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.

Tommaso Landucci  • Director of Caveman - The Hidden Giant

"Creating a statue where no one would be able to see it is as contradictory as the artist behind it was"

Tommaso Landucci • Director of Caveman - The Hidden Giant by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2021: The filmmaker dedicates his documentary to artist and spelunker Filippo Dobrilla, the creator of an imposing marble sculpture that lies in a...  

Aly Muritiba  • Director of Private Desert

"If you open your mind, it's possible to love in another way"

Aly Muritiba • Director of Private Desert by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2021: The Brazilian director presents his new film about a policeman desperately travelling in search of his lover, whom he met via internet chat and...  

Ola Jankowska  • Director of Anatomia

"I wanted to leave some space for the viewer and their feelings, projections and reflections"

Ola Jankowska • Director of Anatomia by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2021: The Polish director reflects on time, memory and identity through the story of a woman who returns to her home country  

Julia von Heinz, Olivier Guerpillon, Jaco Van Dormael and Michael Winterbottom   • Directors of Isolation

"We pretend to be in control, but we're not controlling anything"

Julia von Heinz, Olivier Guerpillon, Jaco Van Dormael and Michael Winterbottom • Directors of Isolation by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2021: The directors took part in the anthology documentary, in which they each recount the effects of the pandemic on their respective countries  

Sabina Guzzanti  • Director of Spin Time

"Poor people as you've never seen them before"

Sabina Guzzanti • Director of Spin Time by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2021: At the heart of the director's new documentary is a block of flats in Rome occupied by 180 poverty-stricken families, where an interesting...  

Federica Di Giacomo  • Director of Il palazzo

"An extremely free and creative environment, but one that's completely detached from reality"

Federica Di Giacomo • Director of Il palazzo by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2021: The winner of the Orizzonti Award in 2016 returns to the Lido with her new opus, which follows a group of friends, an eclectic bunch of...  

Stefano Sardo  • Director of With or Without You

"The end of a relationship is a testament to how those two people loved each other"

Stefano Sardo • Director of With or Without You by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2021: The screenwriter of successful films and series presents his first fiction film as a director, in which a couple lovingly break up after many...  

Juanjo Giménez  • Director of Out of Sync

"Delay is part of our lives"

Juanjo Giménez • Director of Out of Sync by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2021: The Catalonian director is presenting a supernatural thriller about a sound designer who, in real life, is no longer able to synchronise sound...  

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...  

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