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Emerging film director from Switzerland, Sinan Taner is taking part to the 8th edition of the Future Frames Program at the 59th Karlovy Vary Film Festival with his short graduation film “1:10 “.

With the Future frames programme for talented young directors, the European Film Promotion EFP takes ten outstanding film school graduates from throughout Europe to the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Czech Republic). The directors get the chance to present their short films to the international industry and the public at the prestigious A-list film festival.

“1.10“ is inspired by the director’s personal experience during his childhood and it has been screened around the world, from Clermont-Ferrand to Istanbul, San Francisco, Busan and Lisbon.

“1:10“,  which deals with an harmless argument between two children that ends in death threats between the two fathers, to quote Taner, “has two main storylines that are reflected in the themes they explore: on the one hand, the conflict between the two sons, which spills over to their fathers and later to all the adults; and on the other hand, the conflict between the customer and the employee, which affects the children. Both stories are linked by a chain reaction that ultimately affects everyone on site and leads to a kind of systematic collapse of social norms”.

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Emerging film director from Belfast,  Ruairi Bradley is taking part to the 8th edition of the Future Frames Program at the 59th Karlovy Vary Film Festival with his short film “We beg to differ“.

With the Future frames programme for talented young directors, the European Film Promotion EFP takes ten outstanding film school graduates from throughout Europe to the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival (Czech Republic). The directors get the chance to present their short films to the international industry and the public at the prestigious A-list film festival.

“We beg to differ” has been screened at top festivals such as SXSW, Clermont-Ferrand, and Hot Docs. The film has earned over 13 awards, including an Oscar-qualifying win at the Galway Film Fleadh, nominations at the London Critics Circle and Irish Film and Television Awards, and is currently a candidate for the 2026 European Film Awards.

The film, to quote Bradley “is a creative documentary that immerses audiences into the community of underground “differs,” a group of people who have found healing through their illegal hobby” and it is a story about the power of community, the power of belonging.

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“The End” by Joshua Oppenheimer is finally making to italian cinemas on July 3rd with I Wonder Pictures.

It is the first feature film by the two-time Oscar nominee for the documentaries “The Act of Killing“(2012) and “The Look of Silence“(2014).

The film is a post-apocalyptic story about a family composed of Mother, Father and son, living in a bunker 25 years after the Earth’s environmental collapse.

The synopsis and the trailer of the film are enough material to show how the film’s themes are very relevant to today’s world.

We meet George MacKay, for this exclusive interview, in the very same italian salt mine where the film was shot. This happened thanks to the italian distribution of the film, I Wonder, that organized interviews and premiere of the film in the mine, in Palermo, Sicily.

The actor tries to explain the allegory of the film as it is also about a shift of generations: “ My character, the son, is the generation that’s looking to make a change and the tragedy of the film is that, ultimately, he doesn’t change enough”.

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“The End“, Joshua Oppenheimer’s first fiction film, will be released in italian cinemas with I Wonder Pictures from July 3, 2025.

The two-time Oscar nominee for the documentaries “The Act of Killing” (2012) and “The Look of Silence” (2014) brought, with the help of I Wonder, an exclusive group of italian journalists right on the salt mine in Sicily where the film was shot.

We watched the film there and right after that, we had an exclusive interview with both Oppenheimer and actor George McKay playing in the film along with Tilda Swinton and Michael Shannon.

The film is set in a post-apocalyptic world where only one family is living underground trying to survive and live a “happy” life and it is, without doubt, a metaphor for the process of dehumanization we’re all experiencing right now.

About that,  Joshua Oppenheimer comments: “My work is always about rehumanizing the people that we would be tempted to dismiss as monsters. They’re humans, these characters are nameless because they are us”.

“The End” is a mix of thriller, dystopian future drama and musical and its themes such as climate change resonate with today’s world.

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On Friday 4 July, Aude Léa Rapin and Eve Robin will be in Trieste to hold a masterclass for the public and the young filmmakers in competition at the 26° ShorTS IFF, during which they will talk about their journey and the creative partnership between producer and director.

The masterclass has been organized within the Campolungo section, focusing on the career of young filmmakers whose list of works covers both short and feature films.

French director Aude Léa Rapin, who began her career as photographer and videomaker in the Balkans and Africa, will be showing her shorts “La météo des plages” (2014), “Ton cœur au hasard” (2015), “Que vive l’Empereur” (2016) and the feature film “Planet B “(2024), premiered last year at the opening of the Venice Critics’ Week.

We talked with Aude Léa Rapin before her masterclass and in this interview she comments on the description of her that the Campolungo curators, Massimo Causo and Beatrice Fiorentino, said about her way of “pushing the limits of narrative without ever abandoning a political view of reality” and her showing “a narrative freedom that destabilizes”.

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“I’m very excited to go back again and to revisit that world with my film-making friends, who I’ve known now for so many years. So, I’ll be going back in a couple of months and we start preparation and then we start shooting. The film will be released in December 27”. Andy Serkis is ready to come back to the Middle-earth of “The Lord of the Rings” saga for playing the role of Gollum and directing the movie dedicated to this character. Doing both it will not be a problem for him: “I know Gollum so well, you know. He’s a creature he owns me”, says Serkis to FredFilmRadio during the 8th edition of Filming Italy Sardegna Festival.

The British actor talks about how he started directing: “I was about to direct a small independent film when Peter Jackson asked me to come and direct the second unit on The Hobbit. So, we were just starting a company The Imaginarium. It was like, wow, this is a huge challenge to suddenly work with an enormous crew, shooting in 3D, 48 frames a second, in complicated fight sequences”.

“Artificial Intelligence was used in the day on Lord of the Rings – Serkis says about how technologies change in these last years, using also AI – There was a programme called Massive which enabled all of the battle sequences, for instance, in Helm’s Deep, to have each individual character of thousands and thousands of orcs have their own minds, you know, walking around and doing different things to each other. So, that kind of technology has been used for some time. I mean, we, with every film of this scale, new technologies are being evolved constantly”.

We’ll see Serkis playing again the role of Alfred Pennyworth in “The Batman 2” directed by Matt Reeves: “I worked with Matt in two of the Apes movies and we became very close friends. He said he wanted to write a character for me where we see my face. So he wrote the relationship between Alfred and Bruce Wayne as a very emotional relationship. The father that he could never be. He does not possess a parental bone in his body. He just doesn’t know how to do that. He can only teach skills. But he feels he ought to be the father for Bruce, but he just can’t be. So it’s a lovely dynamic and quite a painful dynamic between them”.

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Fran Drescher started her career with a small role in an iconic film “Saturday Night Fever” and then she’s taken part of different projects. We remind her above all for her role of Fran Fine in the television sitcom “The Nanny” (1993–1999).

The actress, one of the protagonist of the 8th edition of Filming Italy Sardegna Festival, says to FRED Film Radio how important is to “believe in your self and never give up. You have to create your own success, everything is an opportunity of growing”.

And about the successfully character “The Nanny” adds: “She is someone that is comfortable of what who she is. At the end of the show, she says that it’ not matter you look like, but what you have in your heart”.

Drescher, who will be Timothée Chalamet’s mother in “Marty Supreme“, talks about also the changing since she serve as the national president of the Screen Actors Guild-American Federation of Television and Radio Artists (SAG-AFTRA).

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Jane Seymour is one of the protagonist of the 8th edition of Filming Italy Sardegna Festival. The British actress, know for the tv-series “Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman“, about her character says: “She was an emancipated woman. In American television we did not have one-hour programs with a female protagonist. She has the awareness of others. And the story was situated in 1876”.

About changing of female storytelling, Seymour explains: “Nowadays there are more different female directors and writers. We want to know our stories. We want to talk about our humanity”. The advice she gives to a young who wants to become an actor is “studying and reading, but also living the life and creating your own material”.

Seymour has her say on artificial intelligence: “People want touching emotions and human reactions. But we need to find a way to use AI intelligently”.

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For Pom Klementieff working with Tom Cruise in the last two chapter of “Mission: Impossible” saga “was amazing. He was inspiring, always very curious, generous, funny. A real mentor“, the actress says. We met her at the 8th edition of Filming Italy Sardegna Festival, directed by Tiziana Rocca.

In the films Pom Klementieff has done a long training for the role of Paris. “It was a dream taking park of this action saga, that I saw when I was a child. I wanted to be in Mission: Impossibile. A friend of mine is a stunt-man and I trained myself for casting – she says – I would like to see my character again. But I don’t know about the saga future“.

With FredFilmRadio Pom talks also about how is changing female storytelling. “I think it’s important to show so many version of being a woman. And not one colour or one mood“.

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“Elio“, the new Pixar movie adventure is ready to conquer Italian cinemas from June 18th, 2025.

Directed by Madeline Sharafian, Domee Shi and Adrian Molina, and produced by Mary Alice Drumm, the film will introduce us to Elio, an 11-year-old whose biggest wish is to get abducted by aliens.

Elio features the voices of Yonas Kibreab as Elio and Zoe Saldaña as Aunt Olga.

In Italy to present the film to the italian audience, directors Madeline Sharafian and Domee Shi along with producer Mary Alice Drumm talk about  the making of “Elio” and focus on the themes the film explores as the coming of age story and the reflection on wars and conflicts and the constant struggles for equality.

In the end, as Domee Shi states, “It all starts with Elio and our goal is trying to have you empathize with him, understand him and go on this journey with him”

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