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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Maren Ade, director of the film Toni Erdmann.

Maren Ade is back on FRED to talk about the last successful months after Toni Erdmann was presented at the Cannes Film festival. The film won 5 EFA Awards, the Lux Film Prize and it was nominated for an Oscar ( best Foreign film). ON the occasion of the film’s release in Italy the director gets deeper into the father-daughter relationship theme and analyzes the key elements that made the film so successful abroad.

Toni Erdmann: Winfried doesn’t see much of his working daughter Ines. The suddenly student-less music teacher decides to surprise her with a visit after the death of his old dog. It’s an awkward move because serious career woman Ines is working on an important project as a corporate strategist in Bucharest. The geographical change doesn’t help the two to see more eye to eye. Practical joker Winfried loves to annoy his daughter with corny pranks. What’s worse are his little jabs at her routine lifestyle of long meetings, hotel bars and performance reports. Father and daughter reach an impasse, and Winfried agrees to return home to Germany. Enter flashy „Toni Erdmann“: Winfried’s smooth-talking alter ego. Disguised in a tacky suit, weird wig and even weirder fake teeth, Toni barges into Ines’ professional life, claiming to be her CEO’s life coach. As Toni, Winfried is bolder and doesn’t hold back, but Ines meets the challenge. The harder they push, the closer they become. In all the madness, Ines begins to understand that her eccentric father might deserve some place in her life after all.

Official website here.

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PODCAST | Bryerly Long, actress and producer.

Bryerly talks about her experiences at Berlinale Talents, meeting people from around the world, and some of the challenges in the career of an actress.

Official website here.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Wieland Speck, director of the Panorama Section.

Angelo Acerbi talks with Wieland Speck, the director and father of the Panorama section at the Berlinale. This year’s attention was focused on politics and its importance in the movies, in terms of treating central social issues and raising awareness in the audience. Such importance was well analyzed by Wieland, and consequently well represented by all the films selected in this year’s program.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Raoul Peck, director of the film The Young Karl Marx.

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Raoul Peck, at the Berlinale with two films, his Oscar Nominee docuimentary film I’m Not Your Negro and The Young Karl Marx, screening in the Berlinale Special Gala Section. Peck reveals how analyzing Karl Marx’s early life and society at the time, can help people in the present not to make the same mistakes. Thre are so many similiarities in what happened in 1844 and what happens now and The Young Karl Marx, in Raoul Peck’s idea, should be seen as an educational film from which we should learn from. Peck also comments and elaborates on his decision of making a fiction film about Karl Marx, his friendship with Engels and the origins of the international Socialist movement, instead of a documentary.

The Young Karl Marx: 26 year-old Karl Marx embarks with his wife, Jenny, on the road to exile. In 1844 Paris, he meets Friedrich Engels, an industrialist’s son, who investigated the sordid birth of the British working-class. Engels, the dandy, provides the last piece of the puzzle to the young Karl Marx’s new vision of the world. Together, between censorship and the police’s repression, riots and political upheavals, they will lead the labor movement during its development into a modern era.

For the film page on the festival website click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Michael Chernus and Kurtwood Smith, actors of the film Patriot.

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Michael Chernus and Kurtwood Smith, in Berlin to present at the 67th Berlinale the first 2 episodes of PATRIOT , a new Amazon original TV series. The two actors describe their characters,respectively the older brother and the boss of the protagonist John ( Michael Dorman) and comment on the presence of a TV show in a renowned film festival which can be seen as a sign that Tv Series are finally considered as important as films in the audiovisual world.

Patriot follows the complicated life of intelligence offi cer John Tavner (Australian newcomer Michael Dorman, Wonderland). His latest assignment is to prevent Iran from going nuclear, requiring him to forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous “non-offi cial cover”—that of a mid-level employee at a Midwestern industrial piping fi rm. A bout with PTSD, the Federal government’s incompetence and the intricacies of keeping a day job in the “front” industrial piping company cause a barrage of ever-escalating fi ascos that jeopardize Tavner’s mission. Patriot is in large part about the lesser known, unglamorous aspects of life as an intelligence offi cer deep undercover with work that frequently places John in untenable situations where he’s often forced to choose between bad alternatives. The unraveling of a plan, and the eff ort to conceal that unraveling, causes matters to complicate further.

For the film page on the festival website click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Steve Conrad and Charlie Gogolak, director and producer of the film Patriot.

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets director Steven Conrad, the writer of The Pursuit of Happyness, The Weather Man, and The Secret Life of Walter Mitty and producer Charlie Gogolak to talk about the new Amazon Original TV show PATRIOT with Michael Dorman, Kurtwood Smith, Michael Chernus and Terry O’Quinn. The first 2 episodes have been presented i the Berlinale Special section at the 67th edition of the Festival. Conrad and Gogolak talk about the meaning of the title “Patriot” and the challenges of directing and producing a Tv show that mixes various genres such as drama, thriller, musical and black comedy.

Patriot follows the complicated life of intelligence offi cer John Tavner (Australian newcomer Michael Dorman, Wonderland). His latest assignment is to prevent Iran from going nuclear, requiring him to forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous “non-offi cial cover”—that of a mid-level employee at a Midwestern industrial piping fi rm. A bout with PTSD, the Federal government’s incompetence and the intricacies of keeping a day job in the “front” industrial piping company cause a barrage of ever-escalating fi ascos that jeopardize Tavner’s mission. Patriot is in large part about the lesser known, unglamorous aspects of life as an intelligence offi cer deep undercover with work that frequently places John in untenable situations where he’s often forced to choose between bad alternatives. The unraveling of a plan, and the eff ort to conceal that unraveling, causes matters to complicate further.

For the film page on the festival website click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Michael Dorman, actor of the film Patriot.

Berlinale has been of the first film festivals to open its doors to TV series and the 67th Berlinale presented the new tv show produced by Amazon, The Patriot directed by Steve Conrad with Australian actor and musician Michael Dorman as the protagonist. Dorman tells FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti about his first reaction to Conrad’s proposal and his first impression to the script of The Patriot as it is very innovative in mixing various genres, from black comedy to thriller with some musical moments. Michael Dorman is also a singer and Conrad used this occasion to introduce some musical numbers in every episodes in which John, the protagonist, a spy under cover, plays guitar and sings all the events he went through during war and his missions.

Patriot follows the complicated life of intelligence offi cer John Tavner (Australian newcomer Michael Dorman, Wonderland). His latest assignment is to prevent Iran from going nuclear, requiring him to forgo all safety nets and assume a perilous “non-offi cial cover”—that of a mid-level employee at a Midwestern industrial piping fi rm. A bout with PTSD, the Federal government’s incompetence and the intricacies of keeping a day job in the “front” industrial piping company cause a barrage of ever-escalating fi ascos that jeopardize Tavner’s mission. Patriot is in large part about the lesser known, unglamorous aspects of life as an intelligence offi cer deep undercover with work that frequently places John in untenable situations where he’s often forced to choose between bad alternatives. The unraveling of a plan, and the eff ort to conceal that unraveling, causes matters to complicate further.

For the film page on the festival website click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Nakane Tourè, actor of the film The Wound.

Fred’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Nakane Tourè, protagonist of The Wound, the Panorama opening film of the 67th Berlinale. Nakane reveals that he first joined the film’s production as music composer for the film’s soundtrack. John Trengove instead looked at him and found his protagonist. Tourè decided to embark on this adventure because he felt that the film could deal with universal themes, such as impossible love, passion, desire and black masculinity stereotypes.

The Wound: Xolani, a lonely factory worker, joins the men of his community in the mountains of the Eastern Cape to initiate a group of teenage boys into manhood. When a defiant initiate from the city discovers his best kept secret, Xolani’s entire existence begins to unravel.

For the film page on the festival website click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Stanley Donwood, Graphic Artist of the film The Bomb.

Stanley Donwood is one of the most celebrated graphic artists in Great Britain and a longtime campaigner against nuclear weapons and he’s one of the four artists that participated in The Bomb film project, screening at the 67th Berlinale in the Berlinale Special section. The film can be considered as a visual experience more than a simple documentary on the story of nuclear weapons and it is that interactive thanks to the experience of Donwood who put all his efforts in making this experience the more invasive and inclusive ppossible for the audience.

The Bomb: over seven decades have passed since a city was destroyed by a nuclear weapon. But the danger never went away. We are now confronted with a world in which nine nations possess about 15,000 nuclear weapons. Many of the weapons in the American arsenal are roughly 20 times more powerful than the bomb detonated at Hiroshima. the bomb places the viewer in the middle of the story of nuclear weapons – the most dangerous machines ever built – from the Trinity Test in 1945 to the current state of nuclear weapons in 2017. It will explore the culture surrounding nuclear weapons, the fascination they inspire, and the perverse appeal they still exert. It will convey the impossibility of controlling this technology.

For the film page on the festival website click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Marcelo Gomes, director of the film Joaquim.

Marcelo Gomes has been inspired by his country’s first leader of the revolutionary movement, Joaquim Jose da Silva Xavier, better known as Tiradentes, for his new film, Joaquim, in competition at the 67th Berlinale. While researching and narrating his country ‘s origins, Gomes investigates on Brazil’s contradictions nowadays that have their basis in the happenings of the 18th century. Gomes comments on his decision of introducing a love story in the film as the trigger to Joaquim’s revolutionary soul to be revealed. Through this impossibile love for a black slave, Preta, a subtle transformation begins to take place, an internal, ideological one.

Joaquim: Brazil, 18th century. The colony of Portugal endures a decline in gold production. A Portuguese minority rules over a corrupt and autocratic society. Joaquim is an efficient soldier, famous for capturing gold smugglers. While waiting for his promotion to Lieutenant, he leaves for a risky mission in search of new gold mines – the only way to buy the freedom of Blackie, a slave he is in love with. Inspired by the true story of Tiradentes, the first leader of the Brazilian revolutionary movement.

For the film page on the festival website click here.

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