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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Steve McQueen, director and of the film Small Axe.

Oscar®-winning Steve McQueen is one of the 15th Rome Film Festival’s guests of honor. At the Festa to receive the Career award, the British filmmaker presents his anthology film series Small Axe. The series is composed by 5 films and among those, three of them Lovers Rock, Mangrove and Red, White and Blue are both in the New York FIlm Festival program and in the Rome Film Festival 2020. On the red carpet of the Rome Film Fest, Steve MacQueen explains why Small Axe had to become a 5 films Anthology series and couldn’t be a TV series as he originally thought.

Small Axe is an upcoming British-American anthology film series, created and directed by Steve McQueen. It is set to premiere on November 15, 2020 on BBC One in the UK and on November 20, 2020 on Amazon Prime Video.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Roberto Salinas, director of the film Cuban Dancer. 

A conversation with Roberto Salinas, director of Cuban Dancer, presented at Alice nella Città, the parallel and independent section of the Rome Film Fest 2020. The film is a documentary and a coming of age story of a promising Cuban ballet dancer. In this film, Solinas talks about meeting the protagonist Alexis, how his theatre background influences his documentary filmmaking, his interest in dance at large and more.

Cuban Dancer: A passionate coming of age ballet tale, danced between Cuba and the United States, in a time of change.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Francesca Borghetti, director of the film Climbing Iran. 

A conversation with Francesca Borghetti, director of Climbing Iran, presented at the Rome Film Fest 2020. The documentary follows Nasim Eshqi, an Iranian free climber who defies social, cultural and natural odds opening trails in mountains all over the world. In this interview, the filmmakers talks about meeting her, her encounter with Iranian culture, overcoming challenges of making a movie in the wild and more.

Climbing Iran: A film about Iranian free climber Nasim Eshqi, who has strong hands and pink nail polish, and for whom free climbing is an expression of freedom and mountains her destiny.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Phyllida Lloyd, director of the film Herself – La vita che verrà.

Herself, the fourth film by Mamma Mia and The Iron Lady director Phyllida Lloyd, presented at the 18th edition of Alice nella Città and Rome Film Festival, is not only a tale about solidarity among women but also among people. It shows you how you can get even stronger than you thought you could become, when people support your cause. You become even more resilient, you become TITANIUM!! Written by the film’s protagonist Clare Dunne, Herself is a story of a woman who finds the strength to not only escape her violent past but to build a new life for herself and her daughters.

Herself – La vita che verrà: After a long time, Sandra finally finds the courage to escape with her two daughters from her violent husband. Fighting against a society that seems unable to protect her, and with the intent to create a warm environment for the girls, she decides to build a house with her own hands, just for them. During the undertaking, she will find the strength to rebuild her life and will discover herself, thanks to the support of a group of people willing to help her.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Thomas Vinterberg, Mads Mikkelsen e Magnus Millang, director and actors of the film Another Round – Un altro giro.

Another Round, Thomas Vinterberg’s new film which is already the winner of London Film Festival is about 4 friends experimenting the daily use of alcohol as the key to happiness and freedom in life. At the Rome Film Festival, Thomas Vinterberg with two of his main actors Mads Mikkelsen and Magnus Millang, explains how the film is not about alcohol or a mid-life crisis but about how to deal with losing control.

Another Round – Un altro giro: There’s a theory that we are born with a small amount of alcohol in our blood, and that modest inebriation opens our minds to the world around us, diminishing our problems and increasing our creativity. Heartened by that theory, Martin and three of his friends, all weary high school teachers, embark on an experiment to maintain a constant level of intoxication throughout the workday. Initial results are positive, and the teachers’ little project turns into a genuine academic study. But the experiment will have unexpected consequences.

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PODCAST | Filippo Guarna interviews the musician Thom Yorke.

Thom Yorke attends the red carpet of the Rome Film Festival to partecipate to a close encounter with the festival’s artistic director Antonio Monda, in which they were to discuss soundtracks. In this interview, Thom Yorke talks about how his approach to music-videos has developed over a career more than twenty-five years long, from Radiohead to Paul Thomas Anderson’s Anima.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Max Barbakow, director and of the film Palm Springs.

“Weddings, love, family, exes, heartbreak, a whole lot of pain and suffering, a fair amount of joy, babies, beers, burritos, death, war, violence, and finally – sex, drugs, and a big rock with a hole in it. Most of life can be boiled down to these words. So can Palm Springs” Max Barbakow’s words to explain Palm Springs, his own film revisitation of the “Groundhog Day” dynamic, say it all. With the film participating at the 15th Rome Film Festival, the director, via zoom, describes the genesys of the film, its exploring the darker turn the whole repeating the same “wedding day in Palm Springs” can take and investigating the possible consequences of accepting to never live the future again. Andy Samberg, Cristin Milioti and J.K. Simmons are essential for the film’s success, dramedy rhythm and balance.

Palm Springs: When carefree Nyles and reluctant maid of honor Sarah have a chance encounter at a Palm Springs wedding, things get complicated when they find themselves unable to escape the venue, themselves, and each other.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Harry Macqueen, director and of the film Supernova.

“I wanted to make a film with a strong message that was encouraging, stimulating, provocative and timely, about the lengths each of us will go for the person we love” explains Harry Macqueen while describing the genesys of Supernova, screening at the 15th Rome Film Festival in the official selection. Stanley Tucci and Colin Firth ( who are close friends in real life) play a couple who has to face the most painful of the battles: one of them is getting sicker everyday due to dementia and the other one has to learn to let him go. What does it mean to really love someone? Harry Macqueen leaves this question and its thousand answers open in the air as he relies on two geniuses to do it all.

Supernova: It is Autumn and Sam and Tusker, partners of twenty years, are on holiday. They are travelling across England in their old campervan visiting friends, family and places from their past. Since Tusker was diagnosed with young-onset dementia two years ago, their lives have had to change. Jobs have been given up and plans put on hold. Their time together is now the most important thing they have. As the trip progresses however, their individual ideas for their future begin to collide. Secrets are uncovered, private plans unravel and their love for each other is tested like never before. Ultimately, they must confront the question of what it means to love one another in the face of Tusker’s irreparable illness.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Elisabeth Wilke, director of the film Animali. 

A conversation with Elisabeth Wilke, director of Animali, a short presented out of competition in Alice nella Città, the parallel strand of the 2020 Rome Film Fest.

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PODCAST| Samantha Sartori interviews Michael Dweck and Gregory Kershaw, directors of the film The Truffle Hunters.

We meet with Gregory Kershaw and Michael Dweck, co-directors of The Truffle Hunters, a documentary showing at the 58th New York Film Festival. This year, the first under the direction of Dennis Lim, was an unforgettable and successful edition, showing online nationwide but also on the big screen at drive-ins in Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx, thanks to the the New York Hall of Science in Queens, in association with Rooftop Films, a New York City non-profit film organization best known for its outdoor Rooftop Films Summer Series. We spoke with Gregory Kershaw and Michael Dweck about the rise of The Truffle Hunters, selected last-minute at Sundance Film Festival 2020, with the final cut finished the day before the world premiere, and how after the outstanding reception at Sundance, The Truffle Hunters showed at the most prestigious festivals all around the world: Cannes, Telluride, Toronto, and New York Film Festival among others. Finally, in a few weeks the movie will be shown where everything started, at the Torino Film festival not far from where the eccentric protagonists of this timeless fairytale still live and hunt the most precious truffle in the world: the white truffle of Alba. The interview is a testimony of the genuine and moving connection the directors were able to establish with the protagonists of the movie during the three years of shooting. The perfect sound design and cinematography will make you taste the “Diamond of the Kitchen” with your eyes and ears.

The Truffle Hunters: Deep in the forests of Piedmont, Northwest Italy, a handful of men, seventy or eighty years young, hunt for the rare and expensive white Alba truffle—which to date has resisted modern science’s efforts at cultivation. They hunt through the night, guided by a secret culture and training passed down through generations, as well as by the noses of their cherished and expertly trained dogs. They are the last of their kind, carrying on a way of life that is rapidly disappearing in the modern world. Here, there is a commitment to a simpler life, where handmade food, daily labor as exercise, a connection to community and nature, and a passion for the hunt are the mechanics that keep people physically and mentally young. It’s a world built on the simple pleasures that have been forgotten in the modern era: the quiet simmering of freshly-picked tomatoes; the hours spent in conversation at the dinner table; communing with beloved animals, treated as kin; the mystical forest, where truffles grow at the roots of tall oak trees that breathe in the night; receiving a truffle-tinged blessing at church; or the unaware belting of an off-key folk tune on the drive home. However, climate change is drying up the lands where rains used to be plentiful. Deforestation is destroying trees whose symbiotic roots have given life to truffles for centuries. The young people, who would be carrying on their family’s traditions, have left the small towns in search of stable work. The Truffle Hunters captures this endangered culture at a key moment in time: for the men who have made truffle hunting their lifelong passion, their way of life, and very existence, is under threat. 4 As truffles become more and more elusive, the competition has grown fiercer and these men keep the secrets of their hunting grounds to themselves. They lead their closest friends astray with little white lies, hunt at night without flashlights, and cover up their footprints and car tracks behind them. They have little trust in each other, let alone an outside world that constantly threatens to impinge upon their way of life. In The Truffle Hunters, audiences can, for the first time, take a peek into this secretive world, driven by incredible characters with an unshakable passion coursing through their veins. These ageing men who inhabit a fairy tale land may just hold something much more valuable than the prized delicacy they hunt: the secret to a rich and meaningful life.

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