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28 young film lovers from the 28 member states of the European Union are taking part in the 71th Venice International Film Festival. They are invited to watch, report and reflect upon films, as well as to attend daily discussions, workshops, and to share their thoughts on the overall experience.

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James Franco, Director and Actor, The Sound and the FuryFred’s Chiara Nicoletti meets again with James Franco who is in Venice to present, out of competition,  his new film, The SOUND AND THE FURY based on the novel By William Faulkner of the same name. Franco is also acting in the film in the role of Benjy. The film will also screen at the 2014 Toronto International Film Festival – Special Presentations.

Festival Section: Out of Competition

Reporter: Chiara Nicoletti

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Céline Sciamma, Director, Girlhood.

Festival Section: Premio Lux.

French director Céline Sciamma, one of this year’s three finalists for the European Parliament’s LUX Prize with Girlhood, talks about her interest for the four cocky black girls from the Parisian suburb in her film, her work with the actresses, Rihanna, and her joy at knowing that the political content of her film will reach all of Europe thanks to her participation in the LUX Prize.

Reporter: Bénédicte Prot.

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Wang Xiaoshuai, director, Red Amnesia

Wang Xiaoshuai talks about the haunting thriller Red Amnesia, where an elderly Chinese lady is harassed in her daily life by someone who’s representing something from her past.

Festival Section: International Competition

Reporter: Bénédicte Prot

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Doris Pack, LUX Prize Co-ordinator

FRED’s Matt Micucci meets Doris Pack, former president of the European Parliament’s Culture and Education and LUX Prize co-ordinator. We meet her directly from Venice to talk about the LUX Prize, its history and relevance in the European culture. We also talk about 28 Times Cinema, a programme that aims to bring one young cinema from each of the countries in the European Union to the Venice Film Festival.

Festival Section: 28 Times Cinema

Reporter: Matt Micucci

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Alex de la Iglesia, Director, Messi

FRED interviews the director of the docu-film on Messi, which premiered out of competition at the closing evening of the 11th edition Venice Days sidebar of the 71th Venice Film Festival.

Festival Section: Venice Days

Reporter: Gonzalo Suárez

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Pawel Pawlikowski – Filmmaker – Ida

FRED’s Matt Micucci meets Polish filmmaker Pawel Pawlikowski, who returns to his native land for his latest work IDA, winner of the 2014 LUX Prize. He talks with us about the meaning of his return to his homeland, and comments on the particular choice of cultural setting for this film. He also discusses the distinctive and ground breaking cinematography, which in itself makes the experience of viewing the film all the more intense and meditative.

Set in 1961, during the Stalinist dictatorship, the movie pushes still further into the past; almost every element in the story evokes the war years and their aftermath. The story gravitates around the meeting between a young woman, who is to become a nun, who meets the only family she has left – a minor state judge and Communist Party member ridden by guilt.

Reporter:Matt Micucci

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Abel Ferrara, Director/Co-screenwriter, Pasolini.

Festival Section: Main Competition

FRED’s Matt Micucci meets the great American filmmaker Abel Ferrara, who presented his film and tribute to another great filmmaker Pier Paolo Pasolini in his film simply titled PASOLINI that was presented in the main competition of the 71st Venice Film Festival.

Reporter: Matt Micucci

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Shinya Tsukamoto, Director, Nobi.

Festival Section: Main competition

NOBI (FIRES ON THE PLAIN) is set at the end of WWII. After invading an island in the Philippines, Japanese servicemen meet fierce counter-offensive from the locals and the allied forces. It’s just a matter of time before the few survivors are wiped out. Private Tamura roams the jungle which is now hell on earth, with piles of bodies everywhere. Extreme fatigue numbs his mind and hunger changes him. When he starts to view his companions as food, he crosses a threshold into a realm where there are no friends, enemies or God.

FRED Film Radio feels honoured to welcome writer/director Shinya Tsukamoto to discuss the struggle to get the film made and the thinking behind his creation of this rather violent war story.

Reporter: Amanny Mohamed

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Elchin Musaoglu (Director), Fatemeh Motamed Arya (Actress), Nabat.

Festival Section: Horizons

NABAT is the intense tale of loyalty, abandonment and pride. ‘Nabat’ and her sick husband ‘Iskender’, live in a small isolated house far from the village. War has been raging for some time and their son has been killed at the front. As the shadow of war envelopes the region, the village is slowly deserted by its inhabitants as we watch how ‘Nabat’ copes with the developments and struggles to survive.

FRED’s Amanny Mohamed caught up with incredible actress Fatemeh Motamed Arya and writer/director Elchin Musaoglu to discuss his second feature selected for the Horizon’s section of the 71st Venice international film festival.

Reporter: Amanny Mohamed

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