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.

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...  

Sophie Vuković and Eliza Jones • Director and producer of My Best Friend’s Baby

"Our film tries to portray the complexities of friendship, especially for those people who do not comply with the norm in terms of their relationship, their sexuality or parenthood"

Sophie Vuković and Eliza Jones • Director and producer of My Best Friend’s Baby by Ana Stanic

The duo behind the winner of the KVIFF & MIDPOINT Development Award in KVIFF Eastern Promises break down their film, which revolves around the different...  

Tizian Büchi • Director of Like an Island

"Fiction and imagination are also part of reality, and as a member of the audience, I like to have the opportunity to build my own story"

Tizian Büchi • Director of Like an Island by Ana Stanic

We sat down with the director to discuss his fable - part documentary, part fiction and tinged with magical realism - which subtly questions our...  

Matt Sarnecki • Director of The Killing of a Journalist

"Thanks to the clear evidence, this case is a blueprint for how corruption works throughout the region, but maybe also around the world"

Matt Sarnecki • Director of The Killing of a Journalist by Ana Stanic

The director unpicks his investigative documentary that tackles the 2018 murder of Slovak journalist Ján Kuciak and his fiancée, Martina Kušnírová  

Adéla Komrzý and Tomás Bojar • Directors of Art Talent Show

"Maybe the Western, liberal, individualistic way of thinking has gone too far, and we’re too obsessed with the personal side of things"

Adéla Komrzý and Tomás Bojar • Directors of Art Talent Show by Ana Stanic

The directors talk us through their Proxima Grand Prix winner, which was filmed over the course of one week during the entrance exams for the Prague Academy...  

Andrea Bagney • Director of Ramona

"We only have one life - this is it, and if you don’t go for it now, you won't have a chapter two"

Andrea Bagney • Director of Ramona by Ana Stanic

We had a chinwag about this romantic comedy in which an episode of innocent flirtation gets in the way of a woman's dreams and the perfectly good...  

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