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Liao Fan and Gwei Lun Mei – Actor and Actress – Black Coal Thin Ice (Bai ri yan huo)

Festival section: Competition

In conversation with actor Liao Fan and actress Gwei Lun Mei, the two amazing protagonists of Diao Yinan’s acclaimed Berlin competition entry “Bai ri yan huo (Black Coal, Thin Ice). The two actors comments on their roles in this stylised noir: Liao is Zhang Zili, a retired detective who wants to redeem himself by solving a gruesome case; Gwei is Wu Zhizhen, a mysterious femme fatale who seems to be connected to the victims and whom the detective falls in love with.

Reporter: Eddie Bertozzi

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Pernille Fischer Christensen, Director, Someone You Love.

Festival Section: Gala.

Fred meets with Pernille Fischer Christensen, director of Someone you love, here at Berlinale Special Gala.

Reporter: Nicolò Comotti.

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Rhys Graham – Director – Galore

Festival section: Generation 14plus

Rhys Graham’s cinematic debut is a tense drama about an eternal triangle that stays very close to his young protagonists.

Reporter: Tara Karajica

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Karim Ainouz – Co-director – Cathedrals of Culture (Kathedralen der Kultur)

Festival section: Berlinale Special

Director Karim Ainouz talks about filming the Centre Pompinou for his segment in Cathedrals of Culture (Kathedralen der Kultur), which was screened at the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.

‘If buildings could talk, what would they say about us?’ Cathedrals of Culture offers six startling responses to this question. This 3D film project about the soul of buildings allows six iconic and very different buildings to speak for themselves, examining human life from the unblinking perspective of a manmade structure. Six acclaimed filmmakers bring their own visual style and artistic approach to the project. Buildings, they show us, are material manifestations of human thought and action: the Berlin Philharmonic, an icon of modernity; the National Library of Russia, a kingdom of thoughts; Halden Prison, the world’s most humane prison; the Salk Institute, a scientific monastery on the California coast; the Oslo Opera House, a futuristic symbiosis of art and life; and the Centre Pompidou, a modern culture machine. Cathedrals of Culture explores how each of these landmarks reflects our culture and guards our collective memory.

Reporter: Matt Micucci

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Trine Dyrholm, Actress, Someone You Love.

Festival Section: Gala.

Fred Trine Dyrholm, one of the faces that represent the great Danish acting generation.

Reporter: Nicolò Comotti.

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Mikael Persbrandt, Main Actor, Someone You Love.

Festival Section: Gala.

Fred meets Mikael Persbrandt and has the pleasure to hear His sincere and pragmatic take on Acting as a complementary reality, between art and work.

Reporter: Nicolò Comotti.

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Sofia Nolin, Peter Sjovik – Director, DoP – Broken Hill Blues (Ömheten)

Festival section: Generation

A coming of age story set in Kiruna, 200km north of the Arctic Circle, a place where ecological changes are taking place at the same time as these young people are changing and growing up. Interview with the director and director of photography.

Reporter: Tara Karajica

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Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard, Directors, 20 Thousand Days on Earth.

Festival Section: Panorama.

Fred talks with Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollards, artists and filmmakers…and Nick Cave’s close friends. 20 Thousand days on earth is an intimate and insightful look behind the allure and charm on one of the most influencing rockstars of our time.

Reporter: Nicolò Comotti.

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Eric Schlosser, Smriti Keshari, Executive Producers, Food Chains.

Festival Section: Culinary Cinema.

“Food Chains” reveals the human cost of our food supply and the complicity of the supermarket industry. Farmworkers who form the foundation of our fresh food industry are routinely abused and robbed of wages. In extreme cases they can be beaten, sexually harassed or even enslaved – all within the borders of the United States. Executive producers Eric Schlosser and Smriti Keshari discuss the film directed by Sanjay Rawal.

Reporter: Eddie Bertozzi.

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Levan Koguashvili – Director – Blind Dates

Festival section: Forum

Blind Dates is about a 40 year-old man who still lives with his parents and hasn’t found love yet. The film delves into the Peter Pan syndrome in Georgia, into its modern society and the present times.

Reporter: Tara Karajica

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