FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews the actor Mehmet Ozgur, who stars in the film FRENZY by Emin Alper that premiered in the main competition of the 72nd Venice Film Festival.
This marks the second collaboration with the director, so we ask him what makes their creative collaboration so special. Of course, we also ask him about his character in FRENZY and how the journey to his performance of this character began.
FRENZY (Abluka): Istanbul is in the grip of political violence. Hamza, a high-ranking police officer offers Kadir a conditional release from prison. To be released he has to accept to work in the new intelligence unit of garbage collectors. Kadir accepts, and starts collecting trash from the shanty towns, checking to see whether it contains material related to bomb-making. Kadir finds his younger brother Ahmet in one of those neighborhoods. Ahmet works at the municipality as part of a team responsible for destroying stray dogs. Ahmet’s unwillingness to bond with Kadir as brothers, in spite of Kadir’s insistance, leads Kadir to plot conspiracy theories to explain Ahmet’s distance.
Il TFF 2025 rende omaggio a Paul Newman con una retrospettiva di 24 film e un manifesto firmato Eva Sereny, nel centenario della nascita dell'attore simbolo del cinema americano.
From August 27 to September 6, 2025, Giornate degli Autori returns to the Venice Film Festival. An edition that celebrates memory, rebellion, and the future of independent cinema.
Il direttore artistico della 82° Mostra di Venezia, Alberto Barbera, illustra il programma e ricorda come il cinema ci aiuti a capire cosa sta succedendo nel mondo
The 82nd Venice Film Festival presents the 91 films in the official selection, with debuts and big names: Baumbach, Del Toro, Bellocchio, Lanthimos and Bigelow