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PODCAST | Eduardo Cortes, director of Hablame de ti, tells us the challenges he faced to connect with younger audiences.

In this interview with Edu Cortes, director of Hablame de ti, Edu Cortes tells us that this movie was a big hit in Mexico when it was released last October, and this is not surprising because it is not easy to find coming of age in Mexican cinematography. Although less coming of age with LGBT themes. And yet, Hablame de ti conquers audiences, often young ones, wherever it is screened, as happened at the 38th edition of the Lovers Film Festival. We interviewed director Eduardo Cortes who told us how this film came about, the challenges it faced, and how his film wants to connect with younger audiences.

Hablame de ti: Chava starts getting messages from a secret admirer. In the process he’ll find that there are secrets in his family that will help him to discover who he really is.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Pablo Berger, director of the film Robot Dreams.

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Interview with Pablo Berger, director of Robot Dreams, presented at the 76th Festival de Cannes as a Special screening.

Robot Dreams: After reinterpreting the Brothers’ Grimm fable Snow White with his stunning debut feature Blancanieves, Pablo Berger creates his own magic again by turning a famous graphic novel into an animation film: Robot Dreams, presented at the 76th Cannes Film Festival as a special screening. As the film has no dialogues, the famous sentence “Silence speak louder than words” come easily to mind. But, since hopes and dreams are the drive in this Dog-Robot friendship story, we can feel that “Dreams speak louder than words”. Robot Dreams is a film for every audience and is the story of DOG, living in Manhattan, tired of being alone. One day he decides to build himself a robot, a companion. Their friendship blossoms, until they become inseparable, to the rhythm of 80’s NYC. One summer night, DOG, with great sadness, is forced to abandon ROBOT at the beach. Will they ever meet again?

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Wang Bing, director of the film Youth (Spring).

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Interview with Wang Bing, director of Youth (Spring), presented at the 76th Festival de Cannes in Competition.

Youth (Spring): Chinese director Wang Bing is back in competition at the Cannes Film Festival with a new film that tells the dark side of the world of work in China. We are in Zhili, 150km away from Shanghai. In this city dedicated to textile production, young workers come from all rural regions crossed by the Yangtze River. They are in their early twenties and share dorm rooms and snacks in the corridors. They work tirelessly one day to raise a child, buy a house or open their workshop. Between them, friendships and love stories are made and unmade according to the seasons, failures and family pressures. Wang Bing tells us about the film’s lengthy production, which required years of shooting and the trust of Zhili workers. Spring is the first of three parts of the film Youth, and it shows, in its cruel reality, the new generation of migrant workers in China’s garment industry.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Antony Chen, Zhou Dangyou, director and actress of the film The Breaking Ice.

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Interview with Anthony Chen and Zhou Dangyou, director and actress of The Breaking Ice, presented at the 76th Festival de Cannes in Un Certain Regard

The Breaking Ice: In his Gen Z “Jules & Jim” homage, The Breaking Ice, screening at the 76th Festival de Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section, Anthony Chen depicts two boys and a girl, in their early 20’s, bonding over a drunken weekend in cold wintry Yanji, a city on China’s northern border. Zhou Dangyou, who plays Nana, a charming tour guide, describe her character and how she’s fond of this role. Chen talks about Gen Z and how coming of age implies universal struggles that are common to every generation and every person in their post adolescence’s path to adult life.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Geng Zihan, director of the film A Song Sung Blue.

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Geng Zihan, the young Chinese filmmaker on the Croisette with her film A Song Sung Blue at the Director’s Forthnight, explains the narrative arc of Liu Xian, the lead character, and her evolution, also under the point of view of the visual choices in terms of photography, that help defining the world the girl lives in.

A Song Sung Blue: Fifteen year-old Xian goes to live with her father while her mother, a doctor, takes a job in Africa. Soon, she becomes fascinated by her father’s stepdaughter, a swaggering, liberated and slightly melancholic young woman.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Felipa Reis, Joao Miller Guerra, directors of the film Legua.

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Felipa Reis and Joao Miller Guerra are used to work together; this time they focus on Joao’s village, Legua, to tell a story about three women, the passing of time and the concept of family ties, in the widest meaning. of the word. There is a lot of each one of them , and of us, in this film, as they explained in this interview form the Directors Forthnight Beach, in Cannes.

Legua: At an old manor house in northern Portugal, Ana helps her friend, Emília, the elderly housekeeper who is determined to continue to keep the unoccupied house in order for the owners who are never there. As the seasons turn, Mónica, Ana’s daughter, challenges her mother’s choices and the three generations of women search to understand where they belong in a world that is rapidly fading, where the cycle of life is renovated only through inevitable endings.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Elene Naveriani, director of the film Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry.

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Elene Naveriani, director of one of the unexpected surprise at the Directors Forthnight on Cannes, analyses with Angelo Acerbi their film starting from the adaptation of the book it derivates; and the importance of casting, the unconscious but strong feminism of the lead character and the influence of their Georgian upbringing.

Blackbird Blackbird Blackberry: Etero, a 48-year-old woman living in a small village in Georgia, never wanted a husband. She cherishes her freedom as much as her cakes. But her choice to live alone is the cause of much gossip among her fellow villagers. Unexpectedly, she finds herself passionately falling for a man, and is suddenly faced with the decision to pursue a relationship or continue a life of independence. Etero must grapple with her feelings and decide how to find her own path to happiness.

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