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During the Venice Film Festival 2026 we spoke with director Lee Chang-dong and actors Jeon Do-yeon and Sul Kyung-gu on the film Possible Love, presented here in Competition at the Festival. A conversation that delves into the film’s thematic layers and the creative approaches behind its storytelling, offering insights into the director’s vision and the actors’ interpretations.

The interview

Lee Chang-dong discusses the thematic focus of Possible Love, emphasizing the significance of looking and of the gaze in the film. He explains how the film explores the conflict between labor and capital through the lens o...

Ada Solomon is a renowned producer and the chair of the European Film Academy. She is currently promoting her film I Matter at the Venice Film Festival 2026, where it is competing in the Spotlight Section. She also took part in two panels: “Recognizing the creative Contribution of Producers” and “The Role of Film Education in Attracting young Audience”, organized by

The importance of supporting a first time Roma director and the journey to Venice

Ada Solomon discusses her pride in presenting I Matter, the first film by a Roma woman filmmaker to be an official selectio...

Global Critics Venice Voice, hosted by internationally renowned film critic Rita Di Santo, is the daily podcast of the Venice International Film Festival 2026, produced by FRED Film Radio directly from the Lido di Venezia.

Each episode takes listeners inside the Festival with exclusive and thoughtful conversations with leading international film critics, and in-depth analysis of the year’s most anticipated films.

Rita Di Santo and her guests bring to life the unique atmosphere of Venice, offering a rare insider’s view of the stories, talent, and cinematic moments that make the Mostra one of the world’s m...

Start your day on FRED Film Radio with Venice Production Bridge 2026 morning preview: for the first six days of the market, Carolina Mancini joined by VPB director Pascal Diot, Chiara Marin, Coordinator of the market and Curator of Book Adaptation Rights Market and Alessandra Speciale, Curator of Final Cut in Venice, walks you through the unmissable events and the highlights of the Venice Production Bridge, taking place between the Hotel Excelsior, the Venice Immersive Island (Lazzaretto Vecchio) and the Match Point Arena.

Choose your panels and set your agenda with FRED Film Radio!

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Across The Bridge brings you the highlights and the best of Venice Production Bridge 2026 during 83rd Venice Film Festival.

In a daily podcast, Angelo Acerbi and Carolina Mancini explore the key events, discussions and issues shaping Venice Production Bridge 2026, with the help of guests and interviews, offering an insider’s perspective on one of the film industry’s most distinctive and effective film markets.

Discover all the latest industry news and developments presented at the Lido from September 3 to 9, 2026.

The post Across The Bridge – The Best of Venice Production Bridge 2026, September 7 appeared first on Fre...

A Story Born from Personal Experience

Set in Al Baraneya, the Egyptian village where Ashgan El-Hamus’s family comes from, the film was inspired by the filmmaker’s first visit there after the birth of her child.

What initially appeared to be a simple day spent with her extended family became a profound experience of collective life. Sharing tea and dinner, surrounded by several generations of women, El-Hamus rediscovered a form of closeness and communal care that she sometimes misses in modern Western society.

That experience became the emotional starting point for Al Bara...

A Documentary Shaped by History

In My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile, Julia Loktev continues the story begun in the first chapter of her documentary project. Presented in the Venice Open – Out of Competition – Non-Fiction section at the 83rd Venice Film Festival, the film follows a group of independent Russian journalists across four years of displacement.

Loktev began filming in Russia four months before the full-scale invasion of Ukraine. At the time, she was documenting journalists who had been labelled “foreign agents,” without knowing that her work would soon capture one of the most drama...

Demetera in Esilio is one of the four projects supported by Biennale College and screened this year in Venice Film Festival 2026. We talked to the director, Maria Giovanna Cicciari, and the producer, Raffaella Pontarelli  (Amarena Film) after the official screening of the film which is  a contemporary interpretation of the myth of Demeter and Persephone, an original way to speak about mother-daughter and man-nature relationships.

Demetra in Esilio: the potential of an ancient myth

Maria Giovanna Cicciari says that she wrote the first draught of the story 10 years ago  after a trip to Greece and afte...

Presented at Venice Film Festival 2026, Citizen Osama by Ahmed Hassouna presents an intimate and deeply political portrait of Gaza. Artistic supervisor Rashid Masharawi and producer Laura Nikolov continue the commitment behind the From Ground Zero initiative.

Created during the war, the project brought together 22 short films made by filmmakers in Gaza. The films travelled to more than 300 international festivals and were shortlisted for the Academy Awards. For Masharawi, this is also a personal responsibility. Born and raised in Gaza, he lost both his home and his family home during the war. As a filmmaker, he wants to...

During the Venice Film Festival 2026 we spoke with Jannis Lenz, director of the film Oase (Oasis), presented here in the Orizzonti section of the Festival. This interview revolved on how the themes of the film reflects many thematics of the contemporary society, especially focusing on how young generations relate to visibility and the mechanisms of social validation, exploring the evolving dynamics of youth, identity, and societal influence of the digital world.

The interview

During our interview for FRED Film Radio, director Jannis Lenz highlighted how the main topic of Oase lays in the young people’s...

During the Venice Film Festival 2026 we spoke with Rubaiyat Hossain, director and writer of the film The Difficult Bride, presented in the Orizzonti section of the Festival. This Bangladeshi film marks a significant milestone as it is the first from Bangladesh selected for this session, exploring the challenges in the cinematic representations of women, and also Bangladeshi legends through the unique perspective of the Director.

The interview

During our interview with FRED Film Radio, the director Rubaiyat Hossain opened up on how the film specifically focuses on the ways both the human gaze and the...

Michele Foschini  is the Chief Creative Officer of Bao Publishing, the best selling graphic novel publisher in Italian bookstores. Bao Publishing publishes around 45 titles per year, among which the very well know Zero Calcare graphic novels that have been adapted into series for Netflix (“Strappare lungo i Bordi” was one of the most watched titles in Italy). We interviewd him in the contest of the Book Adaptation Rights Market of the Venice Production Bridge 2026.

Stories across Borders

Michele Foschini was one of the speakers  of the panel “Stories across Borders. Crossover strategies betwwen Books, Audio and Film...

Global Critics Venice Voice, hosted by internationally renowned film critic Rita Di Santo, is the daily podcast of the Venice International Film Festival 2026, produced by FRED Film Radio directly from the Lido di Venezia.

Each episode takes listeners inside the Festival with exclusive and thoughtful conversations with leading international film critics, and in-depth analysis of the year’s most anticipated films.

Rita Di Santo and her guests bring to life the unique atmosphere of Venice, offering a rare insider’s view of the stories, talent, and cinematic moments that make the Mostra one of the world’s m...

Start your day on FRED Film Radio with Venice Production Bridge 2026 morning preview: for the first six days of the market, Carolina Mancini joined by VPB director Pascal Diot, Chiara Marin, Coordinator of the market and Curator of Book Adaptation Rights Market and Alessandra Speciale, Curator of Final Cut in Venice, walks you through the unmissable events and the highlights of the Venice Production Bridge, taking place between the Hotel Excelsior, the Venice Immersive Island (Lazzaretto Vecchio) and the Match Point Arena.

Choose your panels and set your agenda with FRED Film Radio!

Stay up...

Austrian director Jessica Hausner, has been selected in the Venice Gap Financing Market with her new project Toxic, co-production between Austria, Germany, France, Sweden.
Hausner comes back to Venice after winning the FIPRESCI Prize in 2009, when she was in Competition with her film Lourdes.

4 chapters to question our Work Dystem

Toxic is a film that is told in 4 different chapters, and each chapter is showing a different work situation. Jessica Hausner explains the film is about how we work nowadays and how much work is related to being productive and efficient. It is questioning  if...

Across The Bridge brings you the highlights and the best of Venice Production Bridge 2026 during 83rd Venice Film Festival.

In a daily podcast, Angelo Acerbi and Carolina Mancini explore the key events, discussions and issues shaping Venice Production Bridge 2026, with the help of guests and interviews, offering an insider’s perspective on one of the film industry’s most distinctive and effective film markets.

Discover all the latest industry news and developments presented at the Lido from September 3 to 9, 2026.

The post Across The Bridge – The Best of Venice Production Bridge 2026, September 6 appeared first on Fre...

Our Share of Sand stands as a powerful symbol of the environmental crisis and exploitation unfolding in India. Through storytelling that favors emotion over didactic explanation, the filmmakers manage to convey the crisis surrounding sand mining while keeping the film deeply human. It’s worth noting that, during editing, more explicit scenes depicting the mining process itself were cut, precisely to preserve the story’s emotional core. At the center of the narrative lies the relationship between a father and daughter, a bond that allows viewers to connect personally with broader themes of environmental degradation and systemic exploitation, turning sand...

During the Venice International Film Festival 2026 we spoke with Anne Siro and Rafaël Balboni, directors and writers of Un détour par Diane, presented here at the Orizzonti section of the festival. A modern narrative that revolves around the themes of sexual violence, trauma, and vengeance through a Western lens, exploring these intense topics within the framework of an intimate family narrative, full of symbolism and creativity.

The interview

During our interview with FRED Film Radio, Anne Siro explained that they chose the Western genre because of its historical association with themes of revenge, ju...

Start your day on FRED Film Radio with Venice Production Bridge 2026 morning preview: for the first six days of the market, Carolina Mancini joined by VPB director Pascal Diot, Chiara Marin, Coordinator of the market and Curator of Book Adaptation Rights Market and Alessandra Speciale, Curator of Final Cut in Venice, walks you through the unmissable events and the highlights of the Venice Production Bridge, taking place between the Hotel Excelsior, the Venice Immersive Island (Lazzaretto Vecchio) and the Match Point Arena.

Choose your panels and set your agenda with FRED Film Radio!

Stay up...

Across The Bridge brings you the highlights and the best of Venice Production Bridge 2026 during 83rd Venice Film Festival.

In a daily podcast, Angelo Acerbi and Carolina Mancini explore the key events, discussions and issues shaping Venice Production Bridge 2026, with the help of guests and interviews, offering an insider’s perspective on one of the film industry’s most distinctive and effective film markets.

Discover all the latest industry news and developments presented at the Lido from September 3 to 9, 2026.

The post Across The Bridge – The Best of Venice Production Bridge 2026, September 5 appeared first on Fre...

Global Critics Venice Voice, hosted by internationally renowned film critic Rita Di Santo, is the daily podcast of the Venice International Film Festival 2026, produced by FRED Film Radio directly from the Lido di Venezia.

Each episode takes listeners inside the Festival with exclusive and thoughtful conversations with leading international film critics, and in-depth analysis of the year’s most anticipated films.

Rita Di Santo and her guests bring to life the unique atmosphere of Venice, offering a rare insider’s view of the stories, talent, and cinematic moments that make the Mostra one of the world’s m...

Orlando Bloom and Domhnall Gleeson bring Bucking Fastard, directed by Werner Herzog, to the 83rd Venice Film Festival, where the film is in competition. The two actors speak about what it means to work with Herzog, the singular nature of the script, why they choose the projects they do, the freedom of working outside the studio system, and what it was like acting opposite Kate Mara and Rooney Mara’s synchronized performances as two sisters who speak, move and dream in unison.

A gift to work with a master

Asked what it...

Werner Herzog is in competition at the Venice Film Festival 2026 with Bucking Fastard, which follows two sisters, Jean and Joan Holbrooke, played by Kate Mara and Rooney Mara, who are so close that they speak in unison, love the same man, and share the same dreams, down to making the same slip of the tongue at once. The story also traces how the world reacts to them, through courts and press, through those who want to help and those who want to use them, with a cast that also includes Orlando Bloom and Domhnall Gleeson. Herzog spoke about the...

During the Venice Film Festival 2026 we spoke with director Sergei Loznitsa for his new film Imperium, presented here at the festival in the Venice Open – Out of Competition section. , director of the film Imperium, was interviewed at the eighty-third Venice Film Festival. This remarkable documentary, as the title may suggest, explores the cultural, social, and historical diversity of the former Soviet Union through a unique collage of footage and archive material. The “empire” in this context refers to the vast, imperial dimension of the USSR that the film aims to depict and analyze.

The interview

During...

During the Venice Film Festival 2026 we spoke with Manuel Wetscher, director and co-writer of the film Eklipse presented here in the Orizzonti section of the festival. During our conversation, we discussed the autobiographical elements of the film, a exploring the themes of HIV illness, emancipation, and mostly ignorance and stigma. The film then delves into personal experiences, transforming into fiction and shedding a light on how personal memories influence cinematic storytelling and exploring the director’s artistic process and message.

The interview

During our interview with FRED FIlmmRadio, the director Manuel Wetscher explained that in the...

John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell bring Wild Horse Nine, directed by Martin McDonagh, to the Venice Film Festival 2026, where the film is in competition. At the heart of the film is the friendship between two CIA agents, set against the backdrop of Chile in 1973.

An old friendship, forged out of fear

Rockwell and Malkovich go back years, long before Wild Horse Nine. “We’re old pals,” Rockwell says. “We became pals on this movie, but we know each other from The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy...