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.

1951 video interviews available in total starting from 30/08/2002. Last updated on 24/07/2025. 103 video interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Martijn Lakemeier  • Actor

"Acting is a craft, something you can practice"

Martijn Lakemeier • Actor by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2021: The young Dutch actor talks the beginning of his career, challenges and role-picking, as well as the directors he would love to work with  

Seidi Haarla  • Actress

"I think that actors can be good directors"

Seidi Haarla • Actress by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2021: The emerging Finnish actress talks about her artistic drive and how it's shaping her career, as well as who she wishes to work with  

Fionn O'Shea  • Actor

"I've been really lucky that people have given me the opportunities to try a lot of different things"

Fionn O'Shea • Actor by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2021: The Irish actor talks about his work so far, what he has been offered through his career and who he would love to work with in the future  

Žygimantė Elena Jakštaitė  • Actress

"I want to work with interesting people I can learn from"

Žygimantė Elena Jakštaitė • Actress by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2021: The young Lithuanian actress discusses going from theatre to film and what her career might lead her to, as well as the director she would...  

Albrecht Schuch  • Actor

"I like playing with reality and putting the colours of fantasy in it"

Albrecht Schuch • Actor by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2021: The young German actor talks to us about his work in Berlin Alexanderplatz, challenges and dream directors  

Viestur Kairish  • Director of The Sign Painter

"How can you survive as a human and not sell your soul"

Viestur Kairish • Director of The Sign Painter by Ana Stanic

We met up with Latvian director Viestur Kairish to discuss his latest film The Sign Painter, which screened in Competition at Tallinn's Black Nights Film...  

Oliver Rihs  • Director of Caged Birds

"We tell the story of these two opposite characters and their dream of freedom"

Oliver Rihs • Director of Caged Birds by Ana Stanic

Swiss filmmaker Oliver Rihs talks to us about his latest feature film, Caged Birds, which was screened in Competition at Tallinn's Black Nights Film Festival  

Leonardo Antonio  • Director of Submission

"90% of the psychiatry hospital wing would be empty if we could address the problem of rape and prostitution in marriage"

Leonardo Antonio • Director of Submission by Ana Stanic

Portugal's Leonardo Antonio discusses his Black Nights-screened film Submission, about a woman who files a court case against her own husband for rape  

Alberto La Monica • Director, Lecce European Film Festival

"Production companies from all over the world can submit their project in Apulia if they want to do something in the region"

Alberto La Monica • Director, Lecce European Film Festival by Ana Stanic

We had a chat with Alberto La Monica, director of the Lecce European Film Festival, about its recent edition and what the Italian region in which it takes...  

Jonas Kærup Hjort • Director of The Penultimate

"I wanted the main character to guide us trough existential questions of life"

Jonas Kærup Hjort • Director of The Penultimate by Ana Stanic

We chatted with Danish filmmaker Jonas Kærup Hjort, who is screening his convoluted and surreal debut feature The Penultimate at Tallinn's Black Nights Film...  

Angeliki Stellaki • Press Officer, Thessaloniki International Film Festival

"It is important to have actions which take place throughout the whole year"

Angeliki Stellaki • Press Officer, Thessaloniki International Film Festival

Angeliki Stellaki, who works at the press office, talks about the organization of the Thessaloniki Festival which is divided into two film festivals: the...  

Hannes Aaava • Head of Press and Communications, Tallinn Black Nights

“Social media are so saturated these days that we try to keep our content relevant”

Hannes Aaava • Head of Press and Communications, Tallinn Black Nights

Hannes Aava, head of Press and Communications at the Tallinn Film Festival, describes their strategies to boost the visibility of the festival (partners,...  

Bruce LaBruce • Director of Saint-Narcisse

"I wanted to point out how ridiculous and extreme narcissism has become now"

Bruce LaBruce • Director of Saint-Narcisse by Vittoria Scarpa, Mazzino Montinari

VENICE 2020: Bruce LaBruce returns to the Giornate degli Autori with Saint-Narcisse, in which the sacred and the blasphemous collide, redefining the...  

Simone Marcelli • Director of Occident Express

"The challenge was to successfully talk the language of the moving image, rather than that of the theatre"

Simone Marcelli • Director of Occident Express by Vittoria Scarpa

VENICE 2020: Simone Marcelli talks to us about his film Occident Express, which features footage of the stage play of the same name written by Stefano Massini  

Flavia Mastrella, Antonio Rezza • Director of Samp

"The task was to totally rip up the script and obliterate the set"

Flavia Mastrella, Antonio Rezza • Director of Samp by Vittoria Scarpa

VENICE 2020: Artists and stage performers Flavia Mastrella and Antonio Rezza present their new cinematic work, Samp, in the Giornate degli Autori  

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