Interviews

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

8142 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 10/04/2025. 655 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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"Youth dispels the fear of time"
Paolo Sorrentino  • DirectorCANNES 2015: Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino talks about his film Youth, in competition at the...  
20/05/2015
“Don’t call me the new Fellini”
Paolo Sorrentino • Director"La dolce vita was a masterpiece, ours is just a film." The Neapolitan director talks about The Great...  
22/05/2013
“The film is a journey”
Paolo Sorrentino • DirectorAfter Il Divo, Italian director Paolo Sorrentino returned to Cannes with This Must Be The Place. Starring...  
14/05/2011
"I explored the light and shadows of an Italian mystery"
Paolo  Sorrentino  • DirectorRelating the dark nature of power, through a presentation not merely of the facts but emotions as well....  
09/12/2008
“I explored the light and shadows of an Italian mystery”
Paolo Sorrentino • DirectorPaolo Sorrentino •Il divo Jury Prize - Cannes 2008  
25/05/2006
"Money and feelings"
Paolo Sorrentino • DirectorPaolo Sorrentino • L’amico di famiglia Cannes Official Competition  
25/05/2006
“It’s not my fault; this is how Naples looks”
Paolo Sorrentino  • Director of The Hand of GodVENICE 2021: The Italian director shares some thoughts on his youthful memoir of Naples and the number of...  
10/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Competition
“John Malkovich is the lay version of the Pope”
Paolo Sorrentino  • Director of The New PopeVENICE 2019: Paolo Sorrentino talks about returning to Rome, and Venice, for the second season of The...  
11/09/2019 | Venice 2019 | Out of Competition
Europe and the US united in talent
Paolo Sorrentino & Sean Penn • Director/ActorThe Italian director and the US star joined their talents to make This Must Be The Place  
20/05/2011
"We felt that this is a kind of timeless tragedy"
Bálint Dániel Sós • Director of Growing DownBERLINALE 2025: We talked to the Hungarian filmmaker about what inspired his debut feature, which tackles...  
15/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | Perspectives
“The idea was for the film not to enhance the beauty of the surroundings, but rather create the images as ruggedly as possible”
Francesco Sossai • Director of Other CannibalsThe Italian director mixes the topic of cannibalism with friendship and self-determination in his Black...  
29/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | First Feature Competition
“The ways in which documentaries reach their audiences are certainly not narrowing, but on the contrary, multiplying”
Matej Sotník  • Producer, guča filmsThe Slovakian professional thinks a documentary producer has to be open to a high degree of organicity in...  
20/03/2024 | Emerging Producers 2024
“Cinema is very often built on feelings, like music and poetry”
Philip Sotnychenko • Director of La PalisiadaThe Ukrainian director breaks down his film about two old friends, a police detective and a forensic...  
03/02/2023 | IFFR 2023 | Tiger Competition
"I wanted these women to reclaim the sheer complexity of their journeys, their battles and also their contradictions"
Lina Soualem  • Director of Bye Bye TiberiasVENICE 2023: The director paints the portrait of four generations of Palestininan women who keep their...  
08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori
"I needed to break that silence"
Lina Soualem  •​​ Director of Their AlgeriaLina Soualem tells us about her first feature film, the documentary Their Algeria, revealed and well...  
05/05/2020 | Visions du Réel 2020
"In Switzerland, production and filmmaking are going on and attention is being paid to quality"
Tiziana Soudani • ProducerAfter the great success in Cannes of The Wonders by Alice Rohrwacher, Tiziana Soudani is getting ready to...  
13/06/2014

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