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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"We humans are so afraid of questioning the rules"

Ruben Östlund • Director

Selected once again at Cannes with Play, the Swedish director explains why he took an interest in a highly...  

28/08/2011

“Bored with Hollywood stories”

Ruben Östlund • Director

Ruben Östlund is hailed as the figurehead of new avant-garde Swedish cinema, from his Göteborg base, far...  

30/10/2008

Ruben Östlund • Director of Triangle of Sadness

"My film is inspired in the Marxist theories saying that our position in financial hierarchy is changing our behavior"

Ruben Östlund • Director of Triangle of Sadness

CANNES 2022: The Swedish filmmaker returns after his Palme d'Or win in 2017 to introduce his new film, and...  

27/05/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Competition

Ruben Östlund • Director of Triangle of Sadness

“I’ll be a much better father now than I would have been, had I not been entered in the main competition at Cannes this year”

Ruben Östlund • Director of Triangle of Sadness

The 2017 Palme d’Or winner shares a few choice titbits of information about his new film, freshly selected...  

15/04/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Competition

Ivan Ostrochovský  • Director

"Our well-being is better than that of our parents, but we do not appreciate it"

Ivan Ostrochovský • Director

BERLIN 2015: Cineuropa spoke to Slovakian producer and director Ivan Ostrochovský, who debuted his fiction...  

11/02/2015

Ivan Ostrochovský  • Director of Servants

“I want the audience to understand how easy it is to end up on the wrong side of history”

Ivan Ostrochovský • Director of Servants

BERLINALE 2020: We chatted to Slovak documentary filmmaker Ivan Ostrochovský, who has premiered Servants,...  

25/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Encounters

Gábor Osváth  • Producer

"It is important for me to be around at the birth of a project"

Gábor Osváth • Producer

Gábor Osváth, Emerging Producer 2016 from Hungary, works for production company Filmfabriq Kft. Cineuropa...  

01/03/2016

Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka • Directors of Stonewalling

"We decided to observe the behaviour, the emotions and the changes in a woman during the months she was pregnant"

Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka • Directors of Stonewalling

VENICE 2022: The Chinese-Japanese duo talk about their film, starring a young woman who, after she finds...  

02/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Martha Otte  • Director, Tromsø International Film Festival

"I find small festivals in strange places with no industry presence the most exciting"

Martha Otte • Director, Tromsø International Film Festival

Martha Otte, director of the ongoing Tromsø International Film Festival, talks about the joys of putting...  

15/01/2019 | Tromsø 2019

Iris Otten • Producer, Pupkin Film

“Creating can be a lonely and vulnerable process and I try to support as much as needed”

Iris Otten • Producer, Pupkin Film

The Dutch Producer on the Move talks about her work with writers and directors, and her ambitions for the...  

19/05/2021 | Producers on the Move 2021

Mona Cathleen Otterbach  • Production designer on Milk Teeth

“The viewer should be drawn into the world you create, and you can use certain clues to do this”

Mona Cathleen Otterbach • Production designer on Milk Teeth

Discussing her work on Sophia Bösch’s new film, the production designer explains how you should treat a...  

01/03/2024 | /Germany/Switzerland

Ulrike Ottinger  • Director of Paris Calligrammes

“Sometimes, even the most beautiful pieces didn't fit in the whole mosaic”

Ulrike Ottinger • Director of Paris Calligrammes

We talked to German director Ulrike Ottinger on the occasion of the release of her new documentary Paris...  

06/03/2020 | /Germany/France

Karim Ouelhaj • Director of Megalomaniac

“It seems necessary to me to show evil”

Karim Ouelhaj • Director of Megalomaniac

We met with the Belgian filmmaker to talk about his latest film, a bloody and baroque phantasmagoria...  

06/09/2022 | BIFFF 2022

Adila Bendimerad, Damien Ounouri • Directors of The Last Queen

"It's a story that the Algerians have never seen before and which they need in order to dig deep into their history and culture"

Adila Bendimerad, Damien Ounouri • Directors of The Last Queen

VENISE 2022: The directing duo straddles reality and legend as it retraces a historical event from...  

06/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Damien Ounouri • Director

"I will take his palace, ride his horse, and his wife"

Damien Ounouri • Director

We met up with Damien Ounouri to chat about his project The Last Queen at the Cinemed Meetings  

25/10/2017

Veiko Õunpuu • Director

“Being trapped in a society that can’t muster up any positive values”

Veiko Õunpuu • Director

Encounter with the Estonian director who deciphers Free Range and offers a striking view on today's...  

27/01/2013

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