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PODCAST | Annalisa Sandrelli interviews Victor Courgeon, French ambassador at the 2019 edition of 28 Times Cinema at Venezia 76.

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The participants of the 28 Times Cinema project introduce themselves.

This project gives the opportunity to 28 young film-lovers, selected through the cinemas of the Europa Cinemas Network, to represent each of the 28 European Countries at the Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica.

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PODCAST | Annalisa Sandrelli interviews Pau Vall Capdet, Spanish ambassador at the 2019 edition of 28 Times Cinema at Venezia 76.

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The participants of the 28 Times Cinema project introduce themselves.

This project gives the opportunity to 28 young film-lovers, selected through the cinemas of the Europa Cinemas Network, to represent each of the 28 European Countries at the Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Matthew Michael Carnahan, Suhail Dabbach and Adam Bessa, director and actors of the film Mosul.

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One of the two Commanders of the Nineveh SWAT Team, Colonel Rayyan, has been shot by ISIS terrorists three times. They’ve killed two of his brothers, kidnapped a third, killed his brothers-in-law, bombed his Father’s home, and shot his sister at his engagement party. Every one of his Men has a similar story of loss. And yet they haven’t stopped fighting once in 5 years. Director Matthew Michael Carnahan and actors Suhail Dabbach, Adam Bessa talk to us about their intense and rewarding experience on the set of Mosul, here out of competition in Venice 76.

Mosul: When ISIS took their homes, families and city, one group of men fought to take it all back. Based on true events, this is the story of the Nineveh SWAT team, a renegade police unit who waged a guerrilla operation against ISIS in a desperate struggle to save their home city of Mosul.

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PODCAST | Diego Aparicio interviews Joe Odagiri and Akira Emoto, director and actor of the film They Say Nothing Stays the Same (Aru Sendo No Hanashi).

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Joe Odagiri (Saturday Fiction) talks about his directorial debut, They Say Nothing Stays the Same, alongside lead actor Akira Emoto (Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman). The film was presented at the 16. Giornate degli Autori at the 76. Venice Film Festival.

They Say Nothing Stays the Same (Aru Sendo No Hanashi): Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowing a boat for the villagers all day long, he barely has any communication with others except Genzo, a young neighbor. Upstream, a large bridge is being constructed. Everyone is excited, but Toichi has mixed feelings about it. One day, Toichi meets a mysterious young girl. Since she has no family and no place to go, Toichi lets her stay with him, but this encounter starts to bring about changes in Toichi’s life.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Mantas Kwedaravicius, director of the film Partenonas.

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Director and academic Mantas Kvedaravicius sits down with us in our Venetian studio to talk about what is behind his relentless hand held camera in Partenonas, his first feature film screening in the official selection of the International Critics Week.

Partenonas: In a cheap brothel at the foothills of an Athenian fortress, a man recounts the magnificent events of his life. His search for love and glory is retold and relived by many: a prostitute with an unredeemable past, a gangster haunted by bad luck, an icon painter who has no faith… In one of the stories, the man finds his riches, in another he becomes a vagabond prophet, in yet another he returns home to his wife. Memories betray him, but he knows for sure that in one of these lives, he will be killed.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Oliver Hermanus and Kai Luke Brummer, director and actor of the film Moffie.

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Oliver Hermanus and Kai Luke Brummer are respectively the director and the main actor in Hermanus’ latest work Moffie, screening in Venice 76 in the Orizzonti section.

Moffie: To be a moffie is to be weak, effeminate, illegal. The year is 1981 and South Africa’s white minority government is embroiled in a conflict on the southern Angolan border. Like all white boys over the age of sixteen, Nicholas Van der Swart must complete two years of compulsory military service to defend the Apartheid regime. The threat of communism and “die swart gevaar” (the black danger) is at an all-time high. But that’s not the only danger Nicholas faces. He must survive the brutality of the army—something that becomes even more difficult when a connection is sparked between him and a fellow recruit.

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