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.

Johanna Koljonen • Author, Nostradamus Report

"We are entering a 3-5 year period of an exceptionally high demand"

Johanna Koljonen • Author, Nostradamus Report

Johanna Koljonen, the author of Göteborg Film Festival’s 7th Nostradamus Report, entitled ”A Creative Explosion”, discusses the content of the study  

Ina Lerner Grevstad • Director of Svik

"How much you're willing to sacrifice of your life to save another person"

Ina Lerner Grevstad • Director of Svik

We met up with Norwegian-based director Ina Lerner Grevstad to discuss her series Svik, a project in development presented in Göteborg Film Festival’s TV...  

Hörður Rúnarsson • Producer, co-founder & CEO, Glassriver

"The responses we've got to our projects have been really, really positive"

Hörður Rúnarsson • Producer, co-founder & CEO, Glassriver

Iceland's Hörður Rúnarsson, producer for Glassriver, gives us an insight into the company's latest projects, including Siminn Premium S-VoD's My Funeral, in...  

Cia Edström • Head of TV Drama Vision, Göteborg Film Festival

"Classic Nordic market has moved on to become something more deep and levelled"

Cia Edström • Head of TV Drama Vision, Göteborg Film Festival

We met up with Cia Edström, head of the Göteborg Film Festival's TV Drama Vision, to discuss the professional event and the state of the TV industry in the...  

Rene Pannevis • Director of Looted

"I wanted to portrait a personal experience of growing up in the world of petty crimes as I remember it"

Rene Pannevis • Director of Looted

Dutch-born, London-based filmmaker Rene Pannevis world-premiered Looted in the First Feature Competition at Tallinn's Black Nights Film Festival - and he...  

Hossein Pourseifi • Director of Tomorrow We Are Free

"All I had is the memories of the family, telling me the story 30 years later"

Hossein Pourseifi • Director of Tomorrow We Are Free

We talked to Iranian-born, Germany-based director Hossein Pourseifi, who presented Tomorrow We Are Free in the First Feature Competition of Tallinn's Black...  

Fatos Berisha • Director of The Flying Circus

"This is my personal story, I struggled to distance myself from it"

Fatos Berisha • Director of The Flying Circus

Kosovo's Fatos Berisha has discussed his latest feature The Flying Circus with us at Tallinn's Black Nights Film Festival, where it competed for the Grand...  

Ulrich Thomsen, Ewen Bremner • Director and actor of Gutterbee

"Religion, racism and fear of each other are ruining human relationships"

Ulrich Thomsen, Ewen Bremner • Director and actor of Gutterbee

We interviewed Danish actor-turned-director Ulrich Thomsen, who presented his feature Gutterbee in competition at Tallinn's Black Nights Film Festival,...  

Zoltán Nagy • Director of On the Quiet

"The main core of a good director-actor relationship is trust"

Zoltán Nagy • Director of On the Quiet

Hungarian filmmaker Zoltán Nagy talked to us about his first feature On the Quiet, screening in the First Feature Competition of Tallinn's Black Nights Film...  

Jure Pavlović • Director of Mater

"As a director you should never underestimate your audience by revealing everything"

Jure Pavlović • Director of Mater

Croatian director Jure Pavlović talks to us about his debut feature, Mater, world-premiering in the First Feature Competition of Tallinn's Black Nights  

Hüseyin Tabak and Alina Serban • Director and actress of Gipsy Queen

"This is a film about motherhood in the first place, then about being Roma, and in the end about boxing"

Hüseyin Tabak and Alina Serban • Director and actress of Gipsy Queen

We have met up with Hüseyin Tabak and Alina Serban, director and actress of Gipsy Queen, a German-Austrian co-production selected in Competition at...  

Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov, Fejmi Daut, Samir Ljuma, Atanas Georgiev, Branislav Nikolov, Atidze Muratova • Crew of Honeyland

"The message in Honeyland has an existential root"

Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov, Fejmi Daut, Samir Ljuma, Atanas Georgiev, Branislav Nikolov, Atidze Muratova • Crew of Honeyland

We present an extensive interview with the directors, crew and incredible protagonist of the documentary hit Honeyland, made at MakeDox Film Festival by our...  

Leilani Farha • UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing, protagonist of Push

"What is happening is a violation of human rights"

Leilani Farha • UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing, protagonist of Push

UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Housing Leilani Farha talks about her participation in Swedish documentary Push, directed by Fredrik Gertten  

Fredrik Gertten • Director of Push

"This film is an investigation of what is going on in our cities"

Fredrik Gertten • Director of Push

Swedish director Fredrik Gertten introduces his latest documentary, Push, released in ten countries across Europe in collaboration with Moving Docs  

P David Ebersole, Todd Hughes • Directors of House of Cardin

"Pierre Cardin is not an enigma, he's very open, consistent and authentic"

P David Ebersole, Todd Hughes • Directors of House of Cardin

VENICE 2019: American directorial duo P David Ebersole and Todd Hughes talked to us about their documentary House of Cardin, presented in the Giornate degli...  

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