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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Mantas Kwedaravicius, director of the film Partenonas.

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Director and academic Mantas Kvedaravicius sits down with us in our Venetian studio to talk about what is behind his relentless hand held camera in Partenonas, his first feature film screening in the official selection of the International Critics Week.

Partenonas: In a cheap brothel at the foothills of an Athenian fortress, a man recounts the magnificent events of his life. His search for love and glory is retold and relived by many: a prostitute with an unredeemable past, a gangster haunted by bad luck, an icon painter who has no faith… In one of the stories, the man finds his riches, in another he becomes a vagabond prophet, in yet another he returns home to his wife. Memories betray him, but he knows for sure that in one of these lives, he will be killed.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Oliver Hermanus and Kai Luke Brummer, director and actor of the film Moffie.

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Oliver Hermanus and Kai Luke Brummer are respectively the director and the main actor in Hermanus’ latest work Moffie, screening in Venice 76 in the Orizzonti section.

Moffie: To be a moffie is to be weak, effeminate, illegal. The year is 1981 and South Africa’s white minority government is embroiled in a conflict on the southern Angolan border. Like all white boys over the age of sixteen, Nicholas Van der Swart must complete two years of compulsory military service to defend the Apartheid regime. The threat of communism and “die swart gevaar” (the black danger) is at an all-time high. But that’s not the only danger Nicholas faces. He must survive the brutality of the army—something that becomes even more difficult when a connection is sparked between him and a fellow recruit.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Annalisa Sandrelli interviews Enrico Pigliacampo about the Live Text Access (LTA), project for real-time subtitling through respeaking and velotiping.

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Enrico Pigliacampo talks about Live Text Access (LTA), project co-funded by the ERASMUS+ programme of the EU. LTA is a strategic partnership addressing inclusion and innovation in higher education with a focus on three European priorities: development of curricula to meet labour market and societal needs, open education in the digital era and social inclusion.

Purpose of this project to train velotipest and re-speakers through the creation of open-source teaching materials available to all, which will be possible to consult directly from internet. Enrico tells us what is meant by respeakers and velotiper and what they foresee their work in particular.

The project has a balanced participation of three universities SDI, UAB and SSML, two accessibility service providers Sub-Ti Access and Velotype, one production company ZDF Digital, one certification association ECQA and one end user associations EFHOH.

For more information about Live Text Access (LTA) project, click here.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Mads Brugger, director of the film Cold Case Hammarskjold

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Mads Brugger’s latest film, Cold Case Hammarskjöld, is one of this year’s finalists for the LUX Prize and we caught up with the director to talk about it at the 2019 Venice International Film Festival. Brugger, who previously made the acclaimed 2011 film The Ambassador, returns to the Africa here to investigate on the mysterious death of Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjold. In this interview, Brugger talks about his reasons for wanting to pursue this topic as well as the extent to which his fascination with fictional elements of mystery thriller novels influence his works and ambitions as a documentarian, among other things.

Cold Case Hammarskjold: Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Goran Bjorkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjold. As their investigation closes in, they discover a crime far worse than killing the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Gabriele Fabbro, director of the shortfilm 8.

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The Italian born, US based director Gabriele Fabbro stops by our studios in Venice to talk about his short film 8, shown here at the 76th edition of the Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Venezia.

8: 8 is a narrative short film about a selfish and sexist billiard player that, while hustling for living, struggles to seduce a quiet woman pool master inside an isolated saloon in New Mexico.

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PODCAST | Elena Di Giovanni interviews Enrico Pigliacampo about the Live Text Access (LTA), project for real-time subtitling through respeaking and velotiping.

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Enrico Pigliacampo talks about Live Text Access (LTA), project co-funded by the ERASMUS+ programme of the EU. LTA is a strategic partnership addressing inclusion and innovation in higher education with a focus on three European priorities: development of curricula to meet labour market and societal needs, open education in the digital era and social inclusion.

Real-time subtitles enable live access to audiovisual content and in situations where support for communication is required. The need for real-time subtitles has risen since the adoption of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) by the European Accessibility Act and the Audiovisual Media Service Directive. They urge service providers to ensure access to people with a visual or hearing disability.

The project has a balanced participation of three universities SDI, UAB and SSML, two accessibility service providers Sub-Ti Access and Velotype, one production company ZDF Digital, one certification association ECQA and one end user associations EFHOH.

For more information about Live Text Access (LTA) project, click here.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Giuseppe Capotondi, Claes Bang and Elizabeth Debicki, director and actors of the film The Burnt Orange Heresy. 

An interview with director Giuseppe Capotondi, whose latest feature, The Burnt Orange Heresy, closed the 2019 Venice International Film Festival. Joining him on this chat are the two lead actors of the film: Claes Bang and Elizabeth Debicki. In this interview, Capotondi talks about what it was that interested him about the original source novel (Charles Willeford’s book of the same name), while Bang and Debicki talk about how it was they were able to get into their wonderfully enigmatic roles.

The Burnt Orange Heresy: The art world and the underworld collide in this elegant and erotic neo-noir thriller. Set in present day Italy, irresistibly charismatic art critic James Figueras hooks up with provocative and alluring American, Berenice Hollis. He’s a classic anti-hero in the making with a charm that masks his ambition, whilst she’s an innocent touring Europe, enjoying the freedom of being whoever she wishes. The new lovers travel to the lavish and opulent Lake Como estate of powerful art collector, Joseph Cassidy. Their host reveals he is the patron of Jerome Debney the reclusive J.D. Salinger of the art world, and he has a simple request: for James to steal a Debney masterpiece from the artist’s studio, whatever the cost. As the couple spends time with the legendary Debney, they start to realise that nothing about the artist nor their mission is what it seems. But James is a man of deep, lurking ambition and he will do anything, from arson and burglary to murder, in order to further his career.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Tiago Guedes, director of the film A Herdade.

Thiago Guedes talks to FRED about his contribution to the script, portraying the rise of women during the 20th century and competing in a festival like Venice.

A Herdade: The chronicle of a Portuguese family that owns one of the largest estates in Europe, on the south bank of the River Tagus. A herdade delves deeply into the secrets of their homestead, portraying the historical, political, economic and social life of Portugal, since the 1940s, through the Carnation revolution to these days.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Ciro Guerra, Mark Rylance and Gana Bayarsaikhan, director and actors of the film Waiting For Barbarians.

In his first english language film, Waiting for Barbarians, Colombian director Ciro Guerra chose to adapt nobel prize winner J.M. Coitzee’s novel. The film is competing for the Golden Lion at the 76th Venice Film Festival and it is set at the border of an empire ina undefinite time and moment in history. It started being an allegory on the past but the more Ciro Guerra worked on the film, the more realized that the film was a metaphor for describing what we’re living today with xenofobia and the inability of accepting who’s different from us. Mark Rylance and Johnny Depp are antagonists in the story while Gana Bayarsaikhan plays the “barbarian” woman who could be seen as a victim but represents instead an unusual strength.

Waiting For Barbarians: A magistrate, administrator of an isolated frontier settlement on the border of an unnamed empire, looks forward to an easy retirement until the arrival of colonel Joll, whose task it is to report on the activities of the barbarians and on the security situation on the border. Joll conducts a series of ruthless interrogations. The treatment of the barbarians at his hands and the torture of a young barbarian woman combine to lead the magistrate to a crisis of conscience and a quixotic act of rebellion.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Sahraa Karimi, director of the film Hava, Maryan, Ayesha. 

Sahraa Karimi has made history by becoming the first female director to have directed an Afghani independent feature film. She presented it at the 76th Venice International Film Festival, and it is called Hava, Maryam, Ayesha. The three names of the title stand for the three different characters, each from a different cultural background, whose lives are portrayed. Karimi talks about this, the challenges she faced in making this movie and the way in which she employed a different style for each of the three different episodes of the movie.

Hava, Maryan, Ayesha: Three Afghan women from different social background, living in Kabul, are facing a big challenge in their lives. Hava, a traditional pregnant woman whom no one cares about, is living with her father- and mother-in-law. Her only joy is talking to the baby in her belly. Maryam, an educated TV news reporter, is about to get a divorce from her unfaithful husband that finds out she is pregnant. Ayesha, an 18-year-old girl, accepts to marry her cousin because she is pregnant from her boyfriend who disappears after hearing her pregnancy news. Therefore, she needs to find a doctor to get an abortion and regain her virginity. Each of them has to solve her problem by herself for the first time.

To discover more about the film Hava, Maryan, Ayesha, click here.

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