Interviews

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

8226 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 23/05/2025. 660 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

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“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
“Sometimes, even the most beautiful pieces didn't fit in the whole mosaic”
Ulrike Ottinger  • Director of Paris CalligrammesWe talked to German director Ulrike Ottinger on the occasion of the release of her new documentary Paris...  
06/03/2020 | /Germany/France
“It seems necessary to me to show evil”
Karim Ouelhaj • Director of MegalomaniacWe met with the Belgian filmmaker to talk about his latest film, a bloody and baroque phantasmagoria...  
06/09/2022 | BIFFF 2022
"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 QueenVENISE 2022: The directing duo straddles reality and legend as it retraces a historical event from...  
06/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori
"I will take his palace, ride his horse, and his wife"
Damien Ounouri • DirectorWe met up with Damien Ounouri to chat about his project The Last Queen at the Cinemed Meetings  
25/10/2017
“Being trapped in a society that can’t muster up any positive values”
Veiko Õunpuu • DirectorEncounter with the Estonian director who deciphers Free Range and offers a striking view on today's...  
27/01/2013
“I wish we could return to a sort of animism in our thinking”
Veiko Õunpuu • Director of The Last OnesWe chatted to Estonian director Veiko Õunpuu, whose The Last Ones takes on the people on the lower rung of...  
30/11/2020 | Black Nights 2020 | Baltic Film Competition
“Our market is a melting pot of various industry players”
Jarmila Outratová  • Head of Industry, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film FestivalThe Industry head homes in on the festival's market transition from virtual to physical, its emphasis on...  
20/10/2023 | Jihlava 2023 | Jihlava Industry
"Maybe the public will return as film professionals"
Jarmila Outratova  • Head of industry, Jihlava IDFFAhead of the 19th edition of the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (27 October–1 November),...  
26/10/2015

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