Interviews

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

7204 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 29/09/2023. 611 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Simone Bozzelli • Director of Patagonia

“In my film, the strongest substance is love”

Simone Bozzelli • Director of Patagonia

The Italian director tells the story of a relationship of emotional dependency between violence and tenderness, and tells us of an Italy too often forgotten  

16/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Colectivo Negu • Directors of Negu hurbilak

“The aim of the film is to form part of post-conflict Basque Country, shining a little light on a part that we don't often see”

Colectivo Negu • Directors of Negu hurbilak

Two of the members of this artistic group, Mikel Ibarguren and Ekain Albite, reveal the keys to their experimental début work, which recalls the silenced...  

16/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

Patric Chiha • Director of The Beast in the Jungle

“The novel really talks about all of us, about what we dream of living and what we’re really living”

Patric Chiha • Director of The Beast in the Jungle

The Austrian filmmaker of Hungarian and Lebanese descent tells us about his free and very original adaptation of Henry James’ novel  

16/08/2023 | /France/Belgium/Austria

Mari Kivi, Priit Tender • Artistic directors, Animist Tallinn

“Animation is a very broad genre occupying a unique position between film and art, and it deserves special attention”

Mari Kivi, Priit Tender • Artistic directors, Animist Tallinn

The artistic directors of the young, Tallinn-based festival talk us through this year’s programme and their efforts to promote independent animation  

16/08/2023 | Animist Tallinn 2023

Basil Da Cunha • Director of Manga D’Terra

"I made a musical that pays homage to a type of music which does not get the recognition it deserves"

Basil Da Cunha • Director of Manga D’Terra

The Swiss-Portuguese director, whose film pays homage to the women of the Reboleira neighbourhood, talks to us with passion about the tight connection...  

14/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Éléonore Saintagnan • Director of Camping du Lac

“In my work, there is always something strange going on”

Éléonore Saintagnan • Director of Camping du Lac

The absurd meets the serious in the French director’s new film, in which she also plays the lead role  

14/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

Laura Ferrés • Director of The Permanent Picture

“I am not interested in making autobiographical films; I already spend enough time with myself”

Laura Ferrés • Director of The Permanent Picture

The Catalonian director has crafted an experimental and genre-blending portrait of women from different generations  

14/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Sylvain George • Director of Obscure Night – Goodbye Here, Anywhere

“At night, the rules don’t apply”

Sylvain George • Director of Obscure Night – Goodbye Here, Anywhere

The French director dives into darkness in his film about a group of kids from Morocco, dreaming of escaping to Europe yet still stuck in Melilla  

14/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Leonor Teles • Director of Baan

“This whole film is trying to portray a state of mind”

Leonor Teles • Director of Baan

With her new feature, the cinematographer-turned-director embarks on a bittersweet search for the place where one belongs  

11/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Romain de Saint-Blanquat • Director of Bitten

“Gothic literature had an influence on the aesthetics of the film as well as on the main character”

Romain de Saint-Blanquat • Director of Bitten

The French director breaks down his stylish and atmospheric feature debut, focusing on his protagonists, and his fascination for vampires and coming-of-age...  

10/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Cineasti del presente

Sofia Exarchou • Director of Animal

“I like to start with reality, but then I want to create my own universe, one that will serve my story”

Sofia Exarchou • Director of Animal

The Greek director, whose film plunges into the rarely seen universe of hotel and resort animators, discusses her approach, her research and her cast  

10/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Ena Sendijarević • Director of Sweet Dreams

“It's my job to learn, to educate myself and to try to understand more about this world through cinema”

Ena Sendijarević • Director of Sweet Dreams

The Amsterdam-based Bosnian director gives us the low-down on how she made her idiosyncratic period film and discusses the role of the past in the present  

10/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

Dragan Bjelogrlić • Director of Guardians of the Formula

“The Cold War has never stopped”

Dragan Bjelogrlić • Director of Guardians of the Formula

The Serbian actor-director’s latest effort is a Cold War-set drama revolving around the first-ever human bone-marrow transplant  

08/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Piazza Grande

Yeva Strelnikova • Director of Stay Online

“The world needs to see our reality”

Yeva Strelnikova • Director of Stay Online

The winner of the New Flesh Competition at the Montreal-based festival unpicks her thriller, where war destroys lives both online and off  

08/08/2023 | Fantasia 2023

Radu Jude • Director of Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

“It is a very self-reflective film about what images mean and what cinema can be nowadays”

Radu Jude • Director of Do Not Expect Too Much from the End of the World

The Romanian helmer breaks down his complex new feature of two halves, which provides witty comments on the digital environment and the altered nature of cinema  

08/08/2023 | Locarno 2023 | Competition

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