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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Florent Gouelou, Pablo Pauly and Romain Eck, directors and actors of the film Three nights a week.

Florent Gouelou brings on screen, with Three times a week, a realistic love story between a straight guy and a drag queen, with taste, style and the right amount of lightness. We talked with him and the actors about this lack of melodrama and struggle that usually are present in such plots, and the contemporaneity of a generation that does not care about labels and social conventions.

Three nights a week: 29-years-old Baptiste is in a relationship with Samia when he first meets Cookie Kunty, a young drag queen from the Parisian scene who immediately mesmerises him. Initially motivated by the idea of a photography project revolving around Cookie, he immerses himself into this world, eventually embarking upon a relationship with Quentin, the young man behind the drag queen.

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Oliver Stone, Joshua Goldstein, Fernando Sulichin, director, screenwriter, producer of the film Nuclear.

Director Oliver Stone visits FRED alongside with screenwriter Joshua Goldstein and producer Fernando Sulichin to discuss ‘Nuclear’, a documentary out of competition in Venice Film Festival. Stone talks about the importance of boosting nuclear energy in times of energy crisis, and tries to denounce the tricks financed by oil companies aimed to destroy nuclear resources’ image

Nuclear: As fossil fuels continue to cook the planet, the world is finally becoming forced to confront the influence of large oil companies and tactics that have enriched a small group of corporations and individuals for generations. Beneath our feet, Uranium atoms in the Earth’s crust hold incredibly concentrated energy. Science unlocked this energy in the mid-20th century, first for bombs and then to power submarines and the United States led the effort to generate electricity from this new source. Yet in the mid-20th century as societies began the transition to nuclear power and away from fossil fuels, a long-term PR campaign to scare the public began, funded in large part by oil interests. This campaign would sow fear about harmless low-level radiation and create confusion between nuclear weapons and nuclear power. With unprecedented access to the nuclear industry in France, Russia, and the United States, director Oliver Stone explores the possibility for the global community to overcome challenges like climate change and reach a brighter future through the power of nuclear energy.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Teona Strugar Mitevska, director of the film The happiest man in the world.

After God exists, her name is Petrunya Teona Strugar Mitevska is back at representing society through the lens of satire and comedy. With The happiest man in the world, in the Orizzonti competition at the 79th Venice International Film Festival, the macedonian director relies once again on a female protagonist to analyze war, the Ex-Yugoslav past and what defines us:our ethnicity, religion, gender and what divides us or unites us.

The happiest man in the world: Asja, a 40-year-old single woman lives in Sarajevo. In order to meet new people, she ends up spending her Saturday in a speed dating event. She is matched with Zoran, a 43-year-old banker. However, Zoran is not looking for love, but forgiveness.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Patricia Clarkson, actress of the film Monica.

The nice and funny Patricia Clarkson revels her ideas and thoughts on the character she portrays in Monica, the new Andrea Pallaoro film, in Competition at the Venice Film Festival. Her sensibility is well known and we understand why while listening to her replies in this interview with Angelo Acerbi.

Monica: Monica is an intimate portrait of a woman who returns home after a long absence to confront the wounds of her past. Reconnecting with her mother and the rest of her family for the first time since leaving as a teenager, Monica embarks on a path of healing and acceptance. The film delves into Monica’s internal world and state of mind, her pain and fears, her needs and desires, to explore the universal themes of abandonment and forgiveness.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Darren Aronofski, Brendan Fraser and Samuel D. Hunt, director, actor and screenwriter of the film The whale.

Darren Aronofsky, with The Whale, brings at the Venice Film Festival an astounding monumental performance from Brendan Fraser, in a film that Samuel D. Hunt adapted from his own stage play. The three came to Fred Studio to tell us about the birth of a miracle of film such as this one.

The whale: A reclusive English teacher suffering from severe obesity attempts to reconnect with his estranged teenage daughter for one last chance at redemption.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Laura Dern and Zen McGrath, actors of the film The son.

Laura Dern and Zen McGrath are mother and son in the new film by Florian Zeller, The son, in competition at the 79th Venice International Film Festival. The two actors explain how Zeller’s film forces us to admit that sometimes Love is not enough when mental health problems are involved. Laura Dern unveils her approach to the character of this strong and fragile woman and mother while McGrath confesses how he managed not to get lost in his character’s depression and sadness and still get deeper into his feelings.

The son: A drama that follows a family as it struggles to reunite after falling apart. The Son centers on Peter, whose hectic life with his infant and new partner Beth is upended when his ex-wife Kate appears with their son Nicholas, who is now a teenager. The young man has been missing from school for months and is troubled, distant, and angry. Peter strives to take care of Nicholas as he would have liked his own father to have taken care of him while juggling work, his and Beth’s new son, and the offer of his dream position in Washington. However, by reaching for the past to correct its mistakes, he loses sight of how to hold onto Nicholas in the present.

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PODCAST | Laura Della Corte interviews Giorgio Ferrero, director of the film Happy Birthday.

In the interview with Giorgio Ferrero, director of Happy Birthday in the section International Critic’s Week, we talked about how communication has evolved through the figure of a pure white dancer.

Happy Birthday: Bianca celebrates her 22nd birthday in a small flat in a brutalist neighbourhood on the outskirts of Moscow. To the digital world, Bianca is Electa, known on social media for her touching dance performances and her obsession with the colour white. She was born in Norilsk, Siberia, one of the most polluted cities in the world, and is part of the international group of young people who gravitate to Radio Esperanza Libre, a podcast channel founded by Anita Lopez, a young environmentalist speaker based in Argentina. Anita and Electa met by chance on the internet because, in addition to their shared interest in environmental issues, they share a curious date of birth: 29 February. Electa’s network of virtual connections becomes the only possible escape route for Bianca, at a time when climate change is unfortunately not the only urgency around her. The podcast of Monday 28 February 2022 is an opportunity for Electa to raise a cry for help. Sometimes it is possible to build a concrete path of hope even through seemingly distant connections.

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PODCAST | Laura Della Corte interviews Sergio Trefaut and  Joana Bernardo, director and actress of the film A Noiva – The Bride.

In the Interview with Sergio Trefaut and Joana Bernardo, director and actress of A Noiva (The Bride) in the section Orizzonti, we talked about the decision to tell a story about an european teenager who has ruined away from home to marry a Daesh fighter.

A Noiva: A European teenager ran away from home to marry a Daesh fighter. She became a bride of the Jihad. Three years later, her life has dramatically changed. She is living in an Iraqi prison camp. Now she has two children to take care of and is pregnant again. She is a 20-year-old widow and soon will be put on trial in the Iraqi courts. What have the experiences of war and brainwashing done to her?

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PODCAST | David Bakum– 27 Times Cinema #Venezia79

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PODCAST | Kristina Horinkova – 27 Times Cinema #Venezia79

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