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Jonas Carpignano – Director – Mediterranea

FRED’s Nicolò Comotti interviews Jonas Carpignano, director of the film MEDITERRANEA. The film, which has enjoyed a successful run and critical acclaim since its premiere earlier in the year at the Cannes Film Festival, was also screened at the 72nd Venice Film Festival, where we caught up with him.

The Venice screening marked the occasion of the film being named one of the finalists of this year’s edition of the LUX Prize, which means that as a result, and people all over Europe will at least be getting one chance to see it on the big screen at a selected film festival or film event in each of the countries of the European Union. Jonas Carpignano talks to us about his film, and mentions how he feels lucky and honoured to have been bestowed the honour of being one of the finalists for the LUX Prize 2015.

MEDITERRANEA: Ayiva recently left his home in Burkina Faso in search of a way to provide for his sister and his daughter. He takes advantage of his position in an illegal smuggling operation to get himself and his best friend Abas off of the continent. Ayiva adapts to life in Italy, but when tensions with the local community rise, things become increasingly dangerous. Determined to make his new situation work he attempts to weather the storm, but it has its costs.

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Jerzy Skolimowski – director – 11 Minutes

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FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews the great Polish director Jerzy Skolimowski, whose film 11 MINUTES is in the main competition of the 72nd Venice Film Festival.

He talks with us about the challenge of the structure of the film, the story of which essentially takes place in eleven minutes, as the title suggests. He also talks about various approaches he used for the film, how he picked the many characters whose lives we follow and also briefly mentions the reason why he took a long break of seventeen years from making films, which also led him to dedicate more times to his other passion in life – painting.

11 MINUTES: A jealous husband out of control, his sexy actress wife, a sleazy Hollywood director, a reckless drug messenger, a disoriented young woman, an ex-con hot dog vendor, a troubled student on a mysterious mission, a high-rise window cleaner on an illicit break, an elderly sketch artist, a hectic paramedics team and a group of hungry nuns. A cross-section of contemporary urbanites whose lives and loves intertwine. They live in an unsure world where anything could happen at any time. An unexpected chain of events can seal many fates in a mere 11 minutes.

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Laurie Anderson – Director – Heart of a dog

FRED’s Angelo Acerbi interviews Laurie Anderson, who presented her film HEART OF A DOG in competition at the 72nd Venice Film Festival.

Using the story of her dog Lolabelle, Laurie Anderson unravels on screen her philosophy of life. “I did not know I had one, actually” she told us. But here it is. And the way she tells it is so beautiful, as it is listening her telling us how this movie came to life

HEART OF A DOG: Heart of a Dog is a personal essay film that explores themes of love, death and language. The director’s voice is a constant presence as stories of her dog Lolabelle, her mother, childhood fantasies, political and philosophical theories unfurl in a seamless song like stream. The visual language spans animation, eight millimeter films from the artist’s childhood, layered imagery and high speed text animation.

The director’s signature music runs throughout the film in works for solo violin, quartets, songs, and ambient electronics. The center of Heart of a Dog is a visual and poetic meditation on the bardo, the forty nine day period after death in which identity is shredded and the consciousness prepares to enter another life form.

A Story About A Story envisions her ordeal in the hospital when she broke her back as a child and how the story became her way to understand the relationship of real events, authority, and faulty memory on the creation of stories. Theories on sleep, imagination and disorientation are framed as questions about time and identity. Is it a pilgrimage? Which way do we go?

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Laura Marcellino and Samm Haillay – Producers – 6 Desires: DH Lawrence and Sardinia

FRED’s Bénédicte Prot interviews Laura Marcellino and Samm Haillay, producers of 6 DESIRES: DH LAWRENCE AND SARDINIA by filmmaker Mark Cousins. We meet them at the 72nd Venice Film Festival.

Laura Marcellino, of both Sardinian and British descent, co-wrote the script of this beautiful film about the island where she grew up. Samm Haillay, co-founder (together with Duane Hopkins) of Newcastle-based production company Third Films, talks about working with Cousins and the hospitality with which the project was met on location.

6 DESIRES: DH LAWRENCE AND SARDINIA: Mark Cousins’ film version of DH Lawrence’s “Sea and Sardinia” (1921), a travel-log on his trip to Sardinia, together with his wife Frida. Almost a hundred years after, Cousins follows the same itinerary, from Cagliari to San Sperate, Mandas, Sorgono e Nuoro, and finally Olbia, accompanied by the voice of singer Jarvis Cocker reading excerpts from Lawrence’s book in the Midlands’ accent that was also the writer’s.

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Pascal Diot – Director – Venice Film Market

FRED’s Angelo Acerbi interviews Pascal Diot, director of the VENICE FILM MARKET from the 72nd Venice Film Festival. We talked with a very happy Pascal Diot about what happened in this year’s edition of the Venice Film Market, without disregarding some of its key figures, and he also talks about the potential ideas and innovations that could be part of next year’s edition.

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Martin Butler, Bentley Dean (Directors) and JJ Nako (Yakel head) – Tanna

FRED’s Nicolò Comotti interviewed the directors of TANNA Martin Butler and Bentley Dean, as well as a key figure of the Yakel people, central subject of the documentary: JJ Nako. The film was featured in the 2015 International Critics Week section of the 72nd Venice Film Festival, where it was awarded the Best Film prize.

TANNA: In a traditional tribal society in the South Pacific, a young girl, Wawa, falls in love with her chief’s grandson, Dain. When an inter-tribal war escalates, Wawa is unknowingly betrothed as part of a peace deal. The young lovers run away, refusing her arranged fate. They must choose between their hearts and the future of the tribe, while the villagers must wrestle with preserving their traditional culture and adapting it to the increasing outside demands for individual freedom.

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Giulia D’Agnolo Vallan – member of the selection committee – Venice Film Festival

An interesting talk with one of the members of the selection committee, specialized in American cinema, on how the selection works, how the Venice festival deals with other festivals and with distributors. Plus a few words on the best shots in the festival.

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Beppe and Federico Rigoni – Global Fashion Ambassadors – L’Oreal

Two of the L’Oreal equipe of haidressers on Venice tell us about their relatiobnship with the stars they follow, how they do it and how this is not always an easy task.

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Tala Hadid (Director) – TIGMI NIGREN (HOUSE IN THE FIELDS)

Hakar Abdulqadir (Director) and Shamal Sabri (Producer) – HAVIBON (SEPARATION)

Angelo Acerbi talks with some of the directors and producers of this year’s Final Cut event: Tala Hadid, Hakar Abdulqadr, Shamal Sabri.

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Atia Al-Daradji (Director) and Zeina Al Hariri (Producer) – TARIK AL-JENAH (PATH OF PARADISE)

Sherif Elbendary (Director) – ALI MEA’ZA WE IBRAHIM (ALI, THE GOAT, AND IBRAHIM)

Angelo Acerbi meets with some of the protagonists of 2015’s Venice Final Cut: Atia Al Daradji, Zeina Al Hariri, Sherif Elbendary

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