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5959 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 14/02/2026.

Tekla Taidelli  • Director of 6:06

Interview: Tekla Taidelli • Director of 6:06

“This film is a manifesto for disillusioned youths post-Covid"

VENICE 2025: The Italian director returns with a work on the cycle of addiction and depression, enlightened on this occasion by a different, hopeful angle  

10/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Alejandro Amenábar • Director of The Captive

Interview: Alejandro Amenábar • Director of The Captive

“This is the first film, after a thirty-year career, in which I address sexual identity, specifically homosexuality”

One of Spain's highest-grossing filmmakers discusses aspects of his new blockbuster, a historical drama in which he dares to present a new image of the famous writer Miguel de Cervantes  

09/09/2025 | Toronto 2025 | Special Presentations

Gianni Di Gregorio  • Director of Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't

Interview: Gianni Di Gregorio • Director of Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't

"My character remains the central pivot, but I thought it was more interesting to talk about all ages, even children"

VENICE 2025: The Italian director once again takes on the role of a teacher who, once he has retired, plans to enjoy the little pleasures in life  

09/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Amir Azizi • Director of Inside Amir

Interview: Amir Azizi • Director of Inside Amir

"What I want to show in this film is that hope is not far away"

VENICE 2025: The Iranian director breaks down his GdA Director's Award winning film, a personal exploration of the doubts that plague him before he leaves his home country  

09/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Gianluca Matarrese • Director of I Want Her Dead

Interview: Gianluca Matarrese • Director of I Want Her Dead

"This film is like a cinematic reality show"

VENICE 2025: The director reconnects with his Calabrian roots with his mix of reality, fiction and theatre, which tells of the feud within a family: his own, to be precise  

09/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Leonardo Di Costanzo • Director of Elisa

Interview: Leonardo Di Costanzo • Director of Elisa

"It’s the mystery of evil that resides in the ordinary that struck me in that story”

VENICE 2025: The Italian director tells us what pushed him to tell the story of a normal woman who has committed a horrible crime and looks for a road to redemption  

08/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

Virgilio Villoresi • Director of Orfeo

Interview: Virgilio Villoresi • Director of Orfeo

“I chose to adapt Poem Strip because it offered the opportunity to bring together all of the techniques I have refined over the years”

VENICE 2025: The debuting Italian director talks to us about his love of cinema, and about the personal memories that influenced his film  

08/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Out of Competition

Andrea Di Stefano • Director of My Tennis Maestro

Interview: Andrea Di Stefano • Director of My Tennis Maestro

“I’ve always wondered why films about sports only ever talk about the winners”

VENICE 2025: We talked to the Italian director about his new film, starring Pierfrancesco Favino as a failed tennis player  

08/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Out of Competition

Review: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t

Review: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t

VENICE 2025: Gianni Di Gregorio returns with a new work confirming his ability to tell intricate and delicate stories composed of small gestures and great emotions  

08/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Giornate degli Autori

Pietro Marcello • Director of Duse

Interview: Pietro Marcello • Director of Duse

“It may play out 100 years ago, but it says a lot about our current times”

VENICE 2025: The Italian director discusses how he intended to pay tribute to one of his country’s most legendary and highly celebrated actresses from the turn of the last century  

06/09/2025 | Venice 2025 | Competition

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