Interviews

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

9029 interviews available in total starting from 14/05/2002. Last updated on 22/09/2026. 607 interviews inserted in the last 12 months.

 
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Changes in Eurimages fund for 2009

Roberto Olla • Executive secretary of Eurimages

08/12/2008

Etienne Ollagnier • Distributor

"Protecting cinemas is not just about business"

Etienne Ollagnier • Distributor

Etienne Ollagnier, producer at Jour2Fête and co-president of the Syndicat des Distributeurs Indépendants,...  

13/10/2017

Sarah Chazelle and Etienne Ollagnier • Distributors, Jour2Fête

“The measures put in place this summer to restart the opening of theatres must be changed”

Sarah Chazelle and Etienne Ollagnier • Distributors, Jour2Fête

Sarah Chazelle and Etienne Ollagnier, founders of Jour2Fête, talk to us about independent distribution in...  

26/11/2020 | /France

Sarah Chazelle, Étienne Ollagnier  • Distributors, Jour2Fête

“The films we choose are the films we love”

Sarah Chazelle, Étienne Ollagnier • Distributors, Jour2Fête

The two French distributors unpack their company’s editorial policy and market strategies  

28/06/2024 | Distributor of the Month

Olmi’s gentleman pirates

Ermanno Olmi

Lots of pirates, but little swashbuckling in Cantando dietro i paraventi. The film continues the theme of...  

17/10/2003

The instruments of my profession

Ermanno Olmi

Modernity, history, the countryside, women and children. The vete-ran Italian director talks about his...  

27/11/2002

Interview

Ermanno Olmi - director

The Italian director Ermanno Olmi talks about his film Singing Behind Screens, the story of the Widow Ching  

Júlia Olmo • Director, Santander Film Festival

“We hope that in the coming years, we will become an essential rendezvous for the Spanish and international industry”

Júlia Olmo • Director, Santander Film Festival

The festival director offers insights into both the programme of this year's edition and the event’s...  

11/09/2026 | Santander 2026

"We need Europe"

Christina Olofson

We meet the Swedish documentary and drama director. She has presented her Hanna med H, in Rome, a story of...  

04/11/2003

Festival of New Swedish Cinema 2003 - Rome

Christina Olofson - director

Interview with the Swedish director while presenting her film, A Different Way  

Göran Hugo Olsson • Director of Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

"It was old hat, they reasoned, void of topical importance. Which all changed, of course, on 7 October"

Göran Hugo Olsson • Director of Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

The filmmaker tells us about the genesis of his project reconstituting the history of Israel and Palestine...  

30/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Iris Olsson  • Artistic director, DocPoint

“Documentaries celebrate life”

Iris Olsson • Artistic director, DocPoint

We sat down with the artistic director of DocPoint, Iris Olsson, to see what’s new at this year’s edition...  

31/01/2018

Thérèse Ahlbeck, Marcus Olsson • Directors of The Swedish Connection

“When you want to convey something serious or grim through someone with funny bones, it can hit even harder”

Thérèse Ahlbeck, Marcus Olsson • Directors of The Swedish Connection

The directorial duo unpick their film about a Foreign Ministry bureaucrat in Stockholm, who paved the way...  

09/02/2026 | Göteborg 2026

Uģis Olte • Director of Upurga

“If you reveal everything, the adventure ends”

Uģis Olte • Director of Upurga

In the Latvian helmer’s film, a group of influencers descends on a forest, but this time, it’s nature’s...  

24/11/2021 | Black Nights 2021 | Baltic Film Competition

Bogdan Theodor Olteanu • Director of Mia Misses Her Revenge

“The characters and the plots are a collage of various situations I witnessed or heard about around me”

Bogdan Theodor Olteanu • Director of Mia Misses Her Revenge

We talked to the Romanian director about his low-budget tragicomedy, which screened at this year's online...  

26/02/2021 | Slamdance 2021

Marius Olteanu • Director of Monsters.

"I was interested in this journey towards the other one"

Marius Olteanu • Director of Monsters.

BERLIN 2019: Romanian director Marius Olteanu discusses his feature Monsters., world-premiered in the...  

22/02/2019 | Berlinale 2019 | Forum

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