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.

Céline Sciamma  • Director of This Is How a Child Becomes a Poet

"Patrizia Cavalli was inspiring because she was so much fun, and her way of life was also an inspiration"

Céline Sciamma • Director of This Is How a Child Becomes a Poet by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The French director pays tribute to female poet Patrizia Cavalli, documenting the final day in her home, before it all came to an end  

Delphine Girard  • Director of Through the Night

"I wondered, in real life, what would happen to these characters after this story"

Delphine Girard • Director of Through the Night by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The Belgian director's film revolves around an instance of sexual abuse, the ensuing investigation and the different points of view on what...  

Lina Soualem  • Director of Bye Bye Tiberias

"I wanted these women to reclaim the sheer complexity of their journeys, their battles and also their contradictions"

Lina Soualem • Director of Bye Bye Tiberias by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The director paints the portrait of four generations of Palestininan women who keep their story alive through the sheer strength of their bonds  

Afef Ben Mahmoud, Khalil Benkirane • Directors of Backstage

"The idea was to start with the show and then get closer to these characters, who are normal people"

Afef Ben Mahmoud, Khalil Benkirane • Directors of Backstage by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The directorial duo talk about their road movie through the forests of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, where we follow a dance troupe as they...  

Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of 21 Days Until the End of the World

"It's a film that came intuitively; the only rule was to shoot in 21 days"

Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of 21 Days Until the End of the World by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The Macedonian director talks about her most personal film to date in it, in which she asks: “What would you do if you only had 21 days left to...  

Kyoshi Sugita  • Director of Following the Sound

"The regret of not having helped her mother always follows the main character"

Kyoshi Sugita • Director of Following the Sound by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The film by the Japanese director broaches the topics of empathy and altruism through the character of a young woman who can detect the pain in...  

Annalena Benini, Francesco Piccolo • Directors of Le mie poesie non cambieranno il mondo

"We were interested in following Patrizia Cavalli and coming up with our own edit that would make it emotional"

Annalena Benini, Francesco Piccolo • Directors of Le mie poesie non cambieranno il mondo by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The screenwriter and the journalist step behind the movie camera to pay tribute to Patrizia Cavalli, one of the most influential contemporary...  

Fabio Mollo, Alessandra Cataleta • Directors of Flesh and Bronze

"We wanted to make a film that would not just tell the story of the work of art per se"

Fabio Mollo, Alessandra Cataleta • Directors of Flesh and Bronze by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: With their documentary, the directorial duo retrace half a century's worth of history, telling the story of the world's two best-preserved...  

Alessandro Roia  • Director of With the Grace of a God

"My interest lay in making a film that would be unyielding and wouldn't pander to visual trends"

Alessandro Roia • Director of With the Grace of a God by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The Italian actor steps behind the camera for the first time to follow a man who, after the death of one of his old friends, is forced to...  

Víctor Iriarte  • Director of Foremost by Night

“It was important to give the main characters the possibility to encounter one another and tell their stories”

Víctor Iriarte • Director of Foremost by Night by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The director talks about his film, which intertwines the fates of a mother, a son and an adoptive mother, bringing to light one of the darkest...  

Chong Keat Aun  • Director of Snow in Midsummer

"Every year, I used to go to the cemetery and interview the families of the victims to get more details about what happened that night"

Chong Keat Aun • Director of Snow in Midsummer by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The Malaysian director discusses his second feature, which shines a fresh spotlight on a forgotten chapter in his country's history  

Evelyn Regner • Vice-President, European Parliament

"Film is also an important means of communication for political reasons"

Evelyn Regner • Vice-President, European Parliament by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The European Parliament Vice-President discusses the upcoming edition of the LUX Audience Award and why the institution is investing in it  

Ariane Louis-Seize  • Director of Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

"I had fun taking human fights and translating them into the vampire world"

Ariane Louis-Seize • Director of Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The Canadian director discusses her dark comedy in which a young vampire who refuses to kill to survive finds a person willing to sacrifice...  

Élise Girard  • Director of Sidonie in Japan

"I wanted to show the end of mourning, and love returning"

Élise Girard • Director of Sidonie in Japan by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The French filmmaker directs Isabelle Huppert in her third feature, portraying a trip to Japan, where the visible exists alongside the invisible  

Edoardo Morabito  • Director of The Outpost

"This film is an ode to being a visionary: we need to get back to envisioning different futures"

Edoardo Morabito • Director of The Outpost by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The director documents the bonkers project by Chris Clark, an eco-warrior who dreams of organising a Pink Floyd concert in the heart of the...  

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