Director and Co-Screenwriter Archives

Asia Argento – Misunderstood (Incompresa) #KarlovyVaryFF

Asia Argento, Director and co-screenwriter, Misunderstood (Incompresa). Festival Section: Horizons. FRED meets the filmmaker Asia Argento to talk about her latest work MISUNDERSTOOD (Incompresa), which was shown at the 49th Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Nine-year-old Aria is finding it hard to come to terms with her parents’ stormy breakup. Both are successful and famous, and both find their daughter equally inconvenient. While her two stepsisters use conformity as conciliation …

July 9, 2014

Interview

Avi Nesher – The Wonders (Plaot) #jdiff

Avi Nesher, Director and co-Screenwriter, The Wonders (Plaot). Festival Section: Official Selection: International. Israeli filmmaker Avi Nesher talks about his latest with THE WONDERS (Plaot), which was shown at the Jameson International Film Festival 2014. Lewis Carroll meets Carol Reed in this dizzyingly funny and fantastical farce from Israeli director Avi Nesher, about a good-natured slacker who becomes embroiled in a labyrinthine conspiracy. Anything can happen in Jerusalem. Just ask …

February 19, 2014

Rotterdam Film Festival Interview

Abolfazl Saffary – From Tehran to Heaven #IRFF

Abolfazl Saffary, Director and Co-Screenwriter, From Tehran to Heaven. Festival Section: Signals: How To Survive... Filmmaker Abofazl Saffary talks to FRED about his film FROM TEHRAN TO HEAVEN (Az Tehran ta beshesht), which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam. A woman finds a note from her husband on the fridge: I have gone to a place called Heaven. But her fevered search leads her to hell, in …

January 30, 2014

Rotterdam Film Festival Interview

Alessandro Rossetto – Piccola Patria #IRFF

Alessandro Rossetto, Director and Co-Screenwriter, Piccola Patria. Festival Section: Spectrum. Filmmaker Alessandro Rossetto talks to FRED about his film PICCOLA PATRIA (Small Homeland), which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam. Superb fiction debut from an experienced documentary maker shows a small community in northern Italy, where city and countryside merge, like a patchwork quilt unravelling under pressure from the crisis, migration and decadence. In the stultifying summer heat, two …

January 30, 2014

Rotterdam Film Festival Interview

Fellipe Barbosa – Casa Grande #IRFF

Fellipe Barbosa, Director and Co-Screenwriter, Casa Grande. Festival Section: Hivos Tiger Awards Competition. Filmmaker Fellipe Barbosa talks to FRED about his film CASA GRANDE, which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam. Jean (17) is growing up in the elite district of Rio, with its private schools, drivers and housekeepers. While he tries to escape from his over-protective parents, they keep their approaching bankruptcy secret. This beautifully played coming-of-age film …

January 29, 2014

Rotterdam Film Festival Interview

Natalia Meschaninova – The Hope Factory #IRFF

Natalia Meschaninova, Director and Co-Screenwriter, The Hope Factory. Festival Section: Hivos Tiger Awards Competition. Russian filmmaker Natalia Meschaninova talks about her feature THE HOPE FACTORY (Kombinat Nadezhda), which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam. Industrial city of Norilsk: factories, cold, chemical air. The only desire of young people living here is to leave, against all odds. A docu-style, emotionally-driven drama about a young girl desperately fighting for an escape …

January 28, 2014