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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Joaquin Del Paso, director of the film Maquinaria Panamericana.

After presenting his first film Maquinaria Panamericana at the Guadalajara Film Festival and being compared to Luis Bunuel in the approach to his characters and setting, Joaquin Del Paso is in Torino competing with his film in the official section of the 34th Torino Film Festival. In a modern Mexico that at the same time it looks like it’s set in a out of time place, after the death of their boss, the faithful workers of the factory Maquinaria Panamericana lock themselves up in the company and react, their own way, to this loss and to being suddenly unemployed.

Maquinaria Panamericana: The Maquinaria Panamericana garage is an ideal place to work: the mood is perfect, there’s harmony among the employees, the rhythm is relaxed and nobody ever says no to a coffee break. All this under the benevolent gaze of their boss, Don Alejandro. This is why the employees are thrown into a panic one morning when they find him dead. Not only have they lost the best boss in the world but they soon discover that they also risk losing their jobs, since the garage is bankrupt. At this point, there don’t seem to be many solutions to the problem and the best one is to keep Don Alejandro alive…

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Thomas Kruithof, director of the film La Mecanique de l’ombre.

Fred’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Thomas Kruithof, director of La Mecanique de L’Ombre, in competition at the 34th Torino Film Festival. It is a spy story set in Belgium relies totally on Francois Cluzet’s ability to portray this very rigid man,the perfect employee who learns to disobey. By Cluzet’side, italian actress Alba Rohrwacher.

La Mecanique de l’ombre: A middle-aged, financially struggling man is looking for work two years after suffering alcoholism. He gets hired by a mysterious employer to transcribe phone-tapped conversations, which propels him into the heart of a large-scale political plot and gets him trapped in the French services underworld.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito, Axel Koenzen, Pablo Lamar, directors of Out of Love, Deadweight, La Ultima Tierra.

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Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito, director of Out of Love, Axel Koenzen, director of Deadweight and Pablo Lamar director of La Ultima Tierra talk to Chiara Nicoletti about their films and their experience at the Torino Film Lab

Torino Film Lab. OUT OF LOVE: Out of Love encapsulates the sweltering and devastating dynamics of love in the turbulent relationship between Varya and Nikolai, where genuine love and hope, contend with destruction and despair. DEADWEIGHT: Ahti Ikonen is a reliable captain at the height of his career. He is in command of the 35,000-ton container vessel Brugge, which enters the port of Savannah (United States) behind schedule. The loading of the ship commences in haste as the crew, led by the ambitious Romanian officer Katia, works by the piece so that they can sail in time. The Filipino seaman James has an accident during this semi-legal lashing procedure. Ahti has to face the consequences of his orders. In the port of Rotterdam (Netherlands) unionized dockworkers exploit the incident and refuse to unload the ship. Standstill. The captain is caught between the frontlines. Ahti is keen to elucidate the accident, but the situation becomes more and more contradictory… LA ULTIMA TIERRA: A man is sitting at his wife’s death bed. He feeds her, watches over her and reassures her. After she dies, in the early morning, he takes care of her body. She is no longer part of time, while he has to continue, rudderless. He seeks solace in practical things – digging the grave, washing the body – while a sorrow wells up in him that traditional mourning rituals are powerless to overcome. His response is a gesture as radical as death itself.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Adrian Sitaru, director of the film The Fixer.

This is a film about the duality of our system of values, that’s how Adrian Sitaru describes his new film The Fixer, screening at the 34th Torino Film Festival. The Romanian director discusses the contrast between the protagonist’ search for truth and the difficulty that human beings encounter in understanding. Adrian Sitaru who is also a member of the official competition jury of the 34th Torino Film Festival,comments on his visual choices such as the strong use of the zoom and close ups.

The Fixer: Radu is doing an apprenticeship as a journalist at a French broadcasting station in Romania and a scandal over an underage prostitution ring between France and Romania seems like his chance to make progress in his career. He’s at an advantage since he knows the language, so when the underage prostitute Anca is repatriated, he offers to interpret for two journalists who have arrived from Paris. But the girl is entrusted to an institution run by nuns, and Radu and his colleagues have a hard time tracking her down and convincing her to talk. Above all, Radu hasn’t taken into account the conflict with his objectives, journalistic ethics and simple human compassion.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Sacha Wolff, director of the film Mercenaire.

With his decision of having a 111 kg young man to play his protagonist in Mercenaries, Sacha Wolff has gotten himself access to Cannes Film FEstival and now Torino Film Festival . Thanks to his documentary background, Wolff describes in a very detailed way the journey of young Soane literally jumping from the world of New Caledonia to the cruel one of modern France and rugby players.

Mercenaire: Through the intercession of shifty Abraham, Soane moves from his native Polynesia to France to become a professional rugby player. Because of a mishap he ends up on a second-rate team. Even though he is a French citizen, he soon finds himself marginalized and must suffer the aversion of those who consider him nothing more than a rugby player.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Lukas Valenta Rinner, director of the film Los Decentes.

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Lukas Valente Rinner prepared a film that seemed nice and even too simple at the beginning. Through the yese of a full-time maid in a rich house we see the life of this rich community and the uncomparably freer and funnier life of a naturist community she joins in her free days. Two realities so far apart to become enemies all of a sudden. the reasons and the idea which this film is based on are told us by the director, a young and nice guy with a clear mind and a good sense of irony.

Los Decentes. Belén finds a job as a cleaning lady for a wealthy Argentinian family living in a gated community outside Buenos Aires. One day, she makes a bizarre discovery: just on the other side of that respectable and tightly guarded place there is a lively community of nudists who pass the time by the pool or in tantric sex sessions. Like a siren’s song, Belén is drawn in and she soon finds herself living a double life, balancing between respectability and promiscuity.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Bernardo Bernardo, actor in Lullaby to the sorrowful mistery.

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Bernardo Bernardo is back on Fred after Berlinale to talk again about Lav Diaz’s Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mistery screening at the 34th Torino Film Festival in Festa Mobile. The actor describes the mythological figure he represents in the film, the Tikbalang and to guide the audience through Lav Diaz’s films. Working in one of Diaz’s films or watching one of his films wants every person to actually experience the film and the process. When Bernardo Bernardo is not acting in a film or a play, he recharges his batteries through karaoke and the art of crystal healing.

Lullaby to the sorrowful mistery. Interconnected narrative threads on the Philippine Revolution of 1896-1897 against Spain characterize Hele sa Hiwagang Hapis–the story of the ballad Jocelynang Baliwag, which became the hymn of the revolution; Gregoria de Jesus’ forlorn search for the body of the Father of Philippine Revolution Andres Bonifacio; the journey of our national heroes’ fictional book characters Simon and Isagani; the role of the Philippine mythical hero of strength Bernardo Carpio and the half-man, half-horse Tikbalang/Engkanto, on the Filipino psyche. It is a marriage of history, literature and mythology.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Raymond Phatanavirangoon and David Lindner, directors of the films Apprentice and Die Reise mit Vater in the Torino Film Lab. 

Raymond Phatanavirangoon and David Lindner talk about their films and their experience as producers with the Turin Film Lab.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Dean Matthews Ronalds and Tom Mulloy, director and actor of the film #Screamers.

Dean Matthews Ronalds teamed up with his pal Tom Mulloy to create this mockumentary where all is fake even if it seems totallly real. A seemingly non-narrative film where narratìve is actually everything, and all is studied and prepared to look casual. Everything look normal and day-to-day life so that we forgot that this is an horror flick. But when the horror comes, it hits hard. The look of the film is due to a specific prototype of camera which production was then abandoned , so this is the only film that used it…pretty amazing, to be honest.

#Screamers: Tom Brennan and Chris Grabow are the creators of Gigaler, a popular platform which publishes Screamers, clips with a high content of horror. One day, they receive a video of a girl in a cemetery and a disquieting presence behind her; it immediately goes viral. Intrigued about the story behind the clip, Tom and Chris discover that the protagonist might be Tara Rogers, a young girl who disappeared a long time ago.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Anna Biller, director of the film The Love Witch.

Anna Biller knows cinema, she fed on classics from both America and Europe and all those influences are there, some more visible than others , in this vintage-like movie. The visual result is astounding: Biller tells us how she and her d.o.p. managed to give us some Technicolor feel even today. Her rendition of femininity and feminism, through the lead character, does the rest to make the movie a peculiar must-see.

The Love Witch: California, the 1960s. When beautiful Elaine, who calls herself a love witch, is widowed under mysterious circumstances, she decides to move from San Francisco to a small town where magic and orgiastic rites are tolerated. Here, through potions and spells, she can begin her search for the ideal man. Often with bloody consequences…

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