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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Dennis Ruh, director of the European Film Market.

Dennis Ruh, Director of the EFM since the end of 2020, is looking forward to his first EFM in person after 2 years of online editions due to pandemic restrictions. The historical market location Martin Gropius Bau is ready to host more than 11,500 participants, more or less the same amount of the pre-pandemic editions and the EFM team has worked hard to concentrate all the market activities such as market screenings, conferences and panels in the Potsdamer Platz area so that all industry professionals can make the most out of their time in Berlin.

The European Film Market is one of the top three meeting places of the international film and media industries. Its close links with the Berlinale as a public film festival, and its position at the heart of Berlin’s vivid creative economy, are defining characteristics of the Berlinale’s film market. Yet the EFM is more than just an agile marketplace for trading film and audiovisual content – it has also positioned itself as a platform for innovation and change. Over a period of eight days, around 10,000 representatives of the international film and media industries – primarily producers, buyers and sales agents, distributors and financiers – come together to network, exchange, inform themselves and do business. As the first major film market of the year, the EFM is in a strong position and serves as a compass, barometer and pacesetter for the new film year: new productions and developments, future-proof business models, contacts and contracts – it all starts here. The EFM’s varied locations range from the beautiful Gropius Bau to elegant Marriott Hotel, modern Berliner Freiheit or the historic Zoo Palast. A professional infrastructure for exhibitors, state-of-the-art cinemas, numerous market premieres and outstanding service via close customer and partner relationships distinguish the film market as a first class trading platform. The EFM serves the diversity and breadth of requirements for its different participant groups, focusing on networking, exchange, information and the constant integration of new players.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Carlo Chatrian, the artistic director of the Berlin International Film Festival.

As on his blog on the Berlinale website, Artistic Director Carlo Chatrian wrote: “A festival programme is, even more than just a (hopefully coherent) line-up of films, the result of a year’s worth of work, of meetings, of travel, of frequently unexpected and instantaneous viewings”, in this interview he tells us what we should look forward to, in this edition. Chatrian talks about gender equality, inclusion and representation in this year’s program and also how Berlinale keeps being a festival that is very connected to what happens in the world, especially in terms of politics and social problems. The Artistic Director finally confirms that he is looking forward to an edition that will be the first after 2020 where we can all go back to enjoying the festival experience at its fullest, with no restrictions.

Berlinale is a unique place of artistic exploration and entertainment. It is one of the largest public film festivals in the world, attracting tens of thousands of visitors from around the globe each year. For the film industry and the media, the eleven days in February are also one of the most important events in the annual calendar and an indispensable trading forum. The Berlin International Film Festival enjoys an eventful history. The festival was created for the Berlin public in 1951, at the beginning of the Cold War, as a “showcase of the free world”. Shaped by the turbulent post-war period and the unique situation of a divided city, the Berlinale has developed into a place of intercultural exchange and a platform for the critical cinematic exploration of social issues. To this day it is considered the most political of all the major film festivals. The Berlinale brings the big stars of international cinema to Berlin and discovers new talents. It accompanies filmmakers of all disciplines on their paths into the spotlight and supports careers, projects, dreams and visions. Thanks to its numerous industry initiatives, the Berlinale is a significant driver of innovation and an important economic factor internationally as well as for companies in Germany and Berlin.

To discover more about the 73° edition of Berlin International Film Festival, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews M. Night Shyamalan, director of the film Knock at the cabin.

With his magnetic and disquieting look at the world in Knock at the cabin – Bussano alla porta, M. Night Shyamalan, in Rome to present the film to the italian audience, proves us, through an apocalypse, that human beings are all connected, whether we like it or not. The film is based on the best selling novel The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay to which Shyamalan gave his Hitchcokian but hopeful atmosphere. The director confirms the homage to Hitchcock and walks us through the fil rouge of all his films: family.

Knock at the cabin: While vacationing at a remote cabin, a young girl and her parents are taken hostage by four armed strangers who demand that the family make an unthinkable choice to avert the apocalypse. With limited access to the outside world, the family must decide what they believe before all is lost. From visionary filmmaker M. Night Shyamalan, Knock at the Cabin stars Dave Bautista (Dune, Guardians of the Galaxy franchise), Tony award and Emmy nominee Jonathan Groff (Hamilton, Mindhunter), Ben Aldridge (Pennyworth, Fleabag), BAFTA nominee Nikki Amuka-Bird (Persuasion, Old), newcomer Kristen Cui, Abby Quinn (Little Women, Landline) and Rupert Grint (Servant, Harry Potter franchise).

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews the scriptwtriter and festival programmer Elma Tataragić.

She’s one of the guests of honor at the 34th Trieste Film Festival: Elma Tataragić, award winning screenwriter and festival programmer is the protagonist of a masterclass at the festival which title is: “The passion and the responsibility of storytelling”. Tataragić tells us more about the themes of the masterclass and about her work as scriptwriter.

The Trieste Film Festival welcomes the screenwriter Elma Tataragić for a masterclass held at Teatro Miela. Tataragić has been a contributor of the Sarajevo Film Festival since its launch in 1995 and has written screenplays for films such as God Exists, Her Name is Petrunya by Teona Mitevska .

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Mila Turajlić, director of the documentary Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels.

At the 34th Trieste Film Festival, director Mila Turajlić presents a Documentary diptych made with never-before-seen 35mm material filmed by Stevan Labudović, Yugoslav president Tito’s cameraman. In Non -Aligned, we discover the background of the first summit of the Non-Aligned Movement, which was born in the 60s to protect states that did not want to side with the two superpowers of the Cold War. With the director Mila Turajlić we talk about her great and very long research work in the Filmske Novosti archive, her meeting with Stevan Labudović, and her cinema as guardian of history.

Non-Aligned: Scenes from the Labudović Reels: The diptych Non-Aligned & CinéGuerrillas: Scenes from the Labudović Reels is both an archive-based film and the story “behind the images” as narrated by Stevan Labudović, a Yugoslav newsreel cameraman who followed President Tito for over 25 years. The film examines how a global project of political emancipation was shaped by the cinematic image.

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Nadia Parfan, director of the film I did not want to make a war film.

Nadia Parfan was not in Ukraine when the war broke out a year ago. One night she dreamed of a road that led her home, and she embarked on a very long and difficult journey to return to her city and tell her friends, her family, and Ukrainian citizens. We met her at the 34th Trieste Film Festival and asked her about this courageous decision.

I did not want to make a war film: In the wake of a full-scale invasion the Kyiv director finds herself in a small Bedouin village in the Middle East, a place that is warm, safe but far from home. After having a prophetic dream, she decides to return to Kyiv where the conflict is still unfolding. She manages to cross the threshold of her home, but the house itself is forever changed.

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Inna Sahakyan, director of the film Aurora’s sunrise.

In 1919 Hollywood made a film, Action of Souls, about the Armenian Genocide. The film’s protagonist was Aurora Madrigan, a true survivor who tried in every way to spread her story, to let the world know what was happening in her country in those years. Shortly after that, the film disappeared, and in 1994 only 18 minutes were found. Director Inna Sahakyan tells us about Madrigan’s dramatic struggle to survive the Genocide, about a mysterious missing film, and about the power of cinema to become the storyteller and keeper of history.

Aurora’s sunrise: Aurora lost everything during the Armenian Genocide. Four years later, she escaped to New York, where her story became a media sensation, starring as herself in Auction of Souls. With a blend of animation, interviews, and surviving footage from her lost silent epic, Aurora’s Sunrise revives a forgotten story. The film was presented at the latest Annecy International Animation Film Festival and is Armenia’s candidate at the Oscar 2023.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Juraj Lerotić, director of the film Safe Place.

After winning three awards in the Locarno Film festival’s Cineasti del Presente competition this summer, Juraj Lerotić lands in the feature film competition at the 34th Trieste Film festival with his autobiographical debut film Safe Place – Sigurno mjesto. The film talks about a family and in particular, a man dealing with the suicide attempt of his brother. As the film talks about his own experience, Juraj Lerotić decided to also act in it. The director explains how Safe Place felt like a necessary project to realize: it was impossible not to think about what had happened so, it naturally and painfully became a film. As the film travelled along film festivals, from Locarno to Sarajevo and now Trieste, Lerotić describes his interactions with the audience and their reaction to this story. time, an enchanting and nostalgic look at a father-daughter relationship and a delicate coming-of-age.

Safe Place: A traumatic event creates a rift in the family’s everyday life. Their lives radically change, as if they are waging a war invisible to everyone else. The source of the story is autobiographical, the author/ director plays himself. Presented in the Filmmakers of the Present competition at the Locarno International Film Festival 2022, the film won awards for Best Emerging Director and Best Actor.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Damien Chazelle, director of the film Babylon.

What does real love mean? It means to be able to love somebody or something in all its aspects, the beautiful things and the extreme and dark sides. With his last film, Babylon, Damien Chazelle shows us, without filters, the dark side of the 20’s Hollywood and by doing so, declares his love for cinema no matter what. In Rome to present the film to the italian audience the director talks about his love for moving images and how he might be identifying himself with one of the film’s main characters, Manny ( Diego Calva).

Babylon: From Damien Chazelle, Babylon is an original epic set in 1920s Los Angeles led by Brad Pitt, Margot Robbie and Diego Calva, with an ensemble cast including Jovan Adepo, Li Jun Li and Jean Smart. A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, it traces the rise and fall of multiple characters during an era of unbridled decadence and depravity in early Hollywood.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Lukas Dhont, director of the film Close.

After the successful premiere in Cannes in 2022 and its participation to many film festivals around the world, including Zurich Film festival and Alice Nella Città in Rome, Close by Lukas Dhont is finally coming out in italian cinemas. Dhont, in Italy to present the film, talks about being proud to belong to the great group of European directors like Ruben Ostlund and Alice Diop. Italian release – January 4th.

Close: The intense friendship between two thirteen-year old boys Leo and Remi suddenly gets disrupted. Struggling to understand what has happened, Leo approaches Sophie, Remi’s mother. Close is a film about friendship and responsibility. A film by Lukas Dhont. Starring Eden Dambrine, Gustav De Waele, Emilie Dequenne, Lea Drucker, Leon Bataille, Kevin Janssens.

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