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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Pascal Diot, president of the Venice Production Bridge, from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

The director of Venice Production Brige shares with Fred Radio hia happiness for the succees of this year’s edition; great figures, great deals and an incresing number of accreditations that signals the right path has been chosen. And obviously his mind is already on the 2017 edition.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews director Emir Kusturica and actresses Monica Bellucci and Sloboda Mićalović, who talk about their film On The Milky Road from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

A quick chat with director Emir Kusturica and actresses Monica Bellucci and Sloboda Micalovic on one of the stand out movies of the 73rd Venice Film Festival: On the Milky Road. Upon getting a hold of them shortly after the movie’s official press conference in Venice, we sit down at our Radio Call studio to ask them a few questions.

It took Kusturica over three years to complete this project, and we ask him about why that was and why he was so committed to this particular story. Bellucci and Micalovic then talk about what drew them to the characters and how their attachment to their roles developed throughout the lengthy production.

ON THE MILKY ROAD. Spring in wartime. Each day a milkman crosses the frontline on a donkey, dodging bullets to bring his precious wares to the soldiers. Blessed with good fortune on his mission, loved by a beautiful villager, a peaceful future seems to await him… until the arrival of a mysterious Italian woman turns his life upside down. Thus begins a story of passionate, forbidden love that will plunge them both into a series of fantastic and dangerous adventures. They have been joined by fate, and nothing and no one seems able to stop them…

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews actress Julia Roy, who talks about her film Never Ever (À Jamais) from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

NEVER EVER (À JAMAIS). Laura and Rey live in a big secluded house by the sea. He is a filmmaker, she acts in performances she creates. Rey dies—accident, suicide? Leaving her alone in the house. But soon, she is no longer by herself. Someone is there, it’s Rey, by and for her, like a dream longer than the night, for her to survive.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews director Nicholas Verso and actors Toby Wallace and Mitzi Ruhlmann, who talk about their film Boys In The Trees from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

BOYS IN THE TREES. It’s Halloween 1997—the last night of high school for Corey, Jango and their skater gang, The Gromits. Childhood is over and adult life beckons. But for Corey, his past has some unfinished business. When he encounters Jonah, a former childhood friend but now victimised by Jango’s cruel streak, Corey takes pity on him and agrees to walk him home for old time’s sake. What starts off as a normal walk through empty suburban streets descends into something darker and magical as they tell each other ghost stories, drawing upon their fears of the world around them. As they walk through their memories and ghosts of the past, Corey is surprised to discover how much he still has in common with his abandoned friend. But on the night of the grave’s delight, even the most buried truths will find a way of coming to life.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews director Lav Diaz, who talks about The Woman Who Left from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

THE WOMAN WHO LEFT. For Horacia Somorostro, living has become a veritablereclusio´n perpetua, an imprisonment. Life’s spins and randomness have been very difficult, vicious and inexplicable for her. The year is 1997. Princess Diana dies in a violent car crash. The world is saddened by the death of Mother Theresa. And the Philippines is gripped with fear. It has become the kidnap capital of Asia.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews director Amanda Kernell and actress Lene Cecilia Sparrok, who talk about the film Sami Blood from Venezia 73 [Venice Days]

FRED Film Radio has the pleasure to meet with the director Amanda Kernell and the actress Lene Cecilia Sparrok, here in Venice Days with the film Sami Blood.

SAMI BLOOD. Elle Marja, 14, is a reindeer-breeding Sámi girl. Exposed to the racism of the 1930s and race biology examinations at her boarding school, she starts dreaming of another life. To achieve this other life she has to become someone else – and break all ties with her family and culture.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Ivan D. Gaona, director of Pariente presented at Venezia 73 [Venice Days]

With many references and tributes to the western and the classic thriller, Ivan D. Gaona tells us of an impossible love story in the country side of an almost contemporary Colombia – the action takes place in 2005 – , where paramilitaries still rule and where violence and money are the only ackowledged terms of social power.

PARIENTE. Willington’s only love, Mariana, is about to get married to René, Willington’s cousin. While Willington is trying to get her back, a demobilization process concerning an illegal armed group is underway in the region, and new killings, besides rumors of a thief at large, will endanger Mariana’s new family.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Rebecca Zlotowski, Natalie Portman, Emmanuel Salinger and Lily-Rose Depp, who talk about  Planetarium from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

PLANETARIUM. Paris, late 1930s. Kate and Laura Barlow, two young American spiritualists, finish their world tour. Fascinated by their gift, André Korben, a powerful French film producer, hires them to shoot a highly ambitious film. In the vortex of cinema, experiments and feelings, this new family doesn’t see what Europe will soon go through.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews director Andrei Konchalovsky and actress Julia Vysotskaya, who talk about their film Paradise from the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

PARADISE tells the compelling story of three individuals, Olga, Jules and Helmut, whose paths cross amidst the devastation of war. Olga, a Russian aristocratic immigrant and member of the French Resistance, is arrested by Nazi police for hiding Jewish children during a surprise raid. As her punishment, she is sent to jail where she meets Jules, a French-Nazi collaborator who is assigned to investigate her case. Jules grows fond of Olga and offers to go light on her punishment in exchange for sexual favours. Although Olga agrees, and will do whatever it takes to avoid harsh persecution, her hope for freedom quickly fades when events take an unexpected turn. Shipped to a concentration camp, Olga is forced into a life of hell. To her surprise, she crosses paths with high-ranking German SS officer Helmut, who once fell madly in love with her and still harbours feelings. They re-kindle their old flame and embark on a twisted and destructive relationship. Helmut resolves to rescue Olga and offers her an escape that she no longer thought possible. Yet as time passes, and the fate of Nazi defeat looms, Olga’s notion of Paradise is irrevocably changed.

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