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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews David Mitjans, board member of the BCN Film Festival.

A conversation with David Mitjans, board member of the Barcelona Film Festival in Spain. This year, the festival (also known as the BCN Film Festival) took place on April 15-23. Here, Mitjans tells us all about it, from the films that were presented, to how it faced the pandemic-times challenges and some of its most prestigious guests, including Isabelle Huppert and Johnny Depp.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Guido Hendrikx, director of the film A Man and a Camera.

A conversation with Guido Hendrikx, director of A Man and a Camera, screening at CPH:DOX this year. This is a provocative film with an original concept that sees the filmmaker himself showing up at people’s doorsteps, quietly pointing a camera at them and documenting their varied and sometimes surprising reactions. Hendrix talks with us about whether he sees this film as a provocation, what debates he believes this film will inspire and more.

A Man and a Camera is exactly what the title says it is. We are in a small village. A man walks around with a video camera. We only see the things – and the people! – that he films silently, right inside people’s own homes.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Ana Moreira, actress of the film Sombra.

A conversation with Ana Moreira, actress of Sombra, the Portuguese film that had its world premiere at this year’s BCN Film Festival. The film explores the grief of a mother who continues to fight to discover the truth about her son’s disappearance. In this interview, Moreira talks about working with Gascon to bring her character to life and the research this process involved. She also talks about the psychological aspect of working on a film exploring heavy themes and more, including her experience of working on livestream theatrical production throughout the times of COVID.

Sombra:  Years after her son’s disappearance, a mother keeps trying to find him after a kidnapping that justice cannot resolve, as she moves into a universe that wants to force her to mourn a child she believes is still alive. Based on real events.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Bruno Gascon, director of the film Sombra.

A conversation with director Bruno Gascon, director of Sombra, the Portuguese film that had its world premiere at this year’s BCN Film Festival. The film explores the grief of a mother who continues to fight to discover the truth about her son’s disappearance. In this interview, Gascon talks about the genesis of the project and the research that went into its construction. He also talks about working with lead actress Ana Moreira and through the early days of the pandemic.

Sombra:  Years after her son’s disappearance, a mother keeps trying to find him after a kidnapping that justice cannot resolve, as she moves into a universe that wants to force her to mourn a child she believes is still alive. Based on real events.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Bob Wells and Swankie, actors of the film Nomadland.

They not only brought their own van-life experience into Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland but Bob Wells and Swankie also gifted the film with two amazing performances as actors, playing with two times Oscar winner Frances McDormand. A few days before the Oscar night 2021 where the film is nominated in 6 categories, the two now actors speak about their experience in the film and how Nomadland changed people’s perception and prejudices towards their life style, nomadic life. Both Bob Wells and Swankie mixed their personal experience with some fictional ones written for the film and the result is a very close, touching and moving cinematic experience for the audiences. Nomadland will be out in cinemas in Italy on April 30th and will also be available on Disney + in the Star section.

Nomadland : Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. The third feature film from director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND features real nomads Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells as Fern’s mentors and comrades in her exploration through the vast landscape of the American West.

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To watch the trailer, click here.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews David Herdies and Georg Götmark, directors of the film Bellum – The Daemon of War.

A conversation with David Herdies and Georg Götmark, directors of Bellum – The Daemon of War. The film will have its world premiere in the International Feature Film Competition of the 2021 Visions du Réel. The documentary takes a meditative look at the theme of war, particularly by exploring the lives of three different characters who are linked to it in different ways, and via poetic narrative interludes. In this interview, the directors talk about the origins of their collaborations as well as those of this film, the points of view on the theme of war that Bellum offers and more.

Bellum-The Daemon of War :  War has always been the fate of humanity, its form evolving with “progress” over the ages. But the advent of artificial intelligence and the hyper-digitalisation of weapons is a game changer. In these new conflicts, which are increasingly remotely operated, the front seems to take the shape of a new demon. Bellum-The Daemon of War offers an equally chilling and fascinating consideration of this. 

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Volkan Üce, director of the film All-In.

A conversation with Volkan Üce, whose film All-In in the NEXT:WAVE section of CPH:DOX. The film follows the lives of two young men during the course of one summer, as they work in a Turkish all-inclusive hotel. In this interview, Üce talks about how he met the two protagonist of the documentary and his interest in pursuing this project, that is observational in nature. Among other things discussed in this chat is master’s degree in Political and Social Sciences influences his filmmaking.

All-in : Two young men have applied for jobs at an all-inclusive hotel to learn English and move on in life. 17-year-old Ismail settles down in the kitchen, while the slightly older Hakan would rather stay in his room and read Schopenhauer and dream of Hollywood than tend to his brain-dead job. We join them for an entire summer as they try to feel at home in the absurd microcosm of bikinis and slides, hot dishes and lethargic tourists. ‘Take a picture of yourself before you start work,’ says the hotel’s manager, ‘When the summer is over, you will be a different person’. These are valid words, but in a different way than the head of the discount luxury holiday residence imagines in Volkan Üce’s amusing coming-of-age story about modern alienation in the workplace. An existentialist comedy with palm trees, where Western ideas of happiness and freedom are hung out to dry under the scorching sun.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Tiny Mungwe, producer at STEPS.

A conversation with Tiny Mungwe, documentary and arts producer working at Social Transformation and Empowerment Projects (STEPS), where she produces a pan-African anthology of 30 documentaries from different African countries called Generation Africa. In this interview, she talks about STEPS and Generation Africa, offering specific examples of the work that has been done so far as part of the anthology through two of its documentaries, Zinder and The Last Shelter. Zinder, directed by Aicha Macky, is premiering in the International Feature Film Competition of Visions du Réel. The Last Shelter, directed by Ousmane Samassekou, is premiering in the main competition of CPH:DOX.

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