Interviews

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

8494 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 24/10/2025. 654 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Virgilio Villoresi • Director of Orfeo

“I chose to adapt Poem Strip because it offered the opportunity to bring together all of the techniques I have refined over the years”

Virgilio Villoresi • Director of Orfeo

VENICE 2025: The debuting Italian director talks to us about his love of cinema, and about the personal memories that influenced his film  

08/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Out of Competition

Andrea Di Stefano • Director of My Tennis Maestro

“I’ve always wondered why films about sports only ever talk about the winners”

Andrea Di Stefano • Director of My Tennis Maestro

VENICE 2025: We talked to the Italian director about his new film, starring Pierfrancesco Favino as a failed tennis player  

08/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Out of Competition

Pietro Marcello • Director of Duse

“It may play out 100 years ago, but it says a lot about our current times”

Pietro Marcello • Director of Duse

VENICE 2025: The Italian director discusses how he intended to pay tribute to one of his country’s most legendary and highly celebrated actresses from the...  

06/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Kaouther Ben Hania • Director of The Voice of Hind Rajab

“Just as people know the name Anne Frank, they should know the name Hind Rajab”

Kaouther Ben Hania • Director of The Voice of Hind Rajab

VENICE 2025: After her lengthy standing ovation, the Tunisian director talks to us about her one-room-shot reconstruction of the events surrounding the...  

06/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Oscar Hudson • Director of Straight Circle

“This film is about nowhere and also about everywhere”

Oscar Hudson • Director of Straight Circle

VENICE 2025: The British director breaks down his feature and talks about how he is unable to take serious things seriously  

06/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | International Film Critics’ Week

Mayra Hermosillo • Director of Vainilla

"I've always secretly judged my family, so I told myself I had to go back and realize what it really was"

Mayra Hermosillo • Director of Vainilla

VENICE 2025: The Mexican director talks about her film centring on an eccentric family consisting only of women, who fight to save their home from foreclosure  

06/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Federico Cammarata, Filippo Foscarini • Directors of Waking Hours

“This film reflects our fear”

Federico Cammarata, Filippo Foscarini • Directors of Waking Hours

VENICE 2025: In their creative documentary, the Italian directors head into the heart of the darkness  

05/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | International Film Critics’ Week

Mete Sasioglu, Deniz Kaya • Co-founders, Karhupuisto Film Festival

“Our event will bring something much needed to Helsinki: joy and a sense of community”

Mete Sasioglu, Deniz Kaya • Co-founders, Karhupuisto Film Festival

Two of the four co-founders tell us more about the first edition of the Helsinki-based gathering, which prides itself on welcoming everybody  

05/09/2025 | /Finland

Gastón Solnicki • Director of The Souffleur

“I think one has to bet high, especially while one is young”

Gastón Solnicki • Director of The Souffleur

VENICE 2025: The A Little Love Package director talks about his new ode to Vienna and working with Willem Dafoe  

05/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Jim Jarmusch • Director of Father Mother Sister Brother

“I’m very intuitive in what I do, not analytical”

Jim Jarmusch • Director of Father Mother Sister Brother

VENICE 2025: The US director shares some thoughts on his stories, his work and his love for cinema, veering off at times into some minute detail  

05/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Carla Simón • Director of Romería

“We should start to remove the stigma surrounding AIDS”

Carla Simón • Director of Romería

The Catalan filmmaker reflects on family and its darker sides, the stigmatisation of Spain’s 1980s generation and the conclusion of the trilogy she began...  

05/09/2025 | /Spain/Germany

Marco Bellocchio • Director of Portobello

“What interested me about the Tortora case was the overlap between the world of criminals in prison and his TV show world”

Marco Bellocchio • Director of Portobello

VENICE 2025: Marco Bellocchio chatted with us about his new series dedicated to the tragic fate of journalist and TV presenter Enzo Tortora, which is set to...  

05/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Out of Competition

Mark Jenkin • Director of Rose of Nevada

“Every film is a ghost film”

Mark Jenkin • Director of Rose of Nevada

VENICE 2025: The British director discusses his new movie, in which a lost fishing vessel takes two young men into the past in a coastal village in Cornwall  

05/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Orizzonti

Giulio Bertelli • Director of AGON

“I’m very interested in the elements hidden within each sport”

Giulio Bertelli • Director of AGON

VENICE 2025: The Italian director unpicks his close-up study of three female athletes competing at an Olympic event  

04/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | International Film Critics’ Week

Stergios Dinopoulos, Krysianna B Papadakis • Directors of Bearcave

"The two protagonists represent the dualism of the people who live in those areas"

Stergios Dinopoulos, Krysianna B Papadakis • Directors of Bearcave

VENICE 2025: The pair of directors talk about their feature debut, which broaches topics such as friendship, bravery and the desire to escape  

04/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

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