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Paulo Sacramento, Director, Riocorrente.

Festival Section: Hivos Tiger Awards Competition.

Filmmaker Paulo Sacramento talks about his new feature film RIOCORRENTE (Riverrun), which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam.

A film like a pressure cooker. The São Paulo metropolis seems like it’s about to explode in this energetic and urgent fiction debut. Everything is set in irreversible motion when a woman is torn apart by desire for two very different men.

Reporter: Matt Micucci.

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Gillian Robespierre, Director, Obvious Child.

Festival Section: Bright Future.Filmmaker Gillian Robespierre talks about her feature film debut OBVIOUS CHILD, which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Stand-up comedian Donna is dumped by her cheating boyfriend, loses her job, gets blind drunk and becomes pregnant from a one-night stand. She considers an abortion, then gets to know the father. Romance, quirky humour and irresistible characters.

Reporter: Matt Micucci.

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Donna Verheijden, Director, All the World’s a Stage Ways of Seeing.

Festival Section: Spectrum Shorts.

Filmmaker Donna Verheijden talks about her short film ALL THE WORLD’S A STAGE WAYS OF SEEING 2013, and about being at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam for the first time.

This film visually explores the meaning of the image in a world of constant retinal input. It questions and propagates the creation of today’s apparent or staged realities within mass media and politics. It reveals mythical truths and unveils true illusions by deconstructing and reconstructing realities that we often take as given.

Reporter: Matt Micucci.

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David Mackenzie, Director, Starred Up.

Festival Section: Signals: How To Survive….

Director David Mackenzie talks about his latest feature film STARRED UP, which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Harsh prison drama about the difficult relationship between a father and son both locked up in the same British prison. Both prisoners and guards try to survive this merciless environment. Violent, heartbreaking and captivating.

Reporter: Matt Micucci.

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Alejandro Telemaco Tarraf (Director), Alberto Balazs (Producer), El Valle Interior.

Festival Section: Spectrum Shorts.

Director Alejandro Telemaco Tarraf and producer/cinematographer Alberto Balazs talk about their stunning short EL VALLE INTERIOR (The Inner Valley) presented at the 43rd International Rotterdam Film Festival.

Deep in the jungle lives a man. He has his boat, the river, the reeds and the sunrise. This beautiful, calm document reveals a man musing, at one with his environment. The precise camera work creates an entrancing atmosphere.

Reporter: Matt Micucci.

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Vlad Petri, Director, Where Are You Bucharest? (Bucuresti, unde esti?).

Festival Section: My Own Private Europe.

Documentarian Vlad Petri talks about his film WHERE ARE YOU BUCHAREST?, which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam.

Vlad Petri followed the Romanian protesters who occupied the streets of Bucharest two years ago. A poignant documentary about people who are devastated and impulsive, lost and encouraged, all at once. And about a revolution that becomes a tragic absurdity.

Reporter: Matt Micucci.

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Alessandro Gropplero, Head of When East Meets West.

Right after the conclusion of this year’s edition of WHEN EAST MEETS WEST , the coproduction Market in Trieste, Chiara Nicoletti interviews again the Head of the Market Alessandro Gropplero for a final report on this 4th edition and  to know more about the Awards, his best moments at WEMW and the new focus for 2015 ( which our listeners will find out only by listening to this interview!).

Reporter: Chiara Nicoletti.

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Beki Probst, Director, European Film Market.

Beki Probst has been the Director of the European Film Market (EFM) at the Berlin International Festival since 1988. The EFM has grown to become a tour de force behind the film industry when it comes to film sales, distribution, networking and producers who are looking to buy into projects. FRED Film Radio caught up with Beki Probst who gave us a very candid interview about her involvement in the festival, how things have evolved, and what delegates can expect from this year’s EFM, that runs alongside one of the most prestigious festivals that kicks off 2014, the 64th Berlin International Film Festival.

Biography.

Reporter: Amanny Mohamed.

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Dick Tuinder, Director and screenwriter, Farewell to the Moon (Afscheid van de maan).

Festival Section: Hivos Tiger Awards Competition.

Filmmaker Dick Tuinder talks to FRED about his latest feature FAREWELL TO THE MOON, which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam.

It’s 1972. Women wear pant suits; men experiment with beards. And with other things, like wife-swapping with the neighbours. And the Americans stop manned space flight. In his reconstruction, Tuinder makes a ridiculous era even more ridiculous. A hip comedy.

Reporter: Matt Micucci.

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Reiner Selen, Jelle Nesna, Producers, RAFAEL produced by RINKEL FILM.

Festival section: When East Meets West  – Selected Projects.

Among the selected projects at this year’s When East meets West co-production market, we talked to producers Reiner Selen and Jelle Nesna that participated with the project RAFAEL. Selen and Nesna are from the Netherlands and in this interview/radio pitch talk to FRED about the true story which they based the film on. A story of unconditional love between Dutch Winny and Tunisian Nizar before and after the eruption of the Arab Spring. RAFAEL will be a coproduction between The Netherlands, Tunisia and Italy and the project is looking for a World sales agent and a distributor in Italy.

Website.

Reporter: Chiara Nicoletti.

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