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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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

Veiko Õunpuu • Director of The Last Ones

“I wish we could return to a sort of animism in our thinking”

Veiko Õunpuu • Director of The Last Ones

We 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

Jarmila Outratová  • Head of Industry, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

“Our market is a melting pot of various industry players”

Jarmila Outratová • Head of Industry, Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival

The Industry head homes in on the festival's market transition from virtual to physical, its emphasis on...  

20/10/2023 | Jihlava 2023 | Jihlava Industry

Jarmila Outratova  • Head of industry, Jihlava IDFF

"Maybe the public will return as film professionals"

Jarmila Outratova • Head of industry, Jihlava IDFF

Ahead of the 19th edition of the Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival (27 October–1 November),...  

26/10/2015

George Ovashvili • Director

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George Ovashvili • Director

KARLOVY VARY 2017: We caught up with Georgian director George Ovashvili, who is in the Official...  

03/07/2017

George Ovashvili  • Director

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George Ovashvili • Director

Cineuropa met up with Georgian filmmaker George Ovashvili to talk about his film Corn Island, which won...  

09/07/2014

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