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.

Tomasz Wasilewski • Director of Fools

"I wanted to talk about the biggest taboo: incest between a mother and son - in my film, two mature people choose this path and are condemned by society for it"

Tomasz Wasilewski • Director of Fools by Ana Stanic

We sat down with the Polish director to discuss his drama about the difficult relationship between a mother and son, whose choices have dramatic consequences  

Ofir Raul Grazier • Director of America

"I wanted to tell a story about childhood and its influence on our life; it's the basic thing in our human spirit"

Ofir Raul Grazier • Director of America by Ana Stanic

The Israeli director unpicks his new feature, a cleverly structured, psychologically complex story about relationships, which has just screened in...  

Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze and Taki Mumladze • Director of and actress in A Room of My Own

"This film was made thanks to the help of our friends, and our ambition is to be the voice of young people in Georgia"

Ioseb “Soso” Bliadze and Taki Mumladze • Director of and actress in A Room of My Own by Ana Stanic

The director and his lead actress and co-writer break down their new film, which has just screened in competition at the Karlovy Vary International Film...  

Gemma Beltrán  • Communication & Press Officer San Sebastian Film Festival

“I think something that we definitely have to keep is meeting the people that we work with, exchanging five emails is not the same as having a full conversation”

Gemma Beltrán • Communication & Press Officer San Sebastian Film Festival

In this interview, Gemma Beltrán, a communication and press officer at the San Sebastian film festival, gives some advice on how to deal with the press  

Gloria Zerbinati  • International Publicist

"Being an independent film publicist it's about passion, not about money"

Gloria Zerbinati • International Publicist

In this interview, Gloria Zerbinati, an international publicist, speaks about her love for her work, but also her duties  

Claudia Tomassini  • International Film Publicist

“I would suggest to try to find a publicist that you can work with, don’t accept just someone who says: “your film is great”

Claudia Tomassini • International Film Publicist

At the last Cannes Film Festival, Cineuropa met Claudia Tomassini, one of the most active independent film publicist at the international film festivals and...  

Erika Etangsalé  • Director of In the Billowing Night

"This film is a process of shedding light and gaining awareness of generational transmission"

Erika Etangsalé • Director of In the Billowing Night by Ana Stanic

CANNES 2022: The French filmmaker has won the 2022 Doc Alliance Prize for Best Short for her “story of silence, dark dreams, mysterious pain and muted...  

Payal Kapadia  • Director of A Night of Knowing Nothing

"Political change can not come without understanding the social reality"

Payal Kapadia • Director of A Night of Knowing Nothing by Ana Stanic

CANNES 2022: The Indian filmmaker has received the 2022 Doc Alliance Prize for Best Feature for her “emotionally and artistically packed documentary full of...  

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...  

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