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.

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  

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  

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