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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Rafael Palacio Illingworth, director of the film Between Us.

 With his second feature film Between Us, Rafael Palacio Illingworth opens the 34th Torino Film Festival. The film, analyzing a couple going through that passage in life in which marriage could become an option after years of living together. the idea of the film came from Illingworth’s real experience with his partner that afterwards became his wife. Why are we never happy of what we have and we’re always looking for more emotions, passion, attention outside the life we should be happy and glad in? Palacio Illingworth tries to answer with Between us.

Between Us. Henry and Dianne, both thirty years old, must come to grips with the reality of their life as a couple: the years of their youth, made of adventures, new encounters and a future waiting to be discovered, are over. What awaits them is the nightmare of normality and adulthood: a house in the suburbs, one or more children, and a dog to walk. But is this really what they want? When the tension results in a separation – albeit for just one night – they will find the answers they are searching for.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Marta Gastini, Analeigh Tipton, actresses of the film Sadie.

Fred’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Marta Gastini and Analeigh Tipton, the protagonists of Sadie, screening at the 34th Torino Film Festival in Festa Mobile. The two actresses talk about their involvement in the film project and their work together in portraying at the same time two faces of their characters. Analeigh is Sadie and Marta is Francesca. Through their interaction and their evolution, director Craig Goodwill explored the thin line between our desires and their impact on our souls.

Sadie, is an emerging writer. Her ex invites her to Italy to celebrate the publication of her new book. There she meets Francesca, inscrutable and mysterious. The two women find themselves in a remote villa from another time where nothing is at it seems.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Craig Goodwill, Jakob Cedergren, Valentin Merlet, director and actors of the film Sadie.

After a long research, Craig Goodwill found in Turin the perfect location for his psychological thriller Sadie so there couldn’t anywhere else to premiere it but at the Torino Film Festival. At the Fred’s studio in Torino, Goodwill talks about the making of the film with the male protagonists of the story, Jakob Cedergren and Valentin Merlet. Cedergren plays the ex-lover, the one representing the demons of Sadie’s dark past. Merlet represents the better life Sadie could have. They simbolically portray the constant battle between love and passion and our search for a balance in these two components through our life.

Sadie, a budding erotic novelist who, along with an enigmatic woman named Francesca, are enticed by an ex-lover to join him at an Italian villa. Once there, Sadie is confronted by the demons of her past as she becomes embroiled in a surreal game of murder and betrayal.

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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Armin Miladi, festival director of the International Film Festival Australia (IFFA)

The Iranian Film Festival Australia (IFFA) returns for its sixth year, shining a spotlight on contemporary life in Iran in cinemas across Australia.

Co-festival director Armin Miladi talks about the Iranian film industry that is bursting with creativity and new energy in this new political era. IFFA has hand-picked the very best. The line-up includes Life and a Day, the debut feature from 26-year-old Saeed Roostaie which won several awards, Reza Mirkarimi’s award winning Daughter, directly from Cannes Asghar Farhadi’s The Salesman and fresh from Berlin Reza Dormeshian’s Lantouri. All Australian premieres (with the exception of The Salesman, which premiered at the Melbourne International Film Festival this year).

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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Eddie Tamir, director of the Jewish International Film Festival in Australia.

Festival Director Eddie Tamir walks us through the program of the 2016 Jewish International Film Festival commenting on a great line up of features, documentaries and TV films from around the world, including both last and current year’s winners of Ophir Awards (the Israeli Oscar).

A selection of 68 movies and documentaries from 119 countries around the world that show life through the Jewish looking glass.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Kevin Meul, director, and Aäron Roggeman, actor of the film My First Highway from 2016 Alice nella Città

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Kevin Meul and Aäron Roggeman, director and actor of My First Highway, in competition at the 14th edition of Alice nella Città. While it is impossible to talk about the film without spoiling its strong turning points, the director and his young actor manage to talk about their experience on set, their own adolescence and what it meant for them to work on a coming of age story.

MY FIRST HIGHWAY. During the annual holiday with his parents at a campsite in Spain, Benjamin (16) falls in love with a local girl. She is beautiful and intriguing and drags him along on an adventure that takes a dangerous turn. This will be a summer he will never forget for the rest of his life.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Conrad Vernon, co-director of the film Sausage Party.

After the scandalous success in the US, Sausage Party is finally out in Italy, released on Halloween day to wake up the dead and the sad people to the sound of laughter and irreverent jokes. We have reached Conrad Vernon, co-director of the film with Greg Tiernan, on the phone to talk about the making of the film, compromises and stereotypes. Vernon tells us about the long process that finally took him, Seth Rogen ( producer and voice of the protagonist, the sausage Frank) and Evan Goldberg to do the film. There was the intention of not giving up to compromises: the box office results, the PG 13 possibility, the balance were not conditions and limits they took into consideration. They wanted to do a free film since the beginning and Anna Purna Pictures let them carry on with their project as it was. In order to make fun of everybody and have anyone laughing at the film, the main purpose was to “insult” everybody. To make fun of every race, belief, religion, defect, this was the only way to respect all and really gather the audience under a sort of “fun” umbrella. How do you get, elegantly, into an orgy? A Dirty Dancing theme song can definitely help.

SAUSAGE PARTY is about one sausage leading a group of supermarket products on a quest to discover the truth about their existence and what really happens when they become chosen to leave the grocery store. The film features the vocal talents of a who’s who of today’s comedy stars – Seth Rogen, Kristen Wiig, Jonah Hill, Bill Hader, Michael Cera, James Franco, Danny McBride, Craig Robinson, Paul Rudd, Nick Kroll, David Krumholtz, Edward Norton, and Salma Hayek.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Sofia Sondervan, producer of the film London Town, shown at Alice nella Città 2016.

Sofia Sondervan talks about the idea of celebrating The Clash through an universal coming of age story, London Town. From the genesis of the film, Sondervan confesses her teenage years’ idols, Duran Duran. Sofia Sondervan’s latest productions include Cadillac Records and The Man Who Knew Infinity.

LONDON TOWN follows a 14 (soon to be 15) years old kid named Shay (Daniel Huttlestone) living in the suburbs of London with his Scottish father (Dougray Scott) and his precocious little sister. Shay is good in school and has learned piano at the behest of his father, who owns and operates a piano store when he’s not driving a cab to make ends meet. Shay’s free-spirited mother (Natascha McElhone) took off when the kids were very young, and Shay gets invited to stay with her for the summer, even though he has a heap of familial responsibilities due to her absence. On a trip to the city, Shay meets a young punk girl named Vivian (Nell Williams) who introduces him to the music of the Clash.. After his father gets badly injured while moving a piano and has to remain in hospital for weeks, Shay is forced to work at the store and drive the cab on his own to try to keep everything afloat. As his world starts to fall apart he finds strength in the music and his new found love to get him through.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Selma Vihunen, director of Little Wing, shown at Alice nella Città 2016.

Selma Vilhunen is the winner of the Camera d’Oro Taodue at the 14th edition of Alice nella Città with her second feature Little Wing. The jury was chaired by Matt Dillon and composed, among others, by italian directors Gabriele Mainetti and Claudio Giovannesi and italian actress Anna Foglietta. Little Wing is more than a simple coming of age story as the little protagonist starts by being her mother’s mum to becoming a child again.

LITTLE WING tells the story of 12-year-old Varpu (Linnea Skog), who’s quickly growing to adulthood, and about her mother Siru (Paula Vesala), who doesn’t want to grow up. Varpu lives with her mother and has never met her father. One night Varpu has enough of her riding buddies and her mother. She steals a car and drives up north in search of her father, of whom she only knows the name. But her father is not exactly what she had expected. Meeting him triggers something in Varpu and Siru’s life, making them realize their role in each other’s lives, and in the world.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Daniel Huttlestone, actor of the film London Town, in competition at Alice nella Città 2016.

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Daniel Huttlestone, young protagonist of London Town by Derrick Borte. The film is in competition at the 14th edition of Alice nella Città in Rome. The actor tells us how he got on board of the project and how he learned all the songs of The Clash. Although it is set in a specific time of UK’s history the film has very universal themes that can have teenagers nowadays relate to it.

LONDON TOWN follows a 14 (soon to be 15) years old kid named Shay (Daniel Huttlestone) living in the suburbs of London with his Scottish father (Dougray Scott) and his precocious little sister. Shay is good in school and has learned piano at the behest of his father, who owns and operates a piano store when he’s not driving a cab to make ends meet. Shay’s free-spirited mother (Natascha McElhone) took off when the kids were very young, and Shay gets invited to stay with her for the summer, even though he has a heap of familial responsibilities due to her absence. On a trip to the city, Shay meets a young punk girl named Vivian (Nell Williams) who introduces him to the music of the Clash.. After his father gets badly injured while moving a piano and has to remain in hospital for weeks, Shay is forced to work at the store and drive the cab on his own to try to keep everything afloat. As his world starts to fall apart he finds strength in the music and his new found love to get him through.

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