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. 94 video interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

Rachel Close  • Director of One of Us

"This is a personal story but it has a universal connotation in terms of identity, belonging and searching"

Rachel Close • Director of One of Us by Ana Stanic

The winner of the Cineuropa Marketing Award at this year's WEMW discusses her project, which combines a personal investigation against a background with an...  

Barbora Struss and Angelica Cantisani  • CEO, MIDPOINT Institute, and programmes coordinator, TorinoFilmLab

"This is the first activity of many to come where we want to create an accessible pool of writing talents"

Barbora Struss and Angelica Cantisani • CEO, MIDPOINT Institute, and programmes coordinator, TorinoFilmLab by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2023: The two experts discuss the "Only Writers in the Building" initiative, a unique showcase of ten promising European writers committed to...  

Hannes Hirsch and River Matzke  • Director and co-screenwriter of Drifter

"The film is a result of many queer stories, and themes I experienced and struggled with myself"

Hannes Hirsch and River Matzke • Director and co-screenwriter of Drifter by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2023: The director and the co-screenwriter of the German title discuss "gay loneliness" and personal experiences and how it all became a sensitive...  

Benedetta Porcaroli  • Actress

"I am very passionate, and when I decide to do a film, everything in my life has to do with it"

Benedetta Porcaroli • Actress by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2023: The Italian actress talks to us about her career in her home country and her wish to work abroad  

Anthony Lapia  • Director of After

"The world is a shitty place - let’s go to the basements and have fun, love and do whatever we want"

Anthony Lapia • Director of After by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2023: The French director talks about the script, the ensemble and, of course, the music in his first feature, set in an afterparty in a club in Paris  

Kayije Kagame  • Actress

"I always pick the projects I work on very carefully"

Kayije Kagame • Actress by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2023: The Swiss actress, who beautifully played one of the main roles in Alice Diop's Saint-Omer, discusses her acting choices and the people she...  

Yannick Jozefzoon  • Actor

"The most important thing in acting is to be focused and chilled at same time"

Yannick Jozefzoon • Actor by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2023: The Dutch actor discusses past, present and future of his career, as well as the biggest challenges he has had to face so far  

Thorvaldur Kristjánsson  • Actor

"Playing a role means looking for something tangible"

Thorvaldur Kristjánsson • Actor by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2023: The Icelandic actor talks about his approach to acting and how European cinema is a landscape for growing possibilities  

Judith State  • Actress

"I’m constantly taking myself out of my comfortable area and trying new things"

Judith State • Actress by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2023: The Romanian actress, who has worked with masters from her country such as Cristi Puiu and Cristian Mungiu, talks about her career  

Alina Tomnikov  • Actress

"The biggest challenge has been the periods of time when I don’t have any work"

Alina Tomnikov • Actress by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2023: The Finnish actress shares with us the reasons why acting has saved her  

Leonie Benesch  • Actress

"I try to figure out what each project needs and what kind of world we try to tell"

Leonie Benesch • Actress by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2023: The German actress talks about her acting method and her career, and about who she dreams to work with  

Joely Mbundu  • Actress

"I can say that I worked with two of the best directors ever - the Dardenne brothers are just amazing"

Joely Mbundu • Actress by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2023: The actress, who starred in last year's Tori and Lokita, tells us more about her career, which is clearly only just getting started  

Gizem Erdogan  • Actress

"There are so many stories that haven’t been told yet and I wish to be a part of them"

Gizem Erdogan • Actress by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2023: The Swedish actress tells us about how she became an actress, and about the social responsibility of her profession  

Kristine Kujath Thorp  • Actress

"Art has a huge responsibility in showing the world and educate people trough emotions"

Kristine Kujath Thorp • Actress by Ana Stanic

BERLINALE 2023: The Norwegian actress discusses cinema as a tool to change the world and how that plays an important key in her profession  

Lidia Vitale • Actress and member of the Women in Film association

"Patriarchism divides women; now it’s our time to get connected"

Lidia Vitale • Actress and member of the Women in Film association by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

We spoke to the Italian actress about gender gaps in the film world, about #MeToo and about the Women in Film association, which she is a member of  

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