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.

1938 video interviews available in total starting from 30/08/2002. Last updated on 04/07/2025. 100 video interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Vytautas Katkus  • Director of The Visitor

"The Next Step Workshop helped me from a very early development stage to understand in which direction I should go with my movie"

Vytautas Katkus • Director of The Visitor by Ana Stanic

CANNES 2022: The Lithuanian filmmaker discusses his feature film project, for which he received the Next Step Award from the Critics' Week, as well as his...  

Ali Cherri  • Director of The Dam

"The first thing that every system does is to occupy our imaginary"

Ali Cherri • Director of The Dam by Ana Stanic

CANNES 2022: The Lebanese-born, Paris-based filmmaker and artist discusses his film, which depicts how man's action and opression causes nature to respond  

Agnieszka Smoczynska  • Director of The Silent Twins

"The most fascinating element in the book was the clash between the colorful imagination of the twins and the harsh reality"

Agnieszka Smoczynska • Director of The Silent Twins by Ana Stanic

CANNES 2022: After two successful films, the Polish filmmaker chose to adapt a book by British journalist Marjorie Wallace for her first English-language...  

Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor  • Directors of De Humani Corporis Fabrica

"We were mainly interested in the perversity of our relationship with our bodies"

Véréna Paravel, Lucien Castaing-Taylor • Directors of De Humani Corporis Fabrica by Sylvie Lazzarini, Teresa Vena

CANNES 2022: The new documentary by French-British directors and anthropologists opens the human body to the cinema  

Shaunak Sen  • Director of All That Breathes

"The most important thing was to build a relationship of trust to be able to shoot with the whole family"

Shaunak Sen • Director of All That Breathes by Sylvie Lazzarini, Teresa Vena

CANNES 2022: New Delhi’s notoriously polluted air is in the centre of the acclaimed documentary by the Indian filmmaker, which has received the festival's...  

Mykko Myllylahti  • Director of The Woodcutter Story

"My character is the incarnation of optimism and hope despite having lost everything"

Mykko Myllylahti • Director of The Woodcutter Story by Ana Stanic

CANNES 2022: The Finnish filmmaker discusses the details of his story of snow, violence and happiness, which received the Gan Foundation Award for Distribution  

Lola Quivoron and Julie Ledru  • Director and actress of Rodéo

"I love to observe a closed, codified masculine community, and to find out how to break that order"

Lola Quivoron and Julie Ledru • Director and actress of Rodéo by Ana Stanic

CANNES 2022: The French director decyphers with the help of her main actress her female-driven feature debut, which puts masculinity on a target and...  

Emin Alper • Director of Burning Days

"This film is completely about a society which is dominated by men and their inner conflict"

Emin Alper • Director of Burning Days by Sylvie Lazzarini, Teresa Vena

CANNES 2022: The Turkish filmmaker discusses gender and social status (and the disadvantages that come from them) to give us the lowdown on his latest film  

Jasmine Trinca  • Director of Marcel!

"I wanted to talk about a woman who doesn’t have her limits imposed by the society... but has others"

Jasmine Trinca • Director of Marcel! by Sylvie Lazzarini, Teresa Vena

CANNES 2022: The Italian actress talks about her first steps as a feature film director with a tale of a special mother-daughter relationship  

Chie Hayakawa  • Director of Plan 75

"There is a feeling of hatred among young people towards elderly in Japanese society, because they think they have to pay for them and won’t get anything back"

Chie Hayakawa • Director of Plan 75 by Sylvie Lazzarini, Teresa Vena

CANNES 2022: The Japanese director discusses her first feature, a film of great acuity about the topic of euthanasia which received a Special Mention from...  

Felix van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch  • Directors of The Eight Mountains

"It’s not just about friendship, it’s also about finding your path, accepting death, forgiving your father for what you didn’t get from him"

Felix van Groeningen & Charlotte Vandermeersch • Directors of The Eight Mountains by Sylvie Lazzarini, Fabien Lemercier

CANNES 2022: The Belgian duo discuss the making, the topics and all of the details of the first film they have directed together, an adaptation of the novel...  

Kristoffer Borgli • Director of Sick of Myself

"The reality is always a disappointing fact compared to our dreams and desires"

Kristoffer Borgli • Director of Sick of Myself by Sylvie Lazzarini, Jan Lumholdt

CANNES 2022: The Norwegian director discusses his unsettling second feature, led by an exceptional main character and... drugs  

Ruben Östlund • Director of Triangle of Sadness

"My film is inspired in the Marxist theories saying that our position in financial hierarchy is changing our behavior"

Ruben Östlund • Director of Triangle of Sadness by Sylvie Lazzarini, Jan Lumholdt

CANNES 2022: The Swedish filmmaker returns after his Palme d'Or win in 2017 to introduce his new film, and he discusses its key topics with us  

Tamara Tatishvili  • Head of training of MEDICI

“The world is shifting and I think we need to be part of that shift”

Tamara Tatishvili • Head of training of MEDICI

In this interview, Tamara Tatishvili, head of training of MEDICI – The Film Funding Journey, addresses the changes going on within the film industry  

Tarik Saleh • Director of Boy from Heaven

"As an immigrant child, I’m standing of the shoulders of my grandparents"

Tarik Saleh • Director of Boy from Heaven by Sylvie Lazzarini, Jan Lumholdt

CANNES 2022: The Swedish filmmaker of Egyptian origins discusses the topics he tackles on his latest film, and how they relate to his personal and...  

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