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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Yonfan, director of the film No. 7 Cherry Lane. 

Yonfan presented his latest film, No. 7 Cherry Lane, in the main competition of the 2019 Venice International Film Festival. This film also feels historic because it is the first Hong Kong production to compete for the main prize at the Venice festival in nearly a decade, the first film directed by Yonfan in about a decade and his first work of animation – though he likes to define it a “motion picture,” and he tells us why here. Also in this interview, the director talks about the sexuality expressed in this movie and what it is that makes it a love letter to Hong Kong and cinema.

No. 7 Cherry Lane: During the rise of the materialistic comfort of life in the 1960s, there emerges an undercurrent of danger in Hong Kong. Ji yuan tai qi hao tells the tale of Ziming, a Hong Kong University undergraduate, entangled between his amorous feelings for Mrs Yu, a self-exiled mother from Taiwan in the White Terror period, and her beautiful daughter Meiling. He takes them to different movies and through a series of magical moments on the big screen, forbidden passions are revealed. The era coincides with Hong Kong’s turbulent times of 1967.

To learn more about the film here the Festival Page.

Here the film website.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Karim Aïnouz, director and president of the jury for Giornate degli Autori.

Karin Aïnouz has been the president of the jury for Giornate Degli Autori. We talk about the film that won, of course, but mostly we discuss his way of making films, his aesthetic signature and what it is needed to make a good book adaptation.

For more information about Giornate degli Autori, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Shannon Murphy, director of the film Babyteeth.

Shannon Murphy is one of the two women directors competing for the Golden Lion at the 76th Venice International Film Festival. Her debut film Babyteeth is a perfect mix between a coming of age story, a love story and a family one. Milla (Eliza Scanlen) is a teenager, she’s ill and could die. She has two soundly imperfect parents who constantly try to face their fear. She still has a babyteeth but her adolescence is kicking and screaming inside of her only to finally explode when she meets Moses (Toby Wallace), wild, impulsive, addicted to life, medicine and drugs. Moses is a breath of real life for Milla and rapidly becomes the only chance at living love before it’s too late. Shannon Murphy takes nothing for granted and explains how she keeps the balance between irony and drama, life and death from the beginning till the end. Colors, music and editing are in sync with Milla’s path.

Babyteeth: When seriously ill teenager Milla Finlay falls in love with smalltime drug dealer Moses, it’s her parents’ worst nightmare. But as Milla’s first brush with love brings her a new lust for life, things get messy and traditional morals go out the window. Milla shows everyone in her orbit—her parents, Moses, a sensitive music teacher, a budding child violinist, and a disarmingly honest pregnant neighbor—how to live like you have nothing to lose. What might have been a disaster for the Finlay family instead leads to letting go and finding grace in the glorious chaos of life. Babyteeth joyously explores how good it is not to be dead and how far we will go for love.

If you want to know more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Daily news and updates from the 76th Venice Film Festival, with Angelo Acerbi and Nicolò Comotti.

Angelo Acerbi and Nicolò Comotti team together for their last Engish daily show from the Venice Festival. They talk about Roger Waters Us+Them, about the winners of Giornate degli Autori (La Llorona by Jayro Bustamante) and of the Queer Lion Award (El Principe by Sebastian Munoz). Some attention is given to their personal best films from the festival: Ema by Pablo Larrain, J’Accuse by Roman Polanski, Marriage Story by Noah Baumbach, The Kingmaker by Lauren Greefield, among others.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Tommaso Santambrogio, director of the film The Oceans Are the Real Continents.

Italian director Tommaso Santambrogio sits down with us to introduce his short film The Oceans Are the Real Continents, in the International Critics’ Week’s short film selection SIC@SIC.

The Oceans Are the Real Continents: Having Cuba as a background, decadent and in crisis, in a black-and-white lacerated by the Caraibic swinging rain, Alex and Edith, a couple in their 30s, live their love story made of small daily gestures, stories from the past, nostalgia, and a deep intimacy.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Ahmad Ghossein, Karam Ghossein and Sahar Minkara, director and actors of the film All This Victory.

Director Ahmad Ghossein talks about his film, All This Victory, from the International Critics’ Week section of the 2019 Venice International Film Festival. We’re also joined by the actors Karam Ghossein and Sahar Minkara, who are part of the ensemble cast and talk about the experience of being part of the intense film production which finds them trapped inside a house, with the threat outside and unseen, in a style that recalls Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds.

All This Victory: Lebanon, July 2006. War is raging between Hezbollah and Israel. During a 24h ceasefire, Marwan heads out in search of his father who refused to leave his Southern village. As the ceasefire is quickly broken, Marwan finds himself under the rain of bombs and takes shelter in a house with a group of elders. Suddenly, a group of Israeli soldiers enter the first floor. Trapped in the house and hostages of their own fears, the next three days will see the situation spiral out of control.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi and Chiara Nicoletti host the roundtable Diversity in the film industry, with Brian Robinson (Flare Film Festival London – Queer Lion Jury), Michel Reihlac (VR section at Biennale), Isabel Sandoval (director) and Sebastian Munoz (director).

The roundtable touched the issue of Diversity in the film industry, starting form the representation of diversity in film festivals, and the perception of diversities in the film industry, both independent and mainstream, including the VR world that is becoming bigger very fast and very inclusive.

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PODCAST | Daily news and updates from the 76th Venice Film Festival, with Nicolò Comotti and Matt Micucci.

FRED’s Matt Micucci and Nicolò Comotti come to you with a brand new daily report from the 76th Venice International Film Festival. Films presented at this festival and discussed on this podcast include Sergei Loznitsa’s State Funeral, a Francesco Rosi-themed documentary called Citizen Rosi co-directed by her daughter Carolina, Oliver Hermanus’s return to the Lido with his brand new Moffie and more.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Shahad Ameen, director of the film Scales.

Shahad Ameen tells the story behind the fascinating film Scales her first feature film which was selected for the 34th edition of the International Critics’ Week in Venice. A fantastic and dystopian tale that carries a courageous social and political message, Scales is a mature debut for Aamen, who is surely not afraid of creating challenging and ambitious cinema.

Scales: Set in a dystopian landscape, Scales is the story of a young strong-willed girl, Hayat, who lives in a poor fishing village governed by a dark tradition in which every family must give one daughter to the sea creatures who inhabit the waters nearby. In turn the sea creatures are hunted by the men of the village. Saved from this fate by her father, Hayat is considered a curse on the village and grows up an outcast. Nevertheless, she does not surrender to this fate and fights for a place within her village. After her mother gives birth to a baby boy, Hayat must accept the brutal custom of giving herself to the sea creatures or finding a way to escape.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Costa Gavras, director of the film Adults in the Room.

We had the pleasure to welcome the acclaimed director Costa Gavras in our Venice studios to have a chance to talk and know more about his latest film Adults in the Room, an astonishing rendition of what really went down between austerity-riddled Greece and the European bureaucrat-bots. Brilliantly written and with a commendable cast, Adults in the Room sheds a light to a chapter of contemporary European history that should never be repeated…and yet nothing has changed so far.

Adults in the Room: Behind closed doors, a human tragedy plays out. A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dictatorship of austerity, where humanity and compassion are utterly disregarded. A claustrophobic trap with no way out, exerting pressures on the protagonists which finally divide them. A tragedy in the Ancient Greek sense: the characters are not good or evil, but driven by the consequences of their own conception of what it is right to do. A tragedy for our very modern time.

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