Interviews

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

8174 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 09/05/2025. 666 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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“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
Video - Brussels Film Festival 2009
David Planell - Director of The ShameThe Shame stars Alberto San Juan and Natalia Mateo as a couple willing to send back to the orphanage the...  
“I find it interesting when people say they don’t like horror; I need it!”
Ruth Platt • Director of Martyrs LaneIn the British filmmaker’s third feature, you need not worry about what’s out in the woods, as chances...  
12/08/2021 | Fantasia 2021
"We all fear the same things"
Paco Plaza • DirectorAfter producing three instalments of the REC zombie saga, Spanish filmmaker Paco Plaza directs Verónica, a...  
23/08/2017
"I desperately needed to make this film"
Paco Plaza • Director of Eye for an EyePaco Plaza’s Eye for an Eye, a hard-hitting revenge flick and existential thriller that is guaranteed to...  
30/08/2019
“Any director would aspire to wanting someone to walk out of their film at the movie theatre”
Paco Plaza  • Director of The GrandmotherHorror comes pounding on the doors of San Sebastián with brute force in this film by the Spanish director,...  
24/09/2021 | San Sebastián 2021 | Competition
"We want to support emerging talents to integrate their projects into the marketplace"
Danijel Hočevar, Kristýna Plhoňová  • Representatives, MIDPOINTKARLOVY VARY 2017: Cineuropa met up with MIDPOINT representatives Danijel Hočevar and Kristýna Plhoňová in...  
06/07/2017
"We have to accept that people are different"
Jobst Plog • President of EurimagesWith the new online application system, a paperless era begins at the European Cinema Support Fund for...  
19/03/2013
Producers on the Move 2012 – Poland
Marta Laryssa Plucińska • Federico FilmInjustice is one of the most common themes of the films produced by Federico Film  
02/05/2012
“Mental health has become such a big issue in recent years, but I didn't want it to be portrayed as ‘cool’”
Florian Pochlatko • Director of How to Be Normal and the Oddness of the Other WorldBERLINALE 2025: The Austrian director follows a young woman beset by psychotic episodes, who is trying to...  
25/02/2025 | Berlinale 2025 | Perspectives
Bbelief and joy
Bruno Podalydès • DirectorAfter being presented in Venice, this second part of Rouletabille's adventures already released in France,...  
02/11/2005
“I didn’t intend to do a refugee story; I wanted to do a story about my friend”
Jonas Poher Rasmussen  • Director of FleeWe talked to the Danish director whose latest movie has become one of the year’s most celebrated titles...  
17/09/2021 | Millennium Docs Against Gravity 2021
“We didn’t make a film about a handicapped person; we made a film about a person who also happens to be disabled”
Teemu Nikki, Jani Pösö and Petri Poikolainen  • Director of, producer of and actor in The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See TitanicVENICE 2021: The Orizzonti Extra entry focuses on a man who would do anything for love – even leave his...  
13/09/2021 | Venice 2021 | Orizzonti Extra
“The short films I commission, especially experimental and avant-garde films, are highly inspiring for me to see and to show the audience what else cinema could be and become”
Emilie Poirier  • Head of Short Films and Feature Films Programmer at Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de MontréalEmilie Poirier outlines the different programmes of the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma which includes VR and...  
26/03/2024 | Euro Film Fest
"European cinema is the alternative"
Claude-Eric Poiroux • Director of Europa Cinemas28/02/2006
"We sometimes forget the importance of renewal"
Claude-Eric Poiroux • Festival Premiers Plans d'AngersThe state of young European cinema deciphered by Claude-Eric Poiroux, General and Artistic Director of the...  
16/01/2014

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