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.

Ameen Nayfeh • Director of 200 Meters

"I wanted to create a film that reflects the political situation, but also one that's entertaining"

Ameen Nayfeh • Director of 200 Meters by Vittoria Scarpa, Mazzino Montinari

VENICE 2020: Ameen Nayfeh talks about his feature debut, 200 Meters, a film that tells of the harsh lives of Palestinians divided by a wall  

Doriana Monaco • Director of Agalma

"At the core of my story is the statue, which manages to express itself without the need to resort to a caption"

Doriana Monaco • Director of Agalma by Vittoria Scarpa

VENICE 2020: Director Doriana Monaco documents daily life in the National Archaeological Museum of Naples in her medium-length film Agalma  

Tadhg O'Sullivan • Director of To The Moon

"The moon is something we share in space and time, a powerful symbol of universality"

Tadhg O'Sullivan • Director of To The Moon by Vittoria Scarpa

VENICE 2020: Irish artist and filmmaker Tadhg O'Sullivan talks to us about To the Moon, a documentary made up of archive material and original footage shot...  

Edoardo Natoli • Director of Solitaire

"We have all experienced the feeling of not being able to go out of our own house"

Edoardo Natoli • Director of Solitaire by Vittoria Scarpa

VENICE 2020: After his 2013 title Secchi, Edoardo Natoli returns to Giornate degli Autori with a new stop-motion short, Solitaire  

Merawi Gerima • Director of Residue

"Gentrification is a symptom of a much larger problem of our powerlessness as black people"

Merawi Gerima • Director of Residue by Vittoria Scarpa, Mazzino Montinari

VENICE 2020: With his feature debut Residue, director Merawi Gerima takes an in-depth look at the burning issues triggering the Black Lives Matter movement  

Ivan Ikic • Director of Oasis

"My challenge was to make people with mental disabilities play fictional roles, not themselves"

Ivan Ikic • Director of Oasis by Vittoria Scarpa, Mazzino Montinari

VENICE 2020: Serbia's Ivan Ikić presents his second feature Oasis, which tells the story of a love triangle within the walls of an institution for young...  

Ivan I Tverdovsky • Director of Conference

"That terrible moment was a story that couldn't not be told"

Ivan I Tverdovsky • Director of Conference by Vittoria Scarpa, Mazzino Montinari

VENICE 2020: In Conference, Russia's Ivan I Tverdovskiy depicts a controversial commemoration of the 2002 terrorist attack on the Dubrovka Theatre in Moscow  

Peter Marcias • Director of Nilde Iotti, il tempo delle donne

"A well-rounded character who was close to the Italian citizens, engaging in a different kind of politics"

Peter Marcias • Director of Nilde Iotti, il tempo delle donne by Vittoria Scarpa

VENICE 2020: Peter Marcias dedicates his documentary Nilde Iotti, il tempo delle donne to the great Italian politician, one of the 20th century's leading...  

Giorgia Farina • Director of Romantic Guide to Lost Places

"A romantic relationship between a man and a woman that develops in a rather unusual way"

Giorgia Farina • Director of Romantic Guide to Lost Places by Vittoria Scarpa

VENICE 2020: Giorgia Farina talks about her new film by Romantic Guide to Lost Places, starring Jasmine Trinca and Clive Owen, presented as a special event...  

Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio  • Directors of Una promessa

"Out in the fields, the day labourers die shrouded in invisibility and oblivion, like the desaparecidos"

Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio • Directors of Una promessa by Vittoria Scarpa, Mazzino Montinari

VENICE 2020: Brothers Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio talk to us about their second fiction film Una promessa, about a father and a son reduced to slave...  

Milo Rau • Director of The New Gospel

"The first black Jesus film in the European film history"

Milo Rau • Director of The New Gospel by Vittoria Scarpa

VENICE 2020: With The New Gospel, Swiss director Milo Rau adapts the Bible to the present day, depicting immigrants reduced to slave labour, and the fight...  

Michele Mellara, Alessandro Rossi • Directors of 50 - Santarcangelo Festival

"A festival reaching out into the future of the performing arts"

Michele Mellara, Alessandro Rossi • Directors of 50 - Santarcangelo Festival by Vittoria Scarpa

VENICE 2020: Documentarians Michele Mellara and Alessandro Rossi celebrate the 50th birthday of the Italian performing-arts festival with 50 - Santarcangelo...  

Lili Horvat • Director of Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time

"This film is about the role of imagination when we fall in love"

Lili Horvat • Director of Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time by Vittoria Scarpa, Mazzino Montinari

VENICE 2020: Lili Horvát presented Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time, a psychological suspense flick that probes boundaries as a...  

Sabine Verheyen • Chair, European Parliament's Culture and Education Committee

"Now we have to think how to help the audiovisual sector recover"

Sabine Verheyen • Chair, European Parliament's Culture and Education Committee by Vittoria Scarpa

VENICE 2020: European Parliament's Culture and Education Committee chair Sabine Verheyen discusses the brand-new LUX Audience Award, and how institutions...  

Andrea Della Monica • Director of James

"We started off by filming the music to capture the essence of the character"

Andrea Della Monica • Director of James by Vittoria Scarpa

VENICE 2020: Andrea Della Monica talks about his feature debut James, a documentary dedicated to the saxophone player James Senese, whose music fuses...  

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