Interviews

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

7115 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 22/08/2023. 625 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Claudia Rorarius • Director of Touched

“I try to get as close as possible to understanding life and emotions”

Claudia Rorarius • Director of Touched

The German director's first feature depicts an uneasy, but striking, story of two lonesome souls, a relationship rarely seen on the screen before  

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

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 | /Estonia

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

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