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"I Live Here Now": Ready for a mind-bending cinematic experience? Have a journey into Rose's surreal struggle for autonomy in Julie Pacino's visually stunning, feminist horror masterpiece.

FRED Film Radio interviewed actor Taylor John Smith at the Taormina Film Festival 2025 to discuss “Warfare”, which was screened out of competition. A true story brought to the big screen One of the most interesting aspects of “Warfare” is its ability to put the viewer directly into the heart of the action to show, in the most honest and truthful way possible, its brutality. "The goal of this film...

At the Rome Film Fest 2024, Teemu Nikki, alongside actresses Elina Knihlä and Pirjo Lonka, talk about their heartfelt dark comedy, "100 Litres of Gold". The film, set in rural Finland, follows two sisters whose legendary homemade beer, sahti, leads to a chain of hilarious and chaotic events. Sahti: A Disappearing Heritage “I’m from that culture. My family has made sahti,” says Nikki, explaining wh...

Mexican director Michel Franco was in Karlovy Vary to present his Berlin-premiered, latest film, "Dreams", where Jessica Chastain (already starring, in a diametrically opposite role, in his previous movie, "Memory") plays a rich American woman who enjoys an affair with an enamoured, talented, and undocumented young Mexican ballet dancer (Isaác Hernández) whom she doesn't seem able to really let in...

Seti loves music and singing, and she yearns for her voice to be heard. But in Iran, it is against the law for women to perform in public, and so the young girl decides to engage in her own personal protest. The street becomes her stage, and random passers-by become her enthusiastic audience. Her star rises. Seti becomes an idol of her generation, of young people who no longer want to live under r...

Since his debut solo feature in 2010, after a successful career in advertising and as a TV director, prolific Italian filmmaker and two-time novelist Paolo Genovese has conquered the public (and the box office) times and times again with his astute comedies gently exposing, through various high concept devices, the endearing flaws and vulnerabilities we all have, delivers another delightful crowd-...

Director, scriptwriter, and producer Laurent Slama is at the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival for the European premiere of "A Second Life" amongst the Special Screenings. This deeply human and uplifting story, his third feature after "Paris Is Us" (2019) and "Roaring 20s" (2021) – filmed in one single shot in the busy streets and parks of the French capital –, which he both directed u...

A conversation with Brazilian director Davi Pretto about his fourth feature, “Future Future“, a visually arresting and deeply affecting dystopian film, selected in the Proxima Competition section of the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, where the past is forgotten, and the future eerily similar to the present – as a title card reveals in the beginning of the film, it was shot in Porto...

Greek director and musician Alexandros Voulgaris, a.k.a. The Boy, who has just world-premiered his latest work, “They Come Out of Margo“, in the Proxima Competition of the 59th Karlovy Vary Film Festival, tells us more about this undescribable, extremely rich work centered around a fictional, once prolific female composer adored by the people of Athens – born by accident after the mysterious disap...

Czech director and scriptwriter Ondřej Provazník is competing for the Crystal Globe of the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival with his fourth feature, "Broken Voices", inspired by the scandal of the Bambini di Praga choir, a sexual abuse case with which the director had an eery, haunting brush after the trial, reflecting the ambiguity of the reactions of the people involved towards the...

At the heart of “Son of Happiness“, a tender and moving short film by Dominik Mirecki, lies a universal story: the push and pull between protection and freedom, love and fear, and the powerful bond between a father and his son. Selected for the Future Frames – Generation NEXT of European Cinema program at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, “Son of Happiness” is more than a debut—it’s a...

After premiering in Tribeca, where the film owed its main actresses, Andrea Riseborough and Brenda Blethyn, the Best Performance Award of the International Narrative Competition, Paul Andrew Williams' "Dragonfly" is gracing the screens of the 59th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, amongst the Special Screenings. We met the director and scriptwriter revealed by "London to Brighton" (2006),...

German director Simon Schneckenburger is taking part to the 8th edition of the Future Frames Program at the 59th Karlovy Vary Film Festival with his short film "Skin on Skin". With the Future Frames Program for talented young directors, the European Film Promotion EFP takes ten outstanding film school graduates from throughout Europe to the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Czech Republic)...

Catalan director Nausica Serra is taking part to the 8th edition of the Future Frames Program at the 59th Karlovy Vary Film Festival with her short film "Dissection of an incoherence in Crisis".  With the Future frames program for talented young directors, the European Film Promotion EFP takes ten outstanding film school graduates from throughout Europe to the Karlovy Vary International Film Festi...

January, the deeply moving short by Jetske Lieber, premieres in the Future Frames section of the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, a program spotlighting the next generation of European filmmakers. A raw and tender portrait of post-breakup identity and quiet emotional repair, "January" follows Willem, a young man navigating heartbreak, friendship, and selfhood in the coldest month of the y...

In her dazzling and original short film “Karaokiss“, Belgian director Mila Ryngaert brings to life a vibrant, surreal world where emotions are expressed not only through words but through music, fantasy, and the glow of a disco ball. Selected for the Future Frames – Generation NEXT of European Cinema at the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, the film tells the story of Lucette, a quiet 20-y...

At the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, Finnish filmmaker Veera Lamminpää presents her poetic stop-motion short "Fish River Anthology" as part of the Future Frames: Generation NEXT of European Cinema program. This lyrical and surreal animated musical follows a group of dead fish in a supermarket as they reflect on life, death, and their own value. A Musical Lament in the Supermarket Aisle...

At the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival, director Terézia Halamová premieres her short film, "Dog and Wolf", in the Future Frames: Generation NEXT of European Cinema section. Supported by European Film Promotion and Allwyn, the program highlights promising new voices in European filmmaking. With "Dog and Wolf", Halamová offers more than a film — she delivers a visceral meditation on identi...

Emerging film director from Ljubljana, Jan Krevatin is taking part to the 8th edition of the Future Frames Program at the 59th Karlovy Vary Film Festival with his short  film "Greek Apricots". With the Future Frames Program for talented young directors, the European Film Promotion EFP takes ten outstanding film school graduates from throughout Europe to the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival...

In this interview Palestinian filmmaker based in the Netherlands Sabrine Khoury, talks about her short film “The Miracle of Life”. Combining animation and reality, the film explores authentic emotions such as fear and doubt, and the difficulty of recognising oneself in an often idealised and stereotyped depiction of motherhood. In the context of the ongoing atrocities in Gaza, Khoury reflects on t...

“The End“, Joshua Oppenheimer’s first fiction film, will be released in italian cinemas with I Wonder Pictures from July 3, 2025. The two-time Oscar nominee for the documentaries “The Act of Killing” (2012) and “The Look of Silence” (2014) brought, with the help of I Wonder, an exclusive group of italian journalists right on the salt mine in Sicily where the film was shot. We watched the film ther...

"The End" by Joshua Oppenheimer is finally making to italian cinemas on July 3rd with I Wonder Pictures. It is the first feature film by the two-time Oscar nominee for the documentaries "The Act of Killing"(2012) and "The Look of Silence"(2014). The film is a post-apocalyptic story about a family composed of Mother, Father and son, living in a bunker 25 years after the Earth’s environmental collap...

Emerging film director from Switzerland, Sinan Taner is taking part to the 8th edition of the Future Frames Program at the 59th Karlovy Vary Film Festival with his short graduation film "1:10 ". With the Future frames programme for talented young directors, the European Film Promotion EFP takes ten outstanding film school graduates from throughout Europe to the Karlovy Vary International Film Fest...

Emerging film director from Belfast, Ruairi Bradley is taking part to the 8th edition of the Future Frames Program at the 59th Karlovy Vary Film Festival with his short film “We beg to differ“. With the Future frames programme for talented young directors, the European Film Promotion EFP takes ten outstanding film school graduates from throughout Europe to the Karlovy Vary International Film Festi...

"For many, many years I said no. And that was because I didn't see it. I couldn't get my head into that world. And over the years I've heard pitches and it just wasn't there. And then Chloé Zhao came to me and said, this is my life, this is my dream, this is what I see. And what she laid in front of me was the first time I said, oh, I see that". Sarah Michelle Gellar explains to FredFilmRadio why...