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.

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...  

Yegor Troyanovsky • Director of Cuba & Alaska

"My film is a portrait of friendship during wartime"

Yegor Troyanovsky • Director of Cuba & Alaska by Ana Stanic

The Ukrainian director reflects on the challenges of filming in an active war zone and the urgent need to preserve human connection through cinema  

Dalija Dozet • Director of My Dad’s Lessons

"My idea was to explore what is left behind in the hundred hours of footage my father obsessively filmed"

Dalija Dozet • Director of My Dad’s Lessons by Ana Stanic

The Croatian director discusses her film, an intimate dialogue across time, as she uses the archive to reflect on memory, loss, and everything left unsaid  

Renátó Olasz • Director of Stars of Little Importance

"My aim was to combine a poetic attitude with the rawness of reality"

Renátó Olasz • Director of Stars of Little Importance by Ana Stanic

Shot in stark black and white, the director's debut feature eschews traditional narrative structures in favour of mood, atmosphere and subtle gesture  

Srđan Vuletić • Director of Otter

"Our movie encourages you to accept that the only superpower you have is yourself"

Srđan Vuletić • Director of Otter by Ana Stanic

Between resistance and imagination, the director's new film traces a tender coming-of-age process in the shadow of loss  

Katalin Bársony • Director of I Saw a 'Suno'

"The viewpoint of Romani refugee Nasmi and his journey could potentially sensitise people and enable them to feel with us"

Katalin Bársony • Director of I Saw a 'Suno' by Ana Stanic

Through vérité scenes and quiet moments, the director crafts an intimate portrait of displacement, identity and the hope of reunion  

The winners of the CineLink Industry Days

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The winners of the CineLink Industry Days by Ana Stanic

We have a chat with the CineLink Co-Production Market's Eurimages Co-production Development Award winners, as well as the winners of the CineLink Work in...  

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