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.

1976 video interviews available in total starting from 30/08/2002. Last updated on 11/09/2025. 96 video interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Gianni Di Gregorio  • Director of Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't

"My character remains the central pivot, but I thought it was more interesting to talk about all ages, even children"

Gianni Di Gregorio • Director of Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico

VENICE 2025: The Italian director once again takes on the role of a teacher who, once he has retired, plans to enjoy the little pleasures in life  

Lana Daher • Director of Do You Love Me

"In Lebanon we do have a lot of pain but we also have a lot of art, music and love"

Lana Daher • Director of Do You Love Me by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico

VENICE 2025: The Lebanese helmer casts an eye over the fragmented historical, social, cultural and political landscapes of Beirut in her debut...  

Gabriel Azorín • Director of Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes

"Those thermal baths have a magical quality, they are the perfect place to create intimacy"

Gabriel Azorín • Director of Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico

VENICE 2025: In his feature debut, the Spanish director broaches the topic of masculinity in all its fragility, in a place suspended between past and present  

Amir Azizi • Director of Inside Amir

"What I want to show in this film is that hope is not far away"

Amir Azizi • Director of Inside Amir by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico

VENICE 2025: The Iranian director breaks down his GdA Director's Award winning film, a personal exploration of the doubts that plague him before he leaves...  

Nicolas Wadimoff • Director of Who Is Still Alive

"I experienced for the first time what it is to be with someone who experience a genocide, which is different from a war"

Nicolas Wadimoff • Director of Who Is Still Alive by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico

VENICE 2025: The Swiss director talks about his moving film, in which nine Palestinian refugees share their stories in minimalistic surroundings that...  

Gianluca Matarrese • Director of I Want Her Dead

"This film is like a cinematic reality show"

Gianluca Matarrese • Director of I Want Her Dead by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico

VENICE 2025: The director reconnects with his Calabrian roots with his mix of reality, fiction and theatre, which tells of the feud within a family: his...  

Claire Simon • Director of Writing Life: Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students

"The advantage of this idea was being able to portray the youth of today and hear Annie Ernaux's text"

Claire Simon • Director of Writing Life: Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico

VENICE 2025: The French director tells us about her new documentary, in which she explores the impact of the work penned by the author, about a group of...  

Mayra Hermosillo • Director of Vainilla

"I've always secretly judged my family, so I told myself I had to go back and realize what it really was"

Mayra Hermosillo • Director of Vainilla by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico

VENICE 2025: The Mexican director talks about her film centring on an eccentric family consisting only of women, who fight to save their home from foreclosure  

Stergios Dinopoulos, Krysianna B Papadakis • Directors of Bearcave

"The two protagonists represent the dualism of the people who live in those areas"

Stergios Dinopoulos, Krysianna B Papadakis • Directors of Bearcave by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico

VENICE 2025: The pair of directors talk about their feature debut, which broaches topics such as friendship, bravery and the desire to escape  

Damien Hauser • Director of Memory of Princess Mumbi

"Compared to when I used it in the movie, the AI ​​has improved a lot and it's even a little scary"

Damien Hauser • Director of Memory of Princess Mumbi by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico

VENICE 2025: The Swiss-Kenyan filmmaker whisks us off to the year 2093, on the trail of a director who has to make a documentary about a devastating war, if...  

Cyril Aris • Director of A Sad and Beautiful World

"I try to tell the story of Lebanon today and its ups and downs through the story of a couple with two different worldviews"

Cyril Aris • Director of A Sad and Beautiful World by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico

VENICE 2025: The Lebanese director talks to us about his debut fiction feature, a love story set against the backdrop of a deeply scarred country, Lebanon  

Nastia Korkia • Director of Short Summer

"The film was born from a need to reflect on what was happening in my country"

Nastia Korkia • Director of Short Summer by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico

VENICE 2025: The director of Russian heritage talks about her feature debut, in which a little girl who is spending a quiet summer with her grandparents...  

Šarūnas Bartas • Director of Laguna

"Everything we do is art"

Šarūnas Bartas • Director of Laguna by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico

VENICE 2025: The Lithuanian director talks to us about his reflection on the circle of life and of nature  

Nicolangelo Gelormini • Director of La Gioia

"More than being out of their comfort zone, the actors felt like they were allowed to extract something they had within themselves"

Nicolangelo Gelormini • Director of La Gioia by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico

VENICE 2025: The Neapolitan director talks about his second feature, a dark fable about the forbidden relationship between a boy and his teacher  

Vladlena Sandu • Director of Memory

"We need to start talking about the rights of children in dictatorships and war zones"

Vladlena Sandu • Director of Memory by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoico

VENICE 2025: The Crimean-born, Chechen-raised director talks about her film, in which she wonders if it's possible to escape from the cycle of violence...  

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