Interviews

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

7825 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 14/10/2024. 600 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Mladen Kovačević • Director of Possibility of Paradise

"There is a very loose connection to Dante in this film, to the Divine Comedy, which for me is the story of an existential crisis"

Mladen Kovačević • Director of Possibility of Paradise

VENICE 2024: The Serbian director paints the portrait of a diverse array of people in search of happiness on an idyllic island  

11/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Luciana Fina • Director of Sempre

"The Carnation Revolution constitutes perhaps the best moment in Portugal's history"

Luciana Fina • Director of Sempre

VENICE 2024: The Italian director talks about her documentary, which revisits 25 April 1974 and bears witness to the process of building a new country  

11/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Fabrizio Ferraro • Director of Desert Suite

"It's a journey that's born of something we all feel, of the uncertainty inherent in changing our surroundings"

Fabrizio Ferraro • Director of Desert Suite

VENICE 2024: The Italian director talks about his new film, in which a young man crosses Europe in search of a new Ithaca  

11/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Guillaume Senez • Director of A Missing Part

"I wanted to move towards something more lyrical, to find greater depth"

Guillaume Senez • Director of A Missing Part

The Belgian director is back with a new film, which sees him continuing to explore his favourite theme – parenthood – while relocating his work to Japan  

10/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Centrepiece

Koya Kamura  • Director of Winter in Sokcho

"It’s not spectacular, it’s an intimate film"

Koya Kamura • Director of Winter in Sokcho

The French-Japanese director shares the adventure of his first feature film, which was shot in Korea and which stars Bella Kim and Roschdy Zem in lead roles  

10/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Platform

Johanné Gómez Terrero • Director of Sugar Island

"Slavery and sugar are intrinsically linked"

Johanné Gómez Terrero • Director of Sugar Island

VENICE 2024: The Afro-diasporic director whisks the viewer away to the sugar-cane plantations where a young woman gets pregnant too early  

10/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Mónica Taboada-Tapia • Director of Alma del desierto

"It was a terrible story, and I couldn't imagine it could happen in our century, on this planet"

Mónica Taboada-Tapia • Director of Alma del desierto

VENICE 2024: The Colombian director talks about her documentary around an elderly transgender woman who is struggling to obtain an ID document for herself  

10/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Giuseppe Schillaci • Director of Bosco grande

"I wanted to make a film about the punk scene in Palermo, and he told me: 'I am the film'"

Giuseppe Schillaci • Director of Bosco grande

VENICE 2024: The Italian director talks us through his documentary, focusing on Sergione, one of Palermo's main standard-bearers of the punk scene in the 1980s  

10/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Philippe Reynaert • Senior consultant, Xanadu

“The public authorities’ responsibility today is to ensure the independence not of producers, but of productions”

Philippe Reynaert • Senior consultant, Xanadu

VENICE 2024: The expert unpacks key insights from the “A Reflection About the Future Purpose for Film and Audiovisual Policies” panel, held during the...  

10/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Venice Production Bridge

Pavlo Ostrikov • Director of U Are the Universe

“I’m not sure what the future holds for Ukrainian cinema, especially sci-fi”

Pavlo Ostrikov • Director of U Are the Universe

The Ukrainian director talks about blending sci-fi with an emotional love story, and his preference for practical effects over digital ones  

10/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Discovery

Dani Rosenberg • Director of Of Dogs and Men

“I felt the camera was sometimes like a shield against reality”

Dani Rosenberg • Director of Of Dogs and Men

VENICE 2024: The Israeli director explains how he came to make his response to the 7 October attack by Hamas, and shares a strong plea for the war’s cessation  

10/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Jan-Willem van Ewijk • Director of Alpha.

"I was interested in the concept of one person dominating another, while nature dominates everybody"

Jan-Willem van Ewijk • Director of Alpha.

VENICE 2024: The Dutch director talks to us about his Europa Cinemas Label winner, in which the unresolved relationship between a father and son is...  

09/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Ciro De Caro • Director of Taxi Monamour

"The encounter between these two people is like a taxi, which takes you from one place to another, and then down each of their individual paths"

Ciro De Caro • Director of Taxi Monamour

VENICE 2024: The Italian director has won the Audience Award with his story of two women belonging to two different worlds but who share the same thirst for...  

09/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Pupi Avati • Director of American Backyard

“My movie is the cheapest of all the Italian films at the festival”

Pupi Avati • Director of American Backyard

VENICE 2024: Well into his seventh decade as a filmmaker, the Italian cinema adventurer’s career choice has brought both pain and joy  

09/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Olha Zhurba • Director of Songs of Slow Burning Earth

“The war is already part of our daily lives, and we, as artists, can't do anything else but portray it”

Olha Zhurba • Director of Songs of Slow Burning Earth

VENICE 2024: The Ukrainian documentarian discusses how she depicts the long-term effects of the Russo-Ukrainian War on her people  

09/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

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