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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Bill Ross and Turner Ross, directors of the film Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets.

Bill and Turner Ross always worked togehter: they are a four-hand entity that creates, directs and edits their films. In this specific case, editing has been a gigantic effort, the material was a lot , and the narartive sometimes improvised, but the idea of the final film was clear in the minds of both directors. Let’s hear it form their voices, in this interview with Angelo Acerbi at Berlinale 70.

Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets: In their films, the brothers Bill and Turner Ross often train their camera on simple people leading far from glamorous lives. In this film they find their protagonists in the shadow of the glitzy world of Las Vegas, in a bar called Roaring 20s, which is on the brink of closure. Always observing, but nonetheless in the thick of it, they accompany the last 24 hours in and around the bar, enabling the viewer to immerse themselves in a microcosm that might well be found in many places in the world but that nobody likes to look at too closely. This is a place where people know and help each other, where they feel understood, can have it out with each other and reconcile again. The film uses methods of the documentary to achieve an unobtrusive proximity that makes us feel as if we too are taking a seat among the regulars at the bar, partaking in Michael’s philosophical excesses, listening to Shay’s tearful expressions of love, and experiencing for ourselves the caring familiarity of this place. In the end, when the last customers stagger out of the bar, we’ve grown fond of them all and have to wonder what their next day will be like and what life holds in store for them.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Niklas Pollmann interviews Ivan Ostrochovský, director of the film Servants (Sluzobnici).

Interview with Ivan Ostrochovský about his second feature film Servants, his cinematic language and the plans for his next feature film project.

Servants (Sluzobnici): Servants is a polit-thriller settled in a Catholic monastery in Czechoslovakia in 1980. It tells the story of two young seminarists and their role in the conflict between the Pacem in Terris organisation supported by the communist regime and the Roman Catholic church.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Dominga Ortuzar, producer and Talents Footprints Juror.

In 2019 She was a Berlinale Talents participant as a Chilean producer. A year has passed and Dominga Ortuzar with her Oro Films and her Cinemovil truck project is landing at the Berlinale Talents 2020 not only as an alumna but as one of the jurors of The Talents Footprints – Mastercard Enablement Programme, enabled by co-partner Mastercard where about 50 Talents and Alumni from 36 countries have sent in extensive proposals for self-initiated social organisations, festivals and educational projects. This year’s jury also includes director and photographer Wim Wenders and Mastercard Europe’s Senior Vice President Marketing and Communication Jeannette Liendo and has selected three fellows.

“Hi! I’m Dominga from Chile, and I am a producer and distributor based in Santiago. After several professional experience during 6 years in the Ministry Of Culture, the National Network of Independent Cinemas and CinemaChile, I co-funded Oro Films. This 2019 we are shooting our two first features (both coproductions), and developing three more projects. At the same time, I run a project called Cinemovil: a truck that its transformed in a high tech climatized cinema room with 100 seats, traveling around the country screening great films.”

To discover more about Dominga Ortuzar, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Mathijs Wouter Knol, director of EFM – European Film Market.

The EFM – European Film Market is over and it’s time to talk about numbers and results. The EFM Director Mathijs Wouter Knol is happy to state that this year the market reached a new record: more than 11.000 visitors attended despite the sanitary measures anti-coronavirus which prevented industry professionals from China to visit Berlinale. This year’s Country in Focus was Chile and the decision was awarded with a great energy considering the active participation of chilean fimmakers, professionals and of course Cinema Chile which is always first in line to promote its country’s audiovisual industry. After spending virtually this year in Chile, Knol declares it’s time to go back to Europe so the Country in Focus for the 2021’s edition will be Italy. “It all starts here” is the EFM’s logline and that includes, according to Knol, the market’s commitment to investing in promoting both diversity and sustainability in all its activities such as the Sustainability program at the EFM Horizon or 5050 – a roadmap to the future.

The European Film Market is one of the top three meeting places of the international film and media industries. Its close links with the Berlinale as a public film festival, and its position at the heart of Berlin’s vivid creative economy, are defining characteristics of the Berlinale’s film market. Yet the EFM is more than just an agile marketplace for trading film and audiovisual content – it has also positioned itself as a platform for innovation and change. Over a period of eight days, around 10,000 representatives of the international film and media industries – primarily producers, buyers and sales agents, distributors and financiers – come together to network, exchange, inform themselves and do business. As the first major film market of the year, the EFM is in a strong position and serves as a compass, barometer and pacesetter for the new film year: new productions and developments, future-proof business models, contacts and contracts – it all starts here.
The EFM’s varied locations range from the beautiful Gropius Bau to elegant Marriott Hotel, modern Berliner Freiheit or the historic Zoo Palast. A professional infrastructure for exhibitors, state-of-the-art cinemas, numerous market premieres and outstanding service via close customer and partner relationships distinguish the film market as a first class trading platform. The EFM serves the diversity and breadth of requirements for its different participant groups, focusing on networking, exchange, information and the constant integration of new players. Our goal is to help you make the right connections. Together with our partners, we are building on the success of our networking initiatives that promote collaborations and provide platforms for productions in development. Whether you are a first-time filmmaker or a seasoned industry professional, our series of events, panels, screenings and talks make connecting at the market both relaxed and rewarding.

To discover more about the EFM – European Film Market, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Yoon Sung-hyun, director of the film Time to Hunt.

At the 70th Berlinale, Yoon Sung-hyun brings in Berlinale Special his dystopian thriller about a group of friends trying to find a better future in the worst way possible and being hunted by a mysterious killer as a consequence to their actions. Yoon Sung-hyun explains how despite the film being a mix of genres including a gangster movie, it is essentially a story about a friendship that means family. The director then comments how positive was the Oscar to Parasite in terms of the positive attention that brought to all South Korean cinema.

Time to Hunt:  When Jun-seok is picked up by his buddies Ki-hoon and Jang-ho after three years in prison, it takes him a while to understand how much South Korea has changed following the recent financial crisis. The glittering world of consumerism that he left behind has turned into a dark, post-capitalist desert, in which young men don’t really make any plans for the future anymore. The won is now worthless anything, and the cash loot from their last heist has disappeared into thin air. However, Jun-seok has brought a dream with him from his time in prison that he is determined to hold onto: he longs to escape with his friends to Hawaii, to the warmth and the turquoise sea, to start a new life there. To this end he persuades them to join forces for a risky raid on a casino. The trio has nothing to lose. The robbery succeeds. But what they didn’t expect was that it would incur the wrath of infinitely more powerful criminals. A chase through this dystopian world ensues. In Sa-nyang-eui-si-gan, Yoon Sung-hyun successfully transposes the classic thriller genre into the near future, at the same time delivering a powerful visual reckoning with the social realities of present-day South Korea.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Maïmouna Doucouré, director of the film Cuties-Mignonnes.

With her debut feature, Cuties – Mignonnes, she won Direct­ing Award: World Cin­e­ma Dra­mat­ic at the Sundance Film festival and now, Maïmouna Doucouré just got a Special Mention from the Generation KPlus Jury at the 70th Berlinale. The film, a coming of age story about a 11 years old girl named Amy, explores the difficult search for an identity of a soon-to-be woman, living a conflicting combination between traditions and possible futures. Becoming a woman nowadays brings along a very complicated question: What kind of women do we want to be in a new world where we’re trying to fight all the cultural impositions standing between us and a real gender equality? Maïmouna Doucouré tries to analyze the possible answers with Cuties.

Cuties-Mignonnes: Am I still a girl or already a woman? And if I’m a woman, what kind do I want to be? Eleven-year-old Amy lacks the words to express these questions, and she doesn’t have any quick answers to them either. The conflicts in Amy’s life reflect the contradictory positions that she perceives in her surroundings: there’s her conservative, polygamous, Senegalese extended family , freshly resettled in Paris, and then there are her peers at school, practicing for a dance-off. Together they hope to hold their own against the older girls, imitating moves from music videos and performing stereotypical poses without any awareness yet for what they represent. Amy’s attempt to navigate both worlds leads to tension and disappointment while requiring constant transformation on her part.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Niklas Pollmann interviews Sandra Wollner, director of the film The Trouble with Being Born.

Interview with Sandra Wollner about artificial intelligence, legitimacy of (intelligent) sex dolls and how her film differs from the “classical Pinocchio narrative”

The Trouble with Being Born: The Trouble with Being Born shows the life of a childlike replicant that mirrors the desires and wishes of her owners — a pedophile father and an old woman who lost her younger brother in her youth days long time ago.

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PODCAST | Niklas Pollmann interviews Cristi Puiu, director of the film Malmkrog.

Interview with Cristi Puiu about his new film Malmkrog and how it was a challenge and first time experience to Cristi Puiu as radical break with his former works.

Malmkrog: Malmkrog is about a group of Russian noblemen in the end of the 19th century discussing about moral, the existence of good and evil as well as the Russo-Turkish war.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Jon Holmberg, director of the film Sune – Best Man.

After the success of Sune Vs Sune presented at the Berlinale 2019, The Anderssons are back at the Berlinale with some new adventures led by the unpredictable Sune, now forced to decide whether to go to his grandfather’s wedding or on school trip. Jon Holmberg describes his second time directing this young but talented actors and how he approached this new Sune’s adventure.

Sune – Best Man: Sune is in a difficult situation and try as he might, he cannot make up his mind. Should he join the rest of his class on a school trip – the one he and his sweetheart Sophie have been looking forward to for so long? Or should he instead go to his grandfather‘s wedding – especially now that granddad wants him to be best man? To make things worse, in true sci-fi-thriller style, Sune‘s future self keeps turning up to try and thwart his every decision. Torn between two loved ones, Sune ends up dragging his family into a fast-paced road trip filled with treacherous twists and turns. Full of madcap schemes and always ready with a witty retort, the Anderssons from Sune vs Sune are back, ready to handle the conflicts of family life with a lot of heart and a healthy dose of humour.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Elis Gerdt, Baxter Renman, Tea Stjärne and Lily Wahlsteen, actors of the film Sune – Best Man.

At the 70th Berlinale, Elis Gerdt, Baxter Renman, Tea Stjärne, Lily Wahlsteen, the young protagonists of Sune – Best Man, sequel to the 2019 film Sune Vs Sune and huge box office success in Sweden, talk about their new adventure. What would they like to acquire from their characters? Listen to their smart and thoughtful answers.

Sune – Best Man: Sune is in a difficult situation and try as he might, he cannot make up his mind. Should he join the rest of his class on a school trip – the one he and his sweetheart Sophie have been looking forward to for so long? Or should he instead go to his grandfather‘s wedding – especially now that granddad wants him to be best man? To make things worse, in true sci-fi-thriller style, Sune‘s future self keeps turning up to try and thwart his every decision. Torn between two loved ones, Sune ends up dragging his family into a fast-paced road trip filled with treacherous twists and turns. Full of madcap schemes and always ready with a witty retort, the Anderssons from Sune vs Sune are back, ready to handle the conflicts of family life with a lot of heart and a healthy dose of humour.

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