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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Clive Oppenheimer, volcanologist and collaborator on Werner Herzog’s Into the Inferno, from the 11th Rome Film Fest.

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Clive Oppenheimer, volcanologist and friend of Werner Herzog, director of Into the Inferno, screening at the 11th Edition of Rome Film Festival in its official selection. This is the second time Oppenheimer works with Herzog and this time they took a trip almost inside the most famous and active volcanos in the world to analyze how these instruments of nature interacted with the population living around them. Everything is unpredictable with Werner Herzog so this is, obviously, more than a documentary.

INTO THE INFERNO. Werner Herzog and volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer embark upon a global journey exploring some of the world’s most mythical volcanoes in North Korea, Ethiopia, Iceland and the Vanuatu Archipelago. Speaking with scientists and indigenous peoples alike, they seek to understand the complex and deeply rooted relationship between mankind and one of nature’s greatest wonders. Produced by Spring Films, Werner Herzog Film and Matter of Fact Media, Into the Inferno artfully blends reportage, history and philosophy into a riveting cinematic experience.

The documentary debuts October 28th 2016 at 12.01 am PT in all territories where Netflix is available.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Kenneth Lonergan, director of Manchester by the Sea, at the 11th Rome Film Fest.

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Kenneth Lonergan, director of Manchester by the Sea, starring Casey Affleck, Kyle Chandler and Michelle Williams. As in his previous films, Lonergan tries to analyze how loss can or can’t be processed and how people deal with it and live through it. Casey Affleck delivers his most extraordinary performance and Lonergan describes in details one of the most cathartic and intense scenes of the film.

MANCHESTER BY THE SEA. In Manchester by the Sea, the latest film from award-winning writer and director Kenneth Lonergan, the life of a solitary Boston janitor is transformed when he returns to his hometown to take care of his teenage nephew. The story of the Chandlers, a working-class family living in a Massachusetts fishing village for generations, Manchester by the Sea is a deeply poignant, unexpectedly funny exploration of the power of familial love, community, sacrifice and hope. After the death of his older brother Joe (Kyle Chandler), Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) is shocked to learn that Joe has made him sole guardian of his nephew Patrick (Lucas Hedges). Taking leave of his job, Lee reluctantly returns to Manchester-by-the-Sea to care for Patrick, a spirited 16-year-old, and is forced to deal with a past that separated him from his wife Randi (Michelle Williams) and the community where he was born and raised. Bonded by the man who held their family together, Lee and Patrick struggle to adjust to a world without him.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Ewan McGregor, director, and Jennifer Connelly, actress of the film American Pastoral

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Ewan McGregor and Jennifer Connelly in Rome to present McGregor’s directorial debut American Pastoral based on the Pulitzer Prize book by Philip Roth.

AMERICAN PASTORAL. Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter’s new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Gaby Dellal, director of About Ray from the 2016 Alice nella Città

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Gaby Dellal, director About Ray, the opening film screening at the 14th edition of Alice Nella Città – Rome International Film Festival.

The film stars Susan Sarandon in the role of the lesbian grandmother, Naomi Watts as the single mother and Elle Fanning as Ramona whose decision to change sex and become Ray define the course of the film as the entire family will have to face an inevitable transformation. Gaby Dellal comments on cliche and tries to define the “perfect family” for her.

ABOUT RAY tells the touching story of three women- all coming from the same New York family and each belonging to a different generation- all of them affected by a life-changing transformation by one. Ray (Elle Fanning) is a teenage girl that wants to become a boy. Ray has lived for years as she was a boy and now he wants to start the hormonal therapy. His single mother, Maggie (Naomi Watts), must track down Ray’s biological father to get his legal consent. Dolly (Susan Sarandon), Ray’s lesbian grandmother, is having a hard time accepting the change. The three women will have to face their own identity to fully understand Ray’s transformation and find again serenity and balance.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Mick Jackson, director of Denial, from the 11th Rome International Film Festival.

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Mick Jackson, at the 11th Rome International Film Festival to introduce his new film Denial, based on the book Denial: Holocaust History on Trial written by Deborah Lipstadt.

The film portrays the legal battle that Lipstadt was involved in against David Irving, who accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier. Mick Jackson declares the uiversal importance of making films like this one as by talking about this very important and serious happening the discussion can lead to politics activity in denying unchallengeable truths.

DENIAL. An American professor finds herself the defendant in a high-profile British libel trial that would impact the way the history of the Holocaust is told in Denial, a taut courtroom drama based on one of the most significant international legal cases in recent memory. After historian Deborah Lipstadt’s (Rachel Weisz) book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory is published in the U.K., she is shocked to learn that British author David Irving (Timothy Spall), a prolific writer of texts on World War II, is suing her for libel. Even more surprising to the American academic, under U.K. libel laws she is presumed guilty unless she can prove herself innocent. Lipstadt finds herself in the position of not only defending herself, but establishing beyond a doubt that the Holocaust took place.

Passionate, fiery and independent, Lipstadt refuses to settle the case and demands her day in court. With the cards solidly stacked against her, Lipstadt’s British legal team, led by solicitor Anthony Julius (Andrew Scott) and barrister Richard Rampton (Tom Wilkinson), presents her with a confounding strategy: neither she nor any Holocaust survivors will be called to the stand.

A powerful story about one woman’s relentless efforts to establish justice and remind the world about the tragedies of the Holocaust, Denial is a gripping, inspirational real-life account based on Lipstadt’s book Denial: Holocaust History on Trial (previously published as History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier).

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PODCAST | Bénédicte Prot interviews Marisella Rossetti, Directorate-General for Communication of the LUX Prize.

Marisella Rossetti, in charge of the LUX Prize of the European Parliament, rejoices at the incredible success of this now 10-year-old initiative, which first started inside that institution on a strong premise – that of translating European films in all the languages of the Union to allow for a shared experience likely to strike a dialogue and enrich public debate – and was therefore able to spread its wings far beyond and reach out to a vast public of all ages, everywhere in Europe, through its presence at festivals and other dynamic events, such as the LUX Film Days.

The 10th anniversary celebration of the LUX Prize, held at the European Parliament on October 10, was conceived as a perfect illustration of the fantastic journey of the Prize and of its exciting achievements, with a keynote speech from the British maestro Ken Loach, a roundtable also involving past participants Céline Sciamma and Andrea Segre, the opening of the exhibition “10 years, 100 films”, and an evening Europe-wide simultaneous screening of Mustang (LUX Prize winner 2015) culminating in a live Internet Q&A between the director and all the viewers all across the continent.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews actor Viggo Mortensen on his role in Captain Fantastic, from the 2016 Alice nella Città

The fifth day of Rome Film Festival and Alice nella Città could easily be renamed “Viggo Day”. The actor is at the Festival to present his new film Captain Fantastic by Matt Ross which recently won Best Director at the Festival de Cannes in may. Mortensen is also the protagonist of the “Close Encounter” of today hosted by artistic Director Antonio Monda.

Viggo Mortensen talks about what he learned from his character Ben in the film and discuss how to use honesty when it comes to parenting. Captain Fantastic forces us into the inevitable question: is there a right way to raise a child?

CAPTAIN FANTASTIC. In the forests of the Pacific Northwest, a father devoted to raising his six kids with a rigorous physical and intellectual education is forced to leave his paradise and enter the world, challenging his idea of what it means to be a parent.

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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Amin Palangi, director of the Persian International Film Festival in Australia.

Amin Palangi talks about the 5th edition of the Persian International Film Festival in Australia which has closed this week with an impressive attendance record, touring nationally for the first time in four major cities. This year’s program included four Cannes winners and the launch of the Golden Gazelle Awards for best feature and best short.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Milind Dhaimade, director, and Varun Shah, producer of the film You Are My Sunday from the 60th BFI London Film Festival.

Friends, football and everyday struggles. The charming simplicity of the nature of You Are My Sunday, Indian comedy directed by Milind Dhaimade, is not only carried wonderfully but is also what makes the film so universal. The themes dealt with in this film, from the need for more space and independence to the desire to fall in love, can be understood by anyone and the fact that this film also achieves this in a straightforward and realistic manner also speaks in favor of comedy as a film that can achieve with the right mix of maturity and childishness what more serious films often can’t in terms of representing everyday problems.

You Are My Sunday is also enriched by the performances of the cast. Dhaimade shares with us that he believes casting to be a vital step in the making of the film. Besides this and much more, in discussing the origins of the film, he retraces his journey to the making of You Are My Sunday, which started when he was filming commercials, along with producer Varun Shah, who also joins us for this chat. Their desire, ultimately, was not to compromise their idea for the film. In this too, many might be able to identify with the makers of this film.

YOU ARE MY SUNDAY. Set in densely populated Mumbai, this buddy movie about a group of amateur footballers is a real treat. Milind Dhaimade’s feature debut finds a group of five men struggling to balance their busy work and home relationships with their desire to escape every Sunday to Juhu Beach – the one place with enough space to relax and play their beloved game. It’s paradise. But then, during one match a senile old man joins in and kicks the ball into a nearby political rally. The punishment for the unintended misdemeanour is harsh and the friends’ despondency at not being able to play becomes a reflection of each individual’s own pressure-cooker life, threatening to boil over and severely test their bond of friendship. Dhaimade’s depiction of straight men sharing emotions and love for each other as they struggle to win the day is both a rare and welcome sight.

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