  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Céline Rouzet • Director of For Night Will Come

"The film is haunted by an outlook full of desire and danger"

Céline Rouzet • Director of For Night Will Come

VENICE 2023: The French filmmaker spoke to us about the symbolic figure of the vampire, the blend of genres in her movie and the impossibility of fitting in...  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

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