A talk with american director Michael Tyburski, reflecting on the dystopian nature of his debut feature film

Simón Casal, director, on sci-fi-meets-noir, provocation and near-future dilemmas in "Artificial Justice"

Patricia Font, director, on "The Teacher Who Promised the Sea" and unearthing the past

Ruben Ostlund is a volcanic man, funny and generous, with an obvious love for the grotesque and the irony, that he uses as a lens when observing the world. Interest in human behaviour is a must for him, and for his movies, that have stylistic different approaches, even when maintaining [...]

Luis E. Parés, director on uncovering Spanish's past and defying oppression through art in "The First Look"

During the London Spanish Film Festival, Fred Film Radio caught up with the co-directors María G. Royo and Julia de Castro on their blisteringly original wild trip of a road movie “On the Go“. They shared how they deeply connected over the idea of an homage to 1980s movie “Corridas [...]

Laura Jou, director on "Free Falling", masks, metaphor and the path to self-acceptance

On the second night of the 20th edition of London Spanish Film Festival, Fred Film Radio spoke with the creators of “Birds Flying East” or “Pájaros“, director Pau Durà and producer David Ciurana. The filmmakers shared how the feature not only follows a physical road trip across Europe but an [...]

The director of Conclave, Edward Berger, talks about his first English-language feature, based on Robert Harris’ best-seller.

The Australian director Adam Elliot talks to FRED about how he conceived Memoir of a snail as it just won first prize in Annecy.

Director Audrey Diwan and her actresses Merlant and Huang on why they decided to revisit an erotic cinema classic giving it a contemporary and feminist look.

In "Russians at war", Anastasia Trofimova films a Russian Army battalion in Ukraine over the span of a year as it continues its invasion across Eastern Ukraine

"September 5" is the narration of the moment when live news coverage changed forever. Ben Chaplin plays the experienced news producer that is asked by history to make the difference and manage the unthinkable, when the terrorists attack at the Munich Olympics.

“Possibility of paradise” the quest for a new Eden in a tropical purgatory, where dreams face reality: what is a good life, and how to live it?

"Songs of slow burning earth", the normalisation of war depicted through an impressive cinematographic documentary: filming as a tool to resist during the full-scale invasion of Ukraine.

“Edge of Night” explores the profound complexities of loyalty and identity amidst societal struggles. Discover how Türker Süer captures the emotional essence of his characters in this compelling narrative.

‘King Ivory’ is the street slang name for fentanyl. The film recounts the devastating aspects of the spread of this drug, on all those involved, transversally, in a direct, almost news report style, and with people not really actors involved, which makes the sense of relatability even more effective.

‘September 5’ is an intense race against time, for a television crew that is for the first time in the history of television faced with a dilemma: what to show the public? What is right or wrong: is the news or the people in it worth more?

Horizon: An American Saga is a story Kevin Costner have been dreaming to direct since 1988 and the perfect saga for the festival audience.

Alex Ross Perry's ‘Pavements’ is a grotesque and ironic celebration of the fake success of the band Pavement, just before this success and celebration happened in reality and in an even more massive way than the imagination had imagined.

"TWST - Things we said Today" by Andrej Ujica starts with the arrival of the Beatles in New York in 1965 for the famous first concert at Shea Stadium and continues in a snapshot of the world of the America in those days and the effect of the new British [...]

Selton Mello plays the Brazilian hero Ruben Paiva in Walter Salles' drama “I'M Still Here”, a slice of life in Brazil under the dictatorship, and a story treated with passion and participation.

2Why War" by Amos Gitai is a reflection in hybrid form, fiction and documentary, on the meaning of war and its futility as a means of conflict resolution, starting with the epistolary reflections of Albert Einstein and Sigmund Feud

"Apocalypse in the Tropics", by Petra Costa, is a documentary on the rise and fall of Bolsonaro, as a universal example of the crisis of democracy and trust in the democratic system, a worldwide trend for the defeat of which the film attempts to provide an analysis from the inside.

“One To One: John and Yoko“, by Kevin Macdonald, presented Out of Competition at the Venice International Film Festival, is more than a documentary about a concert (the only live gig John Lennon did in New York), it is a fresco of 1970s New York, a collage of the sensations [...]