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.

1976 video interviews available in total starting from 30/08/2002. Last updated on 11/09/2025. 96 video interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Hilmar Oddsson, Hera Hilmar • Director of and actress in Driving Mum

"All good comedies are also tragedies"

Hilmar Oddsson, Hera Hilmar • Director of and actress in Driving Mum by Ana Stanic

We met up with the Icelandic director and his daughter, and actress in his latest film, to talk about inspiration and characters  

J-P Valkeapää • Director of Hit Big

"While writing this script during lockdown, in this atmosphere where you were scared of dying, I realised that this film was about the end of the world"

J-P Valkeapää • Director of Hit Big by Ana Stanic

We met up with the Finnish director and talked about his inspirations when writing and creating his new film  

Mila Turajlic • Director of Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels

"It was very important for me to show how the story is put together in the film, that the story didn’t exist prior to it"

Mila Turajlic • Director of Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels by Ana Stanic

The Serbian director discusses the second part of her dyptich of documentaries, which re-traces the birth of the Non-Aligned Movement during the era of...  

Lea Glob • Director of Apolonia, Apolonia

"I try to find imagery that represents what the world looks like from our perspective as young women"

Lea Glob • Director of Apolonia, Apolonia by Ana Stanic

The Danish filmmaker discusses her IDFA-winning documentary, centred on French artist Apolonia Sokol as well as on her own views of the current world  

Steve Buscemi • Director of The Listener

"Just the act of listening can be huge, to make a connection with someone and let them feel they can be supported"

Steve Buscemi • Director of The Listener by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2022: The US actor-director talked to us about his fifth feature behind the camera, starring Tessa Thompson  

Robert Tomić Zuber & Vladan Petković  • Festival Director and Festival Programmer of RAFF

"Rab Film Festival is focusing on investigative cinema in broader sense and our VIP is the audience"

Robert Tomić Zuber & Vladan Petković • Festival Director and Festival Programmer of RAFF

In this interview, Robert Tomic Zuber (RAFF's Festival Director) and Vladan Petkovic (RAFF's Festival Programmer) talk about the specificities of organising...  

Jasmin Basic  • Head of fiction International Film Festival and Human Rights Forum Geneva

"As a human rights festival it took us a lot of time and effort to get the full support of the cinema"

Jasmin Basic • Head of fiction International Film Festival and Human Rights Forum Geneva

Jasmin Basic explains how to deal with partners and discusses the importance of the films’ quality  

Stefano Collizzolli  • Director of The Dream and the Violence

"We wanted to salvage the cheerfulness and the topics that were crushed underfoot by the tales of violence"

Stefano Collizzolli • Director of The Dream and the Violence by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2022: One of the two directors of the film looks back at the events of the G8 Summit in Genoa, as recounted by the very people who were there that...  

Valentina Bertani • Director of The Crown Shyness

"The most interesting thing was the subjective story of how two kids with intellectual disabilities filter reality"

Valentina Bertani • Director of The Crown Shyness by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2022: The director talks about her documentary, which follows the eccentric and charismatic Israel twins on their path from finishing school to the...  

Riccardo Campagna, Federico Savonitto • Directors of An Invisible Enemy

"Above all, the film follows the Rasman family's day-to-day fight for justice and their feelings in the present day"

Riccardo Campagna, Federico Savonitto • Directors of An Invisible Enemy by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2022: We chatted to the directorial duo to discuss the documentary they've made about the case of Riccardo Rasman, a boy with intellectual...  

Corrado Ceron • Director of Olimpia's Way

"Like Anisette mixed with water, Olimpia's life permeates Maria's nonlife and 'sullies' it"

Corrado Ceron • Director of Olimpia's Way by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2022: The director talks about his feature debut, a road movie starring Stefania Sandrelli as a ballroom singer who, at the age of 70, reunites with...  

Salvatore Mereu • Director of Bentu

"This farmer, whose way of life is so distant from our own, reminds us that we don't have the right relationship with nature"

Salvatore Mereu • Director of Bentu by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2022: The director follows the day-to-day life of an elderly farmer as he waits for the wind to blow in a moral parable about man defying nature  

Graham Foy • Director of The Maiden

"I was interested in trying to capture a type of magic that also exists in everyday life"

Graham Foy • Director of The Maiden by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2022: The feature debut by the Canadian director portrays a summer's day that ends in tragedy, centring on three teenagers who forge an otherworldly...  

Vincenzo Pirrotta • Director of The Bone Breakers

"It's a journey of misery and desperation that often plays out right in front of us without us realising"

Vincenzo Pirrotta • Director of The Bone Breakers by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2022: Using a horrifying news story as his starting point, the actor-director ponders how much of ourselves we are willing to mangle in order to get...  

Greta De Lazzaris and Jacopo Quadri  • Directors of We're Here to Try

"As an artistic pairing, we see Daria and Antonio quarrelling the same way as a real-life couple would"

Greta De Lazzaris and Jacopo Quadri • Directors of We're Here to Try by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2022: The filmmaking duo document the development of the new theatre project of the Italy's Daria Deflorian and Antonio Tagliarini  

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