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.

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Viestur Kairish • Director of The Sign Painter

"How can you survive as a human and not sell your soul"

Viestur Kairish • Director of The Sign Painter by Ana Stanic

We met up with Latvian director Viestur Kairish to discuss his latest film The Sign Painter, which screened in Competition at Tallinn's Black Nights Film...  

Viesturs Kairišs • Director of Ulya

"Everyone has an inner freak, and the film tries to understand how to let that inner freak live"

Viesturs Kairišs • Director of Ulya by Ana Stanic

CANNES 2026: The Latvian filmmaker talks about his biopic of basketball icon Uļjana Semjonova, both an intimate coming-of-age story and a poetic journey...  

Tinatin Kajrishvili • Director

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Tinatin Kajrishvili • Director

We met up with Georgian director Tinatin Kajrishvili to discuss her latest film, Horizon  

Markku Hakala, Mari Käki • Directors of Giant's Kettle

"Unfortunately, the dystopian world we built is strikingly similar to the one we live in"

Markku Hakala, Mari Käki • Directors of Giant's Kettle by Ana Stanic

The Finnish filmmaking duo discusses their film depicting an inhuman black-and-white bureaucratic ultrasound world where nobody uses any words  

Iris Kaltenbäck • Director of The Rapture

"I read a headline in the newspaper about this woman and made the film to understand her, without having answers"

Iris Kaltenbäck • Director of The Rapture by Ana Stanic

CANNES 2023: The French filmmaker discusses the topics, the making and the cast of her first feature, which follows a young midwife who embarks on a...  

Asta Kamma August • Actress

"I read the script twenty to thirty times, with the idea that it moves into your subconscious"

Asta Kamma August • Actress by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2024: The Swedish actress talks about her budding career, which has already seen her work with emerging directors as well as masters such as Bille...  

Petra Kammerevert • Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education, European Parliament

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Petra Kammerevert • Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education, European Parliament

VENICE 2017: We have met up with Petra Kammerevert, Chair of the Committee on Culture and Education at the European Parliament, to talk about the LUX Prize  

Karan Kandhari • Director of Sister Midnight

"You need to accept your own weirdness with humour acting as a driving force"

Karan Kandhari • Director of Sister Midnight by Ana Stanic

CANNES 2024: The Indian filmmaker discusses his first feature, a genre effort about an arranged marriage spiralling into darkness as the wife morphs into a...  

Payal Kapadia • Director of A Night of Knowing Nothing

"Political change can not come without understanding the social reality"

Payal Kapadia • Director of A Night of Knowing Nothing by Ana Stanic

CANNES 2022: The Indian filmmaker has received the 2022 Doc Alliance Prize for Best Feature for her “emotionally and artistically packed documentary full of...  

Semih Kaplanoğlu • Director

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Semih Kaplanoğlu • Director

We caught up with Turkish director Semih Kaplanoğlu, who is in the Sarajevo Film Festival competition with his new film, Grain  

Meltem Kaptan • Actress, Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush

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Meltem Kaptan • Actress, Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush by Jesús Silva Vilas

Serhat Karaaslan • Director of Passed By Censor

"There are two things in my film: the world the character lives in and the world he's creating in his mind"

Serhat Karaaslan • Director of Passed By Censor

Turkish first-time filmmaker Serhat Karaaslan visited the East of the West competition of Karlovy Vary with his Turkish-German-French co-production Passed...  

Video interview - Festival Des Arcs 2009

Dagur Kari - director

Icelandic director Dagur Kàri tells us about his latest film The Good Heart  

Miriam Karlkvist • Italy

Shooting Stars 2014

Miriam Karlkvist • Italy

Miriam Karlkvist has made her film debut directly after completing her high school education, taking the lead role in South is Nothing  

Dušan Kasalica • Director of The Elegy of Laurel

"My film is a genre mixture exploring the limits of language and communication"

Dušan Kasalica • Director of The Elegy of Laurel by Ana Stanic

The Montenegrin director talks about his very contemporary portrait of a self-satisfied man cushy in his social position and oblivious to the needs of others  

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