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Simon Yam – Actor – The Midnight After

Festival section: Panorama

A great honour for FRED Film Radio! In conversation with Hong Kong film icon Simon Yam, starring in Fruit Chan’s latest work “The Midnight After”. Mixing comedy, sci-fi, and horror elements, the film tells the story of 17 characters who find themselves alone in an empty city, compelled to face their fears, uncertainties, and moral values. By discussing his role in the film, Mr Yam also comments on pressing social and political issues actually affecting Hong Kong life.

Reporter: Eddie Bertozzi

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Fruit Chan – Director – The Midnight After

Festival section: Panorama

In conversation with Hong Kong director Fruit Chan, attending this year’s Berlin Film Festival for the world premiere of his latest work: “The Midnight After”. Mixing comedy, sci-fi, and horror elements, the film tells the story of 17 characters who find themselves alone in an empty city. Everyone else seems to be vanished for good, and they are compelled to face their fears, uncertainties, and moral values. Mr Chan discusses his ideas about the film and comments on his transition from independent to (brilliant) commercial filmmaking.

Reporter: Eddie Bertozzi

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Dieter Kosslick, Director Berlinale.

Dieter Kosslick, Director of Berlinale, talks  extensively and passionately about this year’s edition: from the renovated  venues to the budget  and sponsorship, from the social issues in the films in the programme to the importance of the World Film Fund and the Co production market. And the non-competition with the other festival on the “A list”.

Reporter: Angelo Acerbi.

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Jon Jost, Director, Producer, DP, Editor, Coming to Terms.

Festival Section: Spectrum.

Legendary indie American filmmaker Jon Jost talks about the death of cinema and his new film, COMING TO TERMS, which stars another iconic indie filmmaker James Benning and was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Meditation on death and its psychological impact on a broken family – a subject that has kept Jost (1943) very busy recently and which in this case he has moulded into a special narrative structure. The equally experienced filmmaker James Benning plays the father of the family.

Reporter: Matt Micucci.

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Abolfazl Saffary, Director and Co-Screenwriter, From Tehran to Heaven.

Festival Section: Signals: How To Survive…

Filmmaker Abofazl Saffary talks to FRED about his film FROM TEHRAN TO HEAVEN (Az Tehran ta beshesht), which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam.

A woman finds a note from her husband on the fridge: I have gone to a place called Heaven. But her fevered search leads her to hell, in a nightmarish pursuit from a surreal Tehran deep into the desert. But who is actually chasing whom?

Reporter: Matt Micucci.

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Ikeda Akira, Director, Screenwriter and Producer, Anatomy of a Paper Clip.

Festival Section: Hivos Tiger Awards Competition.

Japanese filmmaker IKEDA AKIRA chats to FRED about his feature ANATOMY OF A PAPER CLIP (Yamamori clip koujo no atari), which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Kogure is a paperclip bender in a paperclip factory. A man without characteristics. A stoical loser. One day he finds a butterfly in his flat. She becomes his wife, but is even stranger than the bizarre minimal world he lives in. Crazy and funny Japanese neofolk.

Reporter: Matt Micucci.

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Alessandro Rossetto, Director and Co-Screenwriter, Piccola Patria.

Festival Section: Spectrum.

Filmmaker Alessandro Rossetto talks to FRED about his film PICCOLA PATRIA (Small Homeland), which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Superb fiction debut from an experienced documentary maker shows a small community in northern Italy, where city and countryside merge, like a patchwork quilt unravelling under pressure from the crisis, migration and decadence. In the stultifying summer heat, two women pursue their escapist dreams – and create nightmares.

Reporter: Matt Micucci.

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Matthew McCounaghey, Actor, Dallas Buyers Club.

Oscar Nominated Matthew McCounaghey has been in Rome to present the italian release of DALLAS BUYERS CLUB, the film that brought him his first Golden Globe and got him nominated for the Academy Award 2014.

After working with Friedkin and Sodenbergh, Jean Marc Vallee’s film seems to be the fulfillment of this chance of direction that McCounaghey’s career has taken. . After refusing roles in action movies and romantic comedies, he received no offers for an year after finally delivering the message to Hollywood. the message was that he was looking for a permanent change. Luckily Hollywood saw this change as a fresh and good idea to invest on and finally the right roles started to knock on his door. Dallas Buyers Club is not a story of a man who’s about to die but it’s about a man ardently fighting to live.

Reporter: Chiara Nicoletti.

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Iva Radivojevic, Director, Evaporating Borders.

Festival Section: EU-29.

Filmmaker Iva Radivojevic talks to FRED about her thought-provoking documentary EVAPORATING BORDERS, which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Originally from Yugoslavia, Iva Radivojevic investigates the effects of large-scale immigration on the sense of national identity in Cyprus, one of the easiest ports of entry into Fortress Europe. Poetically photographed and rendered, the film passionately weaves the themes of migration, tolerance, identity and belonging.

Reporter: Matt Micucci.

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Lee Chatametikool, Director, Screenwriter, Co-Editor, Concrete Clouds.

Festival Section: Hivos Tiger Awards Competition.

Filmmaker Lee Chatametikool talks about his new film CONCRETE CLOUDS (Pavang rak), which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Father jumps off roof. Economy caves in. Childhood sweetheart remains out of reach. Nice girl next door slides into prostitution. Elder brother knows better. Younger brother has no idea. Only a very special filmmaker could turn that into something light-footed and moving.

Reporter: Matt Micucci.

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