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PODCAST | Samantha Sartori interviews Marco Bellocchio, director of the film The Traitor.

Marco Bellocchio – whose debut film Fists in the Pocket premiered at the 3rd New York Film Festival (1965) – and star Pierfrancesco Favino brought their unconventional mob drama “The Traitor” to the festival. We met Marco Belloccio during the festival and with the help of his interpreter Michael Moore we talked about the movie Italy’s Oscar entry will open on January 31st 2020 at Film at Lincoln Center, New York.

The Traitor: Pierfrancesco Favino commands the screen throughout this decades-spanning true-life narrative as Tommaso Buscetta, the mafia boss turned informant who helped take down a large swath of organized crime leaders in Sicily in the eighties. In one fully realized, impressively staged scene after another, including the notorious Maxi Trial, overseen by Judge Giovanni Falcone (Fausto Russo Alesi), Bellocchio interrogates received ideas about loyalty that so many other movies of this genre use to romanticize their characters. This is a very different kind of mafia drama, one that has the structure of a procedural but coasts on the waves of psychological portraiture. A Sony Pictures Classics release.

To discover more about the film, click here on the Film Festival website.

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Once again, Film at Lincoln Center has welcomed Pietro Marcello’s movies with great enthusiasm. This year it was Martin Eden which was selected for Main Slate at New York Film Festival and we met Pietro during the festival and with the help of his interpreter Lilia Pino Blouin we talked about the movie and how it resonated with the complex and diverse tastes of the New York audience.

Martin Eden: When unskilled laborer Martin Eden meets Elena, the daughter of a wealthy industrial family, it’s love at first sight. The well-educated, refined young woman soon becomes an obsession for Martin who hopes that his dreams of becoming a writer will help him rise above his humble origins to be able to marry Elena. With determination and at the cost of great hardship, Martin sets out to get the education that his class has never allowed him to receive. Finding support in an older friend, left-wing intellectual Russ Brissenden, Martin soon gets involved in socialist circles, leading not only to political reawakening and destructive anxiety, but also to a conflict with Elena and her bourgeois world.

To discover more about the film, click here on the Film Festival website.

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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Amin Palangi, Artistic Director of the Persian International Film Festival.

Amin Palangi talks about the festival program that reflects the diversity of the Persian speaking communities spread around the world. He is very proud that the festival this year has a specific focus on women filmmakers and many of the stories told in the films revolve around strong and compelling female characters.

The Persian International Film Festival showcases the best of Iranian cinema and the Persian speaking world in Australia. Founded in 2011, it is a one of a kind festival that showcases films by Persian-speaking filmmakers of Iran, Afghanistan and Tajikistan, and through screenings, master classes and cultural events it celebrates this rich cinematic culture in and with Australian communities. The festival also aims to be a leader in shifting views and misconceptions in Australia by creating spaces for new and alternative voices of Persian-Australians and by being a forum for dialogue between and amongst diverse communities.

To discover more about the festival, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews director Teona Strugar Mitevska, winner of the LUX Prize for her film God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya.

While at the 37th Torino Film Festival as a juror of the official competition, Teona Strugar Mitevska has received the news that her latest film, God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya, just won the European Parliament Lux Prize. The director comments on the award and her visit to the European Parliament where she felt the will and energy Europe is investing to really change things.

The LUX Prize goes to God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya. The feminist satire by Teona Strugar Mitevska has been voted the winner of the prize by the Members of the European Parliament. The European Parliament has just announced the winner of the 2019 LUX Prize. During the award ceremony held in Strasbourg, the feminist satire God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya by North Macedonian director Teona Strugar Mitevska triumphed over its competitors, Cold Case Hammarskjöld by Mads Brügger and The Realm by Rodrigo Sorogoyen. Since 11 November, Members of the European Parliament had had the chance to vote for their favourite film from among the LUX Official Competition titles, which this year stood out on account of the wide range of styles and genres represented by the three finalists (a documentary, a social comedy-drama and a political thriller). President of the European Parliament David Maria Sassoli, who handed out the award, said: “Cinema is key. It opens the doors for us all to better understand the reality we live in and who we are. Directors need to have the courage to address difficult problems, and the European Parliament has always been committed to the protection of their rights. We believe in freedom of expression. Long live European cinema.” Vice-president Klára Dobrev and Sabine Verheyen, chair of the CULT Committee, presented the prizes to the runners-up. Director Teona Mitevska collected the prize, stating, “Petrunya is defiant. It is her resistance, her courage and her quest for justice that touches us deeply and profoundly. I’m always criticised because my films are too political, and it is true. I think it is my duty to raise my voice to speak about problems that nobody else dares to speak about. How can we build a better future if we don’t dare to speak about the problems? We must be given the chance to air our opinions freely.” She also referred to the imprisonment of Ukrainian filmmaker and former political prisoner Oleg Sentsov, who yesterday addressed the plenary chamber in Strasbourg. “Oleg Sentsov spent five years in prison. Something like this can never happen again. This must be our common fight as creators, artists and politicians, to express ourselves freely and without fear. I’m a woman, I’m Macedonian and I’m European, and I truly believe that the future of Europe means solidarity and inclusion.” Teona Mitevska was accompanied by actress-producer Labina Mitevska and the film’s protagonist, Zorica Nusheva. The film, based on true events, is a satirical drama about a woman who opposes religious traditions and gender stereotypes in a small town in North Macedonia. It is a co-production between Macedonia’s Sisters and Brother Mitevski, Belgium’s Entre Chien et Loup, Slovenia’s Vertigo, Croatia’s Spiritus Movens, and France’s Deuxième Ligne Films and EZ Films, with Pyramide International managing its international rights. The film had its world premiere this year in the main competition of the 69th Berlinale, and since then, it has won various awards at different international film festivals. The three 2019 LUX Prize Competition titles will keep travelling across Europe thanks to the LUX Film Days, a series of special screenings organised in collaboration with several festivals and venues in different countries.

To discover more about the LUX Prize, click here.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Lungyin Lim, director of the film Ohong Village.

The beauty of a fisherman village is the landscape where the story of Ohong Village develops, where the fights and the tensions between father and son, modernity and past, explode. Lungyin Lim directs the film with firm hand and with a clear aesthethic that pervades all the film.

Ohong Village: In the remotest corner of southern Taiwan, the sinking fisherman’s village prepares for another carnival for the god. Sheng, young man reaching his thirties that departed years ago, now returns in disguise as an established urban elite. As the carnival escalates, Sheng confronts his persistent father Ming who farms oysters throughout his entire life, and Kun, the childhood buddy who always envies his fragile “successfulness”.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Hoping Chen, editor of the film Wet Season.

Hoping Chen, editor of Wet Season by Anthony Chen, talks with FRED Film Radio from the Torino Film Festival about her role in the creative creation of the film, her way of working with the director and how important this connection is if you are a creative and narrative editor.

Wet Season: It is monsoon season in Singapore and the city is pouring with rain. Wet Season follows the light of Ling, a Chinese language teacher, whose marriage and school life are fraying apart because she is unable to bear a child. But an unlikely friendship with a student helps her reaffirm her identity as a woman.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews festival programmers Annina Wettsein, Vladimir Perisic and Severine Petit, during the second part of the Special about Documentary, recorded at the 37th Torino Film Festival.

Annina Wettsein (from Doc Leipzig and Rotterdam), Vladimiri Perisic (from festival of Authors Films in Belgrade) and Severine Petit (from Torino Film Festival) talk with Angelo Acerbi about their method in selecting films, about the needs that every festival has and the aim to pursue them when programming.

This interview has been recorded during the 37th Torino Film Festival, in collaboration with the Italian Film Commission Association, with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Lucio Castro, director of the film End of the Century.

Lucio Castro penned his first feature with a very personal and daring approach, getting to create a true story, a universal tale about love and chances and choices in life, a sliding doors kind of tale. He tells Angelo Acerbi about the great actors he was lucky to have and his inspiration in terms of the looks of his film.

End of the Century: An Argentinian man from New York and a Spanish man from Berlin hook up by chance while in Barcelona. What seems like a one-night encounter between two strangers becomes an epic, decades-spanning relationship, in which time and space refuse to play by the rules.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Gianluca Matarrese, director of the film Everything Must Go.

At the 37th Torino Film Festival, italian but Paris-based Director Gianluca Matarrese presents Everything Must Go in the TFF doc section. The film started as a documentary on the effects of the economical crisis in Italy and it slowly but passionately became a very personal film about the professional and working history of a family. By filming his parents and sister trying to survive the falling of an empire, Gianluca Matarrese comes back home physically and emotionally and realizes a universal film about fathers and sons, sisters and brothers, falling down and getting back on your feet again.

Everything Must Go: Founded in the early 1980s, the shoe cooperative Togo numbered over thirty stores in Turin and its province. Until 2012, when that dream and that empire began to crumble. Today, all that remain are two stores and 450,000 euros in debt. Every morning, my parents and my sister wake up and don’t know how they will cope. When I realized the disaster, I joined them and witnessed the explosion of malaise which, for years, I had pretended didn’t exist.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Eran Riklis, director of the film Spider In The Web.

Eran Riklis is at the 37th Torino Film Festival as juror of the official competition Torino 37. The Israeli director is also presenting, in the Festa Mobile section, his latest film Spider In The Web, starring Ben Kingsley and Monica Bellucci. As it is a spy story depicting a Mossad agent at the end of his career who doesn’t want to retire, the film is exploring the relationship between the old and the new wondering what we can learn from who’s ahead of us in terms of age and expertise and viceversa. Eran Riklis comments his casting choices starting from Ben Kingley to Itay Tiran and Monica Bellucci.

Spider In The Web: Surrounded by lies and deceit, veteran secret agent, Adereth, can no longer distinguish between enemy and ally. Corruption is detected in the production of Syrian chemical weapons and after a shocking kidnap, Adereth is brought in for one final mission. With the help of his accomplice, Daniel, Adereth searches for answers and soon forges a relationship with Angela. But when the mysterious woman appears and the lines of trust with his superiors begin to blur, Adereth realises the hunter may become the hunted in a world of mirrors and deceit.

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