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Literary scholar and translator
Country of origin
Italy

Ilaria Piperno (*1978) has a University degree in  contemporary Italianliterature. She lived in Paris for a research period at the EHESS concerning the European novel of the Enlightment. Currently she works as publishing consultant and literary translator from French and English. She translated into Italian several books, among others the screenplays by the well-known Jewish writer Irène Némirovsky (La sinfonia di Parigi, Elliot, Roma 2012). In the past she has also worked for a cinema press office, and she has also been member of a working group presenting meetings about cinema, officially organized by the Jewish community of Rome. 

Festivals

Current issues

Peter Paul Huth comments favourably on the 2026 Venice Film Festival awards ceremony, highlighting in particular the Golden Lion winner, “Kvinde Ukendt” (Unknown Woman) by May el-Toukhy, and “Un bon petit soldat” by Stéphane Brizé, which won the award for Best Screenplay and the INTERFILM Jury Prize.
Alex Gibney’s documentary *Musk* portrays a ‘hero of capitalism’, whilst Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s *DAU* evokes the victims of Stalinism.

Events

16.02.2025
Haus der EKD, Charlottenstraße 53/54, 10117 Berlin

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