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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Asa Hjorleifsdottir, Salome Lamas, Shahrbanoo Sadat and Nila Madhab Panda, directors within the project Interdependence.

Four of the 11 directors who took part in Interdependence tell to FRED Film Radio the concept and the ideas behind their short films, and the different approaches they had to the message of raising awareness to the climate issue that the project is about.

Interdependence: A collective film where 11 directors from all over the world deal with the issue of the planet’s climatic emergency by choosing one of the elements (air, earth, water or fire) and putting their narrative figure at the service of the message.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Natalia Belitski, actress of the film Stay Still.

Natalia Belitski is one of the two leads in Stay Still, Elisa Mishto’s last film presented at Alice nella Città, at the Rome Film Fest. She talks with Angelo Acerbi about her role and the essence of this character, the purity of it and the fun in playing it.

Stay Still: Julie is a young, rich and sarcastic patient in one psychiatric clinic, which lives according to the manifesto of “doing nothing”: not studying, not working, not has friends. Agnes is a naive nurse and one young mother of a three-year-old child with only one problem in life: it does not understand anything about being mother. When the two wild spirits meet in the psychiatric clinic, they start a rebellion which will question and set fire to everything and all around them.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Matjias Valant and Tine Ugrin, actors of the film Don’t Forget To Breathe.

The two young lead actors of Don’t Forget To Breathe talk with FRED Film Radio about their experience, the set, the rhythm of a film shooting and the excitement of it. On top of all that, the most rewarding thing is being able to build a character and perform it.

Don’t Forget To Breathe: Fifteen-year-old Klemen lives with his older brother Peter and his single mother in a small and remote rural town. Klemen’s well-established routine to spend time with his beloved brother on tennis court or on the banks of the river near the house is interrupted by the sudden and passionate relationship with his beautiful contemporary Sonja, unleashing a torrent of emotions in Klemen conflicting and reckless actions.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Shahad Ameen, director of the film Scales.

Shahan Ameen talks with Fred radio at the London Film Festival about her first feature, an intriguing and daring fairytale about mermaids and the effect of their appearance in a small fishing village. Besides the mesmerizing look of it, in a dazzling and also old fashioned black and white, the film has a political serious undergoing theme, as she tells herself to Angelo Acerbi.

Scales: Likely to become known as the Saudi mermaid movie, Scales achieves far more than this description whilst laying claim to being the most unlikely drama you’ll see this year. Shahad Ameen’s directorial debut is a visually resplendent tale set in a small Gulf fishing village. Its population live in thrall to the otherworldly creatures they believe reside in the sea. So much so that to keep them pacified, the village has traditionally sacrificed its female children to the creatures. But the drama really begins when one of those girls, Hayat (which means ‘life’ in Arabic), rejects her fate and fights against the patriarchal hegemony.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Stefania Spampinato, actress of the film Il giorno più bello del mondo.

Italian movie stars reach a point in which they dream about working at Hollywood. For Grey’s Anatomy star, Italian and proud Sicilian Stefania Spampinato, it was the other way around: after working many years in Los Angeles, she’s finally the protagonist of Il giorno più bello del mondo, by Neapolitan actor and director Alessandro Siani, one of the box-office king of comedies. Stefania Spampinato reveals how this italian experience helped her become more keen to improvise and be even more comfortable with her acting skills. Il giorno più bello del mondo will be out in Italian cinemas on October 31st.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Rupert Goold, director of the film Judy.

Rupert Goold talks with Angelo Acerbi about the inspiration form the play the film is inspired to, and the incredible performance, especially vocal, of Zellweger who is here at the highest moments of her performance skill.

Judy: A defiant last stand in full view of her passionately supportive fans. It was Judy’s emotional Alamo in the face of parasitic husbands, spiteful press and misogynist showbiz overlords – beginning with studio chief Louis B Mayer, who ruined her childhood on the yellow brick road to stardom.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Eva Cools, director of the film Cleo.

Eva Cools tells the story of a young girl who loses her parents in a car accident with no responsible and tries ti cope with this fact. the director then bases part of the film on her personal story but then the analysis of the issue of grief and guilt becomes more universal, and haunting too.

Cleo: Seventeen-year-old Cleo survives a tragedy accident in which both parents lose their life. His grandmother offers Cleo and her brother a house, but ends up having to manage the rebellious teenager, the which seeks comfort in the mysterious Leos, a man of twelve years older.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Daniel Schechter, director of the film Safe Spaces.

There is something of Daniel Schechter’s life in this film, but a lot of fiction too. In any case the sense of family and brotherhood and realism are there. He tells us the reason of many choices he does in the film, the importance of being true to what life really is and to what really happens. And about the cast, that is amazing.

Safe Spaces: The divisions in adjunct professor Josh’s (Justin Long) professional and personal lives are taking a toll. He’s been known to bumble his way into trouble, like when his romance with his young nieces’ nanny led to her firing. Now his college students are forming warring factions after a triggering incident in his classroom, and administrators are growing alarmed over Josh’s uncertain response. His family is also chaotic: loving but splintered in the face of his beloved grandmother’s (Lynn Cohen) illness. His mother (Fran Drescher) sorts logistics while struggling to face the imminent loss of her mother. His father (Richard Schiff) is supportive but distant, trying to balance his adult children with his new wife and young son. Josh’s aunt just skipped town, and his sister (Kate Berlant) might need to lay off the pills. Everyone convenes at the hospital, trying to give and find support in the face of uncertainty.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Sophie Kinsella, writer of the film Can You Keep a Secret?.

She’s the best-selling author of the Shopaholic book series and the queen of chick-lit: Sophie Kinsella is in Rome to present the film adaptation of her book Can you keep a secret? at Alice nella Città. Kinsella wrote the book in 2003 and a lot has changed and happened since then in everyday women’s lives. However, though not understanding why it took so long for the movie industry to turn her book into a film, she’s very happy with the way Elise Duran the director and actress/producer Alexandra Daddario did to make it still actual in 2019. Some dilemmas, values, situations have no time frame, they’re universal.

Can You Keep a Secret?: Thinking they’re about to crash, Emma spills her secrets to a stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger…Until she later meets Jack, her company’s young CEO, who now knows every humiliating detail about her.

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PODCAST | Diego Aparicio interviews Ioakim Mylonas, Artistic Director of International Short Film Festival of Cyprus.

“The production [of Cypriot shorts] is of a higher standard than it was a few years ago. And this is not [just] wishful thinking. You can see Cypriot short films being screened in [well-respected] film festivals and winning awards. I think the quality is on the rise.”

The International Short Film Festival of Cyprus, now in its 9th edition, has very recently joined the family of festivals accredited by the European Film Academy. We talked to one of its two artistic directors, Ioakim Mylonas, about its steady growth over the years, and everything unique about it. This year’s edition comprised a strong competition programme, with parallel events showcasing the new Lanthimos (NIMIC), as well as a tribute to Auteurs of French Cinema with a selection of shorts from the ’90s.

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