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PODCAST | Niklas Pollmann interviews Ursula Meier, director and writer of the film The Line.

Niklas talks with Ursula Meier about her current work The Line that was premiering in the Main Competition section of the 72nd Berlinale. Among other things, she talks about the importance of symbolism in her work, the use of situative comedy elements, and collaborations with actresses Stéphanie Blanchout and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi.

The Line : The tense relationship between the impulsive 35-year-old musician Margaret and her 55-year-old mother Christina erupts at the very beginning. Margaret beats up her mother so badly that she is forbidden by the police to come within 100m of her mother and her family. Her little 12-year-old sister Marion henceforth draws a line with paint around the perimeter of her mother’s house, defining a symbolic front line.

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PODCAST | Niklas Pollmann interviews Dale Dickey, actress of the film A Love Song.

Dale Dickey in a personal interview about her role as a widow in Max Walker Silverman’s A Love Story, her actor’s life between Indie cinema and “money jobs”, her first kissing scene and the reprentation of underprivileged classes in cinema.

A Love Song : Widow Faye (Dale Dickey) lives alone in her trailer on the American prairie, waiting for her childhood sweetheart Lito (Wes Studi) to come along on a date. When Lito arrives, they talk nostalgically about their past, grow closer and try to find out to what extent they can also have a future together.

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PODCAST | Niklas Pollmann interviews Max Walker-Silverman, director and writer of the film A Love Song.

Niklas talks with Max Walker-Silverman about the challenge of his first feature film, his roots and the crew of A Love Song.

A Love Song : Widow Faye (Dale Dickey) lives alone in her trailer on the American prairie, waiting for her childhood sweetheart Lito (Wes Studi) to come along on a date. When Lito arrives, they talk nostalgically about their past, grow closer and try to find out to what extent they can also have a future together.

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PODCAST | Niklas Pollmann interviews Charlotte Gainsbourg, actress of the film Passengers Of The Night.

Niklas talks with Charlotte Gainsbourg about Mikhaël Hers directing style, her natural acting and the utopia of the special dramaturgy of Passengers Of The Night.

Passengers Of The Night : The 80s of Mitterand’s France: Elisabeth has just been abandoned by her husband and is trying to support her two children when she gets a job at a nighttime radio station and with it perhaps her professional destiny: listening to other people and their problems. Talulah, an 18-year-old fixer who is also asked to talk about her life on the radio show, quickly becomes part of Elisabeth’s family.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Dennis Ruh, director of the European Film Market.

Dennis Ruh, director of the European Film Market, discuss his idea of future film markets and explains how a new edition of an on line EFM was built and adapted for the second time, but with more knowledge and insightful decisions.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Maggie Peren, director of the film The Forger.

Maggie Peren with The Forger gets a double result: narrating a captivating real story happened towards the end of WWII in Berlin, and showing us how actual and unfortunately contemporary some dynamics in power and social politics still are. We talked about these issues in an interesting and enlightening chat at Berlinale 2022.

The Forger : Berlin, 1942. A young Jewish man, Cioma Schönhaus, refuses to let the Nazis take away his love of life. When he discovers his talent for forging documents – especially passports – he sees this as the ideal way to help not only himself but also others escape deportation. Thanks to his knack for creating new identities, he dares to venture out of hiding and navigates round the authorities with inventiveness and charm. He and his friends Det and Gerda are hiding in plain sight. Cioma even catches a fragile glimpse of love in seemingly hopeless times. But the more lives the trio saves, the more the noose tightens around them. Directed by Maggie Peren, who also wrote the screenplay, Der Passfälscher is based on a true story, the inspirational power of which she highlights and honours. One of the film’s great achievements lies in its cast which brings together terrific young actors Luna Wedler, Jonathan Berlin, and Louis Hofmann as the 21-year-old forger. The choice of Hofmann is impeccable, his previous work having demonstrated a rare ability to embody a certain mix of reluctant bravery, innocence and even purity in the darkest of circumstances – undoubtedly one of the keys to survival.

To discover more about the 72° edition of Berlin International Film Festival, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Quentin Dupieux, director of the film Incredible but true.

Quentin Dupieux is the only director who can manage to depict real life issues such as the fear of time passing or getting old or a middle life crisis by using a surreal tone. The director does his magic with Incredible but true in Berlinale Special Gala at the 72 Berlinale and talks about his creative process and how his crazy ideas become a film.

Incredible but true : Alain and Marie are viewing a house in a quiet suburb. The real estate agent warns them that what lies in the cellar will turn their lives upside down. Amazed and excited by what they discover, the couple decides to buy the property. When Alain’s brash boss and his girlfriend come over for dinner, the temptation to share the incredible (but true!) piece of information is strong. Marie, however, is determined to keep it a secret. She becomes obsessed with the cellar and cannot help going down there … One of cinema’s most eccentric creators, Quentin Dupieux has a seemingly inexhaustible source of bizarre ideas on which he builds with comic brilliance. He has once again generously given his cast an opportunity to play unforgettably quirky characters and really, what more fun could an actor have? Contributing to a satirical discourse on human obsession with their youthful performances, popular French actors Alain Chabat and Léa Drucker lend their relatable traits to the couple facing an unusual challenge. Anaïs Demoustier’s portrayal of a promiscuous young woman has just the right amount of intelligent lightness. And what can one say about Benoît Magimel’s unhinged performance other than: this is clearly an actor at the peak of his career, who is capable of anything.

To discover more about the 72° edition of Berlin International Film Festival, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Li Ruijun, director of the film Return to Dust.

An unexpected love story between two outsiders, two people whose family and society targeted as unworthy. That’s the heart of Return to Dust by Li Ruijun. The chinese director talks about love that springs among two farmers. As in his previous films, the director chooses non professional actors and get his family and friends involved in the shooting. China is a country where the majority of population is composed by farmers and their stories should be portrayed more often on the big screen.

Return to Dust : Humble, unassuming Ma and timid Cao have been cast off by their families and forced into an arranged marriage. They have to combine their strength and build a home to survive. In the face of much adversity, an unexpected bond begins to blossom, as both Ma and Cao, uniting with Earth’s cycles, create a haven for themselves in which they can thrive. A story about eternal love, against the odds.

To discover more about the 72° edition of Berlin International Film Festival, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Denis Coté, director of the film That Kind of Summer.

When he noticed that sex, sexuality and nudity were missing from french-canadian cinema, Denis Coté decided it as about time to discuss this topic through a film. And so he directed That Kind of Summer, film in competition at the 72nd Berlinale, where he explored the many nuances of women sexuality with the story of three women going to a rest home to “cure” their sexual issues. Coté’s look is never judgmental and tries to be as delicate and impartial as possible. To try and have a more truthful film, Coté surrounded himself with women, including his editor and co-writer so to avoid looking at things in a way a “white straight male with privileges” would.

That Kind of Summer : Three hypersexual women are spending 26 days in a quiet house by the lake. They are: Léonie (serious), Eugénie (impulsive) and Gaëlle aka Geisha (flirtatious). All three are here voluntarily. They are being supervised by a social worker and, less closely, by a therapist. The motto of the undertaking: “hypersexuality is not a disease”. The aim of this experiment is not to heal but rather to enable a frank exploration of different experiences, forms and extremes of desire. It all takes place half-naked and fully clothed, verbally and physically, and in imagination and reality. The fact that the project staff are, if not affected, at least a little moved, is hardly surprising and corresponds to the viewer’s situation. Unlike any other proponent of contemporary cinema, Denis Côté succeeds in creating dynamic cinematic spaces (sets, settings, constellations) in which experiences (psychological, physical, intellectual) may be seen as a game and, precisely because of this, can be used to pursue reality. Sometimes at a discreet distance, at others transgressively close, the camera swirls around the protagonists in this dance of trauma and lust. Norms are deconstructed, the present becomes tangible and the future conceivable. Cinema is – vibration.

To discover more about the 72° edition of Berlin International Film Festival, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Ruben Fleischer, director of the film Uncharted.

“It’s not about the treasure but the quest and the people you share the adventure with!” : the lesson we learn thanks to Uncharted by Ruben Fleischer with Tom Holland playing the adventurer protagonist Nathan Drake. Inspired by the popular Videogame, Fleischer applied to the film all the cinematic homages and action movies rules to build the perfect combination that could talk to both the videogame fans and the blockbuster fans. In Rome to present the film with the Colisseum as a background, Fleischer also talks about how this experience on the film enriched his career as filmmaker.

Uncharted: Street-smart Nathan Drake (Tom Holland) is recruited by seasoned treasure hunter Victor “Sully” Sullivan (Mark Wahlberg) to recover a fortune amassed by Ferdinand Magellan and lost 500 years ago by the House of Moncada. What starts as a heist job for the duo becomes a globe-trotting, white-knuckle race to reach the prize before the ruthless Santiago Moncada (Antonio Banderas), who believes he and his family are the rightful heirs. If Nate and Sully can decipher the clues and solve one of the world’s oldest mysteries, they stand to find $5 billion in treasure and perhaps even Nate’s long-lost brother…but only if they can learn to work together.

To watch the trailer, click here.

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