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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Takashi Miike, director of Blade of the Immortal.

Takashi Miike is the most irriverent and prolific director Japan has ever had. He is back in Cannes out of competition with his 100th film, Blade of the Immortal and back on FRED after the Mole Song presented in Rome Film Festival 2013. Miike gets inpiration from a manga, The Immortal , for this tale of revenge about this young woman who “hires” an immortal fighter to help her avenge the killing of her father and kidnapping of her mother. The film, as the other films by the japanese master, manages to create a balance between tradition, comedy and violence. Miike explains how he works on this balance and how his turning codes upside down and his cinema is received by the Japanese audience in comparison to the European one.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Kornél Mundruczò, director of Jupiter’s Moon.

After winning the Prize Un Certain Regard at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival with White God, Kornel Mundruczo is back is Cannes and on FRED with Jupiter’s Moon, in competittion at this year’s Festival. Mundruczo defines this film as a tale of redemption, a tale of miracles and confirms what the international critic said: the film is a satire on Europe’s antirefugee paranoia. The director also describes how he particularly shot two scenes, a change of gravity one and long sequence of a car chasing another. The heroe’s flying is more of a floating up in the air, as the Bible often describes it.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Emir Kusturica, director of On The Milky Road.

After 8 months its participation to the Venice Film Festival’s competition, On the Milky Road, the new film by Emir Kusturica is finally out in Italian cinema theaters distributed by a little company, Europictures. On this occasion, Emir Kusturica and his protagonist, Monica Bellucci landed in Rome to present the film to the italian audiences. Back on FRED for the second time after Venice, Kusturica explains why he chose Monica Bellucci to be his main actress and why he decided to be her partner in the film. Since the film is set during the Balcans war, Kusturica talks about his country and its perception of the war 20 years later. While talking about war, Kusturica mentions a World War III we might be already experiencing right now but that we pretend not to see.

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PODCAST | Screenwriter Lars Hubrich talks about the film Goodbye Berlin – 2017 EFA Young Audience Award finalist.

Goodbye Berlin, directed by Fatih Akin and produced in Germany, is one of the finalist films of the 2017 EFA Young Audience Award. In this short clip, the screenwriter Lars Hubrich talks briefly about the film, which will be up for an award during Young Audience Film Day (7th of May). On this day, the three finalist European films will be screened simultaneously in 31 different countries of Europe to an audience aged between 12 and 14 years old. The young audience will then vote for the winning film at the end of the day.

GOODBYE BERLIN. Fatih Akin (Head On, Soul Kitchen) turns his directorial skills to a new kind of story with Goodbye Berlin, an adaptation of a best-selling young adult novel by Wolfgang Herrndorf. With his Mum in rehab and his Dad away with his assistant on a “business trip,” 14-year-old outsider Maik is spending the summer alone by the pool at his parents’ villa. Things couldn’t get any more boring. Until his new Russian classmate, Tschick shows up, with a stolen Lada.

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PODCAST | Samantha Sartori interviews Marta Savina, director of Viola, Franca, presented at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival.

Listen to our interview with director Marta Savina, who presented her short film Viola, Franca at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival in New York City (NY). Based on the true story of Franca Viola, a Sicilian girl who became a symbol of cultural progress and the emancipation of women in Italy.

VIOLA, FRANCA. Sicily, 1965. 17 year old Franca attracts the attention of young made-man Filippo Melodia. When Franca rejects him, Filippo resorts to violence, kidnapping and raping her. Pressured into marrying her own rapist to avoid becoming a pariah to the traditionalist community, Franca finds the strength to rebel against the established custom of the ‘reparatory marriage’, setting a precedent that will alter the course of Italian history, and pave the way for the fight for women’s rights.

For more information, go to https://www.violafranca.com/

“Viola, Franca” Trailer from martasavina on Vimeo.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Jonathan Demme, director of Enzo Avitabile Music Life

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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Natalia de Molina, actress of the film “Kiki, Love to Love” from the 20th Spanish Film Festival in Sydney, Australia.

Continuing to champion Spanish cinema in a stunningly diverse array of films with the country’s most exciting filmmakers, Natalia de Molina talks about her latest film Kiki, Love to Love directed by Paco Leon, her acting career and how to keep a healthy balance between being a “Shooting Star” and an ordinary person.

Kiki, Love To Love is an injection of Latino spirit and an Almodóvar-esque blending of comedy and pathos makes. It is irresistibly unique

KIKI, LOVE TO LOVE. Freely adapted from the Australian film The Little Death, Kiki, Love to Love tells the separate stories of five charismatic characters who all share one thing in common: an unusual impulse that they are unable to suppress. Determined to shed the self-imposed inhibitions prompted by their desires, these madrileños embark on a hilarious series of adventures in which no pleasure can – nor will – be denied.

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PODCAST |  Filmmaker Claude Barras talks about his film “My Life As Zucchini” – 2017 EFA Young Audience Award finalist.

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My Life As Zucchini, produced in Switzerland and France, is one of the finalist films of the 2017 EFA Young Audience Award. In this short clip, the director Claude Barras talks briefly about the film, which will be up for an award during Young Audience Film Day (7th of May). On this day, the three finalist European films will be screened simultaneously in 31 different countries of Europe to an audience aged between 12 and 14 years old. The young audience will then vote for the winning film at the end of the day.

MY LIFE AS ZUCCHINI. “Zucchini” is an intriguing nickname for a 9-year-old boy – although his unique story is surprisingly universal: After his mother’s sudden death, Zucchini is befriended by a kind police officer, Raymond, who accompanies him to his new foster home, filled with other orphans his age. Zucchini struggles at first to find his place in this strange, at times hostile, environment. Yet with Raymond’s help and his newfound friends, Zucchini eventually learns to trust, find true love and, at last, a new family of his own

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PODCAST | Filmmaker Alice Schmid talks about her film “The Girl Down Loch Änzi” – 2017 EFA Young Audience Award finalist.

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The Girl Down Loch Änzi, produced in Switzerland, is one of the finalist films of the 2017 EFA Young Audience Award. In this short clip, the director Alice Schmid talks briefly about the film, which will be up for an award during Young Audience Film Day (7th of May). On this day, the three finalist European films will be screened simultaneously in 31 different countries of Europe to an audience aged between 12 and 14 years old. The young audience will then vote for the winning film at the end of the day.

THE GIRL DOWN LOCH ÄNZI. The pivotal summer for 12-year-old Laura who lives in a beautiful remote area in the Swiss mountains. As the only daughter in a taciturn family of farmers and mostly left to her own, she becomes obsessed with the legends told about a gorge in the area where no one dares to go. When a boy from town arrives to help on the farm, she finally has a friend to share her fears and fantasies with. After he has left she takes the courage to explore the mysterious place all by herself. The portrait of a girl underestimated by all, filmed in a close and unsentimental way.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Askold Kurov, director of The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov from the 2017 Lecce European Film Festival.

After premiering it at the Berlinale 2017, Askold Kurov presents at the European Film Festival in Lecce his documentary The Trial: The State Vs Oleg Sentsov. The film tells the true story of the Ukranian director who was condemned in 2015 to 20 years of prison, accused of planning a terroristic attack against the Russian government. To support Sentsov’s cause and his release, in Lecce the European Film Academy represented by chairwoman Agnieszka Holland and the director Marion Doring accompanied Kurov to present the film to the italian audiences.

The Trial: The State of Russia vs Oleg Sentsov: Oleg Sentsov is a Ukrainian filmmaker, Euromaidan activist and native of Crimea. After the Russian annexation of Crimea, he became an active opponent of the occupation. In May 2014 he was arrested by the Russian security service, charged with planned terrorist attacks and transported to Moscow. After over a year in custody, he was sentenced to 20 years in prison, despite the fact that the testimonies were given under duress and evidence was insufficient. Sentsov never pled guilty. Director Askold Kurov follows the progress of the trial and the attempts of Oleg’s family, friends and lawyers to save him from prison. The notorious case inspired protests around the world: the European Film Academy and many renowned filmmakers such as Pedro Almodovar, Wim Wenders, Agnieszka Holland, Ken Loach, Johnny Depp and others called for Oleg’s release. Kurov’s investigation gradually reveals an absurd and frightening Kafkaesque story about how anyone can become a victim of a ruthless state machine.

For the official page on the festival website click here.

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