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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Fedra Fateh, deputy festival director of Torino Film Festival.

Fedra Fateh is the Deputy Director of Torino Film Festival 38. She organized three masterclasses on how cinema can change (and must change) the world. We talk with her about the last two masterclasses (with Moshen Makmalbaf, and Water Murch and Taghi Amirani) to dig into this statement and how her guests delivered it.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Maria Komninos, head of the Greek Film Archive.

Maria Komninos, head of the Greek Film Archive, talks with us about the restoration of long-lost film, The Apaches of Athens, a landmark Greek film recently screened in the Limited Edition of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival. Originally released in 1930, this is a landmark film in Greek film history, though it was lost for several decades. Komninos talks about what makes this film so important and takes us through the process that it led to its return to cinema screens. She also talks about the Greek Film Archive and comments on today’s challenges of the film preservation sector.

The Apaches of Athens: Oi Apachides ton Athinon [The Apaches of Athens] is the first screen adaptation of an operetta by Nikos Hadjiapostolou (libretto by Yannis Prineas) that premiered on 19 August 1921 to wild acclaim and remains celebrated for its revolutionary populist treatment of working-class characters – “Apaches” in this case comes from the French term for members of an underworld subculture of the period. The film takes liberties with the operetta plot while notably incorporating atmospheric scenes of daily life in Athens circa 1930.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Nisan Dağ, director of the film When I’m Done Dying.

A conversation with Nisan Dağ, director of When I’m Done Dying, presented at the 2020 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. The film explores the hip-hop culture of the slums of Istanbul, Turkey. In this interview, she talks about the significance of hip-hop in contemporary Turkey and her own connection with this culture. She also talks about her background in documentary and animation, how these experiences shaped When I’m Done Dying, and more.

When I’m Done Dying: Set in a rough neighbourhood of Istanbul, the story follows Fehmi (Oktay Çubuk), a talented 19-year-old rapper who is addicted to bonzai, a cheap synthetic and deadly drug, jeopardizing any success for his music career. Fehmi will cross paths with Devin (Hayal Köseoğlu), a 25-year-old upperclass DJ, who is also a lost soul. They will fall hard for each other, and by spending time together, they will find love and the inspiration they were lacking, which will be expressed through music. However, the simultaneously passionate and troubling relationship between this odd couple will soon become quite toxic.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Fedra Fateh, deputy festival director of Torino Film Festival.

Fedra Fateh , deputy director of the Torino Film Festival talks with Angelo Acerbi about the choice of Isabella Rossellini for the Stella Della Mole Award – why she is the right woman and artist to deserve it – and about the tribute that will be aired on November 27 on YouTube in her honour, with guests such as David Lynch and Guy Maddin.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Fedra Fateh, deputy festival director of Torino Film Festival.

Fedra Fateh beside being the Deputy Director of the Torino Film Festival is a lawyer, dedicated also to gender equality and human rights, In this first meeting with her, we start talking about the Women In Film masterclass, to then widen the talk to women misrepresentation in society and the critical situation about the perception of the body and the role of women in our capitalistic world, that creates an image of women objectifying the body completely and inoculating the concept of absolute beauty.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Cathy Brady, director of the film Wildfire.

After a successful participation at the TIFF, Cathy Brady lands “virtually” in Italy at the 38th Torino Film Festival, in competition with her debut film Wildfire. The film, which is produced by the italian Carlo Cresto-Dina from Tempesta film, can be described as a tale of sisterhood intertwined with the reality of Norther Ireland, its history and background. Wildfire focuses on two “Irish Twins” Lauren (Nora-Jane Noone) and Kelly (Nika McGuigan) who are as fragile as strong and went through a very difficult past. After being separated for a year, united again they start trying to face their past, identity and mental struggles. Cathy Brady reveals that Wildfire came out in an inusual way: first there were the two actresses and then the story organically came along. When the film was in the post-production stage, Nika McGuigan suddenly passed away due to a very aggressive cancer. Cathy Brady remembers her and the connection all three of them had on set that it’s reflected very beautifully in the film.

Wildfire: Lauren and Kelly are inseparable sisters who grew up in a small town in Ireland. Their lives go different ways after their mother dies and Lauren is left alone to face their family’s dark and traumatic past. One day, after having disappeared for over one year, Kelly suddenly returns home and after the initial tension, the two women regain the equilibrium that had perforce been lost. Closer than ever, Lauren and Kelly want to clear up their family’s secrets: nevertheless, their investigation isn’t well received in town, where spiteful talk scuttles the truth and those who are searching for it.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews the producer Stienette Bosklopper.

Stienette Bosklopper, producer with her company CIRCE Films in The Netherlands, is one of the members of the CNC Jury at Torino Film Lab 2020, to grant one project with financing for future development. We talk with her about this award, about the situation of ilm production in these times and also on the effects of theatres closures on the future of distribution.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Mike Goodridge, Artistic Director Macao International Film Fest.

Mike Goodridge is the artisti director of the Macao Int.l Film Festival , besides being a film producer and developer. At Torino Film Lab 2020 he is a juror for the Future lab awards; we talk about the criteria and aspect to consider when giving out such a ward. Besides that ,the talk focused also on the theatrical nightmare in the Covid era and the hopes for the future

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