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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Tomasz Wysokinski, director of the film Walk with Angels.

Director Tomasz Wysokinski tells Fred FIlm Radio how this important film was born from the meeting with the protagonist Jerry. Walk with Angels highlights a problem that is well known in South Africa, but which is hardly ever talked about.

Walk with Angels : A hero of the fight against apartheid is looking for a baby abducted in the township of Soweto. The search leads him into the dark corners of Johannesburg and the painful spaces of his soul.

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Hannes Halldórsson, director of the film Cop Secret.

Hannes Halldórsson signs Iceland’s first action film, in competition at the Locarno Film Festival. A fun parody of 1980s American crime fiction, starring a tough cop who faces a terrible threat to the city of Reykjavik and the attraction for his new colleague. We asked Halldórsson, former Icelandic goalkeeper, how the idea for this film came about, and whether it is more difficult to shoot a low-budget action film or save a Messi penalty …

Cop Secret : A tough ‘supercop’, in denial about his sexuality, falls in love with his new partner while investigating a string of bank robberies where nothing seems to have been stolen.

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Alexander Zeldovich, director of the film Medea.

A chat with Alexander Zeldovich, director of Medea, in competition at the 74th edition of Locarno Film Festival. Zeldovich tells us about the intentions of his film, the first meeting with the lead actress Tinatin Dalakishvili and the greatness of a character that depicts the elusive and mysterious female nature.

Medea : For the sake of her future with the father of her two children, Medea commits a crime so grave that he withdraws from her. Feeling betrayed for having paid an enormous price for happiness, she tries to fill the void with sex and religion; but resentment drives her to revenge.

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PODCAST |Matt Micucci interviews Jerry Hoffmann, director of the film I Am.

A conversation with director Jerry Hoffmann, 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 Hoffmann that will be screened as part of this program in Karlovy Vary is titled I Am.

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PODCAST |Matt Micucci interviews Irene Albanell Mellado, director of the film Silent Club.

A conversation with director Irene Albanell Mellado, 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 Irene Albanell Mellado that will be screened as part of this program in Karlovy Vary is titled Silent Club.

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Peter Brunner and Franz Rogowski, director and actor of the film Luzifer.

Director Peter Brunner, and actor Franz Rogowski are on Fred FIlm Radio to talk about their new film Luzifer. An intense drama shot in the middle of nature, which tells the spirituality and love that binds a mother and a child.

Luzifer : Inspired by the true story of an exorcism. Johannes, a man with the heart of a child, lives secluded in an Alpine hut with his mother. Daily life is governed by prayer and rituals. But suddenly, modernity intrudes into their world of nature and divine worship. A tourist development threatens to poison their paradise and awaken the devil.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Stefan Jäger, director of the film Monte Verità.

A conversation with Stefan Jäger, director of Monte Verità, from the Piazza Grande section of the 2021 Locarno Film Festival. The film is based on the true story of a real place in the festival’s region of Switzerland that at the turn of the 20th century served as a progressive and spiritual retreat for intellectuals and artists. Jäger talks about the film and its psychoanalytical dimension, working with screenwriter Kornelija Naraks on the project and the excitement of making a film set in this fascinating period in history.

Monte Verità: 1906, young mother Hanna wants nothing more than to break free from her bourgeois role and its social constraints. She flees to the Monte Verità sanatorium, where, surrounded by idyllic Ticino nature and courageously devoting herself to her art, she is soon faced with a wrenching decision. Can she return to her family without giving up on herself?

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Rok Biček, director of the film Penalty Shot.

A conversation with Rok Biček, director of the acclaimed 2013 film Class Enemy. He recently presented the short film Penalty Shot in the Pardi di domani: Concorso Corti D’Autore strand of the 2021 Locarno Film Festival. The short prefaces a feature-length project that the Slovenian director is currently working on. In this interview, Biček talks about both the short and this upcoming project, as well as Kristian Novak’s literary work that it is based on and his own interest in revisiting history.

Penalty Shot : Two best friends spend an afternoon on a football field, dreaming of making it onto the local team. But dreams come with a price; when a group of older boys interrupt their game, one of them sees it as an opportunity to prove himself, while the other one senses something more sinister is at play.

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Rob Jabbaz, director of the film The Sadness.

The most splatter film of the 74th edition of the Locarno Film Festival comes from Taiwan and is the first work by Canadian director Rob Jabba. The director told us how his film was born, what his cinematographic influences are, and why he decided to rely on old school visual effects.

The Sadness : A young couple is pushed to the limits of sanity as they attempt to be reunited amid the chaos of a pandemic outbreak. The streets erupt into violence and depravity, as those infected are driven to enact in the most cruel and ghastly things imaginable. Murder, torture, rape and mutilation are only the beginning. The age of civility and order is no more. There is only ‘The Sadness’.

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