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.

1951 video interviews available in total starting from 30/08/2002. Last updated on 24/07/2025. 103 video interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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Annika Pinske • Director of Talking about the Weather

"I wanted a contemporary and complex female character allowed to be imperfect and contradictory"

Annika Pinske • Director of Talking about the Weather by Ana Stanic, Sylvie Lazzarini

BERLINALE 2022: The German filmmaker discusses her story of a woman caught in contradictions on her quest for independence  

Francesca Pirani • Director of Vakhim

"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 Vakhim by Vittoria Scarpa, Daniele Zoica

VENEZIA 2024: The Italian director talks about her highly personal documentary, which follows the journey of a four-year-old boy who was adopted in Cambodia...  

Vincenzo Pirrotta • Director of The Bone Breakers

"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 Breakers by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2022: Using a horrifying news story as his starting point, the actor-director ponders how much of ourselves we are willing to mangle in order to get...  

Antonio Pisu • Director of Est

"The journey is the only thing that allows us to empathise and to have a different opinion"

Antonio Pisu • Director of Est by Vittoria Scarpa

VENICE 2020: Antonio Pisu talks about his spirited and meaningful road movie Est, which opens the Venetian Nights of the 17th Giornate degli Autori  

Antonio Pisu • Director of Nina of the Wolves

“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 Wolves by Vittoria Scarpa, Emanuele Basso

VENICE 2023: The director talks to us about his new film, a dystopian fantasy-thriller based on Alessandro Bertante's novel of the same name  

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Alex Pitstra • Director

Dutch director Alex Pitstra presented his first film Die Welt at the Brussels Film Festival  

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Michele Placido, Maria Pia Calzone • Actors

Video - Brussels Film Festival 2009

David Planell - Director of The Shame

The Shame stars Alberto San Juan and Natalia Mateo as a couple willing to send back to the orphanage the Peruvian boy they had decided to adopt  

Emilie Poirier • Head of Short Films and Feature Films Programmer at Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal

“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 Montréal

Emilie Poirier outlines the different programmes of the Festival du Nouveau Cinéma which includes VR and XR programmes.  

Special report - The Documentary Market

Lynne Polak, Project Manager EBU, Switzerland

Interview with the project manager of EBU (European Broadcasting Union), focusing on documentary series  

Interview - 10 European Directors To Watch

Sacha Polak • Director

Hemel’s director explains the making of Hemel, her first feature length film  

Interview - Venice Days 2012

Sarah Polley • Director

Sarah Polley's documentary Stories We Tell explores her family history through the sometimes contradictory accounts of its members  

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Marco Ponti • Director

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  

Corneliu Porumboiu • Director

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Corneliu Porumboiu • Director

As part of the Les Cinéastes invitent... L'ami européen initiative, Toute l'Europe and Cineuropa sat down with Romanian filmmaker Corneliu Porumboiu  

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