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At the 78th Festival de Cannes, we met with director Kirill Serebrennikov and actor August Diehl to discuss their new film, "The Disappearance of Josef Mengele". A Cannes Premiere at this year’s festival, the film goes beyond the individual horror of one man’s crimes to explore the systems and silences that made his disappearance possible. Humanizing the Inhuman The film follows Josef Mengele, the...

Fatih Akin comes back to Cannes Film Festival, presenting out of competition his last movie "Amrum". Our interview revolves around the production and themes of a film inspired by a friend's childhood experiences during World War II. The director, initially hesitant, took on the project due to personal and professional commitments. The film aims to portray the everyday struggles and human aspects o...

The young Diego Céspedes arrives in Cannes with his first feature film "The Mysterious Glaze Of the Flamingo", a wonderfully intense and unpredictable tale of inclusion , acceptance and resilience in a small queer community in Chile. The film , developed also through the Torino Film Lab programme, has been included in the Un Certain Regard selection. Inspired by his mother's friends and her love f...

Belgian director Valéry Carnoy, highly praised at international festivals for his short films “My Planet” and “Titan“, presented his debut feature, “Wild Foxes”, starring the up and coming young actor Samuel Kircher (known for his stunning performance opposite Léa Drucker in Catherine Breillat‘s “Last Summer“), at the Director’s Fortnight. This arresting, both realistic and poetic film, revolving...

"The Phoenician Scheme" marks Wes Anderson’s fourth time inn competition in Cannes . The film sees Mia Threapleton pairing up with Benicio Del Toro in a father-daughter’s story set in the 1950s. The new feature film follows the magnate “Zsa-Zsa” Korda (Benicio del Toro), one of the richest men in Europe, and his daughter Liesl, an aspiring nun played by Mia Threapleton in a spy mission’s adventure...

Italian director Mario Martone is back in Cannes’ competition with "Fuori". Last time he competed with "Nostalgia". "Fuori" stars Valeria Golino in the role of writer and author of "The Art of joy", Goliarda Sapienza along with Matilda De Angelis and Elodie in the role of two inmates the writer befriends during her brief incarceration. Based on two books by Sapienza, "L’università di Rebibbia" and...

For her debut feature, "Love Letters", at the Cannes’ Semaine De la Critique, Alice Douard chose Canadian actress (and director) Monia Chokri and Ella Rumpf. Set in 2014, the film tells the story of Celine (Ella Rumpf) who’s about to have a child with her wife who’s pregnant but, in order to be recognized as her daughter legal parent, she has to undergo scrutiny and paperwork to officially adopt....

A quiet but powerful portrait of displacement, femininity, and the elusive meaning of home, Or Sinai’s debut feature Mama had its Special Screening at the 78th Festival de Cannes. A Story Born from Real Encounters "Mama" follows Mila, a 50-year-old Polish immigrant who, after years working for a wealthy family in Israel, returns to her native village in Poland—and to the family she left behind. Bu...

"Reedland" by Sven Bresser is included in the selection for the Critics' Week, at the 78th Cannes Film Festival. The film ticks all the boxes of the murder mystery genre, but it elevates and become a surprising and fascinating tale about the life of a  simple man in the rural Netherlands facing new challenges inside of himself. An astounding attention for framing and the vision on nature in such a...

21 years after co-directing “Take out“ with Sean Baker, director and producer Shih-Ching Tsou is competing, at Cannes 78, at the Semaine de la critique with “Left-Handed Girl“. The film, produced, co-written and edited by Sean Baker, is Shih-Ching Tsou’s first solo project. A family story inspired by a vivid memory, says Shih-Ching Tsou: “my grandfather once told me not to use my left hand because...

Chilean director Sebastián Lelio is at the 78th Cannes Film Festival to present "La Ola" in the Cannes Premiere section. The Oscar Winner for "A Fantastic Woman" is again portraying women, in a musical he produced with Juan de Dios Larraín, Pablo Larraín and Rocío Jadue about the historic feminist occupation and massive protests in May 2018. With a screenplay he wrote with acclaimed writers Manuel...

Discover how Fred. Fm highlights the rise of Piedmont’s film industry at Cannes, showcasing new projects, funding boosts, and the region’s creative future.

Japanese director Kei Ishikawa is at the 78th Cannes Film Festival with his new film "A pale view of hills", screening in the Un certain Regard section. The film is a big screen adaptation of Kazuo Ishiguro novel of the same title. As it is Ishiguro’s 1982 debut novel, one of only two novels the author set in Japan, it remained un-adapted for the screen until today. Ishiguro, who became a co-produ...

With "I Only Rest in the Storm", Portuguese director Pedro Pinho is back on the Croisette – eight years after presenting his first fiction feature, the nearly 3-hour-long social musical/spoken film "The Nothing Factory", at the Directors Fortnight –, this time in the Un Certain Regard sidebar. His new formidable effort (at three hours and a half which frankly go by without one's noticing or mindin...

French-Tunisian director and producer Erige Sehiri opened the Un Certain Regard section of the 78th Cannes Film Festival with "Promised Sky (Promis le ciel)", a colourful and energetic tale on three Sub-Saharan women of different ages, backgrounds and situations – a pastor, a student, and an exiled mother, played by Aïssa Maïga, Laetitia Ky and newcomer Déborah Christelle Naney, respectively – stu...

Alexe Poukine is in competition at the 64th Critics Week of the 78th Cannes Film Festival with her first fiction feature, "Kika", after several documentaries – including the multi-award-winning "Who Cares?", where medical students and experienced care workers were put in front of actors portraying patients for some case simulations – and the mid-length film "Palma" – where she played the protagoni...

Belgian director Laura Wandel is back in Cannes with her second feature film, Adam’s sake. The film, in competition at the Semaine de la critique, relies entirely on two extraordinary protagonists Léa Drucker and Anamaria Vartolomei, playing respectively a nurse and a young mother whose child has been hospitalized for malnutrition. Anamaria Vartolomei, who became well known to the international au...

Matt Dillon, one of the protagonist of the last Riviera International Film Festival, says that film industry in some many ways has changes since he started his job, now also because of Artificial intelligence. "I think the human stories are important. I believe in good stay telling. AI scares us, but the machine doesn't have intention". In this interview he talks about his career and how art is im...

Sergei Loznitsa is back in Cannes competition at the 78th edition of the festival with "Two prosecutors". The film marks the director’s return to fiction, almost ten years after Donbass, presented in Un Certain Regard in Cannes. The Ucranian director was at the Festival de Cannes last year with "The invasion", a documentary showing the everyday life, along two years, of civilians during the war. W...

Rufus Sewell, jury president of the last edition of Riviera International Film Festival, talks to FredFilmRadio about his career and how is important to support new generations. "I see so many young independent filmmakers' works in a row for this, just to be reminded how refreshing it is to see films that are being made as a kind of first burst of enthusiasm and heart and belief". About his career...

"The Legend of Ochi" by Isaiah Saxon lands in italian cinemas on May 8, 2025 thanks to IWonder Pictures. Produced by A24, "The Legend of Ochi" is Saxon’s feature film debut as he’s well known for directing music videos for artists such as Björk, Panda Bear, Dirty Projectors, and Grizzly Bear. Isaiah Saxon created the fantasy world where the Ochi creatures live in and with an 80’s inspired crafts m...

In "The Sparrow in the Chimney", director Ramon Zürcher returns with the third installment of his “animal trilogy,” exploring the delicate tensions of family life. Set in a pristine ancestral home, the film follows Karen and Markus as they host a birthday gathering disrupted by the arrival of Karen’s sister Jule, sparking the unravelling of long-buried secrets and emotional wounds. Zürcher discuss...

In "Lo que trajo la tormenta", director Miguel de Zuviría and cinematographer Gaspar Chaves explore the emotional and creative crisis of Manuel, an artist facing a breakup and the collapse of a long-term project. Seeking distance, Manuel retreats to a coastal village, where unexpected encounters challenge his inertia and awaken new inspiration. In the interview, the filmmakers discuss the layered...

In "Vitrival", directors Baptiste Bogaert and Noëlle Bastin explore the oddities of small-town life through the eyes of two local policemen, Pierre and Benji, whose uneventful routines are disrupted by bizarre events—from phallic graffiti to mysterious suicides. In this interview, they reflect on the film’s origins in real village life and their aim to strike a balance between deadpan comedy and h...

In "De que casa eres", Ana Perez Quiroga brings to light the little-known story of thousands of Basque children exiled to the Soviet Union before WWII, through the personal journey of Angelita Perez. Blending rare archival footage and emotional testimony, the film explores the lasting impact of war, exile, and the search for identity, highlighting both the wounds left behind and the strength to en...