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Chloé Zhao – Filmmaker – Songs My Brothers Taught Me

FRED’s Matt Micucci meets filmmaker Chloé Zhao, whose film Songs My Brothers Taught Me had its international premiere at the Quinzaine des Réalisateurs at the 68th Cannes Film Festival.

Chloé Zhao tells us all about her role for Pine Ridge, where her film is set, and why she decided to make a film there.

We also discuss with her the representation of modern Native Americans in contemporary cinema, and the many themes which are dealt with in Songs My Brothers Taught Me.

Songs My Brothers Taught Me is also the feature directorial debut of Chloé Zhao, so we take the opportunity to ask her what it was like to make a first feature and about the different difficulties she encountered in making it.

SONGS MY BROTHERS TAUGHT ME: Songs My Brothers Taught Me is a compelling and complex portrait of modern day life on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation that explores the bond between a brother and his younger sister, who find themselves on separate paths to rediscovering the meaning of home.

Chloé Zhao sensitively infiltrates isolated Indian Country to offer a rare, modern gaze keenly felt through the eyes of her magnetic non-professional lead actors, providing a universally resonant tale set amid the magnificent, promising wild of young generation Lakotas.

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Viktoria Tigipko – President – Odessa Film Festival.

FRED’s Angelo Acerbi interviews Viktoria Tigipko, president of the Odessa International Film Festival, present at the 68th edition of the Cannes Film Festival.

Viktoria Tigipko talks with us about the novelties and strengths of a film festival, as well as the way in which the festival has become, especially after its last edition, an important event that has given great exposure to the people of Ukraine and the way in which the country of Ukraine is perceived abroad.

ODESSA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL: The Odessa International Film Festival is an International audience film festival with focus on art-mainstream cinema held annually in the middle of the July in Odessa. Odessa International Film Festival was established in 2010 with a mission to bring high quality films from all over the world to the Ukrainian audience as well as to encourage the development of film industry in Ukraine and to restore its cinematic tradition.

Click here to visit the official website of the Odessa International Film Festival

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Dalibor Matanic – Director – Zvizdan (The High Sun).

FRED’s Angelo Acerbi meets Dalibor Matanic, director of the film Zvidan (The High Sun), features in the Un Certain Regard programme of the 68th Cannes Film Festival.

1991 – 2001 – 2011 At the beginning of each decades a love story unfolds telling us a lot about what was happening in Croatia before the war started , right after and in almost present times, when forgiveness should be given and wounds should be healed.

Through wonderful performance and mesmereizing photography, the director tells us more than three love stories. And he tells us exactly what his intentions were…

ZVIZDAN (THE HIGH SUN): Three different love stories, set in three consecutive decades, in two neighboring Balkan villages burdened with a long history of inter-ethnic hatred: this is a film about the dangers – and the enduring strength – of forbidden love.

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Dolores Fonzi – Actress – Paulina.

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Dolores Fonzi , absolute protagonist of PAULINA, second feature film by Santiago Mitre, in competition at the Semaine de la Critique 2015.

Dolores plays Paulina, a lawyer who decides to leave the big city and go in the countryside to teach students. After being attacked and raped during the night by a group of boys ( who she will discover to he some of her students), Paulina, unexpectedly, decides not to report them to the police against what her father and friends think.

We ask Dolores Fonzi why she thinks Paulina takes this decision. Dolores explains that Paulina doesn’t think Violence is the answer to this behaviour, that Police will only try to find someone to blame without caring to research the reasons why these kids acted this brutal way.

Paulina wants to do things her way and she takes a big responsibility for this decision, towards society and the other women

PAULINA: Paulina, 28, gives up a brilliant lawyer’s carrier, in order to dedicate herself to teaching in a depressed region in Argentina. In a rough environment, she sticks to her teaching mission and to her political engagement, accepting to sacrifice her boyfriend and the trust of her father, a powerful local judge.

Upon her arrival, she is violently aggressed by a gang of young people, some of them being her own students. Despite the trauma and the inability to understand, Paulina will strive to stand for her convictions.

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Kurosawa Kiyoshi – Director – Journey to the Shore.

FRED has the chance to talk with Kurosawa Kiyoshi, here at Cannes with his latest film Journey to the Shore.

JOURNEY TO THE SHORE: Mizuki’s husband drowned at sea three years ago. When he suddenly comes back home, she is not that surprised. instead , Mizuki is wondering what took him so long. She agrees to let Yusuke take her on a journey.

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Radu Muntean – Director – One floor below (Un etaj mai jos)

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Radu Muntean,at the 68th edition of Festival de Cannes to present his new film ONE FLOOR BELOW in the Un Certain Regard section.

This is the second film to be selected in one of the Festival’s official selections ( Boogie/Summer Holidays in the Directors’ Fortnight 2008).

In the beginning of the film, Sandu Patrascu, an average man in his 50’s , witnesses a domestic fight that “might” have turned into a murder. For the rest of the film, we try to understand the many reasons why Patrascu decides not to tell the police what he saw, what he thinks happened.

Radu Muntean leads us into Patrascu’s guilty coscience as it is shown to us in various forms: the neighbour (suspected murderer) invading his private life and pushing him to the limits, his son talking in his sleep, his friends commenting on the victim’s life. The director’s intention is to force us to the inevitable question: What would we do in Patrascu’situation?

ONE FLOOR BELOW (UN ETAJ MAI JOS): After being the sole unfortunate witness of a domestic quarrel that ends up in a murder, Patrascu finds himself at odds with two very close neighbors: one is the bizarre murderer, the other one his very own conscience.

One Floor Below – official trailer from Andu Radu on Vimeo.

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Adam Awni – Director – Bunny

FRED meets the young and promising director Adam Awni, here at Cannes with his short film BUNNY.

Plot: Stephen meets Abbie through Doctor-Date, a dating website. A romantic meal at Abbie’s house soon unleashes a painful memory of a disturbed past. Stephen’s date rapidly unfolds into his worst nightmare.

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Go Kyung-Pyo – Actor – Coin Locker Girl.

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Go Kyung-Pyo, who stars in Coin Locker Girl by Han Jun-hee, presented in the programme of the Semaine de la Critique of the 68th Cannes Film Festival.

Go Kyung Pyo tells us about what attracted him to the role he plays in it, and how he collaborated with the director to achieve the final performance.

He also talks about making a big transition from comedy to noir, and what type of challenges he likes to take on as an actor as well as possible future challenges he would like to pursue.

COIN LOCKER GIRL: As a just-born-baby, ‘Il-young’ gets abandoned in the coin-locker #10 of a subway station. Eight years later, she is sold off to the godmother of a Chinatown ring known as ‘Mom’, and becomes a member of her family.

Only the useful ones can survive in this family of Chinatown. Coin Locker Girl is a story of two women who have found their own ways to survive in a cruel, harsh world.

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Teodor Corban – Actor – One Floor Below (Un etaj mai jos)

After meeting him in Berlin for AFERIM, Chiara Nicoletti is joined again by Teodor Corban, protagonist of ONE FLOOR BELOW, the new film by Radu Muntean, presented at the 68th edition of Festival de Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section.

Corban plays the role of Sandu Patrascu, an average man in his 50’s who, one day, witness a domestic fight that might have turned into a murder. For the whole film, the audience follows Patrascu, gets to know him and tries to understand the reasons behind his actions or in this case, his inability to act.

Patrascu is a man made up of weaknesses rather than strenghts, a man like many others. The film focuses on Teodor Corban‘s performance as everything is portrayed from Patrascu’s point of view.

ONE FLOOR BELOW (UN ETAJ MAI JOS): After being the sole unfortunate witness of a domestic quarrel that ends up in a murder, Patrascu finds himself at odds with two very close neighbors: one is the bizarre murderer, the other one his very own conscience.

One Floor Below – official trailer from Andu Radu on Vimeo.

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Erica Fae – Director and Writer – To Keep the Light

FRED has the chance to meet Erica Fae, American director, actress and writer, here in Cannes to spread the word about her first feature: TO KEEP THE LIGHT

TO KEEP THE LIGHT: Maine, 1876. Tending the light on a remote island for her ailing husband, a woman confronts secrets buried in deep waters and navigates a hostile, new world.

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