Interviews

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

8369 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 27/08/2025. 656 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Adrián Silvestre  • Director of May Your Will Be Done

“Almost everyone has conflicts with their families and disagreements with their parents”

Adrián Silvestre • Director of May Your Will Be Done

The Spanish filmmaker explains the origin of his commissioned film, his desire to avoid using realism purely to shock, and his intention for the movie to be...  

06/09/2024 | /Spain

Camille Lugan • Director of The Book of Joy

"A fable about hope in a world that is dark"

Camille Lugan • Director of The Book of Joy

VENICE 2024: The French director discusses her feature debut, in which a young orphan who lives and breathes her faith comes into contact with a forbidden,...  

06/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Xiaoxuan Jiang • Director of To Kill A Mongolian Horse

"When the external world is changing, the individual can be very vulnerable"

Xiaoxuan Jiang • Director of To Kill A Mongolian Horse

VENICE 2024: The feature debut by the Mongolian-born director revolves around a herdsman who looks after his ranch by day and performs on horseback by night  

06/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Giovanni C Lorusso • Director of A Man Fell

"A situation involving many people, where the inputs and the information come in from all over the place"

Giovanni C Lorusso • Director of A Man Fell

VENICE 2024: The Italian director returns to Lebanon and, accompanied by a boy, enters the Gaza Building in Sabra, a symbol of Palestinian survival after...  

06/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Delphine and Muriel Coulin • Directors of The Quiet Son

"The film is a game of three-cushioned billiards between love and hate"

Delphine and Muriel Coulin • Directors of The Quiet Son

VENICE 2024: The French filmmakers explain their new film, a family- and politics-focused drama about paternal and fraternal love, betrayal, and the...  

05/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Marie Losier • Director of Peaches Goes Bananas

"I wanted to see what was behind the mask"

Marie Losier • Director of Peaches Goes Bananas

VENICE 2024: The French director talks to us about her new cinematic portrait dedicated to singer, punk-electro queen and queer and feminist icon Peaches  

05/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Shahab Fotouhi • Director of Boomerang

"The confrontation between two generations helps us to understand each of them more"

Shahab Fotouhi • Director of Boomerang

VENICE 2024: The Iranian artist talks about his vibrant portrait of modern-day Tehran that compares and contrasts two generations, amidst political turmoil...  

05/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Antonietta De Lillo  • Director of The Eye of the Hen

"This story had to be told because it concerns everyone"

Antonietta De Lillo • Director of The Eye of the Hen

VENICE 2024: The Italian helmer tells her own story, that of a highly respected director who is relegated to the sidelines of the film industry following a...  

05/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Giovanni Dota  • Director of High Stakes - A Night in the Ward

"A bet that's born of boredom and also a little bit out of spite"

Giovanni Dota • Director of High Stakes - A Night in the Ward

VENICE 2024: The Italian director talks to us about his second feature, set entirely in a Naples hospital where, one night, two nurses bet on whether a...  

05/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Monica Stambrini • Director of Hold on Miss! Isabella Ducrot Unlimited

"When success comes for an artist at that age, it's fascinating"

Monica Stambrini • Director of Hold on Miss! Isabella Ducrot Unlimited

VENICE 2024: The Italian director talks about the documentary she has dedicated to the ninety-something protagonist's extraordinary journey as a woman and...  

05/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Scandar Copti • Director of Happy Holidays

“I’m a big believer in the process of liberation, and I truly believe that nobody’s free until everybody’s free”

Scandar Copti • Director of Happy Holidays

VENICE 2024: The Palestinian director breaks down his methods of writing and shooting as well as interrogating concepts like morality and the normalisation...  

05/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Jethro Massey • Director of Paul & Paulette Take a Bath

“It doesn't go where your typical romantic comedy goes; I trusted myself to take it somewhere else”

Jethro Massey • Director of Paul & Paulette Take a Bath

VENICE 2024: The debuting Franco-British director regales us with stories of on-the-streets filmmaking, Paris’s dark history and social-media inspiration  

05/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | International Film Critics’ Week

Maura Delpero • Director of Vermiglio

“My protagonist becomes a free woman out of necessity”

Maura Delpero • Director of Vermiglio

VENICE 2024: The Italian director chatted with us about motherhood, documentaries, fiction and the female outlook, and about Ermanno Olmi  

04/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Fabrice Du Welz • Director of Maldoror

"I wanted the film to be totally accessible because the subject matter is important, it goes beyond me"

Fabrice Du Welz • Director of Maldoror

VENICE 2024: We met with the Belgian filmmaker who’s presenting a family portrait morphing into an angst-ridden detective film, inspired by the criminal...  

04/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Carine Tardieu  • Director of The Ties That Bind Us

"Once we’ve gone beyond certain levels of attachment, there’s no going back"

Carine Tardieu • Director of The Ties That Bind Us

VENICE 2024: Carine Tardieu explains the intricate story in her film about family ties which go beyond blood and the effect of the passing of time  

04/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

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