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“I’m very excited to go back again and to revisit that world with my film-making friends, who I've known now for so many years. So, I'll be going back in a couple of months and we start preparation and then we start shooting. The film will be released in December 27”. Andy Serkis is ready to come back to the Middle-earth of "The Lord of the Rings" saga for playing the role of Gollum and directing...

Fran Drescher started her career with a small role in an iconic film "Saturday Night Fever" and then she’s taken part of different projects. We remind her above all for her role of Fran Fine in the television sitcom "The Nanny" (1993–1999). The actress, one of the protagonist of the 8th edition of Filming Italy Sardegna Festival, says to FredfilmRadio how important is to “believe in your self and...

On Friday 4 July, Aude Léa Rapin and Eve Robin will be in Trieste to hold a masterclass for the public and the young filmmakers in competition at the 26° ShorTS IFF, during which they will talk about their journey and the creative partnership between producer and director. The masterclass has been organized within the Campolungo section, focusing on the career of young filmmakers whose list of wor...

Jane Seymour is one of the protagonist of the 8th edition of Filming Italy Sardegna Festival. The British actress, know for the tv-series "Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman", about her character says: "She was an emancipated woman. In American television we did not have one-hour programs with a female protagonist. She has the awareness of others. And the story was situated in 1876". About changing of fema...

For Pom Klementieff working with Tom Cruise in the last two chapter of “Mission: Impossible” saga “was amazing. He was inspiring, always very curious, generous, funny. A real mentor“, the actress says. We met her at the 8th edition of Filming Italy Sardegna Festival, directed by Tiziana Rocca. In the films Pom Klementieff has done a long training for the role of Paris. “It was a dream taking park...

"Elio", the new Pixar movie adventure is ready to conquer Italian cinemas from June 18th, 2025. Directed by Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi and Adrian Molina, and produced by Mary Alice Drumm, the film will introduce us to Elio, an 11-year-old whose biggest wish is to get abducted by aliens. Elio features the voices of Yonas Kibreab as Elio and Zoe Saldaña as Aunt Olga. In Italy to present the film...

We speak with Jacob Cordery, a student filmmaker, and Valeria Moreno, a director of the Valeria Moreno Festival, as well as Nicole Ruf, directors of the 2025 Durham Film Festival, about the history of this student-led short film festival, which is supported by Durham University and the BFI (British Film Institute). Valeria Moreno and Nicole Ruf discuss the history of this short-film festival, whic...

At Taormina Film Festival, FRED Film Radio interviewed director Peter Gold and producer James Franco to talk about “Thena”, a movie presented at the 2025 edition. A Bay Area story “Thena” is very personal to Peter Gold, having grown up in the Bay Area and witnessed what happens on the streets of San Francisco. How important was it for him to translate those experiences into a cinematic narrative?...

Burak Çevik presented his new film "Nothing In Its Place", at the Milano Film Fest, in the Controcampo section. The film is a daring piece of filmmaking, about real facts that happened in Turkey before the coup of 1980. The style is slick, the action is staged as in a play but the direction uses filming techniques that are more typical for action movies. An interesting film and a strong political...

After winning the Jury Prize of the International Competition of the Cannes Film Festival in 2021, for "Ahed’s Knee", Israel-born, Paris-based director Nadav Lapid, also crowned with the Berlin Golden Bear in 2019 for "Synonyms", is back on the Croisette with a striking cinematic gesture entitled "Yes", viscerally and flamboyantly conveying his reaction to October 7 and his complicated sentiments...

After successfully premiering at the Sundance Film Festival, "Sorry, Baby", Eva Victor’s directorial debut is in Cannes 78 at the Quinzaine Des Cinéastes. Produced by Barry Jenkins, Adele Romanski, and Mark Ceryak of Pastel (Moonlight, Aftersun) and the winner of the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the 2025 Sundance Film Festival, Victor’s feature debut, based on her personal experience, depicts...

German director Christian Petzold is in Cannes 78, premiering his new film, "Mirrors No.3" in the Quinzaine des Cinéastes. With Paula Beer as his protagonist in the role of a woman surviving a car accident where her boyfriend dies and finding confort in a stranger’s motherly devotion, the film, because of the wind surrounding it, closes, unexpectedly, the element trilogy. Petzold indeed started th...

Almost two years after premiering at the Rome International Film Fest, the 2023 edition, “Firebrand – L’Ultima regina is out in italian cinemas with Vertice 360. Directed by Brazilian director Karim Aïnouz and starring Alicia Vikander as Katherine Parr, the sixth and final wife of Henry VIII, and Jude Law as the king , the film is based on the novel Queen’s Gambit (now “Firebrand“) by Elizabeth Fr...

Dominik Moll is back in Cannes with a new inextricable dilemma with a strong social-political background, “Case 137”. It is his third selection in the prestigious competition (he ran for the Palme d’Or in 2000 with “Harry, He’s Here to Help” and in 2005 with “Lemming”) Three years ago, the quietly cult German-French director presented the terrific thriller doubling as a police procedural “The Nigh...

Zuzana Kirchnerova premiered her poetic and vibrantly sensorial debut, "Caravan", at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, in the Un Certain Regard sidebar. We met the Czech director, also a contender for the Caméra d'or, and talked about the physicality of this road movie set in Italy, where a Czech mother and her mentally disabled son have no other choice than to go on the road, as well as her visual a...

Spanish director Óliver Laxe paid his fourth visit to the Cannes Film Festival with his fourth feature film, “Sirât”, this time in competition, where this superb work ended up winning the Jury Prize (as well as the Cannes Soundtrack Award, a special mention for the Prix des Cinémas Art et Essai, and the Palm Dog). We met and talked about ravers, pure sound, trucks, shooting in the desert, the auth...

Fred. Fm highlights how Tuscan and Piedmont funds support "Heads or Tails," showcasing Italy’s crucial role in film production and regional collaboration.

After winning the Palme d’Or in 2021, Julia Ducournau is back competing at the 78th Cannes Film Festival with her new film “Alpha“. The film is a a coming-of-age exploring themes the French director has already explored in her previous works, like Raw and Titane: Transformation, parent-sons relationships Besides young Mélissa Boros playing the lead as Alpha, at the centre of the story there are Al...

French director Julia Ducornau is back in Cannes, the 78t edition with her third film, "Alpha". After winning the Palme d’Or in 2021, the filmmaker is again exploring the them of a young girl going through a transformation. She describes the transformation as an on-going mutation, something that began before the start of the film and continues on after the film is over. The film is a coming of age...

At the 78th Festival de Cannes, we spoke with director Neeraj Ghaywan about his powerful new film "Homebound", presented in the Un Certain Regard section. Set in a small North Indian village, "Homebound" follows two childhood friends from a marginalized community as they pursue a police job they believe will grant them dignity—only to find themselves tested by desperation, identity, and their evol...

Icelandic filmmaker Hlynur Pálmason is back in Cannes with his new film "The Love that Remains". After "Godland", which was set in the late 19th century and premiered in the Un Certain Regard section in 2022, Hlynur Pálmason decided to direct a more personal and intimate film, starting from what was close to him and around him. "The Love that Remains" tells the story of a family over the course of...

After directing the successful short film "Lizard", Nigerian director Akinola Davis Jr is at  Cannes 78, in the Un certain regard with his debut feature "My Father’s shadow." Co-written with his brother Wale, the film is a semi- autobiographical tale set in 1993’s Nigerian election crisis and it follows two brothers on a trip with their estranged father. "My Father’s shadow" manages to tell us  ab...

After "Plan 75" , Chie Hayakawa is back in Cannes, at the 78th edition, in competition with "Renoir. The film depicts an entrancing poetic journey about resilience, the healing power of the imagination and a traumatized family struggling for connection. The protagonist is a 5th grade girl, Fuki, who is trying to make peace wit the idea that her father is dying of cancer. A coming of age story that...

Pauline Loquès, a former student in Literature and Law who first quenched her thirst for writing by turning to journalism, then trained as a screenwriter, has developed a distinctive signature since her first film, the 30-minute short "La Vie d’une jeune fille", on a young woman about to celebrate her hen weekend who learns upon arrival that her fiancé doesn't want to get married anymore, and can'...

Wes Anderson is back in Cannes Competition for the fourth time with"The Phoenician Scheme". His first time was in 2012 with "Moonrise Kingdom", then there was "The French Dispatch" and finally, two years ago, Asteroid city. "The Phoenician Scheme", as every Anderson’s film, can count on a numerous cast led by Benicio Del Toro in the role of “Zsa-Zsa” Korda, one of the richest men in Europe and inc...