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Clemens Schick, Jella Haase, Moritz Leu – actors – Four Kings

After meeting director Theresa Von Eltz, FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets the protagonists of FOUR KINGS, actors ClemensSchick, Jella Haase and Moritz Leu to comment with them the intent and message of the film.

The film states something very important through the voice of Clemens Schick‘s character, the psychiatrist: What makes you odd now will be what makes you special when you grow up. This is the essence of the film and it is what turn the four adolescents into FOUR KINGS.

FOUR KINGS: Christmas is approaching, and with it, the desire for harmony, beauty, light and hope. Being unable to cope with her parents’ conflict, Alex (16) makes a radical decision. A day later she finds herself in the adolescent psychiatric emergency unit. There she meets three other young people: Lara (17), the striking daughter from an academic family, who’s having acidflashbacks; shy Fedja (16), who is being bullied at school; and violent Timo (17), who has just been moved from the closed ward. Under the care of the young psychiatrist Dr. Wolff (38), they will spend a Christmas together that none of them will ever forget.

A heart wrenching drama about four young, smart, damaged youths who must spend their Christmas holiday in a juvenile psychiatric clinic. Together, alone and confronted by an unconventional psychiatrist, they will have a Christmas that they’ll never forget.

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Janet Grillo – director – Jack of the Red Hearts

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Janet Grillo, director of JACK OF THE RED HEARTS in competition at the 13th edition of Alice nella Città.

This is Grillo‘s second film exploring the topic of autism, the first was FLY AWAY where the director focused more on the difficult relationship between mother and daughter.

Jack of the Red Hearts is described by Janet Grillo as a film about love and what it means to be human. It is a story about how people can connect and how this unexpected connections can really turn our life upside down and change our path and our priorities.

This is how Jack, the protagonist, becomes more aware of the kind of person she wants to be in life so that she can start all over again with new priorities, dreams and good intentions.

JACK OF THE RED HEARTS: Aging out of foster care, a street-smart teen, JACK (AnnaSophia Robb, SOUL SURFER, CARRIE DIARIES) gets in trouble with her Probation Officer. Needing to lay low, she cons way into a job as live-in companion to a child with severe autism, GLORY (Taylor Richardson, ANNIE). Intending to stay a few weeks and make a few bucks, Jack is stunned when she makes a positive impact on Glory.

Meanwhile the family, in particular the mother, KAY (Famke Janssen, TAKEN, X-MEN) makes a positive impact on Jack. And wounded, scrappy survivors begin to heal each other a little bit–until the law catches up, the truth comes out, and Jack must choose: save herself or help someone else.

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Theresa Von Eltz – director – Four Kings

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Theresa Von Eltz, director of FOUR KINGS, in competition at the 13th edition of ALICE NELLA CITTA’.

In her first feature film, the german director, chooses Christmas holidays and an adolescent psychiatric clinic as the time and place to set this coming of age story about four adolescents, two boys and two girls, forced to stay in for “the most wonderful time of the year” and therefore the most challenging one.

This forced confrontation between them and with an unconventional young doctor by their side, will lead them to finally grow up and realize they can still be special even with so many imperfections.

FOUR KINGS: Christmas is approaching, and with it, the desire for harmony, beauty, light and hope. Being unable to cope with her parents’ conflict, Alex (16) makes a radical decision. A day later she finds herself in the adolescent psychiatric emergency unit. There she meets three other young people: Lara (17), the striking daughter from an academic family, who’s having acidflashbacks; shy Fedja (16), who is being bullied at school; and violent Timo (17), who has just been moved from the closed ward. Under the care of the young psychiatrist Dr. Wolff (38), they will spend a Christmas together that none of them will ever forget.

A heart wrenching drama about four young, smart, damaged youths who must spend their Christmas holiday in a juvenile psychiatric clinic. Together, alone and confronted by an unconventional psychiatrist, they will have a Christmas that they’ll never forget.

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Roxana Widmer-Iliescu – senior programme officer – ITU (International Communications Union)

The United Nations palyed a key role in making the issue of cinema accessibility aknowledged and accepted by nearly the 80 per cent of its member states. This is a great achievement, but it is not over yet. Roxana Widmer-Iliescu, senior programme manager of the ITU, the International Communications Union, tells us why that and how it will proceed in its goals.

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Robin Ribback – CIO – Verbavoice

Verbavoice is a company partner of Sub-Ti in the fight to cinema accessibility, that is an issue wider and more important than anybody think.

Let’s hear it form the voice of Robin Ribback what this is really about and what we could all do to make it an accepted reality.

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Paul Pawels – director – EDN (European Documentary Network)

Paul Pawels is the Head of EDN (European Documentary Network). EDN is an association spread all over the world to create connections, meetings and opportunities for helping documentary filmmakers to do their job.

We could not find a more qualified person to have a chat with on documentaries in Europe and their future.

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Pilar Orero – project coordinator – HBB4ALL

Pilar Orero, project coordinator of HBB4ALL, tells us about cinema accessibility, what this precisely means and why it is still so hard to have it acknowledged and applied . It is a wider concept that what we think and the applications are so many , and useful, that it is a matter of time ( and of effort in communicating it) when it will be an acquired and metabolized concern in the cinema industry.

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Matthew Baker – head of acquisitions – Hanway Films

Matthew Baker put his skills and experience in acquisitions into his role as a member of the selection committee for the projects to be included in the New Cinema Network line up. And he found out that it was not an easy ride, but a fulfilling one.

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Christine Eloy – general manager – Europa Distribution

Christine Eloy, general manager of Europa Distribution, tells us about her organization and the challanges distributors in Europe have to face. Most of all, the issue of geo-blocking is the most urgent for European distributors and she explains why it is so.

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Izabela Kiszka-Hoflik – Head of International Relations – Polish Film Institute

An enormous development in cinemas and audiences that leaves apalled is what happened in Poland over the last ten years. Izabela Kiszka leads us through these changes and tells us the job that the Polish Film Institute did in order to reach that goal.

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