Interviews

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

8469 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 02/10/2025. 654 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Anders Thomas Jensen  • Director of The Last Viking

“I’m the only Danish director making films with Mads Mikkelsen who won’t get Oscar-nominated”

Anders Thomas Jensen • Director of The Last Viking

VENICE 2025: The filmmaker explains how, for his new feature, he tried to return to some basics in his storytelling  

02/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Out of Competition

Jane Pollard, Iain Forsyth  • Directors of Broken English

“We sat down with Marianne and told her that when we work on something, we don’t know what it’s going to be”

Jane Pollard, Iain Forsyth • Directors of Broken English

VENICE 2025: The directorial duo discuss their film about British cultural icon Marianne Faithfull and how they wanted to avoid turning it into an obituary  

02/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Out of Competition

François Ozon • Director of The Stranger

"I like characters who are a bit mysterious, with an inner life"

François Ozon • Director of The Stranger

VENICE 2025: The French filmmaker discusses his adaptation of Albert Camus's famous novel, how he approached the opacity of the main character and...  

01/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Gianfranco Rosi  • Director of Below the Clouds

“Shooting in black and white has helped me to tell the story of a different Naples from the one in our imagination”

Gianfranco Rosi • Director of Below the Clouds

VENICE 2025: The Italian director tells us about his documentary, a journey through space, time and memory, between what Naples has been and what it could be  

01/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Šarūnas Bartas • Director of Laguna

"Everything we do is art"

Šarūnas Bartas • Director of Laguna

VENICE 2025: The Lithuanian director talks to us about his reflection on the circle of life and of nature  

01/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Evi Kalogiropoulou • Director of Gorgonà

“You have to fight for your power”

Evi Kalogiropoulou • Director of Gorgonà

VENICE 2025: It’s time for revenge, and societal change, in the Greek director’s feature debut  

01/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | International Film Critics’ Week

László Nemes • Director of Orphan

“This backstory has haunted my family’s lives ever since it actually happened”

László Nemes • Director of Orphan

VENICE 2025: The Hungarian director found the main story and protagonist for his new film in his own family, but simultaneously drew on his own experiences...  

31/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Nicolangelo Gelormini • Director of La Gioia

"More than being out of their comfort zone, the actors felt like they were allowed to extract something they had within themselves"

Nicolangelo Gelormini • Director of La Gioia

VENICE 2025: The Neapolitan director talks about his second feature, a dark fable about the forbidden relationship between a boy and his teacher  

31/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Vladlena Sandu • Director of Memory

"We need to start talking about the rights of children in dictatorships and war zones"

Vladlena Sandu • Director of Memory

VENICE 2025: The Crimean-born, Chechen-raised director talks about her film, in which she wonders if it's possible to escape from the cycle of violence...  

31/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Carolina Cavalli • Director of The Kidnapping of Arabella

“I like irony that borders on the absurd because it reflects human existence, how uncertain and contradictory it is"

Carolina Cavalli • Director of The Kidnapping of Arabella

VENICE 2025: We talked to the Italian director about non-places, the camp aesthetic and characters that reflect the confusion and disorientation of today  

31/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Imran Perretta • Director of Ish

“I know exactly when I lost my innocence: it was when I was first dragged into the back of a police car”

Imran Perretta • Director of Ish

VENICE 2025: The British director shares the harsh personal resonance of his debut feature, whilst mulling the beauty of its outer-London locations  

31/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | International Film Critics’ Week

Mihai Mincan • Director of Milk Teeth

“What I’ve tried to do is not make some kind of ‘autobiographical memory’ film, but rather convey a feeling of loneliness”

Mihai Mincan • Director of Milk Teeth

VENICE 2025: The Romanian director talks about blending historical reality, childhood memories and the weight of silence  

31/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Valérie Donzelli • Director of At Work

“This film had to be honest”

Valérie Donzelli • Director of At Work

VENICE 2025: Freedom doesn’t come cheap in the French director’s new feature, but it’s still worth all the trouble  

30/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Jaume Claret Muxart • Director of Strange River

“It's an educational film: about desire and sexuality”

Jaume Claret Muxart • Director of Strange River

VENICE 2025: The debuting Catalan filmmaker talks to us about his first feature, shot on 16 mm while cycling along the Danube with his family, with sexual...  

30/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Tereza Nvotová • Director of Father

“What got me intrigued, even obsessed, was that moment when everything turns and you’re dropped into a parallel universe”

Tereza Nvotová • Director of Father

VENICE 2025: The Slovak director takes on a macabre subject, following a decent man and father into a spiral of horror, after a memory lapse changes his and...  

29/08/2025 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

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