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.

1880 video interviews available in total starting from 30/08/2002. Last updated on 24/09/2024. 100 video interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Isabella Torre • Director of Basileia

"It was Aspromonte that inspired me: it is much more than a refuge of Mafia activity, which is what people usually know it for"

Isabella Torre • Director of Basileia by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: In the Italian director's feature debut, an archaeologist is searching for treasure in the rugged natural surroundings of the Calabrian...  

Francesca Pirani • Director of Vakhim

"I don't reveal the events in advance; the viewer is by my side, as if it were all happening at that very moment"

Francesca Pirani • Director of Vakhim by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENEZIA 2024: The Italian director talks about her highly personal documentary, which follows the journey of a four-year-old boy who was adopted in Cambodia...  

Quay Brothers • Directors of Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass

"Schulz was a gift for the Polish language, because of his richness and the metaphors he used"

Quay Brothers • Directors of Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The US directorial duo talk about their exploration of the themes dealt with in the mythopeic writings of great Polish author Bruno Schulz  

Mladen Kovačević • Director of Possibility of Paradise

"There is a very loose connection to Dante in this film, to the Divine Comedy, which for me is the story of an existential crisis"

Mladen Kovačević • Director of Possibility of Paradise by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The Serbian director paints the portrait of a diverse array of people in search of happiness on an idyllic island  

Luciana Fina • Director of Sempre

"The Carnation Revolution constitutes perhaps the best moment in Portugal's history"

Luciana Fina • Director of Sempre by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The Italian director talks about her documentary, which revisits 25 April 1974 and bears witness to the process of building a new country  

Fabrizio Ferraro • Director of Desert Suite

"It's a journey that's born of something we all feel, of the uncertainty inherent in changing our surroundings"

Fabrizio Ferraro • Director of Desert Suite by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The Italian director talks about his new film, in which a young man crosses Europe in search of a new Ithaca  

Johanné Gómez Terrero • Director of Sugar Island

"Slavery and sugar are intrinsically linked"

Johanné Gómez Terrero • Director of Sugar Island by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The Afro-diasporic director whisks the viewer away to the sugar-cane plantations where a young woman gets pregnant too early  

Mónica Taboada-Tapia • Director of Alma del desierto

"It was a terrible story, and I couldn't imagine it could happen in our century, on this planet"

Mónica Taboada-Tapia • Director of Alma del desierto by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The Colombian director talks about her documentary around an elderly transgender woman who is struggling to obtain an ID document for herself  

Giuseppe Schillaci • Director of Bosco grande

"I wanted to make a film about the punk scene in Palermo, and he told me: 'I am the film'"

Giuseppe Schillaci • Director of Bosco grande by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The Italian director talks us through his documentary, focusing on Sergione, one of Palermo's main standard-bearers of the punk scene in the 1980s  

Jan-Willem van Ewijk • Director of Alpha.

"I was interested in the concept of one person dominating another, while nature dominates everybody"

Jan-Willem van Ewijk • Director of Alpha. by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The Dutch director talks to us about his Europa Cinemas Label winner, in which the unresolved relationship between a father and son is...  

Ciro De Caro • Director of Taxi Monamour

"The encounter between these two people is like a taxi, which takes you from one place to another, and then down each of their individual paths"

Ciro De Caro • Director of Taxi Monamour by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The Italian director has won the Audience Award with his story of two women belonging to two different worlds but who share the same thirst for...  

Marianna Brennand • Director of Manas

"I thought that through fiction I could build a story that was both delicate and deep"

Marianna Brennand • Director of Manas by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The Brazilian filmmaker, winner of the GdA Director's Award, talks about her film set in a community in the Amazon where the sexual abuse of...  

Camille Lugan • Director of The Book of Joy

"A fable about hope in a world that is dark"

Camille Lugan • Director of The Book of Joy by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The French director discusses her feature debut, in which a young orphan who lives and breathes her faith comes into contact with a forbidden,...  

Xiaoxuan Jiang • Director of To Kill A Mongolian Horse

"When the external world is changing, the individual can be very vulnerable"

Xiaoxuan Jiang • Director of To Kill A Mongolian Horse by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The feature debut by the Mongolian-born director revolves around a herdsman who looks after his ranch by day and performs on horseback by night  

Giovanni C Lorusso • Director of A Man Fell

"A situation involving many people, where the inputs and the information come in from all over the place"

Giovanni C Lorusso • Director of A Man Fell by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The Italian director returns to Lebanon and, accompanied by a boy, enters the Gaza Building in Sabra, a symbol of Palestinian survival after...  

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