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PODCAST: FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Doris Dörrie, director of the film Fukushima, Mon Amour from the Panorama section of the 66th Berlinale.

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Doris Dörrie presented her new film Fukushima, Mon Amour in the Panorama section of the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. Here, director Doris Dörrie returns to Japan, where her previous film Cherry Blossoms. This time, she does so through foreign German perspective, rather than a Japanese one. To cite the director’s own words, Fukushima, Mon Amour is a story of two women whose backgrounds are so completely different, and yet who are both caught in their own past, and who learn together to free themselves from their personal memories. The title is a homage to Alain Resnais’ masterpiece Hiroshima, Mon Amour.

FUKISHIMA, MON AMOUR: Young German woman Marie (Rosalie Thomass) escapes to Fukushima to change her life. Working with the organization Clowns4Help, she hopes to bring joy to 2011 nuclear disaster survivors, some still living in emergency shelters. Marie soon realizes she‘s absolutely unsuited to the task of making tragedy less weari- some. But instead of running away, Marie decides to stay with cantankerous old Satomi (Kaori Momoi), the last geisha of Fukushima, who of her own accord has decided to retreat back to her ruined house in the formerly radioactive Exclusion Zone. Two women who couldn‘t be more different, but who – each in her own way – are trapped in the past and must learn to liberate themselves from guilt and the burden of memory.

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PODCAST: FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Alex Gibney, director of Zero Days in competition at the 66th Berlinale.

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Alex Gibney returns to FRED’s airwaves to talk about his latest documentary feature titled Zero Days. Gibney says that the topic of a possible, or possibly current, cyber war thus far has been the most complicated subject for him to cinematically unfold.

Click here to listen to Alex Gibney’s masterclass at the 2016 Berlinale Talents, titled “To the Dark Side: Investigative Documentary” – FRED Extra channel

ZERO DAYS: Alex Gibney’s Zero Days is a documentary thriller about warfare in a world without rules— the world of cyberwar. The film tells the story of Stuxnet, self-replicating computer malware (known as a “worm” for its ability to burrow from computer to computer on its own) that the U.S. and Israel unleashed to destroy a key part of an Iranian nuclear facility, and which ultimately spread beyond its intended target. It’s the most comprehensive accounting to date of how a clandestine mission hatched by two allies with clashing agendas opened forever the Pandora’s Box of cyberwarfare. Zero Days is a cautionary tale of technology, power, unintended consequences, morality, and the dangers of secrecy. By bursting through the secrecy, Zero Days hopes to signal the importance of this issue and break ground on the debate.power.

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PODCAST: FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews director Udi Aloni, actor Tamer Nafar and actress Samar Qupty on the film Junction 48 from the 66th Berlinale

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Presented in the Panorama section of the 66th Berlin International Film Festival, Junction 48 stars real life rapper Tamer Nafar, who wrote the screenplay inspired by his own personal experiences as part of the Arab hip-hop scene in Tel Aviv. This is a story of love and struggles, and it speaks to young people with the hope of making a change.

JUNCTION 48 is the love story of two young Palestinian hip-hop artists who use their music to fight against both the external oppression of Israeli society and the internal repression of their own crime-ridden, conservative community. It depicts a new generation of young Arabs who seek normality through their love and music – and against all odds.

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PODCAST: FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Amir Jadidi, Homayoun Ghanizadeh and Ehsan Goudarzi, actors of the film A Dragon Arrives! (Ejhdeha Vared Mishavad!) by Mani Haghighi, presented in competition at the 66th Berlinale.

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Amir Jadidi, Homayoun Ghanizadeh and Ehsan Goudarzi are the three protagonists of Mani Haghighi’s A Dragon Arrives!, in competition at the 66th Berlinale. The actors reveal that they were honored to be cast for this film and to be working with Mani Haghighi, so they allowed him to guide them through this cinematic experience.

Click here to listen to our interview with Mani Haghighi, director of the film A Dragon Arrives! – FRED English channel

A DRAGON ARRIVES: An orange Chevrolet Impala drives across a cemetery towards an abandoned shipwreck in the middle of a desert landscape. It is the 22nd of January, 1965. The day before, the Iranian prime minister was shot dead in front of the parliament building. Inside the wreck, a banished political prisoner has hung himself. The walls are covered in diary entries, literary quotes and strange symbols. Can they help Police Inspector Babak Hafizi in his investigations? Will they shed any light on why there is always an earthquake whenever somebody is buried in this desert cemetery?

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PODCAST: FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Cynthia Nixon, actress of the film A Quiet Passion by Terence Davies from the 66th Berlinale

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Cynthia Nixon plays the leading role in Terence Davies‘ new film, A Quiet Passion, on the life of Emily Dickinson. The film was presented at the 66th Berlinale as a Special Gala, and also stars Jennifer Ehle and Keith Carradine. Nixon comments on the reasons why she accepted to portray the American poet and the comedic approach used by Davies in the screenplay and the film.

A QUIET PASSION is the life story of the celebrated American poet Emily Dickinson, from her youth as a headstrong schoolgirl to her reclusive adulthood where poetry was solace.

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PODCAST: FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Andrew Neel, director of Goat from the panorama section of the 66th Berlinale.

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Co-written by Andrew Neel, David Gordon Green and Mike Roberts and based on the acclaimed memoirs by Brad Land, Goat provides a searing portrayal of masculinity, violence and brotherhood. Christine Vachon and David Hinojosa of Killer Films were the ones who suggested Neel should direct Goat, which they were planning to produce, as they were working together on a different project.

Click here to listen to our interview with Nick Jonas on his role in the film Goat – FRED English channel

GOAT: Reeling from a terrifying assault, a 19 year-old boy enrolls into college with his brother and pledges the same fraternity. What happens there, in the name of “brotherhood” tests the boy and his loyalty to his brother in brutal ways.

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PODCAST: FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Nick Jonas, actor in the film Goat by Andrew Neel, presented in the Panorama section of the 66th Berlinale.

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The whole story of Goat focuses on the theme of masculinity and what it stands for in today’s world. Nick Jonas plays the role of the main character Brad (Ben Schnetzer) in the film, who tries to help his brother regain his masculinity by urging him to pledge his same fraternity. Jonas talks to us about how he fell in love with the screenplay from the moment he read it, and how he hopes that Goat will raise a conversation on the topic it deals with.

Click here to listen to our interview with Andrew Neel, director of the film Goat – FRED English channel

GOAT: Reeling from a terrifying assault, a 19 year-old boy enrolls into college with his brother and pledges the same fraternity. What happens there, in the name of “brotherhood” tests the boy and his loyalty to his brother in brutal ways.

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PODCAST: FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Morgan Neville, director of The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, presented at the 66th Berlinale.

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Morgan Neville, Oscar winning director of the documentary 20 Feet from Stardom, was at the 66th Berlinale to present his latest film The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble as one of the festival’s Special Galas. Dealing once again with music, this time Neville follows the legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his fellow musicians of the Silk Road Ensemble as they tour around the world. While film, Neville interviews some of the musicians, with the aim to investigate into their personal stories and backgrounds, in order to allow his audience into their world.

THE MUSIC OF STRANGERS: YO-YO MA AND THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE: From the director of the Oscar-winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom and the critically acclaimed Best of Enemies, the new film The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble tells the extraordinary story of the renowned international musical collective created by legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma. The feature-length documentary follows this group of diverse instrumentalists, vocalists, composers, arrangers, visual artists and storytellers as they explore the power of music to preserve tradition, shape cultural evolution and inspire hope.

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PODCAST: FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Tomasz Wasilewski, director of United States of Love (Zjednoczone stany milosci), in competition at the 66th Berlinale.

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The winner of the 2016 Silver Bear for Best Screenplay, filmmaker Tomasz Wasilewski, talks about his choice of making a film featuring only women as protagonists, through whom the audience can experience the atmosphere of Poland in 1990, a time of big change and transformation for the country. Wasilewski also talks about being only interested in “broken” characters, and his wish to “put his finger inside the audience’s heart,” as he puts it, in order to connect with them and get them emotionally involved in his film.

UNITED STATES OF LOVE (Zjednoczone stany milosci): Poland, 1990. The winds of change are blowing in Poland. The first euphoric year of freedom, but also of uncertainty for the future. Four apparently happy women of different ages decide it’s time to change their lives, fight for their happiness and fulfill their desires. Agata is a young mother, trapped in an unhappy marriage, who seeks refuge in another, impossible relationship. Renata is an older teacher fascinated with her neighbour Marzena – a lonely former local beauty queen, whose husband works in Germany. Marzena’s sister Iza is a headmistress in love with the father of one of her students.

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