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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Inna Sahakyan, director of the film Aurora’s sunrise.

In 1919 Hollywood made a film, Action of Souls, about the Armenian Genocide. The film’s protagonist was Aurora Madrigan, a true survivor who tried in every way to spread her story, to let the world know what was happening in her country in those years. Shortly after that, the film disappeared, and in 1994 only 18 minutes were found. Director Inna Sahakyan tells us about Madrigan’s dramatic struggle to survive the Genocide, about a mysterious missing film, and about the power of cinema to become the storyteller and keeper of history.

Aurora’s sunrise: Aurora lost everything during the Armenian Genocide. Four years later, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation, starring as herself in Auction of Souls. With a blend of animation, interviews, and surviving footage from her lost silent epic, Aurora’s Sunrise revives a forgotten story. The film was presented at the latest Annecy International Animation Film Festival and is Armenia’s candidate at the Oscar 2023.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Juraj Lerotić, director of the film Safe Place.

After winning three awards in the Locarno Film festival’s Cineasti del Presente competition this summer, Juraj Lerotić lands in the feature film competition at the 34th Trieste Film festival with his autobiographical debut film Safe Place – Sigurno mjesto. The film talks about a family and in particular, a man dealing with the suicide attempt of his brother. As the film talks about his own experience, Juraj Lerotić decided to also act in it. The director explains how Safe Place felt like a necessary project to realize: it was impossible not to think about what had happened so, it naturally and painfully became a film. As the film travelled along film festivals, from Locarno to Sarajevo and now Trieste, Lerotić describes his interactions with the audience and their reaction to this story. time, an enchanting and nostalgic look at a father-daughter relationship and a delicate coming-of-age.

Safe Place: A traumatic event creates a rift in the family’s everyday life. Their lives radically change, as if they are waging a war invisible to everyone else. The source of the story is autobiographical, the author/ director plays himself. Presented in the Filmmakers of the Present competition at the Locarno International Film Festival 2022, the film won awards for Best Emerging Director and Best Actor.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Damien Chazelle, director of the film Babylon.

What does real love mean? It means to be able to love somebody or something in all its aspects, the beautiful things and the extreme and dark sides. With his last film, Babylon, Damien Chazelle shows us, without filters, the dark side of the 20’s Hollywood and by doing so, declares his love for cinema no matter what. In Rome to present the film to the italian audience the director talks about his love for moving images and how he might be identifying himself with one of the film’s main characters, Manny ( Diego Calva).

Babylon: From Damien Chazelle, Babylon is an original epic set in 1920s Los Angeles led by Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva, with an ensemble cast including Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li and Jean Smart. A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.

To discover more about Babylon, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Lukas Dhont, director of the film Close.

After the successful premiere in Cannes in 2022 and its participation to many film festivals around the world, including Zurich Film festival and Alice Nella Città in Rome, Close by Lukas Dhont is finally coming out in italian cinemas. Dhont, in Italy to present the film, talks about being proud to belong to the great group of European directors like Ruben Ostlund and Alice Diop. Italian release – January 4th.

Close: The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Leo approaches Sophie, Remi’s mother. Close is a film about friendship and responsibility. A film by Lukas Dhont. Starring Eden Dambrine, Gustav De Waele, Emilie Dequenne, Lea Drucker, Leon Bataille, Kevin Janssens.

To discover more about Close, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Charlotte Wells, director of the film Aftersun.

Charlotte Wells’ first feature film, Aftersun, presented at the Cannes Film Festival and in Italy at Alice nella città, is finally on Mubi to be watched and appreciated. It is a first feature film which is, at the same time, an enchanting and nostalgic look at a father-daughter relationship and a delicate coming-of-age.

Aftersun: Sophie reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between miniDV footage as she tries to reconcile the father she knew with the man she didn’t.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Simone Gandolfo, President of the Valle D’Aosta Fim Commission.

Simone Gandolfo is the president of Valle D’Aosta Film Commission, one of the youngest, from one of the smallest regions of Italy, But this has not been an obstacle but more an inspiration and a push to do more and better, as he tells us in this interview.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Nevina Satta, President of the Sardinia Film Commission.

Nevina Satta, president of the Sardinia Film Commission, tells us with her usual enthusiasm about all the activities her film commission had in the past year and all there is to know about the next ones.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Rossella Gaudio at the Focus London 2022.

Rossella Gaudio, analyst consultant on regulatory changes of the Directorate general for Cinema and audiovisual of the Ministry of Culture of Italy, tells us about the state of the art of public film financing in Italy.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Roberto Lo Crasto, production manager of the Genova Liguria Film Commission.

Roberto Lo Crasto ist he production manager of the Genova Liguria Film Commission and here explains all the actions and help that his office can provide ( and has provided so far) to film and tv crews who decide to shoot in Liguria.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Luca Ferrario, Vice president of the Italian Film Commissions Associations and Director of the Trentino Film Commission.

Luca Ferrario is at Focus London at the same time as Vice president of the Italian Film Commissions Associations and Director of the Trentino Film Commission. In this talk he explains the sense of his presence at Focus and the developments of the activities of Trentino Film Commission in this last year.

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