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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Dénes Nagy, director of the film Natural Light.

Dénes Nagy put in Natural Light, presented in the Tflab section of the Torino Film Festival, the stories his grandpa told that he imagined , as a kid, as adventurous and magic. the reality of war was not at all magic, and he shows us in the film how cruel and illogical war is in the eyes of a man who did not know why he was there and to do what.

Natural Light : 1943. World War II, in the occupied territories of the Soviet Union. István Semetka is a Hungarian peasant who serves as a corporal in a special reconnaissance unit for partisan groups. On the way to a remote village, his company falls under enemy fire. When the commander is killed, István must overcome his fears and take command of the unit as he is drawn into a chaos over which he has no control.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Aleksandra Terpinska, director of the film Other People.

An interview with Polish filmmaker Aleksandra Terpinska, director of Other People, presented at the 2021 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. In this interview, Terpinska discusses her feature film debut and the novel/epic poem by Dorota Masłowska that it is based on. She also talks about working extensively with music on what is essentially a hip-hop musical melodrama on contemporary malady and talks about some of the major themes that the movie discusses.

Other People : Wannabe underground rapper Kamil dreams to record his first hip-hop album, but even his social media addict girlfriend Anecia has no faith in his efforts. Superbly rich lady Iwona has everything that she possibly dreamed, but is too bored to continue luxury games on a trophy wife’s playground. Kamil still lives on his mother’s caring shoulders and meets desperate Iwona for steamy bang encounters without a single drop of love. Everyone needs a different perspective to evaluate life’s tracks, gifts, kicks, punches and traps.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Uģis Olte, director of the film Upurga.

A conversation with Latvian director Uģis Olte, who presented his fiction feature debut Upurga at the 2021 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. In this interview, Olte talks about working within the horror genre and the origins of his concept for this movie. He also discusses his background in documentary, his disregard for social realism in contemporary fiction film and more.

Upurga : Andrejs works as an adventure trip guide, but is afraid of adventures in real life. Unfortunately this is exactly what awaits him when his influencer sister disappears after having gone to shoot a vegan sausage commercial on a river full of rapids. Facing the primeval natural forces, the worst fears of Andrejs are awakened when he embarks on a pre-doomed journey that takes his body and soul to the utmost limits. Andrejs does not know that all the paths in this peculiar forest take you exactly to what you are looking for – but in order to find it, you first have to get lost…

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Arantza Santesteban Perez, director of the film 918 Nights.

Arantza Santesteban Perez tells us the process of creation of 918 Nights, revealing how she faced the recollection of a very hard part of her life, the years in prison, how this affected her political persona and why she chose to build a seemingly emotionless rendition of her life, which is effective and intense.

918 Nights : Through the testimonies of soldiers who participated in a colonial occupation of the Israeli army, Avi Mograbi investigates the functioning of this practice and the logic behind it. Working on materials relating to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which has been underway for 54 years now, the director draws a sort of “Military Occupation Manual”.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Sebastian Meise, director of the film Great Freedom.

An interview with Sebastian Meise, director of Great Freedom, recently presented at the 2021 Torino Film Festival. The film is a prison-set LGTBQ drama about friendship and love, against the backdrop of postwar Germany and the little-known Paragraph 175 provision of the German Criminal Code. In this inteview, Meise talks about researching Paragraph 175, directing a movie within the limitations of a prison setting and working with the cast, including Franz Rogowski, who won an acting award for his performance in the film at the Torino Film Festival.

Great Freedom : In postwar Germany, Hans is imprisoned again and again for being homosexual. The one steady relationship in his life becomes his long time cell mate, Viktor, a convicted murderer. What starts in revulsion grows to something called love.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Avi Mograbi, director of the film The First 54 Years – An abbreviated Manual For Military Occupation. 

Avi Mograbi uses the for of the tutorial in his The First 54 Years to explain what happened and how, and to which extent errors were made in Isarel about the Palestinian territories issue, in the first 54 years of occupation. An interesting talk.

The First 54 Years – An Abbreviated Manual For Military Occupation : Through the testimonies of soldiers who participated in a colonial occupation of the Israeli army, Avi Mograbi investigates the functioning of this practice and the logic behind it. Working on materials relating to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which has been underway for 54 years now, the director draws a sort of “Military Occupation Manual”.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige.

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige talks with Angelo Acerbi about the reasons of their work, her approach to memory and the reason why we keep them , we save them and why we are sometimes afraid of sharing them.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Isabel Ivars, Juror of 39th Torino Film Festival.

Isabel Ivars talks about the difference that in these last years appear in the world of film marketing and sales, and also about her approach to her task here at the torino Film Festival, to judge and award the feature films included in the International Competition.

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