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Emanuele Basso

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75 articles available in total starting from 02/09/2021. Last article published on 11/09/2023.

Marco Amenta • Director of Anna

Interview: Marco Amenta • Director of Anna

"The violence perpetrated against the film's protagonist is comparable with the brutality of the way the land is treated"

VENICA 2023: The director discusses his film, which tells of the one-woman fight undertaken by a young Sardinian, who strives to protect her land from unbridled urban construction  

11/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Gianluca Matarrese  • Director of The Zola Experience

Interview: Gianluca Matarrese • Director of The Zola Experience

"What fascinates me about cinema is the creative process"

VENICE 2023: The director follows the trials and tribulations of a theatre director getting to grips with the preparations for his new show and with a new romantic partner  

11/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Zacharias Mavroeidis  • Director of The Summer With Carmen

Interview: Zacharias Mavroeidis • Director of The Summer With Carmen

"For queer people, friends stand in for their families in many different ways"

VENICE 2023: The Greek director discusses his queer comedy that talks about cinema and the rules of storytelling, where the main characters are two friends who intent on writing a film of their lives  

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

Céline Sciamma  • Director of This Is How a Child Becomes a Poet

Interview: Céline Sciamma • Director of This Is How a Child Becomes a Poet

"Patrizia Cavalli was inspiring because she was so much fun, and her way of life was also an inspiration"

VENICE 2023: The French director pays tribute to female poet Patrizia Cavalli, documenting the final day in her home, before it all came to an end  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Delphine Girard  • Director of Through the Night

Interview: Delphine Girard • Director of Through the Night

"I wondered, in real life, what would happen to these characters after this story"

VENICE 2023: The Belgian director's film revolves around an instance of sexual abuse, the ensuing investigation and the different points of view on what happened  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Lina Soualem  • Director of Bye Bye Tiberias

Interview: Lina Soualem • Director of Bye Bye Tiberias

"I wanted these women to reclaim the sheer complexity of their journeys, their battles and also their contradictions"

VENICE 2023: The director paints the portrait of four generations of Palestininan women who keep their story alive through the sheer strength of their bonds  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Afef Ben Mahmoud, Khalil Benkirane • Directors of Backstage

Interview: Afef Ben Mahmoud, Khalil Benkirane • Directors of Backstage

"The idea was to start with the show and then get closer to these characters, who are normal people"

VENICE 2023: The directorial duo talk about their road movie through the forests of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, where we follow a dance troupe as they head out on the last leg of their tour  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of 21 Days Until the End of the World

Interview: Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of 21 Days Until the End of the World

"It's a film that came intuitively; the only rule was to shoot in 21 days"

VENICE 2023: The Macedonian director talks about her most personal film to date in it, in which she asks: “What would you do if you only had 21 days left to live?”  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Kyoshi Sugita  • Director of Following the Sound

Interview: Kyoshi Sugita • Director of Following the Sound

"The regret of not having helped her mother always follows the main character"

VENICE 2023: The film by the Japanese director broaches the topics of empathy and altruism through the character of a young woman who can detect the pain in the faces of strangers  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Annalena Benini, Francesco Piccolo • Directors of Le mie poesie non cambieranno il mondo

Interview: Annalena Benini, Francesco Piccolo • Directors of Le mie poesie non cambieranno il mondo

"We were interested in following Patrizia Cavalli and coming up with our own edit that would make it emotional"

VENICE 2023: The screenwriter and the journalist step behind the movie camera to pay tribute to Patrizia Cavalli, one of the most influential contemporary Italian female poets  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

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