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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Shirin Neshat, director of the film Land of Dreams.

A conversation with Shirin Neshat about her talest feature, Land of Dreams, presented in the Orizzonti Extra section of the 78th Venice Film Festival. Neshat is one of the foremost multimedia artists of our time. This is the Iranian filmmaker’s second feature directorial effort and her first American production. Surrealist, dystopian but also intimate and autobiographical, Land of Dreams is an exploration of the powerful nature of dreams and the subconscious, and an investigation on what it means to be a free American. In this interview, Neshat talks about the origins of this idea, its autobiographical elements and some of the characteristic traits of her art.

Land of Dreams is a political satire set in the near future where America has closed its borders and become more insular than ever. The story follows Simin, an Iranian American woman, on a journey to discover the core of what it means to be a free American. She works for the most important government agency of her time, the Census Bureau. In efforts to understand and control its populous, the government has begun a program to record the citizen’s dreams. Simin, one of the Census Bureau’s lead dream catchers, is unaware of this devious plot. She herself, being among the last immigrants allowed into the country, is torn between her appreciation for America’s acceptance, compassion for those whose dreams she is recording and a truth she must find within. Playful and poignant, Land of Dreams acknowledges the greatness of the American experiment while offering a warning beacon for what could come.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Dayna Goldfine, director of the film Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song.

An interview with Dayna Goldfine, co-director with Dan Geller of the documentary Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song, presented out of competition at the 78th Venice Film Festival. As the title suggests, the documentary is about the great poet/singer/songwriter but it also explores the life of a song as iconic as “Hallelujah,” the many ways it shape and moulds over the years, becoming its own thing. In this interview, Goldfine offers insight into the multi-year work that this project required and the challenge of working within a structure that is different from the typical biographical documentary. She also shares her personal memories of first becoming aware of Leonard Cohen and more.

Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, a Journey, a Song : This feature-length documentary explores the life of singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen as seen through the prism of his internationally renowned hymn, Hallelujah.

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PODCAST | Live from the 78th Venice Film Festival, it’s the BIG FRED VENICE! A daily journal from the oldest and one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world with news, reviews and all kinds of fun stuff, hosted by Matt Micucci and Nicolò Comotti. In this episode, we finally get to talk about movies, including the opening film of the festival, Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers. Other films discussed include The Promises by Thomas Kruithof, Jane Campion’s latest The Power of the Dog and more.

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PODCAST | Live from the 78th Venice Film Festival, it’s the BIG FRED VENICE! A daily journal from the oldest and one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world with news, reviews and all kinds of fun stuff, hosted by Matt Micucci and Nicolò Comotti. In this episode, we break the ice by introducing the official competition and Orizzonti juries, the career achievement Golden Lion to Roberto Benigni, talk about some of the films we’re most looking forward to seeing in Venice this year and more.

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PODCAST |Matt Micucci interviews Tea Lukač, director of the film Roots.

A conversation with filmmaker Tea Lukač about her latest feature film Roots. The film is screening as part of the East of the West Competition at the 2021 Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Roots is an intimate portrait where different sets of people share stories and conversate at the back of a moving car, as it crosses the town of Dvor in Croatia. In this conversation, Lukač talks more about this concept and her personal connection to the Dvor, the importance of nature in this film and more.

Roots : A silent landscape flashes past the windows of a moving car conveying different sets of passengers. The conversations veer towards such diverse themes as carol-singing, nuclear waste, and the dangers of hornets’ nests. Tea Lukač’s anthropological probe gets by with a minimum of cinematic devices in order to deliver a focused study of the phenomena of memory, history and tradition.

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PODCAST |Matt Micucci interviews German Golub, director of the film My Dear Corpses.

A conversation with director German Golub, part of this year’s Future Frames line-up. Future Frames is a showcase of young promising European directors organized by the European Film Promotion in collaboration with the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The film directed by Golub that will be screened as part of this program in Karlovy Vary is titled My Dear Corpses.

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews José Pablo Escamilla, director of the film Mostro.

At the Cineasti del Presente Competition, at the 74th edition of the Locarno Film Festival, the young director José Pablo Escamilla brings his Monster, a film that wants to shed light on a serious problem in Mexico: a generation in disarray, trapped in reality without prospects, in a society where, literally, disappearing is the order of the day.

Monster : A couple of teenage factory workers spend their afternoons consuming chemical substances in a self-constructed shack. The ecstatic trips and the visions they experience make them forget their noisy industrial city life for a moment. But when Alexandra disappears right before his eyes, Lucas must deal with a corrupted system. His visions decay, just like the monster that imprisons them.

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PODCAST |Matt Micucci interviews Mathias Seebacher, director of the film Home Is Where the Scars Are From.

A conversation with director Hyun Lories, part of this year’s Future Frames line-up. Future Frames is a showcase of young promising European directors organized by the European Film Promotion in collaboration with the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The film directed by Lories that will be screened as part of this program in Karlovy Vary is titled Versailles.

Home Is Where the Scars Are From : Andi shares a deserted building with a group of fellow-squatters he considers his family. One day his sister turns up unexpectedly with her small son Levi, seeking refuge from her abusive boyfriend; she has nowhere else to turn. So Andi suddenly finds himself in the role of uncle, the squat is transformed into an alternative kindergarten, and the estranged pair become the siblings they once were.

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PODCAST |Matt Micucci interviews Hyun Lories, director of the film Versailles.

A conversation with director Hyun Lories, part of this year’s Future Frames line-up. Future Frames is a showcase of young promising European directors organized by the European Film Promotion in collaboration with the Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. The film directed by Lories that will be screened as part of this program in Karlovy Vary is titled Versailles.

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