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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Ildiko Enyedi, director and president of international Jury of 39th Torino Film Festival.

Ildiko Enyedi is the head of the International Jury at the 39th Torino Film Festival. The famous and acclaimed film director shares with us the responsibilities she feels to carry while judging first and second feature films, knowing how much such decisions can influence the career of a first time director.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Selman Nacar, director of the film Between Two Dawns.

Selman Nacar has a law education and a passion for the issues of responsibility, guilt and redemption. In Between Two Dawns he treats all of them in a movie about a moral dilemma his lead character has to face. He explains his approach to the story and to the directorial choices in this chat with Angelo Acerbi.

Between Two Dawns: After a serious accident involving a worker in the family business, Kadir is forced to make a moral decision that will have a strong impact on his projects, on the lives of his loved ones and on that of the wife of the injured worker.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Micaela Gonzalo, director of the film La Chica Nueva.

Micaela Gonzalo talks about her intentions while filming La Chica Nueva, in competition at Torino Film Festival 39. She had a clear idea of the issues she wanted to address and the kind of film making she needed to perform in order to get that result. Let’s hear it form her voice.

La Chica Nueva: Jimena travels to Río Grande, on the island of Tierra del Fuego, the extreme south of Argentina, on a quest to join her half-brother Mariano. She has almost no money for her ticket but manages to finally arrive there, with the hope she will do better in that manufacturing region. The wind, the cold and the complex economic crisis form the background in which Jimena will develop her empathy and sense of belonging with regards to the people around her, as well as where she will learn to acknowledge and finally accept herself.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Garth Jennings, director of the film Sing 2.

Having a chat with Garth Jennings is a pleasure. He talks about his new animated film Sing 2 with such passion and fun that you cannot feel the same way. He tells us about the creativity and the expertise of his collaborators, about the musical choices and the new characters in a film that is a feast for the eyes and the heart.

Sing 2 : In Sing 2, Buster Moon and his cast of underdogs push their talents beyond their local theater, hoping for a shot to perform at the most prestigious venue in the entertainment capital of the world: The Crystal Tower Theater in glamorous Redshore City. But with no connections, they’ll first have to sneak into Crystal Entertainment Offices and impress the powerful and egotistical entertainment mogul — and likely gangster— wolf, Jimmy Crystal, to prove that they are worthy of his stage. Crystal will let them perform, on the condition that Buster convince the world’s most reclusive rock legend, lion Clay Calloway, out of his self-imposed seclusion after the death of his wife and persuade him to perform in the show.

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PODCAST| Cristiana Palmieri interviews Blerta Basholli, director and screenwriter of the film Hive.

Director and screenwriter Blerta Basholli shares with FRED that when she became familiar with Fahrije Hoti’s story she felt overwhelmed by the tenacity and the courage of this indomitable woman. Despite being a story profoundly rooted in the Kossovo’s culture and history, Hive is a universal powerful story.

Hive : The debut feature by Kosovo-born filmmaker Blerta Basholli is inspired by real-life beekeeper Fahrije Hoti. Seven years after Fahrije’s husband went missing in the Kosovo War, she is struggling to provide for her two children. Her plan to establish a women’s co-operative and sell ajvar (pepper relish) is met with scorn by men in her village. In this patriarchal place, a woman’s morals can be questioned for even the slightest show of independence. But Fahrije is no ordinary woman.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Srđan Keča, director of the documentary Museum of the Revolution.

A conversation with Srđan Keča, director of Museum of the Revolution, a new documentary presented at IDFA 2021. The film observes the life of marginalized people living on the old ruins of a ambitious title building, which was never completed. In this interview, Keča discusses the intersection of history and contemporary times, the dangers of gentrification and how he was able to establish a relationship with both the location and the protagonists of his documentary.

Museum of the Revolution : “The wind got up in the night and took our plans away,” reads the proverb in the opening titles of Museum of the Revolution. The words are a reference to the 1961 plan to build a grand museum in Belgrade as a tribute to Socialist Yugoslavia. It was supposed to “safeguard the truth” about the Yugoslav people. But the plan never got beyond the construction of the basement. The derelict building now tells a very different story from the one envisioned by the initiators 60 years ago. In the damp, pitch-dark building live the outcasts of a society reshaped by capitalism. The film focuses on a girl who earns a little cash on the street by cleaning car windows with her mother. The girl has a close friendship with an old woman who also lives in the basement. Against the background of a transforming city, the three women find refuge in each other.

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PODCAST| Matt Micucci interviews Christian Bräuer, President of CICAE.

A conversation with Christian Bräuer, President of CICAE, the International Confederation of Arthouse Cinemas. Here, Bräuer talks about the history and mission statement of CICAE and talks about this year’s edition of the European Arthouse Cinema Day, organized in partnership with Europa Cinemas, to promote European filmmaking and moviegoing.

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PODCAST| Cristiana Palmieri interviews Tuija Halttunen, director and screenwriter of the film How to Kill a Cloud.

Tuija Halttunen talks about the making of How to kill a cloud, exploring how she deals with the complex issue of science versus ethics, without forcing the audience to take a side. She also explores challenges and opportunities presented by the fascinating process of making the film while immersed in a cultural context that she had never explored before.

How to Kill a Cloud : Hannele Korhonen, a brilliant Finnish scientist, takes on a multimillion-dollar three-year project funded by the United Arab Emirates, to make rain in the desert. Korhonen sees it as an opportunity to further her research into clouds and their behaviour, and to bring about the seemingly impossible. But creating artificial rain may have unforeseen and unwelcome impacts. It soon becomes clear that her sponsors have their own agenda. Caught in a fiendish dilemma between research, finance, politics and ecosystems, Korhonen’s integrity is at risk. A fascinating and highly topical documentary.

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