Interviews

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

8327 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 18/07/2025. 662 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
Alain Parroni  • Director of An Endless Sunday

“I explored the confusion experienced by these kids through lighting, sound and atmospheres”

Alain Parroni • Director of An Endless Sunday

VENICE 2023: The director chatted with us about the preliminary study he carried out on his own generation and his extraordinary visual approach in the film  

04/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Edoardo Morabito  • Director of The Outpost

"This film is an ode to being a visionary: we need to get back to envisioning different futures"

Edoardo Morabito • Director of The Outpost

VENICE 2023: The director documents the bonkers project by Chris Clark, an eco-warrior who dreams of organising a Pink Floyd concert in the heart of the...  

04/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Selman Nacar  • Director of Hesitation Wound

“I'm interested in characters who are stuck in between emotions because I believe Turkey is in a similar situation”

Selman Nacar • Director of Hesitation Wound

VENICE 2023: The rising Turkish director dissects his taut new feature, which is equally a courtroom procedural and a character study  

04/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Chloé Barreau  • Director of Fragments of a Life Loved

“The viewer will be able to identify with this because we all tread a path with various romances that change our lives”

Chloé Barreau • Director of Fragments of a Life Loved

VENICE 2023: The director asked her old flames to spill the beans and give their own versions of the relationship they each had with her in her documentary  

04/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Olmo Schnabel  • Director of Pet Shop Days

“People can agree or disagree, love it or hate it. I just want them to react”

Olmo Schnabel • Director of Pet Shop Days

VENICE 2023: The debuting director has crafted a film that’s constantly moving, following two guys who have everything and yet have nothing  

04/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti Extra

Yorgos Lanthimos  • Director of Poor Things

“I want to push things further with each film”

Yorgos Lanthimos • Director of Poor Things

VENICE 2023: Even if his feature is being praised for the uniqueness of its style and his filmmaking approach, the Greek director is wary of saying there’s...  

04/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Bertrand Bonello  • Director of The Beast

“Cinema and hypnosis go well together”

Bertrand Bonello • Director of The Beast

VENICE 2023: The French filmmaker gives us a few clues to decipher his subjugating film of a very broad ambition  

03/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Saverio Costanzo  • Director of Finally Dawn

“I drew inspiration for my main character from an idea of unpredictable, unconventional femininity”

Saverio Costanzo • Director of Finally Dawn

VENICE 2023: The Italian director talks about the initial idea for his film set in the Cinecittà studios in the 1950s, and the movies that inspired him  

03/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Timm Kröger  • Director of The Universal Theory

“I dream in the way classic cinema has taught us to”

Timm Kröger • Director of The Universal Theory

VENICE 2023: Instead of actually delivering the titular theory of everything, the German director opts for mystery  

03/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Competition

Stefanie Kolk  • Director of Milk

"What struck me about these ladies who donated their milk after their loss is the calm determination they had"

Stefanie Kolk • Director of Milk

VENICE 2023: The Dutch director's feature debut focuses on a young woman who, after having a stillbirth, decides to donate her breast milk to other mothers...  

02/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Tommaso Santambrogio  • Director of Oceans Are the Real Continents

“Forced separation is something that characterises the entirety of Cuban society”

Tommaso Santambrogio • Director of Oceans Are the Real Continents

VENICE 2023: The Italian director's feature debut tells of the Cuban migrant crisis through three stories and three generations overshadowed by the threat...  

02/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Ivan Ostrochovský, Pavol Pekarčík  • Directors of Photophobia

“We didn’t want to elicit feelings of pathos; these children bring a different kind of emotion”

Ivan Ostrochovský, Pavol Pekarčík • Directors of Photophobia

VENICE 2023: The Slovakian directors grab their video camera and head down to a Kharkiv Metro station in Ukraine in order to depict the war from the point...  

02/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Vittorio Moroni  • Director of The Invention of Snow

“I wanted the viewer not to know from the start what was good and what was bad"

Vittorio Moroni • Director of The Invention of Snow

VENICE 2023: The Italian director talks about his fourth feature, which follows a woman caught up in her own mistakes, who is fighting to get her daughter back  

02/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Nehir Tuna  • Director of Dormitory

“Coming-of-age stories are my favourite genre”

Nehir Tuna • Director of Dormitory

VENICE 2023: The Turkish director delves into the many nuances of his first feature, a film you’d be a fool to sleep through  

02/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Andrés Peyrot  • Director of God Is A Woman

"This combination of time periods and viewpoints would lead to a combination of different materials"

Andrés Peyrot • Director of God Is A Woman

VENICE 2023: The Swiss filmmaker of Panamanian origin spoke to us about the adventure involved in making his documentary about the Kuna community and...  

01/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | International Film Critics’ Week

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