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.

Philipp Yuryev • Director of The Whaler Boy

"I felt this is a story of a first love, so it couldn't be depressing"

Philipp Yuryev • Director of The Whaler Boy by Vittoria Scarpa, Mazzino Montinari

VENICE 2020: Russian director Philipp Yuryev talks to us about his feature debut, The Whaler Boy, in which a teenager living in a Russian remote village...  

Kamir Aïnouz • Director of Honey Cigar

"A story of a young woman's body torn between two cultures"

Kamir Aïnouz • Director of Honey Cigar by Vittoria Scarpa, Mazzino Montinari

VENICE 2020: French-Algerian director Kamir Aïnouz talked to us about her feature debut, Honey Cigar, which opened the 17th Giornate degli Autori  

Elisa Fuksas • Director of ISola

"Telling a story helps you to forget that it is actually your story"

Elisa Fuksas • Director of ISola by Vittoria Scarpa

VENICE 2020: Elisa Fuksas talks to us about her documentary iSola, made during the lockdown and filmed entirely on a mobile phone, now selected for the...  

Antonio Pisu • Director of Est

"The journey is the only thing that allows us to empathise and to have a different opinion"

Antonio Pisu • Director of Est by Vittoria Scarpa

VENICE 2020: Antonio Pisu talks about his spirited and meaningful road movie Est, which opens the Venetian Nights of the 17th Giornate degli Autori  

Asia Dér, Sári Haragonics • Directors of Her Mothers

"A rainbow family adopts a child in Hungary"

Asia Dér, Sári Haragonics • Directors of Her Mothers by Ana Stanic

We talked to directing duo Asia Dér and Sári Haragonics, who took their eye-opening documentary Her Mothers to the Sarajevo Film Festival  

Michalis Konstantatos • Director of All The Pretty Little Horses

"The biggest crimes happen in the light of the day"

Michalis Konstantatos • Director of All The Pretty Little Horses by Ana Stanic

We talked to Greek filmmaker Michalis Konstantatos, who screened his feature All The Pretty Little Horses in Competition for the Heart of Sarajevo  

Ru Hasanov • Director of The Island Within

"Making this film was a long and intimate process, it reflects my relations to my family and my country"

Ru Hasanov • Director of The Island Within by Ana Stanic

We have interviewed Azerbaijani director Ru Hasanov, who won the award for Best Director at Sarajevo's Feature Competition for his strangely specific The...  

Danijela Stajnfeld • Director of Hold Me Right

"Making this film was a healing process in the aftermath of a sexual assault"

Danijela Stajnfeld • Director of Hold Me Right by Ana Stanic

Serbia's Danijela Stajnfeld talked to us about her deeply personal Hold Me Right, screening as part of the Documentary Competition of the Sarajevo Film Festival  

Djuro Gavran • Director of One of Us

"This film is about social reactions to discovering a case of sexual abuse of children"

Djuro Gavran • Director of One of Us by Ana Stanic

Croatia's Djuro Gavran talked about his documentary One of Us, which revolves around speaking about a horror with which we are faced but cannot come to...  

More Raça • Director of Andromeda Galaxy

"This is the struggle for basic existence of a common middle-aged man in Kosovo"

More Raça • Director of Andromeda Galaxy by Ana Stanic

We have talked to Kosovan director More Raça, who has world-premiered her first feature film Andromeda Galaxy at the Sarajevo Film Festival  

Julie François • Head of Communication, CINEMAMED

“It is important for us to be present on social media, that keeps us alive”

Julie François • Head of Communication, CINEMAMED

Julie François, in charge of the coordination of the Mediterranean Film Festival of Brussels, talks about the budget of communications of the festival and...  

Aurélie Losseau • Programmer, CINEMAMED

The first criteria is the quality of the film

Aurélie Losseau • Programmer, CINEMAMED

Aurélie Losseau, in charge of the coordination of the Mediterranean Film Festival of Bruxelles and of the programming selection, talks about the programming...  

Veronica Flora • Festival organizer, film curator and programmer

“I wanted to show the links between the cinema stories, coming from all over the world, people and territories”

Veronica Flora • Festival organizer, film curator and programmer

Veronica Flora, festival organizer, film curator and programmer tells us about her job, her experiences and about how she discovered festivals  

Jakub Duszynsky • Distributor, Gutek Film

"For us, the theatre experience is crucial"

Jakub Duszynsky • Distributor, Gutek Film

As part of our #EuropeansAgainstCovid19 series in collaboration with LUX Prize, Polish distributor Jakub Duszynsky talks to us about the current situation  

Ditte Daugbjerg Christensen • Exhibitor, Øst For Paradis

"Now, we need a cinema to travel for us... and with us"

Ditte Daugbjerg Christensen • Exhibitor, Øst For Paradis

As part of our #EuropeansAgainstCovid19 series in collaboration with LUX Prize, head of Denmark's Øst For Paradis cinema Ditte Daugbjerg Christensen talks...  

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