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.

Annika Pinske • Director of Talking about the Weather

"I wanted a contemporary and complex female character allowed to be imperfect and contradictory"

Annika Pinske • Director of Talking about the Weather by Ana Stanic, Sylvie Lazzarini

BERLINALE 2022: The German filmmaker discusses her story of a woman caught in contradictions on her quest for independence  

Chris Orgelt  • Programme Manager, Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival

"People do not come only for the films, they come for the atmosphere, to have fun and enjoy themselves"

Chris Orgelt • Programme Manager, Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival

Chris Orgelt explains how programming works at BIFFF which is one of the biggest genre film festivals in Europe and the festival team’s day-to-day work...  

Yllka Gashi  • Actress in Hive

Hive made me a better person”

Yllka Gashi • Actress in Hive

Cineuropa's editor-in-chief, Domenico La Porta, had a chat with lead actress Yllka Gashi about the impact of the film and what an Academy Award nomination...  

Pnina Blayer  • Artistic Director, Haifa International Film Festival

“We’re still studying the online festival edition and we want to keep physical cinema but everything is so fragile, it’s difficult to plan”

Pnina Blayer • Artistic Director, Haifa International Film Festival

Pnina Blayer, the artistic director of Haifa International Film Festival, shares her experience with online film festivals and its positive outcomes. She...  

Elise Jalladeau  • General Director, Thessaloniki Film Festival

“We are working on different options to continue to use online platform, but not as a cinema or streaming platform”

Elise Jalladeau • General Director, Thessaloniki Film Festival

Elise Jalladeau, the general director of Thessaloniki Film Festival, explains how they advertised their online film festival editions and the opportunity to...  

Albert Wiederspiel  • General Director, Filmfest Hamburg

“Festival and online can’t go really together - festival is about meeting people and experiencing the film together”

Albert Wiederspiel • General Director, Filmfest Hamburg

Albert Wiederspiel, the festival director of Filmfest Hamburg, talks about the opportunities and challenges of streaming platforms. Filmfest Hamburg...  

Adam Donen • Director of Alice Through The Looking

"I like the wildness of the 60s and the 70s and I’m very keen to capture it in my work"

Adam Donen • Director of Alice Through The Looking by Ana Stanic

The director of the world’s first fully holographic theatre play presented his first feature film, a very free adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic, and...  

Dovile Sarutyte • Director of Feature Film About Life

"Right after the death of family member you suddenly turn in a event manager, a funeral organiser - and this is grotesque situation"

Dovile Sarutyte • Director of Feature Film About Life by Ana Stanic

There is no time to mourn in the first feature by the Lithuanian filmmaker, who tells us more about it and about turning a personal experience into a script  

Santi Amodeo • Director of The Gentiles

"People no longer say “I’m sad;” they save a song on TikTok"

Santi Amodeo • Director of The Gentiles by Ana Stanic

The Spanish filmmaker talks about his latest work, a film revolving around the teenage years and the use of social media  

Andreas Kleinert • Director of Dear Thomas

"In East Germany we also had sexy youth in cool clothes, having parties, dancing and living colourful lives"

Andreas Kleinert • Director of Dear Thomas by Ana Stanic

The German filmmaker talks to us about his declaration of love to writer, poet and rebel Thomas Brasch, which has won the Grand Prix in the Competition of...  

Kirill Sokolov • Director of No Looking Back

"My goal is to make people feel something by offering them an emotional rollercoaster"

Kirill Sokolov • Director of No Looking Back by Ana Stanic

The Russian filmmaker discusses his film, a wildly funny (black) comedy about a women released from prison that boasts a strong social essence  

Kristijonas Vildziunas • Director of Songs for a Fox

"As a civilisation, we’re not dreaming anymore, literally and metaphorically"

Kristijonas Vildziunas • Director of Songs for a Fox by Ana Stanic

The Lithuanian filmmaker talks about his new film, which merges magical fantasy, heart-rending drama and rocky musical with post-soviet realities  

Liliana Torres • Director of What Went Wrong?

"Women are not comfortable any more with having smaller wages than men, and that creates frictions in couples"

Liliana Torres • Director of What Went Wrong? by Ana Stanic

The Spanish filmmaker delves into her own past life and love interests to create an auto-fiction film, and talks to us about the process she embarked on and...  

György Pálfi • Director of Perpetuity

"This is a love story set in a near post-war future in Europe"

György Pálfi • Director of Perpetuity by Ana Stanic

The Hungarian director discusses his latest film, which dialogues, in stylistic terms, with the body horror and the perplexing meanings of his breakthrough...  

István Szabó  • Director

"The only reason to make a film is to help the audience to understand they are not alone dealing with their problems"

István Szabó • Director by Valerio Caruso

The Veteran Hungarian director, who has received the Lifetime Achievement Golden Olive at the European Film Festival in Lecce, discusses his career and his...  

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