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.

Cristina Grosan • Director of Ordinary Failures

"It was interesting for us to see things change and evolve, and our script become more and more alive around this"

Cristina Grosan • Director of Ordinary Failures by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2022: Hungarian-Romanian director and visual artist talks about her film, which brings together three women whose day is turned upside down by a...  

Cláudia Varejão • Director of Wolf & Dog

"Sometimes we are wolves, sometimes we are dogs, but in our youth we are everything"

Cláudia Varejão • Director of Wolf & Dog by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2022: The Portuguese director has shot her film on an island in the Azores, home to a tiny queer community made up of young boys and girls trying to...  

Antonello Matarazzo • Director of Pablo from Neanderthal

"I wanted to maintain a childlike approach while imagining the story of our origins"

Antonello Matarazzo • Director of Pablo from Neanderthal by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2022: The painter and director meets artist Pablo Echaurren, and together, they wonder about what would have happened if the Neanderthal man had...  

Evelyn Regner • Vice-President of the European Parliament

"At the level of the European Parliament, the parties that support the LUX Audience Award want greater European integration"

Evelyn Regner • Vice-President of the European Parliament by Valerio Caruso, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2022: The Vice-President of the European Parliament tells us about the political role of the LUX Audience Award, its evolution and the latest batch...  

Adila Bendimerad, Damien Ounouri • Directors of The Last Queen

"It's a story that the Algerians have never seen before and which they need in order to dig deep into their history and culture"

Adila Bendimerad, Damien Ounouri • Directors of The Last Queen by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENISE 2022: The directing duo straddles reality and legend as it retraces a historical event from 16th-century Algeria from Queen Zaphira's perspective  

Georgia Oakley • Director of Blue Jean

"I wanted to create something that was inspired by the classics from the time, rather than a film that alluded to the 1980s"

Georgia Oakley • Director of Blue Jean by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2022: In her first feature, the British director tells the story of those who were forced to conceal the fact that they were gay in homophobic,...  

Sébastien Lifshitz • Director of Casa Susanna

"For so many years, these people have been invisible; now we need to build this history of the queer culture"

Sébastien Lifshitz • Director of Casa Susanna by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2022: The French director talks about his new documentary, dedicated to what used to be a refuge for the first-ever clandestine network of cross-dressers  

Christian Carmosino Mereu • Director of Land of Upright People

"This kind of impassioned involvement in politics took me back to my childhood years"

Christian Carmosino Mereu • Director of Land of Upright People by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2022: The Italian helmer chats about his documentary, which he shot in Burkina Faso from the 2014 revolution up until the most recent political...  

Isabel Achával, Chiara Bondì • Directors of Las leonas

"Through football, these women feel like they are worth something, like they are the protagonists of their own lives"

Isabel Achával, Chiara Bondì • Directors of Las leonas by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2022: The directors discuss their Nanni Moretti-produced documentary, which follows a group of South American immigrants in Rome brought together by...  

Abel Ferrara • Director of Padre Pio

"This is all happening in a small town where everyone knows everybody and everyone knows what's going on"

Abel Ferrara • Director of Padre Pio by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2022: We chatted to the US director about his new film, dedicated to the life of Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, which features a visceral performance by...  

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...  

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