Interviews

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

7198 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 29/09/2023. 609 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Annalena Benini, Francesco Piccolo • Directors of Le mie poesie non cambieranno il mondo

"We were interested in following Patrizia Cavalli and coming up with our own edit that would make it emotional"

Annalena Benini, Francesco Piccolo • Directors of Le mie poesie non cambieranno il mondo

VENICE 2023: The screenwriter and the journalist step behind the movie camera to pay tribute to Patrizia Cavalli, one of the most influential contemporary...  

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

Fabio Mollo, Alessandra Cataleta • Directors of Flesh and Bronze

"We wanted to make a film that would not just tell the story of the work of art per se"

Fabio Mollo, Alessandra Cataleta • Directors of Flesh and Bronze

VENICE 2023: With their documentary, the directorial duo retrace half a century's worth of history, telling the story of the world's two best-preserved...  

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

Pietro Castellitto  • Director of Enea

“Life has more than one genre”

Pietro Castellitto • Director of Enea

VENICE 2023: The Italian actor-director introduces us to a man who just wants to feel alive, in his “gangster movie without the gangster parts”  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Alessandro Roia  • Director of With the Grace of a God

"My interest lay in making a film that would be unyielding and wouldn't pander to visual trends"

Alessandro Roia • Director of With the Grace of a God

VENICE 2023: The Italian actor steps behind the camera for the first time to follow a man who, after the death of one of his old friends, is forced to...  

06/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Víctor Iriarte  • Director of Foremost by Night

“It was important to give the main characters the possibility to encounter one another and tell their stories”

Víctor Iriarte • Director of Foremost by Night

VENICE 2023: The director talks about his film, which intertwines the fates of a mother, a son and an adoptive mother, bringing to light one of the darkest...  

06/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Enrico Maria Artale • Director of El Paraíso

“One of the reasons why I wanted to make this film was to portray a strong bond that can easily turn into something oppressive”

Enrico Maria Artale • Director of El Paraíso

VENICE 2023: The Italian director gives us more details on his late-bloomer coming-of-age story about a complicated mother-son relationship  

06/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Cédric Kahn • Director of Making Of

“Comedy is often the best way to say really serious things, right?”

Cédric Kahn • Director of Making Of

VENICE 2023: The hardships of an idealistic film director and his ever-struggling crew are at the centre of the French helmer's appropriately titled feature  

06/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Out of Competition

Anaïs Tellenne  • Director of The Dreamer

"I’ve noticed a glaring difference in how people reacted when it came to funding the film and how they’re reacting now that they’re seeing it"

Anaïs Tellenne • Director of The Dreamer

VENICE 2023: The French filmmaker spoke of her debut feature, a surprising work about the new horizons of a man with a Cyclopean physique  

05/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti Extra

Chong Keat Aun  • Director of Snow in Midsummer

"Every year, I used to go to the cemetery and interview the families of the victims to get more details about what happened that night"

Chong Keat Aun • Director of Snow in Midsummer

VENICE 2023: The Malaysian director discusses his second feature, which shines a fresh spotlight on a forgotten chapter in his country's history  

05/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Evelyn Regner • Vice-President, European Parliament

"Film is also an important means of communication for political reasons"

Evelyn Regner • Vice-President, European Parliament

VENICE 2023: The European Parliament Vice-President discusses the upcoming edition of the LUX Audience Award and why the institution is investing in it  

05/09/2023 | Venice 2023

Ariane Louis-Seize  • Director of Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

"I had fun taking human fights and translating them into the vampire world"

Ariane Louis-Seize • Director of Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

VENICE 2023: The Canadian director discusses her dark comedy in which a young vampire who refuses to kill to survive finds a person willing to sacrifice...  

05/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Anna Buryachkova  • Director of Forever-Forever

“I was looking for magic”

Anna Buryachkova • Director of Forever-Forever

VENICE 2023: The kids are not alright in the Ukrainian director’s movie, but at least they keep on fighting  

05/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti Extra

Élise Girard  • Director of Sidonie in Japan

"I wanted to show the end of mourning, and love returning"

Élise Girard • Director of Sidonie in Japan

VENICE 2023: The French filmmaker directs Isabelle Huppert in her third feature, portraying a trip to Japan, where the visible exists alongside the invisible  

05/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Alain Parroni  • Director of An Endless Sunday

“I explored the confusion experienced by these kids through lighting, sound and atmospheres”

Alain Parroni • Director of An Endless Sunday

VENICE 2023: The director chatted with us about the preliminary study he carried out on his own generation and his extraordinary visual approach in the film  

04/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Edoardo Morabito  • Director of The Outpost

"This film is an ode to being a visionary: we need to get back to envisioning different futures"

Edoardo Morabito • Director of The Outpost

VENICE 2023: The director documents the bonkers project by Chris Clark, an eco-warrior who dreams of organising a Pink Floyd concert in the heart of the...  

04/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

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