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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Albert Serra, director of the film Pacifiction.

Albert Serra is a creative genius, a de-constructor of the classical filmmaking and a passionate director, in every way. He tells us about the way he made the film, his peculiar misuse of the screenplay, his very personal method in actors’ direction, in a film that is an overwhelming ride.

Pacifiction: On the French Polynesian island of Tahiti, the High Commissioner of the Republic and French government official DE ROLLER is a cal- culating man with flawless manners. His somewhat broad percep- tion of his role brings him to navigate the high end ’establishment’ as well as shady venues where he mingles with the locals. Especially since a persistent rumor has been going around: the sighting of a submarine whose ghostly presence could herald the return of French nuclear testing.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Malcolm Mc Dowell, awarded at the Torino Film Festival.

Malcolm Mc Dowell, at the torino Film Festival to receive the Stella della Mole Award for his career, is a nice man, with a lot to tell and many funny memories about his career. In this talk with Angelo Acerbi he goes back to the times of A Clockwork Orange and If, to recall how was it to shoot in the seventies and how political and intense those days were.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Takeshi Kogahara, director of the film Nagisa.

Takeshi Kogahara’s Nagita, a nostalgic and melancholic debut film about loss and guilt is in competition at the 40th Torino Film Festival after premiering in San Sebastian Film Festival. The director speaks about the reflection the film wants to promote and comment on the stylistic choices he made.

Nagisa: A young man who suffers from guilt related to his adored sister’s death encounters her ghost in a haunted tunnel. He makes repeated visits to the tunnel and re-experiences the past.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Luis Mandoki, director of the film Presencias.

At the 40th Torino Film Festival, in the Out of competition section Crazies, Luis Mandoki, director of Hollywood rom-coms such as Born Yesterday, Message in a Bottle and Angel Eyes talks about his first horror film, set in Mexico, Presencias, starring Academy Oscar nominee Oscar Yalitza Aparicio.

Presencias: Follows a man whose pregnant wife gets murdered and despite the police investigation, the truth is unknown. He tries to find what happened, which confronts him with situations of suspense and terror.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Maria Schrader, director of the film She Said.

At the 40th Torino Film Festival, Maria Schrader presents She Said, the film starring Carey Mulligan and Zoe Kazan, about the New York Times investigative reporters Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey who, on Oct. 5, 2017 broke a page-one story that shook the entertainment industry and reverberated throughout the country: “Harvey Weinstein Paid Off Sexual Harassment Accusers for Decades.” Maria Schrader confirms that the main drive of the film has always been to make it about the journalists and and all the women who stood up to tell their stories.

She Said:  Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement by Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey. A testament to the incalculable importance of investigative journalism, She Said details the journey of reporters and editors engaged in the unrelenting pursuit of the truth and highlights the courage of survivors and witnesses who chose to come forward to stop an accused serial predator from committing further harm. Together, their commitment and fortitude sparked a global conversation, helped propel the #MeToo movement, and fueled a reckoning of the system that had enabled him. At its heart, She Said is an inspiring true story about people, many of them women, many of them mothers, who summoned the courage to speak out and seek justice, not just for themselves but for those in the future, both in the U.S. and around the globe. The film is a compelling, moving reminder of the power of individual people, armed with determination and grit, to, together, change the world.

The film costars Oscar ® nominee PATRICIA CLARKSON (Shutter Island, Pieces of April) as New York Times then assistant managing editor Rebecca Corbett, Emmy winner ANDRE BRAUGHER (Homicide: Life on the Street, Thief) as New York Times then executive editor Dean Baquet, Tony winner JENNIFER EHLE (Zero Dark Thirty, Pride and Prejudice) as former Miramax employee Laura Madden, with Academy Award ® nominee SAMANTHA MORTON (Minority Report, In America) as former Miramax employee Zelda Perkins and Emmy and Golden Globe nominee ASHLEY JUDD (Double Jeopardy, Bug) as herself.

She Said is directed by Emmy winner MARIA SCHRADER (I’m Your Man, Unorthodox limited series) from a screenplay by REBECCA LENKIEWICZ, screenwriter of the Oscar ® winning film Ida. The film is produced by Academy Award ® winners DEDE GARDNER and JEREMY KLEINER for Plan B Entertainment and is executive produced by Oscar ® winner.

She Said Production Information: BRAD PITT and LILA YACOUB and by Oscar ® nominee MEGAN ELLISON and SUE NAEGLE for Annapurna Pictures. The film’s artistic team includes director of photography NATASHA BRAIER (The Neon Demon), production designer MEREDITH LIPPINCOTT (Never Rarely Sometimes Always) and costume designer BRITTANY LOAR (A Quiet Place Part II). The film is edited by HANSJÖRG WEIßBRICH (I’m Your Man) and the music is by three-time Oscar ® nominee and frequent Plan B collaborator NICHOLAS BRITELL (Moonlight, If Beale Street Could Talk, Don’t Look Up).

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Cyril Schäublin, director of the film Unrest.

After premiering at Berlinale last february, Unrest by Cyril Schäublin finally lands at the Turin Film Festival in Italy, the 40th edition, in the city where the director participated to the Torino Film Lab. Schäublin confirms the film to be a tale about anarchy and describe the genesis of it, starting from his family and grandma.

Unrest: New technologies are transforming a 19th-century watchmaking town in Switzerland. Josephine, a young factory worker, produces the unrest balance wheel swinging in the heart of the mechanical watch, getting exposed to new ways of organizing money, time and labor.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Don Hall, Qui Nguyen and Roy Conli, director and producer of the film Strange World.

Academy Award director Don Hall along with co-director Qui Nguyen and producer Roy Conli is in Rome to present Strange World, a an ecologist fairytale about a three generations of men meeting halfway: a grandfather, a father and a son fighting to save their marvellous and living strange world.

Strange World: The feature film introduces a legendary family of explorers, the Clades, as they attempt to navigate an uncharted, treacherous land alongside a motley crew that includes a mischievous blob, a three-legged dog and a slew of ravenous creatures. “Inspired by classic adventure stories,” said director Don Hall, “‘Strange World’ is an original animated adventure/comedy about three generations of the Clade family who overcome their differences while exploring a strange, wondrous and oftentimes hostile world.” The voice cast includes Jake Gyllenhaal as Searcher Clade, a family man who finds himself out of his element on an unpredictable mission; Dennis Quaid as Searcher’s larger-than-life explorer father, Jaeger; Jaboukie Young-White as Searcher’s 16-year-old son, Ethan, who longs for adventure; Gabrielle Union as Meridian Clade, an accomplished pilot and Searcher’s partner in all things; and Lucy Liu as Callisto Mal, Avalonia’s fearless leader who spearheads the exploration into the strange world. “Strange World” is helmed by Don Hall (Oscar®-winning “Big Hero 6,” “Raya and the Last Dragon”) and co-director/writer Qui Nguyen (co-writer “Raya and the Last Dragon”), and produced by Roy Conli (Oscar®-winning “Big Hero 6,” “Tangled”).

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Andriy Khalpakhchi, general director of the Molodist International Film Festival.

Andriy Khalpakhchi, juror of the Official Competition at the Lecce European Film Festival, is the general director of the Molodist International Film Festival, the largest film festival in Ukraine. We met him right at the European Film Festival in Lecce after a meeting dedicated to Ukrainian cinema. We talked to him about the new edition of Molodist, which will be held in December, about the importance of film festivals in supporting the cinematography of countries affected by the war, the age-old question of the distribution of foreign films in Ukraine and some advice for discovering Ukrainian cinema and culture.

Andriy Khalpakhchi has been the head of the Kyiv International Film Festival “Molodist” for many years. He was born on 4th March 1950, has a degree in bridge engineering and a PhD in technical sciences. Since 1989 he has dedicated his work to film, including the promotion of Ukrainian cinema internationally. He has been a member of numerous juries at international film festivals in Berlin, Moscow, Lagow, Oberhausen, Sochi, Bratislava, HantyMansiysk, Ischia, Karlovy Vary, Lecce and more. He is a member of the EFA and of the Ukrainian Film Academy. He was appointed a Cavalier of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres (France), was awarded the Golden Cross of Hungary, he’s a member of the Order of the Italian Republic and of the Order “For achievements” (Ukraine). He is also author of many articles about cinema.

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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Eddie Tamir, artistic director of the Jewish International Film Festival.

This year’s program includes 52 features films, documentaries, and series. All of them, with just one exception, are Australian premieres and many are coming from international film festivals. Eddie delves into some highlights of the program and talks about JIFF and its capacity to connect past and present, and very distant geographic locations thanks to its universal stories that feel personal and relatable.

JIFF is running nationally in Australia in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, Gold Coast, Hobart, and it will close in Perth on 7 December.

To discover more about the Festival, click here.

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PODCAST | Laura Della Corte interviews Verena Paravel, director of the film The Fabric of the Human Body.

In the interview with Verena Paravel director with Lucien Castaing-Taylor of The Fabric Of The Human Body at Festival dei Popoli we talked about a place that experiences daily confrontation with pain, illness, death, the extreme experiences of the human condition. Gradually overcoming all limits, without ever losing its compositional and rhythmic rigor, we talked about the fact that the film shows us how human flesh can become an extraordinary landscape that exists only through the gaze and attention of the other.

The Fabric Of The Human Body: A portrait of five hospitals in the northern districts of Paris, told through innovative medical imaging technologies, a means of creating a multifaceted portrait of the human body, the medical profession and the French capital. The room travels with an almost “Wisemanian” attitude moving through the corridors, passing from the clinics to the operating theaters to the morgue but then accompanies the probes, the scalpels, enters directly into the flesh, forces the eye to participate actively and extremely in the surgical operations and to overcome the limits of the visible and the bearable.

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