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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Kerry Condon, actress of the film The Banshees of Inisherin.

An interview with Kerry Condon, actress of The Banshees of Inisherin, the new film by Martin McDonagh. The film was presented in competition at the 79th Venice Film Festival. Condon talks with us about connecting with her characters and identifying with her journey, as well as experiencing the intensity of working on set in a small island off the coast of Ireland.

The Banshees of Inisherin: Set on a remote island off the west coast of Ireland, The Banshees of Inisherin follows lifelong friends Padraic and Colm, who find themselves at an impasse when Colm unexpectedly puts an end to their friendship. A stunned Padraic, aided by his sister Siobhan and troubled young islander Dominic, endeavours to repair the relationship, refusing to take no for an answer. But Padraic’s repeated efforts only strengthen his former friend’s resolve and when Colm delivers a desperate ultimatum, events swiftly escalate, with shocking consequences.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci presents Big FRED Venice, FRED Film Radio’s daily and live-streamed show from the 79th Venice Film Festival.

Matt Micucci presents Big FRED Venice, FRED Film Radio’s daily and live-streamed show from the 79th Venice Film Festival. In this sixth episode, Matt is all alone again and talks about some of the big films that have been screening on the Lido recently. Among them, Darren Aronofsky’s The Whale, Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin, Emanuele Crialese’s Immensity and more, with some banter in between.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Sergei Loznitsa, director of the documentary The Kiev Trial.

Ukrainian filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa joins us to talk about The Kiev Trial, his latest film, constructed entirely out of archive footage of the Kiev Nuremberg Trials of 1946. The film premiered out of competition at the 79th Venice International Film Festival, out of competition. The director talks about the specific historical moment that the film documents and also talks about how its significance, particularly in light of the ongoing Ukrainian War.

The Kiev Trial, also known as the ‘Kiev Nuremberg’, took place in January of 1946 in the Soviet Union, and was one of the first post-war trials convicting German Nazis and their collaborators. 15 criminals, guilty of atrocities, which were later identified by the Nuremberg trials as “crimes against humanity”, faced justice in case No.1679 “On the atrocities committed by fascist invaders on the territory of the Ukrainian SSR.” Using unique, previously unseen, archive footage, Sergei Loznitsa reconstructs key moments of the proceedings, including statements of the defendants and testimonies of the witnesses, survivors of Auschwitz and Babi Yar among them. The film lays bare the ‘banality of evil’ and is devastatingly relevant today, as Ukrainian people are once again being subjected to the violence of barbarian invaders.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Adila Bendimerad and Damien Ounouri, directors of the film The last queen.

An interview with Adila Bendimerad and Damien Ounouri, directors of The last queen. The film premiered at the Giornate degli Autori, the parallel and independent section of the 79th Venice International Film Festival, and Bendimerad also plays the film’s leading role. Together, they talk about defying conventions in Algerian cinema, not least of all by doing a period adventure drama. They also talk about the story behind the myth of Queen Zaphira, and they describe the film a passion project, on which they worked for seven years..

The last queen: Algeria, 1516. The pirate Aroudj Barbarossa frees Algiers from the tyranny of the Spanish and seizes power over the kingdom. Rumor has it he murdered King Salim Toumi, despite their alliance. Against all odds, one woman will stand up to him: Queen Zaphira. Part history, part legend, this woman’s journey tells of a struggle, of personal and political turmoil endured for the sake of Algiers.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci presents Big FRED Venice, FRED Film Radio’s daily and live-streamed show from the 79th Venice Film Festival.

Matt Micucci presents Big FRED Venice, FRED Film Radio’s daily and live-streamed show from the 79th Venice Film Festival. In this fifth episode, Matt is alone again, with the exception of a special guest appearance from Filippo Guarna, FRED’s videomaker and part of our radio’s wonderful behind-the-scenes team. Matt also talks about some of the big films that have been screened recently at the Lido, including Santiago Mitre’s Argentina, 1985, Paul Schrader’s Master Gardener and more, and makes a plea to PRs to let him interview the folks of The Banshees of Inisherin.

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Laura Poitras, Nan Goldin, Harry Cullen, Megan Kapler, director and actors of the film All the beauty and the bloodshed.

Laura Poitras brings a new documentary to Venice Film Festival, a new film that’s competing for the Golden Lion in the Mostra. All the beauty and the bloodshed tells the story of photographer Nan Goldin, how she fight for the visibility of people with AIDS and then decided to launch PAIN. It’s an organization that tries to make the world aware of the thousands of people that became addicted to drugs because of the pharmaceutical companies owned by the Sackler family. In FRED we talk to the director and three of the subjects of the documentary, including Nan Golding herself.

All the beauty and the bloodshed: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed is an epic, emotional story about internationally renowned artist and activist Nan Goldin told through her slideshows, intimate dialogue, ground-breaking photography and rare footage of her fight to hold the Sackler family accountable for the overdose crisis. The film interweaves Goldin’s past and present, the deeply personal and urgently political, from P.A.I.N.’s actions at renowned art institutions to Goldin’s photography of her friends and peers through her devastating The Ballad of Sexual Dependency and her legendary 1989, NEA-censored AIDS exhibition Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing. The story begins with P.A.I.N., a group she founded to shame museums into rejecting Sackler money, destigmatize addiction and promote harm reduction. Inspired by Act Up, they orchestrated protests to expose the Sacklers and the crimes of their Purdue Pharma, makers of OxyContin. At the core of the film are Goldin’s art works The Ballad of Sexual Dependency; The Other Side; Sisters, Saints and Sibyls; and Memory Lost. In these works, Goldin captures her friendships with beauty and raw tenderness. These friendships, and the legacy of her sister Barbara, anchor all of Goldin’s art.

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Soudade Kaadan, director of the film Nezouh.

Syrian director Soudade Kaadan talks to FRED about how she managed to make her second film after winning the ‘Lion of the Future’ award in Venice. In her second visit to the Mostra she’s premiering Nezouh [Orizzonti Extra], a story about emancipation an freedom set in the Syrian war

Nezouh: An allegorical tale of female emancipation set amidst the Syrian conflict in Damascus, about a family who decides to stay behind in the besieged area. When a shell rips a giant hole in the roof of the building where 14-year-old Zeina and her family live, they are suddenly exposed to the outside world. One day a young boy living nearby lowers a rope through the opening in the family’s roof and Zeina discovers her first taste of freedom. Whilst her father is determined to stay in his home and not become a refugee, this new window opens up an unimaginable world of possibilities to her and her mother who now face a dilemma of whether to stay or leave.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Timothée Chalamet, Luca Guadagnino and Taylor Russell, actor, director and actress of the film Bones and all.

For his first American film, set in the 80’s Midwest, Luca Guadagnino chooses to adapt Bones And all, a book by Camille DeAngelis. In competition at the 79th Venice Film Festival, the film is, to quote Guadagnino’s words about impossible love, about the disenfranchised, and about the dream of finding a home.” Bones and All is a love story among Maren ( Taylor Russell) and Lee ( Timothée Chalamet), two outcasts from society, because of their cannibal instincts. The actors along with Luca Guadagnino comment on what it means to become adults in this coming-of age story and how love can be found by everyone, even “monsters”.

Bones and all: First love finds Maren, a young woman learning how to survive on the margins of society, and Lee, an intense and disenfranchised drifter, as they meet and join together for a thousand-mile odyssey that takes them through the back roads, hidden passages, and trap doors of Ronald Reagan’s America. But despite their best efforts, all roads lead back to their terrifying pasts and a final stand that will determine whether their love can survive their otherness.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Joel Edgerton, actor of the film Master Gardener.

An interview with Joel Edgerton, lead actor in Paul Schrader’s new film, Master Gardener. The film was presented out of competition at the 79th Venice Film Festival, where the filmmaker also received a career achievement award. In this interview, Edgerton talks about working with Schrader and the things he admires about his movies, as well as the character he portrays in Master Gardener, finding a way to accept and forgive his difficult past.

Master Gardener: Narvel Roth is the meticulous horticulturist of Gracewood Gardens. He is as much devoted to tending the grounds of this beautiful and historic estate, as pandering to his employer, the wealthy dowager Mrs. Norma Haverhill. When Mrs. Haverhill demands that he take on her wayward and troubled great-niece Maya as a new apprentice, chaos enters Narvel’s spartan existence.

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PODCAST | Simone Soranna interviews Sébastien Lifshitz, director of the documentary Casa Susanna.

Sébastien Lifshitz tells us how he discovered the story of Casa Susanna and hot it was important for him to try to make a movie about that.

Casa Susanna: In the ‘50s and ‘60s, deep in the American countryside at the foot of the Catskills, a small wooden house with a barn behind it was home to the first clandestine network of cross-dressers. Diane and Kate are now 80 years old. At the time, they were men and part of this secret organization. Today, they relate this forgotten but essential chapter of the early days of trans-identity in this film. It is a story full of noise and fury, rich in extraordinary characters, including the famous Susanna, who had the courage to create this refuge that came to be known as Casa Susanna.

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