Interviews

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

8235 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 24/05/2025. 667 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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Joshua Oppenheimer • Director of The End

“My work finds its truth when we move beyond forms of storytelling that are inherently always fictitious”

Joshua Oppenheimer • Director of The End

The acclaimed Copenhagen-based US filmmaker speaks about his fiction debut, a fierce indictment of our...  

28/03/2025 | /Denmark/Germany/Ireland/Italy/UK/Sweden

Mikael Opstrup • European Documentary Network

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Mikael Opstrup • European Documentary Network

Baltic Sea Forum for Documentaries 2013: EDN’s Head of Studies Mikael Opstrup talks about the current...  

05/09/2013

Steve Oram  • Director

“I mourn the fact that great subversive films rarely get made nowadays”

Steve Oram • Director

KARLOVY VARY 2016: Cineuropa sat down with Steve Oram, the director of Aaaaaaaah!, to discuss how he made...  

11/07/2016

Industry report - European Policy

Leonard Orban - European Commissioner for multilingualism

The European policy towards multilingualism  

Thomas Ordonneau  • Distributor

"As freely as possible"

Thomas Ordonneau • Distributor

We met up with Thomas Ordonneau, the manager of Shellac, the co-producer and French distributor of the...  

10/06/2015

Isabel Orellana • Producer, Araucaria Cine

"I don’t believe cinema is an instrument but a medium"

Isabel Orellana • Producer, Araucaria Cine

Interview with Isabel Orellana, producer from Chile, the guest country of the 2019 Emerging Producers...  

05/03/2019 | Emerging Producers 2019

Josué Orellana  • Director of Infortunio

“Thanks to this experience, the idea for my film began to take shape as an extension of my own way of telling stories”

Josué Orellana • Director of Infortunio

We chatted to the Honduran helmer, who participated in this year’s Euro CineLab training programme,...  

20/12/2024 | /El Salvador/Honduras/Panama/Europe

Ann Oren • Director of Piaffe

"I was very much interested in the psychology of dressage, in the relationship between rider and horse"

Ann Oren • Director of Piaffe

The Israeli-born, Berlin-based filmmaker discusses her formally ambitious first feature film  

15/08/2022 | Locarno 2022 | Competition

Chris Orgelt  • Programme Manager, Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival

"People do not come only for the films, they come for the atmosphere, to have fun and enjoy themselves"

Chris Orgelt • Programme Manager, Brussels International Fantastic Film Festival

09/02/2022 | Euro Film Fest

Joaquín Oristrell  • Director

“Our work consists of bearing witness to the moment we’re living in”

Joaquín Oristrell • Director

Catalan filmmaker Joaquín Oristrell is on the offensive again with the militant Hablar, a film that...  

11/06/2015

Álfrún Helga Örnólfsdóttir • Director of Band

“This is women embracing failure on stage”

Álfrún Helga Örnólfsdóttir • Director of Band

The Icelandic director invites us to give it up for her very own The Post Performance Blues Band...  

28/04/2022 | Hot Docs 2022

Shooting Stars 2003 - Hungary

Szonja Oroszlán - actress

Oroszlàn came to the forefront of public and industry attention in Hungary’s most popular domestic...  

GoCritic! Interview: Jelena Oroz • Director of short film No Room

“I wanted to step outside of 2D digital animation – it’s my safe place, and I wanted to try something different”

GoCritic! Interview: Jelena Oroz • Director of short film No Room

The Croatian animator talks fast cars, cramped spaces and cinematic revenge during Ljubljana's 21st...  

13/12/2024 | GoCritic! | Animateka 2024

Luis Ortega • Director of Kill the Jockey

“When you take yourself too seriously, you fuck it all up”

Luis Ortega • Director of Kill the Jockey

VENICE 2024: In the Argentinian director’s film, life is dark, and that’s funny – as long as you don’t...  

02/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Bruno Santamaría Razo and Guillermo Ortiz Aparicio • Director and producer of Six Months in the Pink and Blue Building

“All of us, beneath what we project to others, are hiding something”

Bruno Santamaría Razo and Guillermo Ortiz Aparicio • Director and producer of Six Months in the Pink and Blue Building

We chatted to the director and producer of the Mexican title that took home the Best Project Award and the...  

22/09/2022 | San Sebastián 2022 | San Sebastián Industry

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CICAE Workshops, Sept 2011 – Veronica Ortiz Cisneros (Cinemateca Nacional de México)

Despite the fierce competition of major distribution companies and multiplexes, there is a new dynamic in...  

29/09/2011

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