Video interviews

Cineuropa's video interviews. Discover or re-discover interviews with directors, actors, producers, distributors and other European professionals. In this section, you can find our video interviews with the Shooting Stars and Producers on the Move, as selected by European Film Promotion.

Léa Domenach • Director of A Man's Skin

"The film deals with tough themes, but it's all wrapped in champagne bubbles"

Léa Domenach • Director of A Man's Skin by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico

VENICE 2026: The French director talks about her queer and feminist musical comedy set in the 15th century, which questions identity, desire and social roles  

Damilola Orimogunje • Director of Dear Ajayi

"These two sisters react at the society in their own ways, and for me it was very important not to judge them"

Damilola Orimogunje • Director of Dear Ajayi by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico

VENICE 2026: The director talks about his second feature, set in 1990s Nigeria and centring on two sisters who are trying to find their place in the world  

Mykyta Gibalenko • Director of Camouflage

"The idea was to tell a story of migration before and after the beginning of the full scale invasion"

Mykyta Gibalenko • Director of Camouflage by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico

VENICE 2026: The director talks to us about his debut feature, the story of a young Ukrainian in Germany during the Russian invasion of his country  

Nathalia Acevedo • Director of Salón de belleza

"It's a space out of time, where present, past and future coexist at the same time"

Nathalia Acevedo • Director of Salón de belleza by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico

VENICE 2026: The Mexican actress talks about her directorial debut, in which a beauty salon becomes a place to reflect on the fragility of existence  

Robert Guédiguian • Director of A Woman Today

"In order to talk about emancipation today, I had to talk about a young woman who hadn't lived through the struggles of the 1970s"

Robert Guédiguian • Director of A Woman Today by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico

VENICE 2026: The French director guides us through his new film, the story of a senior executive who decides to break with the past and venture down a new...  

María Aparicio • Director of Sometimes Sadness, Sometimes Rebellion

"Cinema is everywhere for me: you just have to look with a little bit of attention"

María Aparicio • Director of Sometimes Sadness, Sometimes Rebellion by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico

VENICE 2026: The Argentinian director discusses her fourth feature, poised between cinema and real life, and a profound reflection on work, migration and memory  

Kuba Dorabialski • Director of Agata the Writer

"As artists, we have to confront with the world we live in, but how far can we go in using someone else’s trauma?"

Kuba Dorabialski • Director of Agata the Writer by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico

VENICE 2026: The director and video artist talks to us about his debut feature, starring Mia Wasikowska as a writer grappling with the difficulty of telling...  

Nicola Sorcinelli • Director of Balcanica

"It was important for me to depict a human connection that would be recognisable in order to elicit empathy"

Nicola Sorcinelli • Director of Balcanica by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico

VENICE 2026: The Italian director chats to us about his debut feature, the story of an Afghan father and son fleeing their homeland with their musical...  

Pauline Julier, Nicolas Chapoulier • Directors of Les Indes

"We felt like the 17th century was a great choice to tell the story of our era - it's like a sort of mirror"

Pauline Julier, Nicolas Chapoulier • Directors of Les Indes by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico

VENICE 2026: The Swiss duo talks about their debut, which draws inspiration from the journey undertaken by the portrait of Maria Theresa of Austria, the...  

Boris Hadžija, Hoda Taheri • Directors of I Plant My Hand in the Garden

“Our films are always somehow in a continuous conversation with one other”

Boris Hadžija, Hoda Taheri • Directors of I Plant My Hand in the Garden by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico

VENICE 2026: The directing duo blur autobiography and fiction to explore what it means to be a family, amid migration, identity and parenthood  

Lili Horvát • Director of My Notes on Mars

“I am drawn to exceptionally intelligent female characters who dare to make bold and surprising decisions”

Lili Horvát • Director of My Notes on Mars by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico

VENICE 2026: The Hungarian director talks about her third feature, a film that, while intertwining science fiction and intimacy, investigates the fear of...  

Dragana Jurišić • Director of The Balkan Cowboy

"By using elements of naivety and kitsch from the western genre, I wanted to make a mainstream film that would reach a wide audience"

Dragana Jurišić • Director of The Balkan Cowboy by Ana Stanic

We caught up with the Croatian director to talk about her film, which takes her to Bijeljina in search of Hari Džekson, a local amateur filmmaker who made...  

Martin Genovski • Director of Bear With Me

"What I learnt during the process of making this film is that we shouldn't judge a book by its cover"

Martin Genovski • Director of Bear With Me by Ana Stanic

The Bulgarian director explores human-animal friendship and the fading world of traditional circuses, approaching its problematic legacy from his own...  

Bojana Novaković • Director of The Forbidden Aunt

"This is a film about sexual violence in the Balkans - and it’s funny"

Bojana Novaković • Director of The Forbidden Aunt by Ana Stanic

The Serbian-Australian actor and filmmaker discusses the complicated legacy of female strength and the role of humour when dealing with trauma  

Helena Maksyom • Director of Don't Ask Me if I Killed

"I realised that I could be killed at any moment, and I wanted my friends to have some kind of memory of me"

Helena Maksyom • Director of Don't Ask Me if I Killed by Ana Stanic

The Ukrainian filmmaker shares her experience of war trauma and what she thinks it takes to remain at least a little sane in an extreme reality  

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