FRED Film Radio - English Channel
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“It’s never over: Jeff Buckley”, interview with director Amy Berg
Following its success at the Sundance Festival and the Rome Film Festival, “It’s never over: Jeff Buckley” comes to Italian cinemas as a special event, only on March 16, 17 and 18, sixty years after his birth.
The film is directed by Oscar®-nominated filmmaker Amy Berg (Deliver Us from Evil, Janis: Little Girl Blue, West of Memphis) and co-produced by Brad Pitt.
The most personal film
“It’s difficult to imagine a time when I wasn’t attempting to make the Jeff Buckley doc. It’s been on my bucket list since I ma...
“A Brief Affair”, interview with actress Valeria Golino
Speaking with Fred Film Radio at the Cinema Made in Italy Festival in London, Valeria Golino reflected on the rare moment of presenting four films in the festival’s programme: “A Brief Affair”, “Fuori”, “Gioia” and “Elisa”. The acclaimed actress described the experience as both exciting and slightly overwhelming, but also deeply rewarding after decades in the industry. Now at a stage in her career where she can choose projects she truly believes in, Golino said she still feels a genuine love for her work and remains grateful to continue exploring new roles.
A changing industry for women
Gol...
“A Brief Affair”, interview with director Ludovica Rampoldi
At the Cinema Made in Italy festival at BFI Southbank, acclaimed Italian screenwriter Ludovica Rampoldi presented her feature directorial debut, “A Brief Affair”. Speaking to FRED Film Radio, Rampoldi discussed transforming a familiar story of love and betrayal into a psychological exploration of desire, identity and emotional growth.
From screenwriter to director
Known for her work on projects including “Gomorrah”, “The Traitor” and “The Bad Guy”, Rampoldi explained that the story for “A Brief Affair” had been with her for many years. Originally written in her twenties, she later revisited the script with a new perspective. “The qu...
“Primavera”, interview with director Damiano Michieletto
Damiano Michieletto spoke to Fred Film Radio at the Cinema Made in Italy festival in London about his feature debut “Primavera”, a historical drama inspired by Antonio Vivaldi’s work with the girls of a Venetian orphanage in the early 18th century. Based on Tiziano Scarpa’s novel “Stabat Mater”, the film follows Cecilia, a young violinist whose life is transformed when Vivaldi arrives as a teacher, sparking both a creative awakening and a deeper search for freedom.
Music as the heart of the story
Although the film explores Vivaldi’s origins, the opera director was keen to em...
“Three Goodbyes”, interview with director Isabel Coixet
Isabel Coixet spoke to Fred Film Radio at the Cinema Made in Italy festival in London about her latest film “Three Goodbyes”, an adaptation of stories by the late Italian writer Michela Murgia. Blending elements of humour, tenderness and melancholy, the film follows Marta and Antonio as their relationship reaches an unexpected turning point, becoming a meditation on love, mortality and what it truly means to be alive.
Adapting Michela Murgia’s world
The acclaimed Spanish filmmaker explained that “Three Goodbyes” draws from two stories in Murgia’s collection, which she combined into a single narrative ce...
“The Last One for the Road”, interview with director Francesco Sossai
At the 16th Cinema Made in Italy festival at BFI Southbank, director Francesco Sossai spoke to Fred Film Radio about his gently melancholic road movie “The Last One for the Road”. The film follows two middle-aged misfits drifting across the Veneto countryside who unexpectedly pick up a shy architecture student, turning their wandering journey into a reflection on friendship, storytelling and contemporary Italy.
A Story Rooted in Real Life
Sossai explained that the emotional core of the film comes from his own experiences in northern Italy after the 2008 financial crisis, when many people in his regi...
“A Year of School”, interview with director Laura Samani
Laura Samani spoke to Fred Film Radio at the Cinema Made in Italy festival in London about her latest feature “A Year of School”. Premiering at the Venice Film Festival, the coming-of-age story follows Fred, a Swedish teenager who arrives in Trieste and becomes the only girl in a class of boys during their final year of school. With its playful tone and moments of comedy, the film invites audiences to reconnect with teenage memories while exploring the complicated mix of desire, friendship and belonging that shapes that age.
A lighter film about youth
After the...
Ahmad Kiarostami, interview with the producer and President of the Kiarostami Foundation.
At the 44th Bergamo Film Meeting, producer and president of the Kiarostami Foundation, Ahmad Kiarostami is presenting the Homage the festival is dedicating to his father, director Abbas Kiarostami.
On the tenth anniversary of his passing, the 44th BFM has built a retrospective of twelve films including 10 on Ten (2004), 24 Frames (2017), The Wind Will Carry Us (1999), Certified Copy (2010) and Ten (2002).
Abbas Kiarostami’s legacy
Abbas Kiarostami (Tehran, 1940 – Paris, 2016) was one of the most important directors, screenwriters and visual artists of contemporary cinema, a central figure of Iran’s second “nouvelle vague” and a leading a...
Marc van Warmerdam, interview with the producer in the section Europe, Now!
At the 44th Bergamo Film Meeting, producer Marc van Warmerdam presents his brother’s complete film retrospective as director Alex van Warmerdam is the protagonist of the section Europe, Now!
The second time in Bergamo
It’s not the first time that Alex van Warmerdam’s is being celebrated at the Bergamo Film Meeting. The director was in Bergamo in 1993 with his film “The Northerners” which won the the Rosa Camuna d’Oro.
As part of the section that celebrates contemporary European Cinema, Marc van Warmerdam will be holding a seminar about his and his brot...
Pierre-Luc Granjon, interview with the protagonist of Animation cinema *pinscreen* at the 44° BFM
In 2014, the Bergamo Film Meeting dedicated to the French illustrator and animation film director Pierre-Luc Granjon an exhibition “Nel Regno di Pierre-Luc Granjon- In the Kingdom of Pierre-Luc Granjon” where drawings, sculptures, sketches, set designs and backstage photographs of his works were displayed. That same year, the Bergamo Film Meeting dedicated a complete retrospective to him, accompanied by a monographic catalogue.
At the 44th edition of the BFM, Pierre-Luc Granjon is back as a guest of the animation cinema section, to participate in the focus on the antique pin screen technique.
Granjon’s unique approach to the...
“Bowie The Final Act”, interview with director Jonathan Stiasny
Jonathan Stiasny presented his last film “Bowie: The Final Act” at Seeyousound Festival, in Turin. In this documentary he explores the pivotal moments of Bowie’s music career and the late years of David Bowie’s extraordinary career and personal life. This film offers an intimate look at Bowie’s albums from the end of the 80’s on, including Blackstar, and the profound impact they had on those around him. Through insightful interviews and carefully curated footage, “Bowie: The Final Act” captures the essence of an artist driven by constant reinvention and artistic bravery.
Unveiling a Legendary Career
“B...
“Nouvelle Vague”, interview with director Richard Linklater
After reaching the highest number of wins for direction, cinematography, editing and costumes at the César awards, “Nouvelle Vague” by Richard Linklater, which reconstructs the birth of the legendary movement finally lands Italian cinemas, distributed by both Lucky Red and BIM, after successfully participating to Rome Film Festival.
When the Texan director arrived at the Cannes Film Festival last year, in competition, with a film about the Nouvelle Vague (hence the title) and about the genesis of a monumental work such as Jean-Luc Godard‘s “Breathless“, many spoke of audacity and courage.
Making...
“Saccharine”, interview with director Natalie Erika James
Following “Apartment 7A” and her breakout horror hit “Relic“, writer and director Natalie Erika James presents at the 76th Berlinale for a Special Midnight screening, her new film “Saccharine“, after a successful premere at the Sundance Film Festival, back in January.
The film follows Hana (Midori Francis) , a lovelorn medical student who becomes terrorized by a hungry ghost after taking part in an obscure weight-loss craze.
Blending Body horror and psychological thriller
“Saccharine is the culmination of my own personal reflections, explored through the lens of horror. It is an intimate look at one woman’s st...
“Isabel”, interview with director Gabe Klinger and actress/screenwriter Marina Person
Brazilian director Gabe Klinger lands in the 76th Berlinale’s Panorama with his third film and second feature, “Isabel”, co-written by its protagonist, Marina Person.
The film marks the first time Klinger shoots in his own town São Paulo as he has only returned to live in his home country recently as he spent most of his life in Chicago, USA.
A journey of a sommelière in crisis?
Isabel is the story of a sommelière in São Paulo’s fine-dining scene who dreams of escaping her controlling boss and ope...
“A Family”, interview with director Mees Peijnenburg
With “A Family”, Dutch director Mees Peijnenburg marks his return to the Berlinale, after previously premiering, back in 2020, “Paradise Drifters”. He’s considered one of the most talented filmmakers of his generation in the Netherlands and for this film, he could count on the participation of rising Dutch talents Finn Vogels as Eli and Celeste Holsheimer as Nina, alongside Carice van Houten (Game of Thrones, Black Book, Instinct) as their mother Maria, and Belgian actor Pieter Embrechts (Instinct, Stromboli, The Balloonist) as Jacob.
The film explores a difficult divorce through a special bu...
“No Good Men”, interview with director Shahrbanoo Sadat
“No Good Men”, the third feature film by award-winning Afghan director Shahrbanoo Sadat opened the 76th Berlinale on February 12, 2026 at the Berlinale Palast.
“No Good Men” follows Shahrbanoo Sadat’s acclaimed works “Wolf and Sheep” (2016) and “Parwareshgah” (The Orphanage, 2019). Both films screened at Cannes’ Directors’ Fortnight and “The Orphanage” was supported by the Berlinale World Cinema Fund.
Together with her most recent film, “No Good Men”, they form the first three parts of a planned five-film series inspired by the female actor Anwar Hashimi’s unpublished autobiography as well as the filmmaker’s own life.
The film, to quot...
“Mouse”, interview with actresses Katherine Mallen-Kupferer and Sophie Okonedo
From the directors of “Ghostlight”, Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson, “Mouse” is premiering at the 76th Berlinale in the Panorama section.
The film is a moving coming-of-age story set in 2002 Arkansas, it is written by O’Sullivan as it is loosely based on her memories of being a high school teenager in her hometown of North Little Rock, Arkansas in the early 2000s.
It stars Katherine Mallen-Kupferer, who previously appeared in the cast of “Ghostlight”, as seventeen year’s old high school senior Minnie and Academy Award nominee and Tony Winner Sophie Okonedo as the mother of Minni...
“Mouse”, interview with directors Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson
Following up their 2024 breakout feature Ghostlight, co-directors Kelly O’Sullivan and Alex Thompson return with “Mouse”, premiering in the Panorama section at the 76th Berlinale.
The film, a delicate coming-of-age story starring Katherine Mallen-Kupferer, who previously appeared in the cast of “Ghostlight”, sees the young actress in the role of Minnie, a shy and awkward high school senior grappling with the difficult task of finding herself now that she no longer basks in the reflected light of her best friend, Callie.
Female friendships
“I think female relationships are so fascinating...
“Iván & Hadoum”, interview with director Ian De La Rosa
After directing two successful short films, “Víctor xx” (2015), winner of the Cannes Cinéfondation Award and “Farrucas” (2021, selected at Clermont-Ferrand, director and screenwriter from Almería, Spain, Ian De La Rosa presents his debut film, “Iván & Hadoum” at the 76th Berlinale in the Panorama section.
The film just won the Teddy Award for best feature film.
“Iván & Hadoum” is a contemporary love story set in De La Rosa’s and also an heartfelt story of transformation as it delves into the personal journey of its protagonist, Iván (Silver Chicón) as he navigates his gen...
