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Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Director, The President

FRED has the pleasure of meeting the celebrated Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, whose latest work THE PRESIDENT opened the Orizzonti section of the 71st Venice Film Festival. Set in a fictitious country and with an air of timelessness about it, this is the story of a selfish totalitarian who, after the break out of the revolution, finds himself having to suffer the poverty and general consequences of his reign in order for him and his little nephew to survive.

Festival Section: Orizzonti

Reporter: Matt Micucci

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Keith Miller, Director, Five Star.

Festival Section: Venice Days.

Fred has the pleasure to talk to Keith Miller, here at Venice Days with his last film Five Star.

Reporter: Nicolò Comotti.

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Luisa Conlon, Daryl Freimack, Producers, Five Star.

Festival Section: Venice Days.

Fred meets with Luisa Conlon and Daryl Freimack, the production team behind 5 Star, the last film by Keith Miller. Between film and social commitment, we find out what it means to be an engaged producer in independent cinema.

Reporter: Nicolò Comotti.

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Suha Arraf, Writer/director, Villa Touma.

Festival Section: Venice Critics Week.

VILLA TOUMA is a wonderful film about three spinster sisters who are forced to look after their orphaned niece Badia. They have shut the world out following occupation, and expect the newcomer to marry so they can absolve themselves of any responsibilities, but tragedy strikes.

Suha Arraf is known for her screenplays (The Syrian Bride; Lemon Tree) but this is her first time behind the camera, to great effect as the film turns the Arab stereotypes on its head.Well worth a watch.

We caught up with the Writer/Director/Producer to find out how challenging it was to film on the streets of Ramallah, as well as get the film financed.

Reporter: Amanny Mohamed.

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Barry Ward (actor), Luke Seomore (Writer/Directors), Joseph Bull (Writer/Directors), Blood Cells.

Festival Section: Biennale College Cinema.

The Biennale College cinema only selects 12 projects to work with and develop for the big screen, BLOOD CELLS is one of the twelve. We spoke to writer/directors Luke Seomore and Joseph Bull and leading actor Barry Ward to find out about the project and their first fieature film.

Reporter: Amanny Mohamed.

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J-P Valkeapaa (Director and co-screenwriter), Teppo Manner (Actor), They Have Escape.

Festival ection: Venice Days.

FRED meets the director and co-screenwriter J-P Valkeapaa and actor Teppo Manner of THEY HAVE ESCAPED (He Ovet Paenneet), presented in the Venice Days section of the 71st Venice Film Festival. They Have Escaped is a Finnish film that plays a lot with the coming of age, young couple getaway movie and mixes it with abrupt nightmarist tones.

Reporter: Matt Micucci.

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Tal Granit, Directors, Sharon Maymon – Mita Tova (The Farewell Party).

Festival Section: Venice Days.

THE FARWELL PARTY addresses the controversial issue of euthanasia in a touching, yet funny way. A group of friends at a JErusalem retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to help their terminally ill friend Max.

Reporter: Amanny Mohamed.

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Zeev Revah, Levana Finkelstein, Actors, Mita Tova (The Farewell Party).

Festival Section: Venice Days.

A group of friends at a Jerusalem retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to help their terminally ill friend, Max. With rumours of the machine beginning to spread, more and more people begin to ask for their help. FRED caught up with the leading actors in the movie to find out what they thought of this rather controversial subject and how they dealt with the comedic aspects of the film.

Reporter: Amanny Mohamed.

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Joshua Oppenheimer, Director, The Look of Silence.

Festival Section: Venezia 71.

FRED has the pleasure of meeting documentarian Joshua Oppenheimer, who presented his latest work THE LOOK OF SILENCE at the 71st Venice Film Festival – his follow up to his rightly celebrated feature The Act of Killing. In The Look of Silence, he once again examines the subject of the Indonesian Communist Purges but this time he focuses more on the victims rather than the perpetrators of the atrocious genocide.

Reporter: Matt Micucci.

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Miranda July, Director, MIU MIU Women’s Tales: Somebody.

Festival Section: Venice Days.

Fred speaks with the many-talented enfant terrible Miranda July. Here in Venice with her last short SOMEBODY, part of MIU MIU’s women’s tales, she gives us a glimpse of how her creative process works, helicopters permitting…

Reporter: Nicolò Comotti.

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