Knowing everything: Interview with Maura Delpero

In this interview, Italian filmmaker Maura Delpero reflects on her career and the filmmaking process for the fiction film Hogar (Maternal) (2019) about teenage motherhood in a Buenos Aires religious centre, as well as on her three documentaries: Moglie e buoi dei paesi tuoi ('Choose your wife and oxen from your own town') (2005) about couples from different cultural backgrounds in South Tyrol, Italy; Signori professori ('Professors') (2008) about the Italian school system and Nadea e Sveta ('Nadea and Sveta') (2012) about female eastern European immigrants in Italy. Delpero discusses the differences and similarities between her non-fiction and fiction films, exploring topics such as the preparatory work, the storyboard, the timeframe, the locations, working with professional and nonprofessional actors, film techniques and production issues.