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.

1821 video interviews available in total starting from 30/08/2002. Last updated on 21/05/2024. 95 video interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Sarah Bissada  •  Deputy Executive Director El Gouna Film Festival

“Our main goal this year for the market is not only to attract the local and regional filmmakers but also international ones”

Sarah Bissada • Deputy Executive Director El Gouna Film Festival

The El Gouna Film Festival being quite young, Sarah Bissada talks about how it all started and the platform offering project funding for young filmmakers  

Marjan van der Haar  •  Managing Director International Film Festival Rotterdam

“If you really focus on how to bring the programme and make it balanced, you can really focus on younger audiences as well”

Marjan van der Haar • Managing Director International Film Festival Rotterdam

Marjan van der Haar describes the atmosphere and particularities of the International Film Festival in Rotterdam  

Jim Kolmar  •  Film Programmer

“The key work in the peak of busy season is watching films, reviewing them, taking notes and collaborating with your fellow programmers”

Jim Kolmar • Film Programmer

Jim Kolmar tells us about his role as a film programmer working on many different festivals  

Ilija Tatić  •  Festival Manager European Film Festival Palić

“We care to make the festival a friendly and hospitable place that everybody will remember”

Ilija Tatić • Festival Manager European Film Festival Palić

Ilija Tatić talks to us about the atmosphere of the festival and the events taking place outdoor such as concerts and screenings  

Luka Beradze • Director of Smiling Georgia

"I would like politicians to understand what these false promises do to the common people and change their attitudes"

Luka Beradze • Director of Smiling Georgia by Ana Stanic

The Georgian director breaks down his debut feature, which paints a delicate portrait of a part of his home country that is very beautiful but profoundly lonely  

Sahraa Karimi and Wanda Adamík Hrycová • Director and producer of Flight from Kabul

"We're going to make this film for the women of Afghanistan and for a free Afghanistan"

Sahraa Karimi and Wanda Adamík Hrycová • Director and producer of Flight from Kabul by Ana Stanic

The director and the producer discuss their project, which follows an Afghan filmmaker whose wedding plans are destroyed when the Taliban seize Kabul  

Kyros Papavassiliou  • Director of Embryo Larva Butterfly

"What does choice mean if you know what is going to happen in your life?"

Kyros Papavassiliou • Director of Embryo Larva Butterfly by Ana Stanic

The Cypriot director discusses his new film, set in a place where time doesn’t flow, where the days appear randomly in the past, the present, and the future  

Alexandru Solomon • Director of Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife

"I hope that instead of seeking salvation in Heaven, we begin to correct issues here on Earth"

Alexandru Solomon • Director of Arsenie. An Amazing Afterlife by Ana Stanic

The Romanian filmmaker talks about his second documentary, which portrays Romania's obsession with Arsenie Boca, a priest, theologian, and mystic persecuted...  

Emilie Brisavoine • Director of Keeping Mum

"Even if this is an intimate investigation of the relationship with my mother, our sufferings are universal"

Emilie Brisavoine • Director of Keeping Mum by Ana Stanic

The French director unpicks her second documentary, a captivating and poignant portrait of her mother and of the relationship between them  

Olga Chajdas, Lena Góra  • Director and actress of Imago

"I wanted the audience to leave the screening with two words resonating: 'freedom' and 'choice'"

Olga Chajdas, Lena Góra • Director and actress of Imago by Ana Stanic

The director and the actress discuss their film, a punk odyssey through the communist Poland in the 80s, which they both co-wrote  

Tomáš Klein  • Director of A Sensitive Person

"My film is about finding love and hope in a very absurd and cruel world"

Tomáš Klein • Director of A Sensitive Person by Ana Stanic

The Czech director discusses his directorial debut by unpicking his visual and narrative approach, his characters' journey and the topics he wanted to talk...  

Cyril Aris  • Director of Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano

"I wanted to explore how art can get people back on their feet again"

Cyril Aris • Director of Dancing on the Edge of a Volcano by Ana Stanic

The Lebanese director gives us the insights on his documentary centred on a film crew in the middle of production paralysed by the catastrophic explosion in...  

Ernst De Geer  • Director of The Hypnosis

"We wanted to be personal, but not too personal, and unique, but not too crazy"

Ernst De Geer • Director of The Hypnosis by Ana Stanic

The Swedish director talks about what is behind his first feature, a satire on modern society and about the conventions dictating how we behave with each other  

Matěj Chlupáček and Miro Šifra  • Director and screenwriter of We Have Never Been Modern

"We’ve always wanted We Have Never Been Modern to look modern"

Matěj Chlupáček and Miro Šifra • Director and screenwriter of We Have Never Been Modern by Ana Stanic

The Czech duo zooms in on the very topical theme of gender, as well as creating links between the past and the present, when discussing their latest film  

Claudia  Droc   •  Head of International Relations Transilvania International Film Festival

“It is a good feeling to try to get on board people who are like-minded and who want to develop a long-term relationship”

Claudia Droc • Head of International Relations Transilvania International Film Festival

Claudia Droc talks about the particularities of the Transilvania International Film Festival and her role as Head of International Relations.  

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