FRED Film Radio - English Channel

Ossama Mohammed, Director, Eau Argentée, Syria Autoportrait.

Festival Section: Out of Competition.

Fred has the chance to talk with Ossama Mohammed, voice, along with his fellow filmmaker Wiam Simav Bedirxan, of Syria’s desire for a new beginning.

Reporter: Nicolò Comotti.

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Kornel Mundruczo, Co-writer/Director, White God.

Festival Section: Un Certain Regard.

Co-Writer/Director Kornel Mundruczo returns to Cannes with socio-political man vs man’s best friend drama WHITE GOD.He talks to FRED about the qualities of his young lead actress Zsofia Psotta and the unforgettable scenes filmed with over 200 dogs.

Film Page on Film Festival Website.

Reporter: Amanny Mohamed.

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Maika Monroe – Actress – It Follows

Maika Monroe, protagonist in the second film by David Robert Mitchell “IT FOLLOWS” screening in the Cannes Semaine de la Critique talks to FRED about her demanding role in this horror film. Her character is terrified most of the time so to get better into the part, she isolated herself from the rest of the crew while listening to very dark music. Besides being an actress, Maika Monroe is also one of the  top ranked female kite boarders in the world.

Festival section: Semaine De La Critique

Reporter: Chiara Nicoletti

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David Robert Mitchell – Director – It Follows

After the success of his previous film The Myth of the American Sleepover presented at SXSW and La semaine de la Critique in 2010, David Robert MItchell is back in Cannes Critics’ Week selection with his new film IT FOLLOWS.

Festival section: Semaine De La Critique

Reporter: Chiara Nicoletti

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Lika Alekseeva, Director, Draw A Line.

Festival Section: Short film Corner.

Fred meets with the Russian director Lika Alekseeva, here at Cannes short film corner with DRAW A LINE…but also presenting her first feature PARALLEL LINES MEET AT INFINITY to some potential distributors.

Reporter: Nicolò Comotti.

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Gabe Polsky, Director, Red Army.

Festival Section: Out of Competition.

Fred meets with Gabe Poslky, director of Red Army, here in Cannes 2014.

Reporter: Nicolò Comotti.

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Shira Geffen, Writer and Director, Self Made.

Festival Section: Critics Week.

Writer/Director Shira Geffen is no stranger to the Cannes film festival, as her movie “Jellyfish” picked up the prestigious Camera D’or award in 2007. This time she is back with SELF MADE, a story of two women -one Israeli, the other Palestinian- who are trapped within their respective worlds. After a mix-up at a checkpoint, they find themselves living the life of the other on the opposite side of the border.

Website.

Reporter: Amanny Mohamed.

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Samira Saraya & Sarah Adler, Actress, Self Made.

Festival Section: Critics Week.

SELF MADE’s two lead actresses Samira Saraya and Sarah Adler join FRED Film Radio to talk about the movie selected in competition in Critic’s Week. They tell us about their initial reactions to this rather unusual script and their surprise at the audience’s reaction to the humour in the movie when it premiered in Cannes this year.

Reporter: Amanny Mohamed.

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Frederick Wiseman, Director, National Gallery.

Festival Section: Director”s Forthnight.

Frederick Wiseman, one of the most important documentary filmmakers, explains his work on his last masterpiece filmed in the London National Gallery and presented at the Cannes section Director”s Forthnight on Saturday May 17.

Reporter: Marina Fabbri.

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Ronit & Shlomi Elkabetz, Writer/Director & Actress, Gett: The trial of Viviane Amsalem.

Festival Section: Quinzaine des Réalisateurs.

Writer/Director siblings Ronit & Shlomi Elkabetz join forces once again for the third film in theor trilogy GETT: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem in a powerful story of one woman’s fight for her right to divorce her husband in Israel where 4000 year old laws prevail, and women of the Jewish faith can only divorce on the say-so of their husbands.

Reporter: Amanny Mohamed.

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