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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata, directors of the film Where Is This Street? Or With No Before And After.

João Pedro Rodrigues and João Rui Guerra da Mata tell us about their unique film, which retraces the footsteps of Paulo Rocha’s The Green Years through the streets of Lisbon. A film that is a modern metropolitan symphony but also a great declaration of love for the Portuguese Cinema and life.

Where Is This Street? Or With No Before And After: From our window one can see a set of the 1963 film The Green Years. This was our starting point: guided by Paulo Rocha’s gaze, we look back at the places of that film. The successive geological, urbanistic and social strata of Lisbon, besieged by the pandemic that interrupted the shooting, are drawn out in front of our camera, like a contemporary jazz impro from a score written in 1963.

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Carlos Conceição, director of the film Nação Valente (Tommy Guns).

In competition at the 75 Locarno Film Festival, Carlos Conceição brings his personal reflection on history. We talked with him about the structure of his film Tommy Guns, his influences, zombies and more…

Nação Valente (Tommy Guns): In 1974, the Portuguese and their descendants fled Angola where nationalist groups gradually claimed their territory back. A tribal girl discovers love and death when her path crosses that of a Portuguese soldier. Then, a Portuguese squad is barracked inside a wall from which they will have to escape once the past comes out of the grave to claim its long-awaited justice.

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Bianca Lucas, director of the film Love Dog.

Bianca Lucas, brings her first feature film Love Dog in competition at the Cineasti del Presente section, at the 75 Locarno Film Festival. She tells us about the long journey she made making this film, which is also a sensory journey through the sense of trauma and grief that goes through society today, and not just in America. But, as Bianca says with her film, this journey leads in the end to a great life teaching.

Love Dog: After finishing a job on a Texas oil rig, John returns to his home town in Mississippi – where he will finally confront his grief after his girlfriend’s death. Clumsily trying to distract himself from his own pain in an equally traumatized society, he will come to find that grace and healing come at their own pace, and through unlikely meetings of souls.

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Andrew Legge, director of the film Lola.

We meet Andrew Legge, director of LOLA, his debut film, presented out of competition at the Locarno film festival. Andrew tells us about the extraordinary work behind this particular science fiction film, which mixes actual historical footage with those of an alternate reality in which Nazism has won, and You Really Got Me by the Kinks has become a song from the 40s.

LOLA : England, 1941, sisters Thomasina and Martha have created a machine that can intercept broadcasts from the future. This delightful apparatus allows them to explore their inner punk a generation before the movement comes into existence. But with World War II escalating, the sisters decide to use the machine as a weapon of intelligence, with world-altering consequences.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Nicolai Johnansen, director of the film If You Knew. 

Nicolai Johnasen with his film If You Knew, in the Furture Frames section fo the Karlovy vary Film Festival, introduces a new approach to the classic dramatic situation of recovering after a break up. As he tells us, he was interesting in the stalking aspect of it, when one cannot help but searching what the other persone is doing now, and he uses this as the starting point of the narrative, with a touch of thriller and action too.

If You Knew: It’s been a few months since Leonora last heard from her ex-boyfriend, but she can’t get him out of her mind. If only he knew that the things she did in the past were because of her illness. How desperately she would like to look him in the eyes and explain it all. But her yearning for forgiveness could violate the personal boundaries of the one she so desperately loves.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Max Ovaska, director of the film Carrier. 

Max Ovaska tells us the story of a woman, alone and pregnant who is a drug smuggler and risks it on a one last trip, close to the end of her pregnancy. Max has influences on action films and thriller and his direction shows it. We talked about this and more.

Carrier: Janika is in the advanced stages of pregnancy, a condition she exploits in order to smuggle drugs from Tallinn to Helsinki, since pregnant women don’t have to go through customs. As her date approaches, and with a new job waiting, Janika is nevertheless determined to do one last deal. But soon she feels the first contractions.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Martin Kuba, director of the film Vinland.

Martin Kuba, with Vinland, in the Future frames section of the Karlovy Vary Film Festival, gives a new take on the tragic tales of immigration narrating the arc in a man’s life, when he is exploited by the Russian mafia in the Czech Republic. We talked with Martin about his necessity in making this film and in the importance of history, when he repeats itself.

Vinland: Like many others, Daniil has decided to leave his native Georgia and move to Prague in search of better pay. Originally a teacher, he finds a job with Ukrainian laborers controlled by a Russian boss called Sergei and thus becomes a cog in the machinery that takes advantage of the work of illegal immigrants… Vinland looks at the lives of people who exist all around us but about whom we know so little because their identities disappear the moment they relinquish their passports to the mafia who are interested only in profit.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Magdalena Chmielewska, director of the film Lullaby.

Magdalena Chmielewska brings on the screen her own story, having suffered from insomnia as a child, in her film Lullaby, in the Future Frames section of the Karlovy Vary film festival. She is helped in this fascinating tale by an incredible young actress, Magdalena Zak, whose face is incrediby expressive and strong, and upsetting as well.

Lullaby: As the rest of the world falls asleep, Eva stays awake. In order to get at least a little bit closer to that elusive slumber, she spends her nights in other people’s houses, quietly watching their sleeping inhabitants. Not only is Eva’s ever-growing sleep deprivation a source of fatigue, but it also causes her to see the world differently as its real contours are increasingly distorted.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Lukas Kacinaukas, director of the film I Was Max.

Lukas Kacinauskas brings on the screen some aspects of the new way of meeting up, in the time of digital apps in the gay world, which are truthful and taken form personal experiences. He talks about the new and only way to meet new people in the era of covid and social networks in a intelligent, well written and well acted way.

I Was Max: One evening that means a lot for Max. It’s the first time he dares to go on a date arranged on the internet. The moment he gets into Tadas’s car, he embarks on a journey into the unknown. A sensitive look at the process of self-acceptance, at the moment when we have to stop hiding and to accept responsibility for who we truly are – and not to be ashamed of it.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Brenda Lien, director of the film First Work Then Play.

Brenda Lien presents at Karlovy Vary her creative short film, in the Future Frames section, bringing us in a pop fantasy world of duties and demands and constrictions where a musician pressured to create cannot make it. A little autobiographical, as she explains, and very surreal.

First Work Then Play: After Maxi wins an important music award, the pressure for her to release an album only increases. But pressure equals crisis, crisis equals self-doubt, and self-doubt does not make for a creative atmosphere. Maxi’s inner child can lash out as much as it likes, but her inner cop won’t give it even a minute to play or relax. A playful, glitter-covered study of depression and burnout.

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