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.

1949 video interviews available in total starting from 30/08/2002. Last updated on 18/07/2025. 101 video interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Masha Chernaya • Director of The Shards

"I wanted this film to work on the level of general human emotions, without explaining facts"

Masha Chernaya • Director of The Shards by Ana Stanic

CANNES 2025: The director discusses her film, a fragmentary portrait of life in Moscow during the spring of 2022, winner of the Doc Alliance Award for Best...  

Zuzana Kirchnerová • Director of Caravan

"I wanted to show a mother who is also a sexual being — someone who protests, who desires, and who loves freedom"

Zuzana Kirchnerová • Director of Caravan by Ana Stanic

CANNES 2025: The Czech director Zuzana Kirchnerová discusses her first feature, the return of Czech cinema to the festival's official selection after more...  

Tarzan Nasser • Director of Once Upon a Time in Gaza

"Is the hero the one who gets the credit — or the one who endures and adapts to inhuman conditions?"

Tarzan Nasser • Director of Once Upon a Time in Gaza by Fabien Lemercier, Ana Stanic

CANNES 2025: The Palestinian filmmaker, director of the film alongside with brother Arab, discusses their story of survival, politics and filmmaking set in...  

Prïncia Car • Director of The Girls We Want

"When women are together, a kind of sisterhood emerges — one that offers more freedom than masculinity’s frameworks"

Prïncia Car • Director of The Girls We Want by Ana Stanic

CANNES 2025: The French filmmaker discusses her first feature, as well as directing an ensemble made of non-professional actors and the connection between...  

Ben Vandendaele • Founder, FilmConnector

"FilmConnector is a platform that will allow you to never use Google Sheets again for your festival submission strategy"

Ben Vandendaele • Founder, FilmConnector by Ana Stanic

CANNES 2025: The expert has unveiled a bold new initiative born from the everyday frustrations of festival submissions and fragmented workflows  

Josef Kullengård • Head of Industry, Göteborg Film Festival

"The industry needs to go from not recognising what is going on around us to resisting the reality that has already started to happen"

Josef Kullengård • Head of Industry, Göteborg Film Festival by Ana Stanic

CANNES 2025: The expert shares his thoughts on this year’s Marché du Film and on the 12th edition of the Nostradamus Report, a document that takes the...  

Fred Burle, Géraldine Sprimont, Lionel Massol • Producers

“Dancing between creativity and finances is exactly what makes producers’ work so thrilling and interesting”

Fred Burle, Géraldine Sprimont, Lionel Massol • Producers by Ana Stanic

CANNES 2025: The producers from Germany, Belgium and France discuss their projects and their attendance at the festival through the EFP initiative Producers...  

Akinola Davies Jr • Director of My Father's Shadow

"We wanted to make something that services us, our community and masculinity in general"

Akinola Davies Jr • Director of My Father's Shadow by Ana Stanic

CANNES 2025: The British-Nigerian filmmaker discusses his first feature, a film that is set over the course of one day, in which he plays with the concept...  

Sten-Kristian Saluveer • Head, Cannes Next

"The point for us in Cannes is not to talk about innovation, but to make it something you can feel and touch"

Sten-Kristian Saluveer • Head, Cannes Next by Ana Stanic

CANNES 2025: The expert discusses the platform, which has become a seismograph for the cultural shifts triggered by artificial intelligence, immersive...  

Óliver Laxe • Director of Sirât

"The solution is always to trust in the power of images — and in how they affect human metabolism"

Óliver Laxe • Director of Sirât by Fabien Lemercier, Ana Stanic

CANNES 2025: The Spanish filmmaker explains why his film was born to build a rite of passage for himself, and also invite the viewers to look inside themselves  

Sergei Loznitsa • Director of Two Prosecutors

"It would be great if people from that time could watch my film"

Sergei Loznitsa • Director of Two Prosecutors by Ana Stanic

CANNES 2025: The Ukranian-born director discusses the novella that inspired his film, as well as the universal and the particular, the consequences of the...  

Marek Hovorka  •  Festival Director - Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival - Jihlava, Czech Republic

"It is important for us to keep in mind that documentaries are reflecting the world"

Marek Hovorka • Festival Director - Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival - Jihlava, Czech Republic

Marek Hovorka explains the programming and different sections of the festival  

Levan Dvali  •  Festival Director - Taoba International Youth Film Festival  - Tbilisi, Georgia

“All opinions and all ideas are welcome, as long as you can have an argument”

Levan Dvali • Festival Director - Taoba International Youth Film Festival - Tbilisi, Georgia

Levan Dvali talks about the origins of the festival and the will to bring together young people to talk about films  

Jovita Maeder  •  Director Of Bobine Films & Festival Director Of The Paris Peruvian Film Festival

"There are Latin American themes that resonate with the French audience"

Jovita Maeder • Director Of Bobine Films & Festival Director Of The Paris Peruvian Film Festival

Jovita Maeder talks about the difficulties of releasing arthouse films nowadays  

Sandino Saravia  •  Executive Producer At Cimarrón Cine

“A lot has to be done in terms of diversity in the film industry, especially for women”

Sandino Saravia • Executive Producer At Cimarrón Cine

Sandino Saravia comes back on the panel “Is there equity on the screen?” and its outcomes  

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