Interviews

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

8602 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 23/01/2026. 636 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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

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

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