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.

Ameer Fakher Eldin  • Director of The Stranger

"It's a character study of a man who is a stranger in his own community"

Ameer Fakher Eldin • Director of The Stranger by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2021: Fifty years after the Israeli occupation of the territories of the Golan Heights, the director depicts the inner conflict of a man who desires...  

Michale Boganim  • Director of The Forgotten Ones

"There is a whole segment of the population that was abandoned during the construction of Israel"

Michale Boganim • Director of The Forgotten Ones by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2021: The French-Israeli director helms a road movie exploring the past and meeting the various generations of the Mizrahim, or Jews from the Arab...  

Alessandro Capitani  • Director of I nostri fantasmi

"The key to this film is that in life, you always get a second chance"

Alessandro Capitani • Director of I nostri fantasmi by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2021: The writer-director talks to us about his film, which tells the story of a father and his young son who hide away in the attic of a house,...  

Bianca Stigter  • Director of Three Minutes - A Lengthening

"I got the chance to pay my respects to all the people that we see in the movie"

Bianca Stigter • Director of Three Minutes - A Lengthening by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2021: The Dutch historian uses an amateur clip lasting three minutes, filmed in 1938 in a Jewish town in Poland, as her starting point to craft a...  

Alessandro Cassigoli, Casey Kauffman  • Directors of Californie

"Our guideline is always realism"

Alessandro Cassigoli, Casey Kauffman • Directors of Californie by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2021: The third film (and first fiction feature) made as a joint effort by the two directors was born as a sort of spin-off of their previous...  

Antoine Barraud  • Director of Madeleine Collins

"For those people who lie, life is always scary"

Antoine Barraud • Director of Madeleine Collins by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2021: The French director presents his third feature, toplined by Virginie Efira as a woman who leads a double life immersed in secrets and lies  

Iván Fund   • Director of Dusk Stone

"What caught my attention was the possibility for these people to believe in something"

Iván Fund • Director of Dusk Stone by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2021: The Argentinian director presents his new film which depicts a couple who have lost their young son, and the tragic way in which they process...  

Umberto Contarello  • Director of Parole

"I've always made films about myself"

Umberto Contarello • Director of Parole by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2021: The Italian screenwriter makes the leap in front of the camera and speaks off the cuff about himself, his work and the great directors he has...  

Chen Guan  • Director of Shen Kong

"I wanted to make a film about how one tries to fill up every second of 24 hours"

Chen Guan • Director of Shen Kong by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2021: The Chinese helmer is presenting his feature debut, in which a boy and a girl wander the streets of a Chinese city during lockdown, in search...  

Václav Kadrnka  • Director of Saving One Who Was Dead

"To convey the personal experience my film is based on, I developed a very specific cinematic language"

Václav Kadrnka • Director of Saving One Who Was Dead by Ana Stanic

The Czech filmmaker discusses the third instalment in what he describes as his “Absence of a Loved One” trilogy, which has competed for the Crystal Globe  

Andrea Segre  • Director of Welcome Venice

"The huge influx of people who want to come and visit Venice has very serious consequences for its residents"

Andrea Segre • Director of Welcome Venice by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2021: Ten years after Shun Li and the Poet, the director is back with a new film, a tale of the conflict between two brothers faced with the dramatic...  

Ivan Bakrač  • Director of After the Winter

"I wanted to make a film about friendship, about people who do not care about the past and the war"

Ivan Bakrač • Director of After the Winter by Ana Stanic

The Montenegrin director discusses his spirited testimony of the young post-war generation, which follows five childhood friends who remain in contact  

Janine Teerling and Petros Charalambous  • Writer and director of Patchwork

"Petros wanted to make a film about intergenerational friendship and me, about taboos around motherhood - so we put it together"

Janine Teerling and Petros Charalambous • Writer and director of Patchwork by Ana Stanic

The writer and the director of the psychological drama selected in the East of the West competition discuss the several provocative questions it raises  

Shawkat Amin Korki  • Director of The Exam

"The problems in the educational system are not an issue only in Kurdistan"

Shawkat Amin Korki • Director of The Exam by Ana Stanic

The Kurdish director discusses his Crystal Globe competition entry, a tiny drama set in Iraqi Kurdistan about a young woman trying to control her own life  

Dina Duma, Antonia Belazelkoska and Mia Giraud  • Director of and actresses in Sisterhood

"We live in the time where one click can ruin someone's life"

Dina Duma, Antonia Belazelkoska and Mia Giraud • Director of and actresses in Sisterhood by Ana Stanic

The director of and the actresses in the Macedonian film, winner of the Special Jury Prize in the East of the West competition, discuss sorority and the...  

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