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.

1951 video interviews available in total starting from 30/08/2002. Last updated on 24/07/2025. 103 video interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Giulia Amati • Director of Kristos, The Last Child

"It was important to try to use this story as a parable and give as little historical context as possible"

Giulia Amati • Director of Kristos, The Last Child by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2022: In the French-Italian director's documentary, Kristos is the last remaining child on a tiny Greek island and has to decide what to make of his...  

Jafar Najafi • Director of Alone

"Children should be living in a joyful, colourful world; they shouldn't be growing up too fast"

Jafar Najafi • Director of Alone by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2022: The Iranian director talks about his documentary that centres on a child who fights with all his might to stop his sisters from getting married...  

Cecilia Miniucchi • Director of Worlds Apart

"One of the things we can do when we have a lot of time is to think and revaluate ourselves and the people we are with"

Cecilia Miniucchi • Director of Worlds Apart by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2022: We met up with the director to talk about her film, which homes in on three couples reassessing their relationships, values and priorities  

Roberta Torre • Director of Le Favolose

"Being remembered for what you were is a universal right"

Roberta Torre • Director of Le Favolose by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2022: The director talks about her new film that straddles reality and fiction, in which five trans friends reminisce about a friend of theirs who is...  

Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka • Directors of Stonewalling

"We decided to observe the behaviour, the emotions and the changes in a woman during the months she was pregnant"

Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka • Directors of Stonewalling by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2022: The Chinese-Japanese duo talk about their film, starring a young woman who, after she finds out she's pregnant, decides to take her destiny...  

Mark Cousins • Director of The March on Rome

"Cinema has told many lies from the very beginning, but this film is also a celebration of good cinema"

Mark Cousins • Director of The March on Rome by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2022: On the centenary of the event that marked the start of the fascist regime in Italy, the director's new documentary reflects on the manipulation...  

Wissam Charaf • Director of Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous

"I didn't want it to be one hour and a half of social film on the suffering of people"

Wissam Charaf • Director of Dirty, Difficult, Dangerous by Vittoria Scarpa, Emmanuele Basso

VENICE 2022: The French-Lebanese director talks to us about his second feature, a love story involving an immigrant from Ethiopia and a Syrian refugee set...  

Vedrana Pribačić, Mirta Puhlovski  • Director and screenwriter of Bigger than Trauma

"We wanted to show the healing process of the women traumatised by war and rape, but from their inner person"

Vedrana Pribačić, Mirta Puhlovski • Director and screenwriter of Bigger than Trauma by Ana Stanic

The Croatian film about female victims of war crimes won the Human Rights Award in the festival's Documentary Competition, and its creators talk to us about it  

Igor Ivanko  • Director of Fragile Memory

"The film archive of my grandfather (and cinematographer) is unique because it is a personal as well a professional one"

Igor Ivanko • Director of Fragile Memory by Ana Stanic

The Ukrainian filmmaker talks about what's behind his work, which has just received the Special Jury Award in the festival's Documentary Competition  

Noemi Veronika Szakonyi  • Director of Six Weeks

"The six-week adoption law in Hungary is a very suspenseful situation for a film"

Noemi Veronika Szakonyi • Director of Six Weeks by Ana Stanic

The Hungarian filmmaker discusses her film, which follows a young mother of an unwanted child who has six weeks to change her mind and get her child back,...  

Dominik Mencej  • Director of Riders

"This is the Slovenian version of Easy Rider, structured like a memory of recent times"

Dominik Mencej • Director of Riders by Ana Stanic

The Slovenian filmmaker talks about how he looked back at the recent past of the Balkans while drawing inspiration from Dennis Hopper's landmark film  

Aida Begic  • Director of A Ballad

"I wanted to make a love story and experiment with everything that is 'forbidden' in arthouse cinema"

Aida Begic • Director of A Ballad by Ana Stanic

The Bosnian filmmaker tried her hand at romantic comedy for the first time in her latest film, which opened the Sarajevo Film Festival  

Sabine Gebetsroither  • Festival Director Crossing Europe Linz

"Crossing Europe has a important role for the distribution of European films in Austria, as well as the platform for lokal filmmakers to meet European film industry"

Sabine Gebetsroither • Festival Director Crossing Europe Linz

In this interview, Sabine Gebetsroither, director of the Austrian festival Crossing Europe, gives advice on attracting and choosing the right sponsors for a...  

Adam Sedlák • Director of BANGER.

"My film is not an anti-drugs movie; I’m trying to be more progressive and show that the manipulation and mixing of different drugs is dangerous"

Adam Sedlák • Director of BANGER. by Ana Stanic

We had a chat with the director, whose feature BANGER., filmed entirely on an iPhone, follows the odyssey of a young drug dealer and aspiring musician...  

Sonja Orlewicz-Zakrzewska and Magdalena Sztorc • Director and producer of Dolphin

"Dolphin is about a couple facing a very unusual gender twist, and the struggle the female character has with the process of creation and accepting herself"

Sonja Orlewicz-Zakrzewska and Magdalena Sztorc • Director and producer of Dolphin by Ana Stanic

We talked to the director-producer team behind the winner of the connecting cottbus Award in KVIFF Eastern Promises to find out more about their intimate...  

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