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FRED Film Radio - English Channel

Welcome to FRED’s channel in ENGLISH. Are you a film lover / a film buff / a filmmaker / an actor / a film critic / a journalist / a film student / a festival organizer / a producer / a distributor / a film buyer / a sales agent/ a film publicist interested in independent cinema and film festivals? YOU ARE IN THE RIGHT PLACE FRED FILM RADIO IS YOUR RADIO ! The idea is to allow all those who cannot be at film festivals to share in the experience as if they were, and to offer more in-depth

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4:52

Pom Klementieff, interview with the actress of...

FRED Film Radio - English Channel ·

2025/06/20

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 of this action saga, that I saw when I was a child. I wanted to be in Mission: Impossibile. A friend of

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4:04

“Elio”, interview with directors Madeline Sharafian...

FRED Film Radio - English Channel ·

2025/06/19

"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 to the italian audience, directors Madeline Sharafian and Domee Shi along with producer Mary Alice

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13:12

Jacob Cordery, Valeria Moreno Festival and Nicole...

FRED Film Radio - English Channel ·

2025/06/16

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, which aims to showcase new talent and emerging student filmmakers from across the world. They highlight the

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4:14

“Thena” interview with director Peter Gold and...

FRED Film Radio - English Channel ·

2025/06/15

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? “It was just a matter of being in touch with my raw emotion based on the script and finding a cast

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6:59

"Nothing In Its Place", interview with the director...

FRED Film Radio - English Channel ·

2025/06/10

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 statement.I wanted the audience to feel the importance of what was happening even if it seemed nothing

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16:06

"Yes", an interview with director Nadav Lapid

FRED Film Radio - English Channel ·

2025/06/01

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 about his native country through the highly eventful trajectory of a character whose name, Y, sounds

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10:55

“Mirrors No. 3”, interview with director Christian...

FRED Film Radio - English Channel ·

2025/05/30

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 the trilogy in 2020 with Undine and continued it with "Afire". Both the films had Paula Beer as their

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7:10

“Sorry, Baby”, interview with director Eva Victor

FRED Film Radio - English Channel ·

2025/05/30

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 the healing journey of Literature professor Agnes (Victor), trying to survive trauma and going on with

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7:35

“Firebrand”, interview with director Karim Aïnouz

FRED Film Radio - English Channel ·

2025/05/29

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 Fremantle. “Firebrand“ explores Katherine Parr’s life, her role as queen, and her attempt to navigate

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17:52

“Case 137”, an interview with director Dominik Moll

FRED Film Radio - English Channel ·

2025/05/29

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 Night of the 12th” in the Cannes Premiere sidebar. With “Case 137”, he goes back to a police unit to

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9:30

"Caravan", an interview with director Zuzana Kirchnerova

FRED Film Radio - English Channel ·

2025/05/27

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 approach, the character of Zuza (the third travel companion of Ester and David), and the dichotomy

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18:01

“Sirât”, an interview with director Óliver Laxe

FRED Film Radio - English Channel ·

2025/05/27

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 author as an archer. Laxe, who describes his film as “a communion of mutilated people”, but also people who

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6:41

Stefania Ippoliti, interview with the director of...

FRED Film Radio - English Channel ·

2025/05/23

Stefania Ippoliti, as Director of the Toscana Film Commission, met with us in Cannes to talk about its presence at the frstival to promote and present a film that was produced in Tuscany with the support of her office; the film is "Heads or Tails" ("Testa o Croce"). In our chat, we talked about the involvement in the film, and also about the education programme that we talked about in Berlin. Film commissions often collaborate on film, as in this case Stefania Ippoliti pointed out that it is a

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5:55

“Alpha”, interview with actor Tahar Rahim

FRED Film Radio - English Channel ·

2025/05/22

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 Alpha’s mother, on screen by Goldshifteh Farahani and her brother, Alpha’s uncle, Amin, astonishingly

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6:18

“Alpha”, interview with director Julia Ducornau

FRED Film Radio - English Channel ·

2025/05/22

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 as it deals with Alpha (Mélissa Boros)’s struggle to emancipate from the bond she has with her

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8:40

“My father’s shadow”, interview with director Akinola...

FRED Film Radio - English Channel ·

2025/05/22

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 about the history of a country through the filter of one’s personal experience. Davis Jr. lets us

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10:44

Showing the humanity of the invisibles

FRED Film Radio - English Channel ·

2025/05/22

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 evolving bond. A Story of Friendship, Dignity, and Discovery Neeraj Ghaywan describes "Homebound" as “a

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7:53

“The love that remains”, interview with director...

FRED Film Radio - English Channel ·

2025/05/22

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 a year, while mother and father are separating. The three children of the couple are played by

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6:24

“Renoir”, interview with director Chie Hayakawa

FRED Film Radio - English Channel ·

2025/05/21

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 Chie Hayakawa took inspiration from her own experience when she was little. She says: “While the

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10:09

"Nino", an interview with director Pauline Loquès

FRED Film Radio - English Channel ·

2025/05/21

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't bring herself to tell her girlfriends. In "Nino", her debut feature, screened in competition at the

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