Interviews

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

7490 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 18/04/2024. 579 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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“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
"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
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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
“A story with two victims”
Alessandro Piva • Director of Santa subitoAlessandro Piva talks to us about Santa Subito, a documentary which explores a femicide carried out in...  
28/10/2019 | Rome 2019
Journey to the end of love
Michele PlacidoMichele Placido in Venice with Un viaggio chiamato amore, the story of the crazy passion between Sibilla...  
03/09/2002
Women and work: 7 minuti tackles a very hot topic
Michele Placido  • DirectorItalian filmmaker Michele Placido talks about his all-female drama 7 Minuti, co-produced by Italy, France,...  
13/07/2016
"A political film full of incurable romanticism"
Michele Placido • DirectorBased on the eponymous book by Giancarlo De Cataldo, Romanzo criminale is the director’s most accomplished...  
14/03/2006
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Michele Placido, Maria Pia Calzone • Actors
“We have faith in the transformative power of documentaries: they inspire empathy and understanding”
Jérôme Plan  • Director, 99During our chat, we explored how the platform can give short documentaries a second life after their...  
29/12/2023 | /France

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