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.

Ruth Beckermann  • Director of Wax & Gold

"It is always interesting to explore how close I can get to the other"

Ruth Beckermann • Director of Wax & Gold by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2026: The director discusses her film, which weaves archival footage, contemporary encounters and the her own reflections into a layered...  

Dara Van Dusen  • Director of A Prayer for the Dying

"There is a lot about faith and nature, forces in our existence we don’t fully understand"

Dara Van Dusen • Director of A Prayer for the Dying by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2026: The director discusses her debut, which merges biblical undertones and western elements while feeling uncannily contemporary  

Gabe Klinger, Marina Person  • Director of and actress in Isabel

"If you ask yourself who your audience should be, the first answer should always be yourself"

Gabe Klinger, Marina Person • Director of and actress in Isabel by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2026: The director and actress discuss their film, which grows from small gestures – and is about trying, creating, failing, and starting again...  

Lucas Englander • Actor

"We don’t need to believe that we need immense amounts of money to tell the most incredible stories that bring us together"

Lucas Englander • Actor by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2026: We sat down with the Austrian actor to talk about responsibility, politics and the wider role an actor can play beyond the screen  

Salif Cissé • Actor

"My acting method is being willing to adapt to any situation I’m in"

Salif Cissé • Actor by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2026: The French actor explains how he approaches each space with the same appetite for work  

Sofia Tjelta Sydness • Actress

"What I aim to do with my work is engage people, but also provoke them"

Sofia Tjelta Sydness • Actress by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2026: The Norwegian actress speaks about physical transformation and working on a star-heavy set  

Danielle Galligan • Actress

"I’m interested in generations of women and seeing how they age, change through life and take up space"

Danielle Galligan • Actress by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2026: The Irish actress talks about speed dating with casting agents and reveals the director she dreams of working with  

Eva Trobisch • Director of Home Stories

"I wanted to ask whether who we are and what our identity is can really be so narrow and definite"

Eva Trobisch • Director of Home Stories by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2026: We sat down with the German director to talk about identity, visibility, and the fragile construction of what we call home  

Adrian Goiginger • Director of Four Minus Three

"There are many different ways to grieve"

Adrian Goiginger • Director of Four Minus Three by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2026: The Austrian director spoke about finding the difficult balance between sorrow and lightness and about respecting the experience of the...  

Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel • Directors of The Loneliest Man In Town

"It’s a movie about the blues, and the blues is always about losing"

Tizza Covi and Rainer Frimmel • Directors of The Loneliest Man In Town by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2026: The directing duo spoke about working with a long-time friend, shaping a fiction film rooted in real life and capturing loneliness  

Grant Gee • Director of Everybody Digs Bill Evans

"His music is beautiful, precise, delicate… his life is a fucking disaster"

Grant Gee • Director of Everybody Digs Bill Evans by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2026: The British director, known for his music documentaries, brings jazz legend Bill Evans to the screen, capturing the fragile sensibility...  

Kornél Mundruczó • Director of At the Sea

"At one point in your life, you lose your previous self and find a new one"

Kornél Mundruczó • Director of At the Sea by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2026: The Hungarian filmmaker reflects on why his new film moves beyond conventional drama into something more existential  

Cleo Diára • Actress

"I see art as a seed that you plant in the world"

Cleo Diára • Actress by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2026: We spoke with last year's Cannes Un Certain Regard Best Performance prize winner about awards, career shifts and her bold visual presence  

Tecla Insolia • Actress

"What I love most about my work is making people feel represented"

Tecla Insolia • Actress by Ana _Stanic

BERLINALE 2026: The actress spoke to us about what it means to be seen as a Gen Z voice in Italy and, of course, the director she hopes will one day make...  

Joes Brauers • Actor

"I hope to get a grip on the abstract things in life like love, grief, history"

Joes Brauers • Actor by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2026: We spoke with the Dutch actor about craft, the strange privilege of being an actor, and the surprisingly tricky task of naming a dream director  

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