Interviews

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

8337 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 08/08/2025. 667 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Stéphane Brizé  • Director of Out of Season

“If an actor doesn’t make a film or doesn’t show up on stage, who cares?”

Stéphane Brizé • Director of Out of Season

VENICE 2023: The French director moves away from the workplace and out to a quiet seaside resort, where a famous actor is wallowing in an existential crisis  

09/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Giorgio Diritti  • Director of Lubo

"The process of selecting the actors is an obsession for me and carries on until I've fallen in love with 'the one'"

Giorgio Diritti • Director of Lubo

VENICE 2023: The Italian director chats about his latest work, in which a Yenisch busker knows that he will never find peace until he attains justice for...  

09/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Céline Sciamma  • Director of This Is How a Child Becomes a Poet

"Patrizia Cavalli was inspiring because she was so much fun, and her way of life was also an inspiration"

Céline Sciamma • Director of This Is How a Child Becomes a Poet

VENICE 2023: The French director pays tribute to female poet Patrizia Cavalli, documenting the final day in her home, before it all came to an end  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Delphine Girard  • Director of Through the Night

"I wondered, in real life, what would happen to these characters after this story"

Delphine Girard • Director of Through the Night

VENICE 2023: The Belgian director's film revolves around an instance of sexual abuse, the ensuing investigation and the different points of view on what...  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Lina Soualem  • Director of Bye Bye Tiberias

"I wanted these women to reclaim the sheer complexity of their journeys, their battles and also their contradictions"

Lina Soualem • Director of Bye Bye Tiberias

VENICE 2023: The director paints the portrait of four generations of Palestininan women who keep their story alive through the sheer strength of their bonds  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Goran Stolevski, Alina Serban • Director of and actress in Housekeeping for Beginners

“In order to have a meaningful representation, we needed to allow our characters to act like arseholes”

Goran Stolevski, Alina Serban • Director of and actress in Housekeeping for Beginners

VENICE 2023: The Macedonian-Australian director reunites with one of his actresses to break down a movie in which so many dramatic things happen, yet which...  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Moin Hussain • Director of Sky Peals

“I thought of it as a road movie where nobody really goes anywhere”

Moin Hussain • Director of Sky Peals

VENICE 2023: The London-based writer-director opens up about combining the mundane and the fantastical  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | International Film Critics’ Week

Fien Troch • Director of Holly

“My strength has to do with making people wonder what’s real and what’s not”

Fien Troch • Director of Holly

VENICE 2023: The Belgian director keeps viewers guessing in her new film, about a shy girl who may or may not have mysterious powers  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Afef Ben Mahmoud, Khalil Benkirane • Directors of Backstage

"The idea was to start with the show and then get closer to these characters, who are normal people"

Afef Ben Mahmoud, Khalil Benkirane • Directors of Backstage

VENICE 2023: The directorial duo talk about their road movie through the forests of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, where we follow a dance troupe as they...  

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

Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of 21 Days Until the End of the World

"It's a film that came intuitively; the only rule was to shoot in 21 days"

Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of 21 Days Until the End of the World

VENICE 2023: The Macedonian director talks about her most personal film to date in it, in which she asks: “What would you do if you only had 21 days left to...  

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

Kyoshi Sugita  • Director of Following the Sound

"The regret of not having helped her mother always follows the main character"

Kyoshi Sugita • Director of Following the Sound

VENICE 2023: The film by the Japanese director broaches the topics of empathy and altruism through the character of a young woman who can detect the pain in...  

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

Céline Rouzet • Director of For Night Will Come

"The film is haunted by an outlook full of desire and danger"

Céline Rouzet • Director of For Night Will Come

VENICE 2023: The French filmmaker spoke to us about the symbolic figure of the vampire, the blend of genres in her movie and the impossibility of fitting in...  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

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

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