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PODCAST: FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Ira Sachs, director of Little Men from the 66th Berlinale.

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Filmmaker Ira Sachs returns to FRED’s airwaves to talk about his latest film Little Men, from the Generation K plus section of the 66th Berlinale. Sachs reveals how he could never work on something he hasn’t somehow personally experienced. Love is Strange was born out of a moment in which he was reflecting of long term relationships. Little Men comes from a time in his life when he finds himself more focused and devoted on his children and his husband.

Sachs comments on his casting choices and how he chose Paulina Garcia after literally falling in love with her at the 2012 Berlinale, when he watched her in the film Gloria by Sebastian Lelio. To cite Sachs’ words, “Paulina is a natural artist, her performane is an elevated form of naturalism.”

LITTLE MEN: Summer in Brooklyn. Jake’s parents have just moved into the house that used to belong to his grandfather. Tony’s mother has been renting the shop on the ground floor forever. The two 13-year-olds quickly discover their shared interest in art, computer games and girls. Together, they dream of transferring to the renowned La Guardia High School in the autumn. Soon they become allies, not only against the other boys on the block, but also when it comes to the rent dispute between their parents. Attempting to stem the inexorable effect the adult world is having on their genuine friendship, they stage a headstrong protest. Once again renowned Indie director Ira Sachs intuitively explores the family and moral conflicts with emotional depth.

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PODCAST: FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Pernilla August, director of the film A Serious Game (Den allvarsamma leken) from the 66th Berlinale.

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Director Pernilla August elaborates on the difficulties of adapting a classic novel of the Swedish tradition, titled Den allvarsamma leken. She also talks about how her long.term friendship and collaboration with Ingmar Bergman influenced her directing career, Pernilla says that she learned not to give up on her intuitions.

A SERIOUS GAME (Den allvarsamma leken): Once upon a time Lydia was the innocent girl, the painter’s daughter, the girl that the young promising journalist Arvid fell in love with during a lunch outing on a beautiful island in the Stockholm archipelago. Did he fall for the girl or the idea of pure, untainted love, the idea of love at first sight? The attraction between them is interrupted by the social structures of Stockholm’s society at the turn of the 20th century, restraining them from taking the leap into marriage. And so love slips away. A decade later, they meet when they are both married with children, but the desire takes the upper hand and they end up having an affair. An affair that forces the couple to reflect on the time they’ve spent apart and how it has changed them both. Their affair, their serious game, also comes with unforeseeable consequences in theirs as well as other people’s lives.

Based on the best selling classic novel by Hjalmar Söderberg and set in Stockholm in the beginning of the 20th century, the story about the complex romance between Lydia Stille and journalist Arvid Stjärnblom has touched reader’s hearts for over a century. In the hands of Danish screenwriter Lone Scherfig (Italian For Beginners, An Education, The Riot Club) and director Pernilla August (Beyond) the epic scope of this bittersweet love story has finally been made into a full cinema experience.

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PODCAST: FRED’s Bénédicte Prot interviews director André Téchiné, who presented his latest film Being 17 (Quand on a 17 ans) at the 66th Berlinale

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André Téchiné tells us more about the experience of co-writing the script of this strikingly physical story about first times with the now well-established, talented young director Céline Sciamma (Girlhood). As he explains his choices to set the plot of Being 17 in a rural environment and to have Damien’s father working in the army, and as he describes the chemistry he was looking for in his two main actors, the veteran French filmmaker stresses the importance of being in touch with real life and respecting its natural flow.

BEING 17 (Quand on a 17 ans): Throughout their last year of high school, in a small rural town surrounded by the mountains, two boys with their lives ahead of them (thoughtfully and givingly embodied by Kacey Mottet Klein and Corentin Fila) experience the violent confusion of their age of first times and unknown feelings under the gentle watch, full of sense and sensibility, of the former’s mother (Sandrine Kiberlain).

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PODCAST: FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interview Thomas Vinterberg, director of the film The Commune (Kollektivet) from the 66th Berlinale

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One of the founding fathers of Dogme 95, Thomas Vinterberg, presented his latest film The Commune (Kollektivet) in competition at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival. The Commune is loosely based on the director’s own childhood experiences. The director in fact lived a part of his life in a commune, and he tells us what it was that made him want to make a film about it. For her leading performance in the film, Trine Dyrholm won the Silver Bear for Best Actress.

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THE COMMUNE (Kollektivet): Erik and Anna are an academic couple with a dream. Together with their daughter Freja, they set up a commune in Erik’s huge villa in the upmarket district of Copenhagen. With the family in the center of the story, we are invited into the dream of a real commune; we participate in the house meetings, dinners and parties. It is friendship, love and togetherness under one roof until an earth-shattering love affair puts the community and the commune to its greatest test yet. The Commune is a humorous, delicate but also a painful and touching portrait of an entire generation. The film turns into a gentle yet confrontational declaration of love for a generation of idealists and dreamers who have long since awakened to reality.

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