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Géza Röhrig – Actor – Son of Saul (Saul Fia)

FRED’s Angelo Acerbi interviews Géza Röhrig, the leading actor of the film Son of Saul (Saul Fia) by László Nemes, in the official competition of the 68th Cannes Film Festival.

Géza tells us how he got ready to play such a delicate role. In this film, he plays a sonderkommando in the Auschwitz concentration camp. He tells us about the challenges that this role posed him and what the role left him with.

SON OF SAUL (SAUL FIA): October 1944, Auschwitz-Birkenau. Saul Ausländer is a Hungarian member of the Sonderkommando, the group of Jewish prisoners isolated from the camp and forced to assist the Nazis in the machinery of large-scale extermination. While working in one of the crematoriums, Saul discovers the corpse of a boy he takes for his son.

As the Sonderkommando plans a rebellion, Saul decides to carry out an impossible task: save the child’s body from the flames, find a rabbi to recite the mourner’s Kaddish and offer the boy a proper burial.

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Roger Deakins – Director of Photography

FRED’s Nicolò Comotti meets the legendary director of photographer Roger Deakins at the 68th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.

Deakins was present at the Croisette this year wearing many hats. As the cinematographer of Sicario, the new film by director Denis Villeneuve in Competition at this year’s Festival de Cannes. As a long time collaborator of presidents of the jury, the Coen Brothers. And as a legend in his art, cinematography, for which he receives the 2015 Pierre Angénieux Excellens in Cinematography Award.

This also proved to be a great occasion for FRED Film Radio to talk with him about filmmaking in general, travelling, the good and the bad things about CGI…and Van Morrison’s friends.

SICARIO: In Mexico, sicario means hitman.

In the lawless border area stretching between the U.S. and Mexico, an idealistic FBI agent is enlisted by an elite government task force official to aid in the escalating war against drugs.

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Jerome Paillard – executive director – Marché du Film

At the end of this 68th edition of the Festival de Cannes and the 2015 edition of the Marchè Du Film, FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Jerome Paillard, Executive director of the world’s leading film market to gather his first impressions and results of this year’s edition.

Numbers and figures are stable and if last year China was the 5th territory in presence at the market, the 2015 sees Korea among the most present countries.

This year also marked the second year of NEXT, a space dedicated to the front runners of new and alternative business models in film, and it was a success as the NEXT panels and special sessions were the most attended ones by the film industry professionals. The secret of the Marché du Film is to keep track with new models in film’s distribution and business by combining these innovations with the traditional and still effective model.

The tireless Marché du Film’s team is already at work on the 2016 edition and FRED will be there to spread the news on their initiatives and broadcast their events.

MARCHE DU FILM: The Marché du Film is the most important event in the industry and the leading meeting place for 10 000 film professionals, including 3 200 producers, 2 300 theatrical distributors, 1 500 sales agents and 790 festival programmers.

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Joachim Trier – filmmaker – Louder than Bombs

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews filmmaker Joachim Trier, whose film Louder Than Bombs is in competition at the 68th Cannes Film Festival.

Joachim Trier tells us about why he decided to shoot Louder than Bombs in english, and discusses with us many aspects of the film and the making of the film, including its themes and its narrative structure.

He also tells us a little bit about the casting – a cast that features names like Isabelle Huppert, Gabriel Byrne and Jesse Eisenberg.

LOUDER THAN BOMBS: An upcoming exhibition celebrating photographer Isabelle Reed three years after her untimely death, brings her eldest son Jonah back to the family house – forcing him to spend more time with his father Gene and withdrawn younger brother Conrad than he has in years.

With the three of them under the same roof, Gene tries desperately to connect with his two sons, but they struggle to reconcile their feelings about the woman they remember so differently.

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David Pablos – director – The Chosen Ones (Las Elegidas)

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets David Pablos, in Cannes to present his new film Las Elegidas (The Chosen Ones) in the Un Certain Regard Section.

The film is about a 14 years old girl being forced to enter a prostitution house by her boyfriend’s family. Pablosgot the idea of the film from a script written by Jorge Volpi. He changed some essential elements in the story and wrote another script.

Before writing and shooting The Chosen Ones, Pablos actually talked to women that had gone through this nightmare and found out that most of the time, the girls getting into this trap are the ones longing to be loved because of a sad family situation.

THE CHOSEN ONES (LAS ELEGIDAS): Sofia, 14 years old, is in love with Ulises. Because of him, in spite of him, she is forced into a prostitution ring in Mexico. To set her free, Ulises will have to find another girl to replace her…

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Mélanie Thierry – actress – A Perfect Day

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Melanie Thierry, the youngest among the actors who took part in the ensemble film by Fernando Leon de Aranoa – A Perfect Day. The film is at the Festival De Cannes in the Director’s Fortnight’ section.

Melanie tells us how it was to be on set with two great actors like TIm Robbins and Benicio del Toro and how protective they were in the film and during the shootings.

A PERFECT DAY: A group of aid workers tries to resolve a crisis in an armed conflict zone: Sophie is a newcomer, she wants to help ; Mambrú has seen it all and wants to go home ; Katya is the former mistress of Mambrú ; Damir wants the war to end, and B doesn’t know what he wants.

Humor, drama, emotion, routine, danger, hope : it all fits in A perfect day.

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Fedja Stukan – actor – A Perfect Day

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Fedja Stukan, actor in the film by Fernando Leon De Aranoa – A Perfect Day, screening at the Festival de Cannes in the Director’s Fortnight.

In the film Fedja is the translator, the one guiding and helping the aid workers to understand and being understood by local people. His character never shows emotions until he reveals he has a weak point when his family is threatened.

Since he lived and fought during the war in the Balkans, he is very happy with the way the war topic is treated, the dramatic events are balanced by a great sense of humor and irony spreading all over the film.

A PERFECT DAY: A group of aid workers tries to resolve a crisis in an armed conflict zone: Sophie is a newcomer, she wants to help ; Mambrú has seen it all and wants to go home ; Katya is the former mistress of Mambrú ; Damir wants the war to end, and B doesn’t know what he wants.

Humor, drama, emotion, routine, danger, hope : it all fits in A perfect day.

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Alfredo Guilbert – COO – DFCN (Digital Film Cloud Network)

With over 8,000 films entering the global distribution market this year, and over 200,000 sales agents, distributors and exhibitors scattered across the world, how can they all find your movie?

DFCN (Digital Film Cloud Network): DFCN is the world’s leading Movie Rights Marketplace that globally connects filmmakers, investors, sales agents, and buyers, and greatly lowers the costs associated with film financing and licensing.

Best of all, its FREE to both buyers and sellers to join the DFCN Movie RIghts Marketplace. Join today at www.DFCN.com, or through your Cinando link to DFCN.

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul – director – Cemetery of Splendour

Chiara Nicoletti welcomes director Apichatpong Weerasethakul to FRED Film Radio once again (we met him first at the Festival de Cannes in 2012, where he appeared to present his film Megong Hotel). This time, we interview him about his new film Cemetery of Splendor, screening at the 68th Festival de Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section.

For this film, Weerasethakul went back to his own hometown of Khon Kaen, in which he set this dreamlike story about soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness being taken care of in a temporary clinic in a former school.

Cemetery of Splendor will lead the audience in a limbo state of mind where reality and dreams mix and blend in.

CEMETERY OF SPLENDOUR (Rak ti Khon Kaen): Soldiers with a mysterious sleeping sickness are transferred to a temporary clinic in a former school. The memory-filled space becomes a revelatory world for housewife and volunteer Jenjira, as she watches over Itt, a handsome soldier with no family visitors.

Jen befriends young medium Keng who uses her psychic powers to help loved ones communicate with the comatose men. Doctors explore ways, including coloured light therapy, to ease the mens’ troubled dreams. Jen discovers Itt’s cryptic notebook of strange writings and blueprint sketches.

There may be a connection between the soldiers’ enigmatic syndrome and the mythic ancient site that lies beneath the clinic. Magic, healing, romance and dreams are all part of Jen’s tender path to a deeper awareness of herself and the world around her.

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Corneliu Porumboiu – director – The Treasure (Comoara)

Corneliu Porumboiu talks about his last minimalist and yet highly entertaining The Treasure, here in Cannes in Un Certain Regard.

THE TREASURE: Costi leads a peacefule life. At night he likes to read his 6 year old son stories, to help him sleep. Their favourite is Robin hood. costi sees himself as the hero – righter of wrongs and defender of the oppressed. One evening his neighbour pays him an unexpected visit and share a secret: there’s a treasure buried in his grandparent’s garden…

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