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Laurent Cantet, Director, Rethour A IthaqueThe Official Jury of Venice Days, headed by Argentinian filmmaker Diego Lerman has bestowed the Venice Days Award among the films of the Official Selection on Rethour A Ithaque by Laurent Cantet. Fred meets the director.

Festival Section: Venice Days

Reporter: Amanny Mohamed

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Vuk Rsumovic (Director), Denis Muric, Isidora Jankovich (Actors), No One’s Child.

Festival Section:Venice Critics Week

NO ONE’S CHILD is based on the true story of ‘Haris’ a young boy found living wild in the woods among wolves in the Bosnian mountains. He is captured and put in an orphanage where they attempt to tame him and his behavior. Along the way, ‘Haris’ makes friends with ‘Zika’ in the orphanage and together they befriend rebel ‘Alisa’.

In 1992, in the midst of war, local authorities force ‘Haris’ to go back to Bosnia to fight on the frontline.

FRED Film radio caught up with writer/director Vuk Rsumovic and actors Denis Muric and Isidora Jankovic to find out more about this very touching drama.

We are delighted to announce that this film won the RaroVideo Audience Award for the Best Film of 29. Venice International Film Critics’ Week, independent section of the 71st Venice Film Festival.

Reporter: Amanny Mohamed

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Willem Dafoe, Actor, Pasolini.

Festival Section: Venezia71 – Competition

The great actor Willem Dafoe, after their previous film together on the Apocalypse, comes back to work with Abel Ferrara to play his most controversial character after Jesus Christ, the Italian poet and film director Pier Paolo Pasolini. Dafoe explains his work with Ferrara to build the role of one of the most influential Italian filmmakers and artists ever, in a film which portrays the very last day of the poet’s life.

Reporter: Marina Fabbri

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Gisselle Gallego, Festival Curator.

An impressive selection of best Latin American indipendent cinema. Not to be missed!

Reporter: Cristiana Palmieri

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Guillermo Arriaga, Bahman Ghobadi, Mira Nair,Alex de la Iglesia, Directors, Lukas Akoskin, Alex Garcia, Producers,  Words with Gods

Fred meets with some of the minds behind the collective film Words with Gods, an introspective study about faith, religion and mankind today.

Festival Section: Out of Competition

Reporter: Nicolò Comotti

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Rüdiger Suchsland, Director, From Caligari to Hitler.

Festival Section: Venice Classics

FRED meets Rüdiger Suchsland, director of FROM HITLER TO CALIGARI, a film that takes a close look at the influence of German cinema from the Weimar Republic and its representations of its times as well as its revelations about what was to come in the history of Germany.

Reporter: Matt Micucci

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Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie, Directors and screenwriters, Heaven Knows What.

Festival Section: Horizon

FRED’s Matt Micucci meets the directors of HEAVEN KNOWS WHAT, Benny and Josh Safdie, presented at the Orizzonti section of the 71st Venice Film Festival. A film set in the junkie subculture of New York city which tells the everyday lives of self-destrictive people living under constant pressure to “get straight”.

Reporter: Matt Micucci

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Giovanni Scatassa (Rai Cinema) tells us about the key issues approached during the well-attended Venice Film Market panel ‘VOD in China and Europe : what is the strategy for the NETFLIX arrival’, including the importance of increasing the offer of legal contents to counteract piracy.

Reporter: Bénédicte Prot.

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Lucas Rosant’s past international experience on festivals and markets has enabled him to develop an extensive network and access to emerging talents worldwde. He worked for the organisation and programming of different International Film Festivals, as among others, La Quinzaine des Réalisateurs (Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes), Paris Cinema International Film Festival.

Reporter: Bénédicte Prot.

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Victoria Lu, Creative director, Asian Film & Television Space.

Victoria Lu, creative director of Asian Film & Television Space at the Venice Film Festival, tells us about this new Asian project through which the Venice Film Market will further build on the bridge already initiated by market director Pascal Diot.

Reporter: Bénédicte Prot.

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