Interviews

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

8160 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 03/05/2025. 661 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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"European movie-theatre culture needs reviving"
Ruben Östlund • DirectorSwedish director Ruben Östlund, jury president at the 10th Les Arcs Film Festival, talks European cinema,...  
17/12/2018 | Les Arcs 2018
Interview
Ruben Östlund  • DirectorCANNES 2017: We have interviewed Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund, who competed for the first time for the...  
20/05/2017
Interview
Ruben Östlund • DirectorCANNES 2014: Cineuropa met up with Swedish filmmaker Ruben Östlund to talk about his Un Certain Regard...  
18/05/2014
LUX Prize 2011
Ruben Ostlund • DirectorDelinquency, racism and integration in Europe. An explosive subject for Play, a Swedish film of rare...  
"We humans are so afraid of questioning the rules"
Ruben    Östlund  • DirectorSelected 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  • DirectorRuben Östlund is hailed as the figurehead of new avant-garde Swedish cinema, from his Göteborg base, far...  
30/10/2008
"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 SadnessCANNES 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
“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 SadnessThe 2017 Palme d’Or winner shares a few choice titbits of information about his new film, freshly selected...  
15/04/2022 | Cannes 2022 | Competition
“I’m not sure what the future holds for Ukrainian cinema, especially sci-fi”
Pavlo Ostrikov • Director of U Are the UniverseThe Ukrainian director talks about blending sci-fi with an emotional love story, and his preference for...  
10/09/2024 | Toronto 2024 | Discovery
"Our well-being is better than that of our parents, but we do not appreciate it"
Ivan Ostrochovský  • DirectorBERLIN 2015: Cineuropa spoke to Slovakian producer and director Ivan Ostrochovský, who debuted his fiction...  
11/02/2015
“I want the audience to understand how easy it is to end up on the wrong side of history”
Ivan Ostrochovský  • Director of ServantsBERLINALE 2020: We chatted to Slovak documentary filmmaker Ivan Ostrochovský, who has premiered Servants,...  
25/02/2020 | Berlinale 2020 | Encounters
"It is important for me to be around at the birth of a project"
Gábor Osváth  • ProducerGábor Osváth, Emerging Producer 2016 from Hungary, works for production company Filmfabriq Kft. Cineuropa...  
01/03/2016
"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 StonewallingVENICE 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
"I find small festivals in strange places with no industry presence the most exciting"
Martha Otte  • Director, Tromsø International Film FestivalMartha Otte, director of the ongoing Tromsø International Film Festival, talks about the joys of putting...  
15/01/2019 | Tromsø 2019
“Creating can be a lonely and vulnerable process and I try to support as much as needed”
Iris Otten • Producer, Pupkin FilmThe 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
“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 TeethDiscussing her work on Sophia Bösch’s new film, the production designer explains how you should treat a...  
01/03/2024 | /Germany/Switzerland

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