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.

1817 video interviews available in total starting from 30/08/2002. Last updated on 12/04/2024. 96 video interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of 21 Days Until the End of the World

"It's a film that came intuitively; the only rule was to shoot in 21 days"

Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of 21 Days Until the End of the World by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The Macedonian director talks about her most personal film to date in it, in which she asks: “What would you do if you only had 21 days left to...  

Kyoshi Sugita  • Director of Following the Sound

"The regret of not having helped her mother always follows the main character"

Kyoshi Sugita • Director of Following the Sound by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The film by the Japanese director broaches the topics of empathy and altruism through the character of a young woman who can detect the pain in...  

Annalena Benini, Francesco Piccolo • Directors of Le mie poesie non cambieranno il mondo

"We were interested in following Patrizia Cavalli and coming up with our own edit that would make it emotional"

Annalena Benini, Francesco Piccolo • Directors of Le mie poesie non cambieranno il mondo by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The screenwriter and the journalist step behind the movie camera to pay tribute to Patrizia Cavalli, one of the most influential contemporary...  

Fabio Mollo, Alessandra Cataleta • Directors of Flesh and Bronze

"We wanted to make a film that would not just tell the story of the work of art per se"

Fabio Mollo, Alessandra Cataleta • Directors of Flesh and Bronze by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: With their documentary, the directorial duo retrace half a century's worth of history, telling the story of the world's two best-preserved...  

Alessandro Roia  • Director of With the Grace of a God

"My interest lay in making a film that would be unyielding and wouldn't pander to visual trends"

Alessandro Roia • Director of With the Grace of a God by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The Italian actor steps behind the camera for the first time to follow a man who, after the death of one of his old friends, is forced to...  

Víctor Iriarte  • Director of Foremost by Night

“It was important to give the main characters the possibility to encounter one another and tell their stories”

Víctor Iriarte • Director of Foremost by Night by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The director talks about his film, which intertwines the fates of a mother, a son and an adoptive mother, bringing to light one of the darkest...  

Chong Keat Aun  • Director of Snow in Midsummer

"Every year, I used to go to the cemetery and interview the families of the victims to get more details about what happened that night"

Chong Keat Aun • Director of Snow in Midsummer by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The Malaysian director discusses his second feature, which shines a fresh spotlight on a forgotten chapter in his country's history  

Evelyn Regner • Vice-President, European Parliament

"Film is also an important means of communication for political reasons"

Evelyn Regner • Vice-President, European Parliament by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The European Parliament Vice-President discusses the upcoming edition of the LUX Audience Award and why the institution is investing in it  

Ariane Louis-Seize  • Director of Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person

"I had fun taking human fights and translating them into the vampire world"

Ariane Louis-Seize • Director of Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The Canadian director discusses her dark comedy in which a young vampire who refuses to kill to survive finds a person willing to sacrifice...  

Élise Girard  • Director of Sidonie in Japan

"I wanted to show the end of mourning, and love returning"

Élise Girard • Director of Sidonie in Japan by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The French filmmaker directs Isabelle Huppert in her third feature, portraying a trip to Japan, where the visible exists alongside the invisible  

Edoardo Morabito  • Director of The Outpost

"This film is an ode to being a visionary: we need to get back to envisioning different futures"

Edoardo Morabito • Director of The Outpost by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The director documents the bonkers project by Chris Clark, an eco-warrior who dreams of organising a Pink Floyd concert in the heart of the...  

Chloé Barreau  • Director of Fragments of a Life Loved

“The viewer will be able to identify with this because we all tread a path with various romances that change our lives”

Chloé Barreau • Director of Fragments of a Life Loved by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The director asked her old flames to spill the beans and give their own versions of the relationship they each had with her in her documentary  

Stefanie Kolk  • Director of Milk

"What struck me about these ladies who donated their milk after their loss is the calm determination they had"

Stefanie Kolk • Director of Milk by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The Dutch director's feature debut focuses on a young woman who, after having a stillbirth, decides to donate her breast milk to other mothers...  

Tommaso Santambrogio  • Director of Oceans Are the Real Continents

“Forced separation is something that characterises the entirety of Cuban society”

Tommaso Santambrogio • Director of Oceans Are the Real Continents by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The Italian director's feature debut tells of the Cuban migrant crisis through three stories and three generations overshadowed by the threat...  

Ivan Ostrochovský, Pavol Pekarčík  • Directors of Photophobia

“We didn’t want to elicit feelings of pathos; these children bring a different kind of emotion”

Ivan Ostrochovský, Pavol Pekarčík • Directors of Photophobia by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The Slovakian directors grab their video camera and head down to a Kharkiv Metro station in Ukraine in order to depict the war from the point...  

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