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 22/07/2025. 103 video interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Luciana Fina • Director of Sempre

"The Carnation Revolution constitutes perhaps the best moment in Portugal's history"

Luciana Fina • Director of Sempre by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The Italian director talks about her documentary, which revisits 25 April 1974 and bears witness to the process of building a new country  

Fabrizio Ferraro • Director of Desert Suite

"It's a journey that's born of something we all feel, of the uncertainty inherent in changing our surroundings"

Fabrizio Ferraro • Director of Desert Suite by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The Italian director talks about his new film, in which a young man crosses Europe in search of a new Ithaca  

Johanné Gómez Terrero • Director of Sugar Island

"Slavery and sugar are intrinsically linked"

Johanné Gómez Terrero • Director of Sugar Island by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The Afro-diasporic director whisks the viewer away to the sugar-cane plantations where a young woman gets pregnant too early  

Mónica Taboada-Tapia • Director of Alma del desierto

"It was a terrible story, and I couldn't imagine it could happen in our century, on this planet"

Mónica Taboada-Tapia • Director of Alma del desierto by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The Colombian director talks about her documentary around an elderly transgender woman who is struggling to obtain an ID document for herself  

Giuseppe Schillaci • Director of Bosco grande

"I wanted to make a film about the punk scene in Palermo, and he told me: 'I am the film'"

Giuseppe Schillaci • Director of Bosco grande by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The Italian director talks us through his documentary, focusing on Sergione, one of Palermo's main standard-bearers of the punk scene in the 1980s  

Jan-Willem van Ewijk • Director of Alpha.

"I was interested in the concept of one person dominating another, while nature dominates everybody"

Jan-Willem van Ewijk • Director of Alpha. by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The Dutch director talks to us about his Europa Cinemas Label winner, in which the unresolved relationship between a father and son is...  

Ciro De Caro • Director of Taxi Monamour

"The encounter between these two people is like a taxi, which takes you from one place to another, and then down each of their individual paths"

Ciro De Caro • Director of Taxi Monamour by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The Italian director has won the Audience Award with his story of two women belonging to two different worlds but who share the same thirst for...  

Marianna Brennand • Director of Manas

"I thought that through fiction I could build a story that was both delicate and deep"

Marianna Brennand • Director of Manas by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The Brazilian filmmaker, winner of the GdA Director's Award, talks about her film set in a community in the Amazon where the sexual abuse of...  

Camille Lugan • Director of The Book of Joy

"A fable about hope in a world that is dark"

Camille Lugan • Director of The Book of Joy by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The French director discusses her feature debut, in which a young orphan who lives and breathes her faith comes into contact with a forbidden,...  

Xiaoxuan Jiang • Director of To Kill A Mongolian Horse

"When the external world is changing, the individual can be very vulnerable"

Xiaoxuan Jiang • Director of To Kill A Mongolian Horse by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The feature debut by the Mongolian-born director revolves around a herdsman who looks after his ranch by day and performs on horseback by night  

Giovanni C Lorusso • Director of A Man Fell

"A situation involving many people, where the inputs and the information come in from all over the place"

Giovanni C Lorusso • Director of A Man Fell by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The Italian director returns to Lebanon and, accompanied by a boy, enters the Gaza Building in Sabra, a symbol of Palestinian survival after...  

Marie Losier • Director of Peaches Goes Bananas

"I wanted to see what was behind the mask"

Marie Losier • Director of Peaches Goes Bananas by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The French director talks to us about her new cinematic portrait dedicated to singer, punk-electro queen and queer and feminist icon Peaches  

Shahab Fotouhi • Director of Boomerang

"The confrontation between two generations helps us to understand each of them more"

Shahab Fotouhi • Director of Boomerang by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The Iranian artist talks about his vibrant portrait of modern-day Tehran that compares and contrasts two generations, amidst political turmoil...  

Antonietta De Lillo  • Director of The Eye of the Hen

"This story had to be told because it concerns everyone"

Antonietta De Lillo • Director of The Eye of the Hen by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The Italian helmer tells her own story, that of a highly respected director who is relegated to the sidelines of the film industry following a...  

Giovanni Dota  • Director of High Stakes - A Night in the Ward

"A bet that's born of boredom and also a little bit out of spite"

Giovanni Dota • Director of High Stakes - A Night in the Ward by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENICE 2024: The Italian director talks to us about his second feature, set entirely in a Naples hospital where, one night, two nurses bet on whether a...  

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