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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Mohammed Hefzy, President of the Cairo International Film Festival.

An interview with the president of the Cairo International Film Festival Mohammed Hefzy, recorded in the midst of the festival’s 2019 edition. Last year, we attended to report and document a session that marked a new beginning for the festival. Hefzy shares with us some of its ambitions and the ways in which that growth and development has manifested. He also talks with us about its importance within the region’s film industry and the ways in which it connects with the local audience. To end it all, he shares with us a thought about the Youssef Cherif Rizkallah, the prominent and deeply influential Egyptian film critic who was a central figure in the history of the Cairo International Film Festival.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Tamara Kotevska, director of the film Honeyland.

Tamara Kotevska glows when she talks about Hatizde, the lead character of her ( and Ljiubo Stefanov’s) film Honeyland. The premises of the film where different but when they met Hatzide and her mother they knew that a new film was coming . Tamara tells Angelo Acerbi, at the European Film awards in Berlin, all the difficulties and complexities both technical and physical to complete the shooting, and how Hatzide’s life is today.

Honeyland:  The last female bee-hunter in Europe must save the bees and return the natural balance in Honeyland, when a family of nomadic beekeepers invade her land and threaten her livelihood.

To discover more about the EFA – European Film Award 2019, click here.

This interview has been recorded during the 32nd EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS ceremony on 7th December 2019 in Berlin. FRED Film Radio is media partner of the event.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Ingvar Sigurðsson, actor of the film A White White Day.

Ingvar Sigurðsson gives a stunning performance as the father in A White,White Day, an Icelandic thriller drama directed by Hlynur Pàlmason ( which won the Best Film award at the Torino Film Festival 2019). He talks with Angelo Acerbi in Berlin at the European Film Awards 2019 about this role, his work with director and friend Pàlmason and how he approaches each character he chooses to play.

A White White Day: In a remote Icelandic town, an off-duty police chief begins to suspect a local man of having had an affair with his late wife, who died in a tragic accident two years earlier. Gradually his obsessions for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones. A story of grief, revenge and unconditional love.

To discover more about the EFA – European Film Award 2019, click here.

This interview has been recorded during the 32nd EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS ceremony on 7th December 2019 in Berlin. FRED Film Radio is media partner of the event.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Beniamino Barrese, director of the film The Disappearance of My Mother.

Beniamino Barrese is the son of Benedetta Barzini, an iconic model of the sixties , a worldly famous face and body, now fiercely critical of the world of image, also her own, and the portrayal of the women body in advertising and fashion. The film was born as a personal diary of the director, with no intentions of making a film. But then things changed and Beniamino tells us how and why.

The Disappearance of My Mother: Benedetta wants to disappear. An iconic fashion model in the 1960s, she became a muse to Warhol, Dali, Penn and Avedon. As a radical feminist in the 1970s, she fought for the rights and emancipation of women. But at the age of 75, she becomes fed up with all the roles that life has imposed upon her and decides to leave everything and everybody behind, to disappear to a place as far as possible from the world she knows. Hiding behind the camera, her son Beniamino witnesses her journey. Having filmed her since he was a child in spite of all her resistance, he now wants to make a film about her, to keep her close for as long as possible – or, at least, as long as his camera keeps running.

To discover more about the EFA – European Film Award 2019, click here.

This interview has been recorded during the 32nd EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS ceremony on 7th December 2019 in Berlin.  FRED Film Radio is media partner of the event.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Sameh Zoabi, director of the film Tel Aviv On Fire.

Sameh Zoabi has always been interested in the comedy as a way to treat serious matters. He tells Angelo Acerbi, in Berlin at the European Film Awards, his reasons, his method and the difficulties of such choices in an area of the world where going after the fun side of things is a minus.

Tel Aviv On Fire:  The story focuses on Salam (Kais Nashif), a charming 30-year-old Palestinian living in Jerusalem, who gets a job as a trainee on the Palestinian popular soap opera Tel Aviv on Fire, which happens to be overseen by his uncle Bassam (Nadim Sawalha). One day, he makes a suggestion about the show, which his uncle likes; however, it infuriates the head writer so much, she quits over artistic differences. The job is then handed over to Salem, who quickly finds out that he might be in way over his head.

To discover more about the EFA – European Film Award 2019, click here.

This interview has been recorded during the 32nd EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS ceremony on 7th December 2019 in Berlin. FRED Film Radio is media partner of the event.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Brett Michael Innes, director of the film Fiela’s Child.

An interview with director Brett Micheal Innes, director of Fiela’s Child, presented in the international panorama section of the 2019 Cairo International Film Festival. The film is based on a renowned South African novel by Dalene Matthee, which Innes calls the South African equivalent of what To Kill a Mockingbird is in the U.S. He shares with us the personal reason to the novel that inspired him to make this film version, as well as the challenges he faced in adapting it for the big screen. We also ask him about the racial aspect of the story, which tackles some dark pages of South African history, and his work with cast – including a stellar turn by Zenobia Kloppers in the role of Fiela Komoetie.

Fiela’s Child: A coloured woman living in the arid Karoo takes in a lost white child and raises him as her own. Nine years later, the boy is removed and forced to live in the Knysna Forest with a family of woodcutters who claim that he is theirs.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews actress Menna Shalaby.

An interview with the renowned and celebrated Egyptian actress Menna Shalaby, who was honoured with the Faten Hamama Excellence Award at the 2019 Cairo International Film Festival. In this interview, she talks about the beginnings of her interest in acting and her love of cinema. She also shares with us some anecdotes and stories from her acting studies and career, including her work with the great Egyptian filmmaker Youssef Chahine, playing the lead on his last film Chaos from 2007. (The Faten Hamama award is granted every year to prominent Egyptian or international film figures for their lifetime contribution to enriching the Cinematographic Art.)

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews Iole Giannattasio, from the Direzione Generale Cinema of the Italian Ministry of Culture.

Iole Giannattasio from the Direzione Generale Cinema of the Ministry of Culture in Italy was at Focus London to present the different new opportunities in financing and tax rebates for the international producers coming to shoot in Italy. She tells Angelo Acerbi also about the creation of Italy For Movies, a new website where all useful information are collected in one place, together with all film commissions and film funds info and a national location database to be consulted.

This interview was recorded during the 2019 Focus London, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews Marco Valerio Pugini, Cristina Priarone and Luca Ferrario.

At Focus London 2019 Angelo Acerbi had a conversation with executive producer Marco Valerio Pugini (also president of the Executive Producers Association APE), Cristina Priarone (Roma Lazio Film Commission) and Luca Ferrario (Trentino Film Fund and Commission) about the state of the art of the relations between Film Commissions in Italy and executive producers, especially concerning foreign productions, and what could be the next step to implement then further more.

This interview was recorded during the 2019 Focus London, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews Nneka Luke, general manager of the Trinidad & Tobago Film Company.

Nneka Luke is the general manager and commissioner for the Trinidad & Tobago Film Company ltd. They are attending markets for the first time and meeting other players to enlarge and enrich their activities. She explains how they worked, what they can provide in terms of services and financial help, and also an overlook on the production and distribution side of film industry in T&T.

This interview was recorded during the 2019 Focus London, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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