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PODCAST | Zhana Kalinova – 27 Times Cinema #Venezia78

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Dennis Trillo, actor of the film On the Job: The Missing 8.

A conversation with Dennis Trillo, actor in Erik Matti’s new film, On the Job: The Missing 8. The film was presented in the Official Competition of the 78th Venice Film Festival. In this interview, Trillo talks about the physical nature of his character, what he immediately liked about the project and about working with the director Erik Matti.

On the Job: The Missing 8: Inspired by true events, the film chronicles the story of Sisoy Salas, a corrupt journalist seeking justice for his colleagues, and convict Roman Rubio, a hired gun who is regularly brought out of prison to perform assassinations.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Prapamonton Eiamchan, actress of the film Anatomy of Time.

A conversation with Prapamonton Eiamchan, actress of the film Anatomy of Time, directed by Jakrawal Nilthamrong and presented in the Orizzonti section of the 78th Venice Film Festival. In this film, Eiamchan how she became involved with the project, the similarities she discovered between her character and her personal self, and why so many people of her generation in the Philippines are turning to spirituality

Anatomy of Time: Two fragments in a woman’s life. Maem is a young woman in 1960s rural Thailand. Her clocksmith father imparts his philosophy onto his daughter, while tensions from the military dictatorship and communist rebels are rising. She is courted by two very different young men – a feeble rickshaw driver who is literally pushed aside by an ambitious and ruthless army chief. Fifty years later, the army chief has become a disgraced general. Maem nurses her abusive husband during his last days and looks back at her past filled with loss, suffering and joy. Beyond the nostalgia of Maem’s life, Wela is also a tangible interpretation of a generation that is slowly fading. On one level a deeply felt story of a woman, and on another, that of a country’s tragic past and its exploited people.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Ekaterina Selenkina, director of the film Detours.

A conversation with Ekaterina Selenkina, director of Detours. The film had its premiere in the International Critics’ Week strand of the 78th Venice Film Festival. In this interview, Selenkina talks about her extensive research into the dark web, the strong style of the film and whether she hopes Detours will inspire debates and discussions.

Detours: A sprawling meditation on the choreography of bodies in Moscow’s urban landscape, Detours depicts a new way of dealing illicit drugs via the dark web, the layering of physical and virtual realities, as well as a reflection on the poetics and politics of space. Taking place in sleepy neighbourhoods, among the concrete walls of high-rises, behind garages and amidst abandoned railroads, the film alternately follows and loses track of Denis, the “treasureman” who hides stashes of drugs all over the city.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Jan P. Matuszyński, director of the film Leave No Traces.

A conversation with Jan P. Matuszyński, director of Leave No Traces, in competition at the 78th Venice Film Festival. The director revisits a dark event in the history of Poland in 1983, where a high school student was brutally beaten by militia. In this interview Matuszyński talks about what prompted him to bring this story to the big screen, the themes of fear and trust, how this story relates to modern times and more.

Leave No Traces: Poland, 1983. The country is shaken by the case of Grzegorz Przemyk—a high school student beaten to death by militia. Based on true events, the film follows the story of Jurek—the only witness of the beating, who overnight became the number one enemy of the state. The oppressive regime used its whole apparatus—the secret service, the militia, the media and the courts—to squeeze Jurek and other people close to the case, including his parents and Przemyk’s mother, Barbara.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Rodrigo Plá, co-director of the film El Otro Tom.

A conversation with Rodrigo Plá, co-director with Laura Santullo of El Otro Tom, presented in the Orizzonti section of the 78th Venice Film Festival. The director talks with us about some of the themes of the movie, including theme of the excessive use of psychiatric medicines in childhood, the events in his personal life that prompted him to tell this story, the casting and more.

El Otro Tom: Elena is a single mother dependant on Social Services. Her son Tom has behaviour issues and is stigmatised at school as a ‘problem child’. An absent father further complicates their difficult relationship. Tom is diagnosed with Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and given psychiatric medication, but a strange accident alerts his mother as to their side effects. When she refuses to continue administering the drugs to him, Social Services threaten to take Tom from her.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Nadine Labaki, actress of the film Costa Brava.

A conversation with Nadine Labaki, history-making Lebanese filmmaker and actress in the Mounia Akl’s feature directorial debut Costa Brava, presented in the Orizzonti Extra section of the 78th Venice Film Festival. In this interview, Labaki talks about the similarities between the character she portays in the film – a music star who retreats to the wild with her family – and her own life and her collaboration with Akl. She also talks about her concerns with the current situation in Lebanon, including the recent tragedies and environmental issues, and shares whether she believes that art can help actuate change.

Costa Brava: The free-spirited Badri family have escaped the toxic pollution of Beirut by seeking refuge in the utopic mountain home they have built. But unexpectedly, a garbage landfill is built right outside their fence, bringing the trash and corruption of a whole country to their doorstep. As the trash rises, so do tensions between leaving or resisting, threatening their idyllic home and family unity.

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PODCAST |Matt Micucci interviews Teemu Nikki, director of the film The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic.

A conversation with Teemu Nikki, director of The Blind Man Who Did Not Want To See Titanic. The film was presented in the Orizzonti Extra section of the 78th Venice Film Festival. It follows a blind and disabled, who decides to travel to meet the woman he loves in person for the first time. In this interview, Teemu talks about the movie and also about the collaboration with Petri Poikolainen, an actor with multiple sclerosis. He also talks about the intensity of the film and its style, which sees its protagonist the focal point of attention and aims to see the story from a blind man’s perspective.

The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic: An intense movie, shot from a blind man’s perspective. An atypical action/thriller film about a man who has to go through hell to reach his loved one. Jaakko is blind and disabled, tightened to his wheelchair. He loves Sirpa. Living far away, they have never met in person, but they meet every day over the phone. When Sirpa is overwhelmed by the shocking news, Jaakko decides to go to her immediately despite his condition. In any case, he just needs to rely on the help of five strangers in five places: from home to taxi, from taxi to station, from station to train, from train to taxi and finally from taxi to… her.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Gábor Fabricius, director of the film Erasing Frank.

Gábor Fabricius stops by our Venice studio booth to tell us his transition from writer, to short filmmaker and eventually feature filmmaker with his debut Erasing Frank, here in Venice at the International Critics’ Week. Erasing Frank is a timeless story where the weapons of political oppressions are laid bare; a reminder to never give up – and always be alert.

Erasing Frank:1983, behind the Iron Curtain of Eastern Europe in Budapest. Frank is the charismatic singer of a banned punk band that carries the voice of their generation against a totalitarian regime. Taken by the police psychiatric hospital in an attempt to silence him, Frank will sacrifice everything to resist.

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PODCAST |Matt Micucci interviews Laurynas Bareisa, director of the film Pilgrims.

A conversation with Laurynas Bareisa, director of Pilgrims, presented in the Orizzonti section of the 78th Venice Film Festival. The film talks about a man and a woman’s investigation into the final hours of someone close to them, before he was brutally murdered. In this interview, Bareisa talks about some of the film’s main themes, including trauma and closure, as well as the spiritual dimension to its investigative structure and more.

Pilgrims: Indre and Paulius haven’t kept in touch lately; but as his foot is in a cast, she agrees to drive him out to a small town near the airport, where his brother and her boyfriend died. That evening they survey the air terminal where Matas arrived on a late flight. They go into a restaurant to ask for Ieva, who no longer works there. Paulius retraces Matas’ steps through the restaurant to a table where he and Vytenis got into an argument. Next morning an old lady shows them around a big family house for sale but refuses to follow them into the cellar, where they try to line up how the forensic photos on Paulius’ phone were taken. As they emerge, the old lady’s grandson, Jurgis, recognizes them. She kicks them out; but not before Paulius breaks the wing mirror off her car. Martynas arrives to sell a silver grey Audi. Paulius agrees to buy it only after he finds out what it is like to be locked in the trunk, as his brother had been. When they find Ieva working in a furniture store, Paulius demands to know why she did not call the police. The police arrive to arrest him for damaging the old lady’s car. Ieva tells Indre she witnessed what seemed to be only a typical bar fight.

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