Interviews

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

8288 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 02/07/2025. 661 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 

Interview - Venice Days 2011

Shlomi Elkabetz • Director

In Shlomi Elkabetz’s Testemonies, Israeli soldiers and palestian civilians recount their memories of the second Intifada  

Interview - Venice Days 2011

Susan Youssef • Director

Susan Youssef uses the 7th-century Arabic romance “Majnun Layla” as a vehicle to narrate a classic story of forbidden love in a contemporary Gaza  

Interview - Venice Days 2011

Frederick Wiseman • Director

Frederick Wiseman spent ten weeks exploring a Parisian cabaret known for the most chic nude dancing in the world. Crazy Horse opened the 2011 edition of the...  

Interview - Venice Days 2011

Angelina Nikonova • Director

Angelina Nikonova's Twilight Portrait is the portrait of an inhospitable Russia in which indifference, moral degradation and violence reign  

Interview - Venice Days 2011

Vincent Morisset • Director

Vincent Morisset directed Inni, Sigur Rós' second live film following the celebrated Heima. The film is part of the Venice Days 2011 selection  

Interview - Venice Days 2011

Jean-Marc Vallée • Director

Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallée is back to the Venice Days to present Café de Flore. Vanessa Paradis stars as the courageous mother of a child with...  

Interview - Venice Days 2011

Lou Ye • Director

Chinese director Lou Ye adapted Jie Liu-falin's novel "Bitch”. Shot in Paris, Love and Bruises centres on a Chinese girl student's obsession with a macho...  

Interview - Venice Days 2011

Daniele Gaglianone • Director

The drama of paedophilia is at the heart of Rust. Daniele Gaglianone’s new film is part of the Venice Days 2011 selection  

Interview - Venice Days 2011

Andrea Di Bari • Director

Andrea Di Bari’s short film Beyond the Glass screened at the opening of the 2011 edition of the Venice Days  

Interview - Venice Days 2011

Erri De Luca • Actor

In his debut as screenwriter (Beyond the Glass), Erri De Luca opens the door to his house, transporting us into the universe of the past  

Chicken With Plums: an ode to Love and cinema

Vincent Paronnaud et Marjane Satrapi • Directors

Chicken With Plums is the latest comic book adaptation by directorial duo Paronnaud and Satrapi, who won over audiences with Persepolis  

03/09/2011

"There is no New Greek Cinema"

Yorgos Lanthimos • Director

After his international hit Dogtooth, Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos returns with Alps, his new film presented in competition at Venice  

03/09/2011

Director defends Godard-inspired That Summer

Philippe Garrel • Director

Philippe Garrel defends his film That Summer, which met with a cold reception from the press at the 68th Venice Film Festival  

02/09/2011

"We humans are so afraid of questioning the rules"

Ruben Östlund • Director

Selected once again at Cannes with Play, the Swedish director explains why he took an interest in a highly polemical news story involving delinquency and...  

28/08/2011

"Encourage people who have courage to remain courageous"

Robert Guédiguian • Director

Morals, poverty, working-class culture and political activism, class consciousness and generational gap: the Marseilles-born director talks about The Snows...  

28/08/2011

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