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Goyo Anchou – director – Heterophobia

Through HETEROPHOBIA, Goyo Anchou creates a compelling and astounding, even quite demanding, film that looks like an underground movie of the seventies – but if it is much more than that.

You have to absorb many layers of information, from the off voice poetry to the live action to the colors and post production effects that create a dense and intense manifesto of free love and manly love, but against any form of machismo. He has assertive ideals and ideas, that he clearly tells us in this interview.

HERETOPHOBIA: Mariano is a young gay man who is attracted to a heterosexual friend, who rapes and then abandons him. For Mariano, this is the beginning of a slow descent into hell, a sentimental journey with dramatic consequences. The hate and repulsion around him make his condition even more unbearable: initially afflicted by painful guilty feelings, he is soon pervaded by a strong desire for redemption, with a messianic aftermath. In a roller coaster of emotions which plunge him into a parallel, horrific and psychedelic universe, dominated by rage and a desire for revenge, Mariano senses that only castration can save him. But, at the end of this personal Calvary, he understands that there is only one solution: to take part in the revolution against the patriarchy which underpins our society.

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Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck – co.director – God Bless the Child

GOD BLESS THE CHILD is a stunning film for its style , apparent simplicity and its strength at the same time. Rodrigo Ojeda-Beck, one of the two directors, tells us about how they took this challenge and how they managed to get through the shooting , with five children, three of them under five years old, where acting was a big game with loose rules.

GOD BLESS THE CHILD: Rebecca is a mother who suffers from depression. She is so distant and unstable that she abandons her five children, in search of what seems like yet another escape from reality. Thirteen-year-old Harper has to take Rebecca’s place as a mother and care for her four younger siblings, one of whom is only twelve months old. During a long summer day, Rebecca’s five children share chaos, intimate moments, uncertainties, adventures and games. Through their eyes, the world becomes a fantasy place, where everything takes on a new and unexpected aura.

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Christina Rosendahl – director – The Idealist

With an enormous quantity of footage from the danish television of the 50’s, Christina Rosendahl creates with THE IDEALIST a dry and direct version of the classic filma about an investigative reporter, and also depicts the character of a real idealist who inevitably ends by slamming his face and ideals against sheer reality.

The secret pact made between the supposedly anti-nuclear Denmark of the 50’s and the US governement about storing hydrogen bombs in Greenland , causing by accident a massive contamination of the area, is told with almost documentaristic simplicity.

THE IDEALIST: On January 21, 1968, an American B-52 bomber, loaded with nuclear warheads, crashes amid the glaciers of Greenland. The American and Danish authorities who monitor the area declare that the situation is under control and after eight months of remediation announce the emergency is over.

Eighteen years later, the journalist Poul Brink, zealous and determined, accidentally gets word of some mysterious testimony regarding the plane crash. The suspicion soon starts to grow in him that this is a case of a political cover-up and Brink sets off on a solitary journey in search of the truth.

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Robert Machoian – director – God Bless the Child

One of the directors of GOD BLESS THE CHILD, Robert Machoian talks about the choice of making such a beautiful and complex movie, and how shooting with small kids was a challenge, a sometimes unnerving situation, but also a very rewarding choice in the end.

GOD BLESS THE CHILD: Rebecca is a mother who suffers from depression. She is so distant and unstable that she abandons her five children, in search of what seems like yet another escape from reality. Thirteen-year-old Harper has to take Rebecca’s place as a mother and care for her four younger siblings, one of whom is only twelve months old. During a long summer day, Rebecca’s five children share chaos, intimate moments, uncertainties, adventures and games. Through their eyes, the world becomes a fantasy place, where everything takes on a new and unexpected aura.

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Sarah Gavron – director – Suffragette

SUFFRAGETTE was the opening film of the 33rd edition of Torino Film Festival – as well as the opening film of the BFI London Film Festival earlier this year.

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets director Sarah Gavron to explore the genesis if the film. It took her six years to make this film that can count on the participation of producer Faye Ward and writer Abi Morgan ( Shame, The Iron Lady) .

SUFFRAGETTE is the first film to treat this topic ( except for Mary poppins) and it focuses on the working class women , such as Carey Mulligan’s character, who took part in this movement by fighting not only this battle but so many other fights at home. The film has a stellar cast including Meryl Streep’s cameo as Emmeline Pankhurst (leader of the suffragettes) , Helena Bonham Carter, Brendan Gleeson and Ben Whishaw.

SUFFRAGETTE: London, the early 1900s. Since the age of seven, Maud has worked as a laundress in an unsafe workplace dominated by its arrogant proprietor; she is married to a man who mistreats her. She finds herself by chance in the middle of a protest organized by the Suffragettes and, after overcoming her initial reluctance, she joins the movement in hopes of obtaining that freedom which has always been denied her and many others. But the struggle is difficult and painful.

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Jenna Belhumer, Elena Boffetta – directors – Back

We met with Jenna Belhumeur and Elena Boffetta at the world premiere of their first film at DOC NYC, and talked about the movie and the push of the Obama administration to decrease the number of prisoners in US penitentiaries.

BACK focuses on some of the hidden aspects of long-term confinement through the eyes of a memorable man, and reveals what re-entry is like for those released into a society that looks drastically different from that decades ago.

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Chris O’Neill – director of Discordance / programmer Cork Film Festival

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Chris O’Neill, one of the programmers of the Cork Film Festival, which this year celebrated its landmark 60th edition, and cinema programmer at Triskel Christchurch.

FRED meets him the day after the end of the festival, and we take the opportunity to ask him to give us a brief overview of this year’s festival, and whether it was a successful year or not. He also discusses the challenges of promoting a “different” type of cinema in the city of Cork.

But we also ask him to talk to us about his interesting short film DISCORDANCE, and the fascinating way in which he got it to come together. He also introduces the feature film he is currently working on RECEPTIVE. TOTALLY RECEPTIVE. and compares the very different filmmaking approaches he used for the two projects.

DISCORDANCE: Three old friends from college who meet up one afternoon and reminisce about old times over drinks while circumventing the worries and frustrations happening in their current relationships and jobs.

Click here to visit the official Facebook page of RECEPTIVE. TOTALLY RECEPTIVE.

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Etienne Faure – director – Bizarre

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Etienne Faure, director of BIZARRE from the 60th Cork Film Festival, which premiered earlier this year at the Berlinale.

Faure tells us that the initial inspiration came from a real bar, populated by very colourful individuals. We also ask him about themes of sexuality in BIZARRE, and he tells us the story of how he came across his leading actor.

BIZARRE: Maurice (Pierre Prieur) is a young French man with a mysterious past. He arrives in Brooklyn, New York, with no money and no place to stay. After a chance encounter, he is given room, board and a job at Bizarre, an underground club which hosts outrageous and transgressive cabaret acts. With owners Kim and Betty (Raquel Nave and Rebekah Underhill) and fellow bartender Luka (Adrian James), Maurice begins to feel like he is part of a family. But with the increasing uncertainty of the club’s future, he realises that this new life is about to disappear and violence erupts as Maurice begins to unravel.

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Paul Hamy – actor – Parisienne

Among the protagonists of PARISIENNE ( Peur De Rien in France) by Danielle Arbid, Paul Hamy lands in Rome for the film’s participation in the 21st MedFilm Festival competition.

The french actor who was nominated for a César as Best Promise for the film Suzanne, was discovered by Danielle Arbid and many french directors close to the independent scene thanks to that film and he has been working a lot ever since. Hamy shot his scenes in the film during only 5 days which were very intense as he had to create the chemistry and connection with the protagonist Manal Issa, at her first experience in a film.

Paul Hamy considers the film an ODE to FRANCE, a lovesong. With many films in post-production and coming out in the next months, Paul Hamy is really a France’shooting star,he is always basing his career choices on sharing the same creative vision with the directors he works with and this might be the secret. He will soon be on FRED again, we can certainly bet on it.

PARISIENNE: Set in 1990s Paris, the new film from French-Lebanese director Danielle Arbid is a coming-of-age story about a young woman from Beirut whose relationships and encounters reveal different facets of her new country.

Official Facebook page of PARISIENNE

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Paddy Hayes – director – Name Your Poison

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Paddy Hayes, director of the documentary NAME YOUR POISON that screened at the 60th Cork Film Festival.

The bizarre story of Michael Molloy, the man who wouldn’t die or, if you like, the Rasputin of the Bronx, an Irish immigrant and alcoholic during the Great Depression. An incredible story, executed in a very entertaining way by Hayes, whose film is fun but at the same time serves as an exploration of the cultural background of those times, as well as the theme of immigration and alcoholism, while treasuring the novelty appeal of its “folklore” identity.

Hayes tells us about his use of recreation and contributions from experts, and the reason behind his choice of making this a bi-lingual documentary in both English and Irish.

NAME YOUR POISON (Deoch an Dorais): Domhillte, Dochloíte, Dochreidte…

The kind of tale handed down through families for generations, Name Your Poison brings to life the legend of Mike Malloy, the man who wouldn’t die. The unwitting subject of life insurance fraud at the hands of prohibition-era gangster Tony Marino, Malloy dodges poison, car accidents and exposure to extreme conditions.

Combining accounts from experts with beautifully recreated scenes of 1930s Bronx, this Irish language documentary immortalizes Malloy’s astonishing story with aplomb and energy, while providing a fresh approach to often explored questions regarding the Irish abroad.

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