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Golshifteh Farahani – actress – Two Friends (Les Deux Amis)

Golshifteh Farahani talks about the construction of her character, her sense of freedom… She also remembers so it was to work with actor-turned-director Louis Garrel, and about how much rehearsing was necessary to reach that level of spontaneity.

TWO FRIENDS (LES DEUX AMIS): Two Friends is about Abel (Louis Garrel) and Clément (Vincent Macaigne), two clumsy, hopelessly romantic young Parisians with nothing but their friendship. When they “kidnap” Mona (Golshifteh Farahani), a wild and fun food-vending girl Clément has fallen in love with, their “bromance” falters.

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Louis Garrel – filmmaker – Two Friends (Les Deux Amis)

FRED’s Bénédicte Prot meets filmmaker Louis Garrel, who talks about his latest work Two Friends (Les Deux Amis) from the Semaine de la Critique of the 68th Cannes Film Festival.

Louis Garrel envisages his role as director and scriptwriter as that of a piano-tuner and disk-jockey.

He tells us about co-writing with Christophe Honoré, being in front and behind the camera, his thorough work with the actors to obtain spontaneity and intimacy, the depth of lightness, and passes on a piece of advice from Jean-Claude Carrière which made for a fantastic scene in his film.

TWO FRIENDS (LES DEUX AMIS): Two Friends is about Abel (Louis Garrel) and Clément (Vincent Macaigne), two clumsy, hopelessly romantic young Parisians with nothing but their friendship. When they “kidnap” Mona (Golshifteh Farahani), a wild and fun food-vending girl Clément has fallen in love with, their “bromance” falters.

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Suha Arraf – filmmaker – Villa Touma

FRED’s Cristiana Palmieri meets director, screenwriter and producer of the film Villa Touma, which was features in the programme of the 2015 Sydney Film Festival.

Suha Arraf talks to us about her directorial debut Villa Touma, her work as screenwriter and her outlook on Palestinian society as well as the resilience of Palestinian women.

VILLA TOUMA: The film offers a rare glimpse into aristocratic Palestinian Christian society. Three unmarried sisters cling desperately to their former glory, until their orphaned niece arrives to turn their world upside down.

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Film: Io Sono Li (2011)

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Thomas Bidegain – director – Les Cowboys

FRED’s Bénédicte Prot interviews Thomas Bidegain, director of the film Les Cowboys from the Director’s Fortnight programme of the 68th Cannes Film Festival.

Seasoned screenwriter Thomas Bidegain (who has scripted many acclaimed titles and is Jacques Audiard’s long-term collaborator, including on his latest, Dheepan) explains why he decided to try his hand at directing, what he took from his experience alongside other directors, and from his own cinephilia, to make an impressive debut feature that is markedly his own creation.

LES COWBOYS: Les Cowboys tells how a normal family who loves the country music culture is confronted with its very own “Indians” when their daughter Kelly disappears, after enrolling in the Jihad, at a time when no one had a clue in the Western world – for the film starts in 1994 and spans over fifteen years or so.

With splendid mountains and sad songs in the background, we follow a father’s desperate quest, and a son’s continued odyssey to rebuild some form of family, and make peace. A beautifully mastered debut film.

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Matthias Schoenaerts – actor – Maryland

FRED’s Bénédicte Prot interviews Matthias Schoenaerts, lead actor in Maryland, the latest film by Alice Winocour, presented in the Un Certain Regard section of the 68th Cannes Film Festival.

Matthias Schoenaerts talks about the way he prepared in order to really embody Vincent, a soldier back between two tours in Afghanistan who silently suffers from PSTD, while being alert enough to protect a rich wife and her kid.

The Belgian actor describes how he actually became his character, blurring the limit between fiction and reality. Matthias Schoenaerts has been rather busy since Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone.

He is currently in Thomas Vinterberg’s Far from the Madding Crowd (also starring Carey Mulligan), and soon to be seen in Oscar-winning British director Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl (opposite Eddie Redmayne, amongst others) as well as Italy’s Luca Guadagnino’s upcoming effort, A bigger splash, shot in English with another star-studded cast including Ralph Fiennes and Tilda Swinton.

MARYLAND: A soldier suffering from PTSD, hired to work security in a big mansion, becomes a walking paranoid bomb, in this enclosed space, as he manages to save to day.

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Alice Winocour – director – Maryland

FRED’s Bénédicte Prot interviews Alice Winocour, who presented her latest work Maryland in the Un Certain Regard section of the 68th Cannes Film Festival.

French director Alice Winocour talks about her continued exploration, in her second feature, of the theme of the dysfunctional body. She explains why she had Matthias Schoenaerts in mind specifically when she wrote the part and how they worked together to represent the borderline state of a soldier back from war, to the point that her actor became the character.

MARYLAND: A soldier suffering from PTSD (Jacques Audiard’s Rust and Bone’s Matthias Schoenaerts, also starring in Thomas Vinterberg, Tom Hooper and Luca Guadagnino’s newest projects), hired to work security in a big mansion and protect the lady of the house (Diane Kruger) and her kid, becomes a walking paranoid bomb, in this enclosed space, as he manages to save to day.

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Robert Doobay – director – The Grind

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews young director Robert Doobay to know everything about his Cannes adventure.

The story takes place in Florida, where Robert studies at the University of Central Florida. With the help of two friends, in february 2015, he participates with his short film THE GRIND at the Campus Movies Fest and takes home the Top Four and Best Directing awards.

In early April, Robert receives an email from Campus Movies Fest saying that his short film was selected to be screened at the 2015 Cannes Film Festival in France.

Robert doesn’t want to miss this opportunity but Cannes is an expensive place to reach and to stay in so he gets the original and excellent idea of trying to crowfund his trip through GO FUND ME. The rest is history. In Cannes, Robert is not only screening his film THE GRIND in the Campus movies Fest section at the Festival but, since he’s enrolled with the Creative Minds Filmmaker’s Institute Program, he will be creating a 5-minute short in 7 days during his stay in France.

THE GRIND: A young man explores the realm of online dating

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Marina Shine – deputy festival director – Audi Festival of German Films

FRED’s Cristiana Palmieri interviews Marina Shine, one of the directors of the Audi of German Films in Australia, to find out more about this year’s edition.

AUDI FESTIVAL OF GERMAN FILMS: The Audi Festival of German Films, orchestrated by the Goethe-Institut Australia, is the German key event in Australia’s cultural calendar, and the largest German-language film festival outside of Germany.

Now in its 14th year, the festival showcases a fine selection of contemporary, classic and internationally acclaimed German-language films with English subtitles. Between 13 and 31 May 2015, the festival will come to eight Australian cities.

Click here to visit the official website of the 14th Audi Festival of German Films

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Nashen Moodley – festival director – Sydney Film Festival

FRED’s Cristiana Palmieri meets Nashen Moodley, director of the Sydney Film Festival, which this year will be running for the 62nd time from the 3rd to the 14th of June 2015.

We explore this year’s edition of the Sydney Film Festival’s program with its creator…don’t miss the opportunity to hear the ins and outs of one of the most exciting film festivals in the Southern Hemisphere!

SYDNEY FILM FESTIVAL: Each year the festival brings the best new films from around the world to audiences right here in Sydney. As well as brand new features from over fifty countries, we screen short films, Australian films, documentaries and archive titles, many of which are recently restored.

The festival hosts a number of awards to recognise excellence in filmmaking, including the Documentary Australia Foundation Award for Australian Documentaries, the FOXTEL Movies Audience Award, the Dendy Awards for Australian Short Films and the Official Competition, which celebrates ‘courageous and audacious filmmaking’.

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