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PODCAST: FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Julia Jentsch and Bjarne Mädel, actors in the film 24 Weeks by Anne Zohra Berrached from the main competition of the 66th Berlinale.

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Actors Julia Jentsch and Bjarne Mädel talk about how they related to their characters. In 24 Weeks (24 Wochen), they play a stand-up comedian and her manager struggling to keep a tragedy privately while being public figures.

24 WEEKS tells the story of cabaret performer Astrid (Julia Jentsch), who six months pregnant learns that her unborn child will be severely disabled. She and her husband Marcus (Bjarne Mädel) have a choice, but little time… A strong nature with a witty answer to everything, Astrid now feels lost, on her own, impossible to continue her comedy routine. Ultimately only she who is bearing the child can take this weighty decision. What will she do? Who decides whether the child will have a life worth living?

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PODCAST: FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Cristina Pato and Kinan Azmeh, musicians and protagonists of The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble from the 2016 Berlin International Film Festival.

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Cristina Pato from Spain and Kinan Azmeh from Syria are among the protagonists of the new documentary by Oscar winning director Morgan Neville, titled The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble. The film has been presented at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival, in the Berlinale Special section, and follows the story of the renowned international music collective created by legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma on tour.

Pato and Azmeh discuss the role of music and arts in society, and tell us their first impressions upon watching the film, and therefore their life stories, through the third eye perspective of Neville’s camera.

THE MUSIC OF STRANGERS: YO-YO MA AND THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE: From the director of the Oscar-winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom and the critically acclaimed Best of Enemies, the new film The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble tells the extraordinary story of the renowned international musical collective created by legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma. The feature-length documentary follows this group of diverse instrumentalists, vocalists, composers, arrangers, visual artists and storytellers as they explore the power of music to preserve tradition, shape cultural evolution and inspire hope.

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PODCAST: Sound designer and composer Marshall Smith from New Zealand, who is taking part at the 2016 of the Berlinale Talents, introduces himself to the listeners of FRED Film Radio.

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Marshall Smith is the MD of NZ music company The Sound Room and Chair of the Screen Composers Guild of NZ talks about his composing work for Film and TV

For more information check outwww.thesoundroom.co.nz

Berlinale Talents is the annual summit and networking platform of the Berlin International Film Festival for 300 outstanding creatives from the fields of film and drama series.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/TheSoundRoomNZ

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thesoundroomnz1/

Click here to go to Marshall Smith’s page on the Berlinale Talents website

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PODCAST: FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Michael Peña and Alexander Skarsgard, actors of the film War on Everyone by John Michael McDonagh from the 66th Berlin International Film Festival.

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Michael Peña and Alexander Skarsgård are protagonists in the film War on Everyone, directed by John Michael McDonagh, which has been presented at the 66th Berlinale in the Panorama Special section. The two young actors play a couple of corrupted cops, with their own moral code, trying to steal from a gang of criminals.

Skarsgard was cast thanks to a crazy video he shot at a football game and he immediately found the right chemistry with his “buddy” Peña. The two shared a “bromance” on and off screen. After his two previous films set in Ireland, which starred Brendan Gleeson, McDonagh created his own idea of a out-of-time Alburqueque in New Mexico and that’s what makes the film perfect to experiment a mix of genres and influences. And, the open ending offers plenty of room for a sequel or a TV series…

WAR ON EVERYONE: Two corrupt cops in New Mexico set out to blackmail and frame every criminal unfortunate enough to cross their path in this volatile jet-black action comedy.

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PODCAST: An audio clip by Rafaël Leloup, composer taking part in the Berlinale Talents 2016 edition.

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Berlinale Talents is the annual summit and networking platform of the Berlin International Film Festival for 300 outstanding creatives from the fields of film and drama series.

Website: www.rafaelleloup.info

Demo reel: https://youtu.be/CrV8ke0iGF8

Facebook: www.facebook.com/RafaelLeloup

Click here to go to Rafaël Leloup’s page on the Berlinale Talents website

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