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.

 
Alessandro Roia  • Director of With the Grace of a God

"My interest lay in making a film that would be unyielding and wouldn't pander to visual trends"

Alessandro Roia • Director of With the Grace of a God

VENICE 2023: The Italian actor steps behind the camera for the first time to follow a man who, after the death of one of his old friends, is forced to...  

06/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Víctor Iriarte  • Director of Foremost by Night

“It was important to give the main characters the possibility to encounter one another and tell their stories”

Víctor Iriarte • Director of Foremost by Night

VENICE 2023: The director talks about his film, which intertwines the fates of a mother, a son and an adoptive mother, bringing to light one of the darkest...  

06/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Enrico Maria Artale • Director of El Paraíso

“One of the reasons why I wanted to make this film was to portray a strong bond that can easily turn into something oppressive”

Enrico Maria Artale • Director of El Paraíso

VENICE 2023: The Italian director gives us more details on his late-bloomer coming-of-age story about a complicated mother-son relationship  

06/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti

Cédric Kahn • Director of Making Of

“Comedy is often the best way to say really serious things, right?”

Cédric Kahn • Director of Making Of

VENICE 2023: The hardships of an idealistic film director and his ever-struggling crew are at the centre of the French helmer's appropriately titled feature  

06/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Out of Competition

Anaïs Tellenne  • Director of The Dreamer

"I’ve noticed a glaring difference in how people reacted when it came to funding the film and how they’re reacting now that they’re seeing it"

Anaïs Tellenne • Director of The Dreamer

VENICE 2023: The French filmmaker spoke of her debut feature, a surprising work about the new horizons of a man with a Cyclopean physique  

05/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti Extra

Chong Keat Aun  • Director of Snow in Midsummer

"Every year, I used to go to the cemetery and interview the families of the victims to get more details about what happened that night"

Chong Keat Aun • Director of Snow in Midsummer

VENICE 2023: The Malaysian director discusses his second feature, which shines a fresh spotlight on a forgotten chapter in his country's history  

05/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Evelyn Regner • Vice-President, European Parliament

"Film is also an important means of communication for political reasons"

Evelyn Regner • Vice-President, European Parliament

VENICE 2023: The European Parliament Vice-President discusses the upcoming edition of the LUX Audience Award and why the institution is investing in it  

05/09/2023 | Venice 2023

Ariane Louis-Seize  • Director of Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

"I had fun taking human fights and translating them into the vampire world"

Ariane Louis-Seize • Director of Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

VENICE 2023: The Canadian director discusses her dark comedy in which a young vampire who refuses to kill to survive finds a person willing to sacrifice...  

05/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Anna Buryachkova  • Director of Forever-Forever

“I was looking for magic”

Anna Buryachkova • Director of Forever-Forever

VENICE 2023: The kids are not alright in the Ukrainian director’s movie, but at least they keep on fighting  

05/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Orizzonti Extra

Élise Girard  • Director of Sidonie in Japan

"I wanted to show the end of mourning, and love returning"

Élise Girard • Director of Sidonie in Japan

VENICE 2023: The French filmmaker directs Isabelle Huppert in her third feature, portraying a trip to Japan, where the visible exists alongside the invisible  

05/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

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

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