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As the German Film Festival rolls out across the country, we meet two directors featured in this year's lineup...
Acclaimed director Andres Veiel discusses his documentary Riefenstahl, a captivating insight into the private estate of Leni Riefenstahl and her complex relationship with the Nazi regime.
Award-winning director Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay's second feature, Hysteria, comes to Australia directly from the 2025 Berlinale...a suspenseful behind-the-scenes conspiracy thriller about a real-life 1993 arson incident on the set of a film production.
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British actor Will Poulter, who has starred in The Bear, Black Mirror, The Revenant and Midsommar, talks about his latest film role in the gripping war thriller Warfare.
Kriv Stenders and Richard Roxburgh on The Correspondent, the story of the arrest, trial and imprisonment of Australian journalist Peter Greste.
Beloved actor and comedian Steve Coogan discusses The Penguin Lessons, a comedy-drama based on a true story that follows an Englishman’s personal and political awakening after he adopts a penguin during a turbulent period in Argentine history.
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Brisbane-born Hollywood star Jacob Elordi fronts Justin Kurzel's TV adaptation of Richard Flanagan's Booker Prize-winning novel The Narrow Road to the Deep North.
In Lost and Found, filmmaker Raoul Peck follows Ernest Cole's journey as the first Black freelance photographer in apartheid South Africa.
Jason meets the directors of The Count of Monte Cristo in Paris, the new French adaptation of Alexandre Dumas’ epic tale of romance and redemption.
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A highlights edition looking at some films that dominated the 2025 Oscars...
Jesse Eisenberg on A Real Pain, which he directed and stars in alongside Kieran Culkin (who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor), in a story that centres around a pair of mismatched cousins travelling through Poland in honour of their Jewish grandmother.
American filmmaker Sean Baker discusses his film Anora, which took home five Oscars, including Best Film, for its portrayal of a feisty sex worker's unexpected Cinderella story.
A Complete Unknown depicts the story of folk hero Bob Dylan's transition to electric music. Jason meets Edward Norton, who plays Pete Seeger in the film and was nominated for Best Supporting Actor.
These conversations were recorded before the film's respective Oscar wins and nominations.
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Director Jonathan Ogilvie discusses his nostalgic coming-of-age film Head South, where it's the late 1970's and teenager Angus is discovering the underground post-punk music scene in Christchurch.
From the archives, David Nichols, historian and lecturer in Urban Planning at the University of Melbourne, on Richard Lowenstein's 1986 film Dogs in Space, a story takes place during the late 70s to the early 80s in the underground music scene in Melbourne and the action that happens in and around a share household in the inner city.
In The Cats of Gokugo Shrine, renowned Japanese documentarian Kazuhiro Soda takes us to the coastal town of Ushimado and a shrine where cats have taken up residence.
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Legendary Hollywood director Barry Levinson discusses working with Robert De Niro on gangster movie The Alto Knights.
New Zealand filmmaker James Ashcroft on his nursing home set horror The Rule of Jenny Pen.
Plus, This Life of Mine, a delicate chronicle of mental illness screening as part of this year's French Film Festival.
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Australian actor Daniel Henshall talks about his latest role, in Oscar winner Bong Joon-ho's Mickey 17, where he stars alongside Toni Collette, Mark Ruffalo and Robert Pattinson in a black comedy about the dangers of cloning and colonisation.
As the latest season of Severance rolls out, a show about a team of office workers whose memories have been surgically divided between their work and personal lives, another Australian actor, Dichen Lachman, joins us from London.
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Cult British director Mike Leigh reunites with actor Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets and Lies) in Hard Truths, a challenging yet compassionate exploration of modern family life in London.
Meet the filmmakers behind Sugarcane, nominated for Best Documentary Feature at this year's Oscars, it's a powerful portrayal of Native resilience and its exploration of the devastating legacy of Indian residential schools in Canada.
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Oscar nominated for Best International Feature, The Seed of the Sacred Fig is a film shot in secret that centres on paranoia and political unrest in Tehran. Jason meets director Mohammad Rasoulof.
A conversation with Oscar Best Actress nominee Fernanda Torres about her role in I'm Still Here, a film that follows a mother whose life is shattered during Brazil's military dictatorship in 1971.
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Pamela Anderson and Gia Coppola on The Last Showgirl, a film about a seasoned showgirl who must plan for her future when her show abruptly closes after a 30-year run.
British director Andrea Arnold on Bird, a surprising coming-of-age fable starring Nikiya Adams and Barry Keoghan.
Actor Claes Bang discusses William Tell, where a once peaceful hunter leads his people in rebellion in 14th-century Switzerland. (WILLIAM TELL will be available to rent or buy on all the usual digital platforms from March 10.)
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Superstars Renee Zellweger, Leo Woodall and Chiwetel Ejiofor discuss Bridget Jones: Mad About the Boy.
Cannes Best Director winner Miguel Gomes on Grand Tour, a dream-like road movie through Asia about romantic obsession and colonial decadence.
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The first terrorist attack to be broadcast live around the world happened in 1972, on September the 5th, at the Munich Olympics. A group of Palestinian gunmen took 11 members of the Israeli team hostage, and all of those ended up dead. In this episode, Jason speaks to Swiss-German director Tim Fehlbaum, and cast including an excellent Peter Saarsgard, about September 5, a film that takes us back to those events through the eyes of the sports journalists who brought the news to the world.
Plus, a very different film, made by a couple of friends who are a kind of Swedish Hamish and Andy, comedy duo Filip Hammar and Fredrik Wikingsson. Their film, The Last Journey, is about Filip's ageing father Lars, a former French high school teacher who has become pessimistic about his life and his frail body. Filip decides his father needs an intervention, and with Fredrik in tow, they hire an old Renault and takes Lars south for a road trip to France, a country his father has always associated with summer holidays, family and freedom.
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Dutch writer-director Halina Reijn discusses her film Babygirl, a sexual thriller with Nicole Kidman in the lead as a powerful CEO who embarks on an affair with her much younger intern.
Academy Award winning director Pablo Larrain on Maria, where Angelina Jolie stars as the world's greatest opera singer, Maria Callas.
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Two major films this awards season focus on visionary artists...
A Complete Unknown, starring Timothée Chalamet, depicts the story of folk hero Bob Dylan's transition to electric music. Jason interviews director James Mangold and actor Edward Norton, who plays Pete Seeger in the film.
The Brutalist centres on a great modernist architect trying to rebuild his life after fleeing post-war Europe. Fresh from winning several Golden Globe Awards, director Brady Corbet joins us.
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Lea Glob on her mesmerising doc Apolonia, Apolonia, which covers 13 years in the life of talented artist Apolonia Sokol.
Producer Nadim Cheikhrouha discusses the inventive Oscar-nominated documentary Four Daughters, about a Tunisian woman whose two eldest daughters were radicalised by Islamic extremists.
Ukrainian filmmaker Mstyslav Chernov's Oscar-nominated 20 Days in Mariupol is a raw, unflinching account of the Ukrainian siege through the courageous reporting of AP journalists.
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French director Justine Triet on Anatomy of a Fall, which received five Oscar nominations and took home the Palme d'Or in 2023. The film is an electric courtroom drama, about a woman suspected of her husband's murder and the various moral dilemmas that arise.
Hollywood director Todd Haynes on his drama May December. Starring Natalie Portman and Julianne Moore, and also nominated for an Oscar, it unpicks the story of a married couple whose tabloid romance once gripped the world.
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Jesse Eisenberg discusses his film, A Real Pain, which he directed and stars in alongside Kieran Culkin, in a story that centres around mismatched cousins travelling through Poland in honour of their grandmother.
Robert Eggers and Lily-Rose Depp on Nosferatu, a gothic tale that delves into the obsession between a tormented young woman and the vampire infatuated with her.
U.S. filmmaker Sean Baker discusses his Palme d'Or winning film Anora, which follows a sex worker's unexpected Cinderella story.
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Hugh Jackman and Ryan Reynolds, stars of Deadpool and Wolverine, discuss coming together in the latest in the Marvel superhero film franchise.
Jason is joined by Australian director George Miller and producer Doug Mitchell to talk Mad Max: Furiosa, the latest instalment in the post-apocalyptic action adventure film franchise starring Chris Hemsworth and Anya Taylor-Joy.
We meet director David Leitch and producer Kelly McCormick, the husband and wife filmmaker duo behind The Fall Guy, a rom-com about a stuntman, set in Sydney, starring Ryan Gosling and Emily Blunt.
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Iranian film My Favourite Cake explores issues of freedom, second chances, and women's rights in a country with strict restrictions. Travel-banned directors Maryam Moghaddam and Behtash Sanaeeha join us from Tehran, where they are awaiting trial for themes they've brought to the surface in this film.
Taiwanese superstar Eddie Peng on his role in Guan Hu's Black Dog, about a troubled loner who returns to his hometown and bonds with a wild dog, a film that took home the Un Certain Regard prize at Cannes.
Presenter, Jason Di RossoProducer, Sarah CorbettSound engineer, Tegan NichollsExecutive producer, Rhiannon Brown - Visa fler
