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PODCAST | Simone Soranna interviews Katsuya Tomita, director of the documentary Tenzo.

Katsuya Tomita, Tenzo‘s director, tells us how this project was born and explain us the relation between documentary film and fiction film.

Tenzo: To address the social crisis, Chiken – a buddhist monk – throws himself into various tasks such as a suicide helpline, in his temple in Yamanashi. In Fukushima, his old mate Ryûgyô – whose temple was wrecked by the tsunami – lives in a portacabin and works on construction sites.

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PODCAST | Simone Soranna interviews Sofia Bost, director of the film Dia de festa.

Sofia Bost presents her first short movie Dia de festa telling us the focus of her project and the emotions to be selected in Cannes.

Dia de festa: Mena lives alone with her daughter Clara. Today is Clara’s seventh birthday. Despite her limited financial resources, Mena still manages to organise a birthday party. But after a phone call from her mother, she becomes distraught and anxious.

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PODCAST| Chiara Nicoletti interviews Rebecca Zlotowski, director of the film An Easy Girl.

After presenting Planetarium at the Venice International Film Festival two years ago, Rebecca Zlotowski went back to shooting a more intimate and personal film: An Easy Girl. Inspired by the director’s illuminating encounter with Zahia Dehar, representing the “easy girl” archetype in the film, An Easy Girl is an entertaining and liberating coming of age story that manages to tackle very important topics such as the different perception we have about men and women when it comes to sex, relationships and money while giving the audience a relaxed and relatable film’s journey.

An Easy Girl: Naima is 16 and lives in Cannes. She has given herself the summer to choose what she wants to do with her life. Then her cousin Sofia, with her alluring lifestyle, arrives to spend the holidays with her. Together, they will share an unforgettable summer.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST| Chiara Nicoletti interviews Zahia Dehar, director of the film An Easy Girl.

Zahia Dehar is the ultimate inspiration and the reason why Rebecca Zlotowski decided to shoot An Easy Girl, presented at the Quinzaine des realizateurs at the 72nd Festival de Cannes. In the film the actress plays Sofia, the protagonist’s cousin and the easy girl of the title as she fiercely represents the kind of woman who wants to be free and enjoy life’s pleasures while not being afraid of people’s opinions. Being called “an easy girl” becomes a compliment and Zahia Dehar a very sexy and charming feminist.

An Easy Girl: Naima is 16 and lives in Cannes. She has given herself the summer to choose what she wants to do with her life. Then her cousin Sofia, with her alluring lifestyle, arrives to spend the holidays with her. Together, they will share an unforgettable summer.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST| Chiara Nicoletti interviews Melina Leon, director of the film Song Without a Name.

Song Without a Name, screening in the Quinzaine des Réalizateurs at the 72nd Festival de Cannes is a very personal film for its director Melina Leon as it is dedicated to her father, the journalist Ismael Leon and to his adventure in discovering child trafficking in Peru in 1981. He was among the founders of La republica, one of the largest newspapers in Peru and to his story revealing the dark past of Peru, Melina Leon shot her first feature film. The director describes how she worked on depicting her father’s tales and the particular black and white – 4.3 frame approach.

Song Without a Name: Georgina is a young woman from the Andes whose newborn daughter is stolen at a fake health clinic. Her desperate search for the child leads her to the headquarters of a major newspaper, where she meets Pedro Campos, a lonely journalist who takes on the investigation. Based on a true story.

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PODCAST| Chiara Nicoletti interviews Wu Ke-xi, actress and scriptwriter of the film Nina Wu.

When you write a film and you’re also the absolute protagonist of that story, that movie becomes way more than a film, it feels like your baby who just jumped into the world: That’s the feeling Wu Ke-xi perceived on the night of Nina Wu‘s premiere screening at the 72 Festival de Cannes in Un Certain Regard. Directed by Midi Z, the film sees Wu Ke-xi as the protagonist, an actress struggling with the psychological side effects of a demanding role. Wu Ke-xi stars in a film that uses the genre and its smart metaphors to depict the gender equality and sexual harassment issues women and artists are facing today so that Nina Wu becomes a #Metoo manifesto.

Nina Wu: After eight years toiling in bit-parts, aspiring actress Nina Wu finally gets her big break with a leading role in a spy thriller set in the 1960s. The part is challenging, not least because it calls for full nudity and explicit sex scenes, and the film’s director is often hard on her. But both the industry and the press are confident that the results are sensationally good. On the brink of triumph, though, Nina’s psychological resolve begins to crack. She rushes back to her family home to deal with two crises: her father’s business has gone bankrupt and her mother has suffered a heart attack. She dreams of rekindling a close relationship with her childhood friend Kiki but is haunted by paranoid fantasies that a mysterious woman is stalking and attacking her. As Nina clings to memories of happier times, it seems that there is one crucial memory that she is repressing…

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi and Melanie Tebb talk about Cannes Classics.

Angelo Acerbi and Melanie Tebb have a talk, on a sometimes a little too noisy terrace on the Croisette, about the Cannes Classics section and the necessity and importance of showing classic films at festivals and not only. Thierry Fremaux is a big fan of and passionate about classics and this is why Cannes has the largest section on classic films in the whole world of film festivals. It is a demanding job too because, as you can understand from this talk, sometimes being able to show a film is a tricky road to make.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Debbie Honeywood and Kris Hitchen, actors of the film Sorry We Missed You.

Debbie Honeymoon and Kris Hitchen tell us the emotion of working with Ken Loach, the respect and affection they have for him, exactly in the same way he has for his actors, and the even stronger emotion of fulfilling a dream that was far away and barely possible to achieve.

Sorry We Missed You: Ricky and his family have been fighting an uphill struggle against debt since the 2008 financial crash. An opportunity to wrestle back some independence appears with a shiny new van and the chance to run a franchise as a self-employed delivery driver. It’s hard work, and his wife’s job as a carer is no easier. The family unit is strong but when both are pulled in different directions everything comes to breaking point.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho, directors of the film Bacurau.

Juliano Dornelles and Kleber Mendonça Filho talk with passion about filmmaking, their film in competition in Cannes and the inevitable links that cinema has with politics, especially Brazilian cinema in this specific historical time.

Bacurau: With Bacurau, Kleber Mendonça Filho leaves behind the town of his birth, Recife, and explores the poor and isolated region of Sertao do Serido, accompanied by his production designer, Juliano Dornelles. The hardship of living off the land there has produced inequalities historically. Set in a near future, where the archaic and the hyper-modern merge, the film tells the story of the residents of Bacurau, who have just lost their matriarch, Carmelita, at the age of 94. In the depths of their bereavement, the residents realise that their village has suddenly disappeared from the map.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Oliver Laxe, director of the film Fire Will Come.

Oliver Laxe knows perfectly the locations, the life and the pace of the Galician mountains where he shot Fire Will Come. His idea of cinema is clear in his mind, and he tells us also what inspires him and moves him when making a film.

Fire Will Come: Shot in the village of the director’s grandparents, the film follows Amador, who returns to his mother’s house after having been accused of and jailed for arson. Amador is just starting to settle into a peaceful life until a fire breaks out nearby.

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