Filmmaker is happy to share the trailer premiere of Italian director Francesco Sossai’s second feature, The Last One for the Road. The film depicts the unlikely friendship between two alcoholic petty criminals, Carlobianchi (Sergio Romano) and Doriano (Pierpaolo Capovilla, One Dimensional Man bandmember in his film debut), and a soft-spoken architecture student named Giulio (Filippo Scotti). Loosely inspired by his the filmmaker’s own experience and rooted in his love for the northern Veneto region, The Last One for the Road premiered last year in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival, where Leonardo Goi sat down with […]
by Natalia Keogan on Apr 3, 2026
World premiering in Sundance’s NEXT category back in January, the trailer now arrives for director Babak Jalali’s feature debut Fremont. Co-written by Jalali and Italian filmmaker Carolina Cavalli, the Bay Area-set film stars newcomer Anaita Wali Zada, The Bear‘s Jeremy Allen White and On Cinema‘s Gregg Turkington. An official synopsis reads: Each morning Donya (Anaita Wali Zada) leaves her tight-knit community of Afghan immigrants in Fremont, California. She crosses the Bay to work at a family-run fortune cookie factory in San Francisco. Donya drifts through her routine, struggling to connect with the culture and people of her new, unfamiliar surroundings […]
by Natalia Keogan on Aug 2, 2023