Interviews

Weekly feature introducing you to film professionals from all over Europe sorted by name.

8160 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 03/05/2025. 661 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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"Borders can be broken down once we recognise familiarity in the face of the unknown"
Marios Piperides  • Director of Smuggling HendrixWe spoke to Cypriot writer-director Marios Piperides about his feature debut, Smuggling Hendrix, Best...  
24/04/2018 | Tribeca 2018
"I don't reveal the events in advance; the viewer is by my side, as if it were all happening at that very moment"
Francesca Pirani • Director of VakhimVENEZIA 2024: The Italian director talks about her highly personal documentary, which follows the journey...  
12/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori
“Working with new voices is the most challenging, but also the best, part of being a producer”
Elisa Fernanda Pirir • Producer, StærThe Norway-based producer, selected as one of this year’s Producers on the Move, shared some thoughts...  
09/05/2023 | Producers on the Move 2023
“Some hybrid form of the Finnish Film Affair will certainly continue in the future, as it does bring opportunities”
Maria Pirkkalainen • Head, Finnish Film Affair and Nordic FlairWe had a chat with Maria Pirkkalainen, head of the Finnish Film Affair and Nordic Flair, to explore what’s...  
23/09/2020 | /Finland
“I want to bring more ‘Love & Anarchy’ into the industry”
Maria Pirkkalainen  • Producer, Finnish Film AffairCineuropa caught up with the new producer of the Finnish Film Affair, Maria Pirkkalainen, to discuss this...  
24/09/2019
"We were looking for young people who were interested in history and were capable of thinking out loud"
Karolina Markiewicz and Pascal Piron • Directors of The Living WitnessesWe met with the filmmakers behind this documentary which investigates the rarely explored topic of the...  
23/03/2021 | Luxembourg 2021
"I wanted a main character who didn’t do anything, but who got other people moving instead"
François Pirot • Director of Let’s Get LostThe Belgian director chatted to us about his second feature film, a polyphonic work about the call of...  
14/03/2023 | /Belgium/Luxembourg/Switzerland
"It's a journey of misery and desperation that often plays out right in front of us without us realising"
Vincenzo Pirrotta • Director of The Bone BreakersVENICE 2022: Using a horrifying news story as his starting point, the actor-director ponders how much of...  
07/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori
“Adults are the biggest adversaries of freedom because they don’t let adolescents enjoy being carefree”
Edgardo Pistone • Director of Ciao bambinoWe sat down with the Neapolitan director to discuss harmful inheritance, impossible love and non-places  
23/01/2025 | /Italy
"The journey is the only thing that allows us to empathise and to have a different opinion"
Antonio Pisu • Director of EstVENICE 2020: Antonio Pisu talks about his spirited and meaningful road movie Est, which opens the Venetian...  
04/09/2020 | Venice 2020 | Giornate degli Autori
“There are neither goodies nor baddies in this film; people do what they have to do in order to survive”
Antonio Pisu  • Director of Nina of the WolvesVENICE 2023: The director talks to us about his new film, a dystopian fantasy-thriller based on Alessandro...  
31/08/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori
“Through the visual and sound design of the first scene, the intention was for the audience to dive into the psychology of the character”
Christos Pitharas • Director of HuntThe Greek director shares his approach to the visuals, music and subject of his pensive character study,...  
12/11/2024 | Thessaloniki 2024
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Alex Pitstra • DirectorDutch director Alex Pitstra presented his first film Die Welt at the Brussels Film Festival  
24/06/2013
“Nobody anywhere in the world wants to up and leave their own country”
Rafi Pitts  • DirectorBERLIN 2016: Returning to the Berlinale with Soy Nero, director Rafi Pitts discusses how Green Card...  
19/02/2016
“Rather than thematise mental illness and diagnoses, I see a question about the value of a shared world and what holds it together”
Zuzana Piussi  • Director of UnbalancedThe acclaimed veteran Slovak documentarian, who is preparing her feature-length fiction debut, discusses...  
02/06/2021 | Febiofest Bratislava 2021 | Febiofest Industry Days
“In Italy, a significant number of people were raised in residential institutions, a phenomenon which shouldn’t be relegated to just a handful of news articles”
Alessandro Piva • Director of Cradle SiblingsWe met with the director to talk about abandoned children, female emancipation and the search for one’s...  
27/03/2025 | Bif&st 2025

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