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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Kim Petalas, director of the British Film Festival.

Festival director Kim Petalas talks about how the festival has grown significantly over the last ten years to become a highly anticipated collection of new British cinema. Kim browses the program that includes exclusive premieres in addition to a selection of dramas, documentaries and comedies. Also, James Bond is back on the big screen in a curated line up showcasing sixty years of iconic style and adventure. First hitting the silver screen in 1962, the world’s famous Secret Service agent will be celebrated with a remarkable collection of 14 films that feature Connery, Lazenby, Moore, Dalton, Brosnan and Craig in stunning 4K restorations to honour 60 years of adventure.

The British Film Festival opens on the 18th of October, and it is showcased at Palace Cinemas in seven cities across Australia until the 16th of November.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Ke Huy Quan and Jonathan Wang, actor and producer of the film Everything, Everywhere, All at once.

Thanks to his interpretation of Data in The Goonies, Ke Huy Quan is a movie legend. Almost 40 years after that film, he’s back as protagonist in Everything Everywhere All at Once by The Daniels, Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, starring alongside Michelle Yeoh, Jamie Lee Curtis and James Hong. With its depiction of a multiverse, the film manages to be, at the same time,a love story, about family, about the emotional weight we carry in life and so many other things. With his producer Jonathan Wang, Ke Huy Quan talks about his experience in the film and his big comeback.

Everything, Everywhere, All at once: Directed by Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert, collectively known as Daniels, the film is a hilarious and big-hearted sci-fi action adventure about an exhausted Chinese American woman (Michelle Yeoh) who can’t seem to finish her taxes.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Luis De Filippis, director of the film Something you said last night.

For her debut feature film, Something youi said last night, screening in the feature film competition at the 18th Zurich Film Festival,Luis De Filippis chooses to portray a Canadian-italian family during their holidays. The film doesn’t want to focus on one of its protagonists,Renata (Carmen Madonia), being a transgender woman but instead on the family dynamics with their defects and their positive aspects. While not pointing all her attention on Madonia,still manages to depict all the struggles and fights a transgender woman has to go through nowadays. Something you said last night is a film where silences speak louder than words.

Something you said last night: Italian-Canadian Ren goes on vacation with her parents and younger sister, Siena. Her family doesn’t know that the twenty-something transwoman has recently lost her job. Ren tries to cope with a resort geared towards retirees and her parents’ lovingly arrogant ways, while her sister keeps them all on their toes with her rebellious outbursts. Knowing that Ren will be even more dependent on her parents for support after the holidays, the vacation home feels increasingly like it’s shrinking. Luis de Filippis tells in this refreshingly cliché-free movie of family dynamics and explores a Millennial’s contradictory desire to be independent yet cared for.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Ari Folman, director of the film Where is Anna Frank.

After presenting it at the Festival de Cannes, out of competition, Ari Folman is in Italy to present Where is Anna Frank, his new film rediscovering the story of Frank, seen through the eyes of her imaginary friend, Kitty. The film will be released in Italian cinemas by Lucky Red on September 29th and it uses a fable-like language to address the younger audience and dialogue with the contemporary world.

Where is Anna Frank: Following his internationally-acclaimed animated movie Waltz with Bashir, Golden Globe Award winner & Academy Award® nominated director #AriFolman returns with his new animated family film #WhereIsAnneFrank, an adaptation of Anne Frank’s internationally-loved classic The Diary of a Young Girl. Kitty, the imaginary girl to whom Anne Frank wrote her famous diary, comes to life in the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. Her memories reawakened by reading the diary, believing that if she’s alive, Anne must be alive as well, she sets out on a quest to find Anne. We follow Kitty as she travels across Europe and back to Anne Frank’s time, armed with the precious book, in search of her beloved friend…

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

Lukas Dhont’ second feature Close is an homage to friendship, says the director at the 18th Zurich Film Festival where the film has been presented in the Gala premieres section. The Belgian director reveals how he dedicated the film to the friends he lost while growing up and how he got the idea of his second work thanks to his mom who pushed him to write about what he knows and cares about. Close also shows how friendships can be poisoned, especially during the teenage years, by the constant need of society for labelling and defining gender, relationships, affection, masculinity, femininity and sexual orientation

Close: Ever since they can remember, Léo and Rémi have been inseparable friends. Throughout the summer, the two 13-year-olds roam through fields and meadows, chase each other on their bikes along country roads, and spend the night together. But with the start of the new school year, their intimate friendship is strained – the natural physical closeness of the two boys has not gone unnoticed by their classmates. A fatal event soon turns Léo and Rémi’s lives completely upside down. Belgian director Lukas Dhont tells with extraordinary tenderness the heart-breaking story of a youthful friendship at a crossroads. Dhont, who won the Golden Eye at ZFF 2018 with his debut feature GIRL, was awarded the Grand Jury Prize at Cannes this year.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Edward Berger, director of the film Im Westen nichts Neues / All Quiet on the Western Front.

At the 18th Zurich Film Festival, Edward Berger presents his new film, All Quiet on the Western Front, the first German adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s pacifist world bestseller. The director comments on his approach to the topic of war, his way of portraying it through the eyes of the young boys who had been brainwashed into thinking World War I was going to be fast and victorious and instead, they found death and violence.

Im Westen nichts Neues / All Quiet on the Western Front: Germany, World War I. A romanticised idea of heroism motivates the student Paul Bäumer to volunteer for the army at the age of 19. Full of patriotic zeal, he completes basic training before going to the Western Front with his comrades. In the trenches, however, it’s not long before Paul’s worldview is shattered and he is forced to experience first-hand how initial euphoria turns into fear and despair. With Im Westen nichts Neues, Edward Berger directs the first German film adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s pacifist world bestseller. With a great ensemble cast including Daniel Brühl, Albrecht Schuch and Devid Striesow, the result is a gripping drama that impressively demonstrates the absurdity and brutality of war.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Daniel Brühl, actor of the film Im Westen nichts Neues / All Quiet on the Western Front.

How can cinema help us understand the absurdity of war? “We have to be persistent” answers Daniel Brühl among the protagonists of All Quiet on the Western front at the 18th Zurich Film Festival in the Gala Premieres’ section. The film is the first German adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s pacifist world bestseller and Brühl’s character, a real liberal politician, Matthias Erzberger has been added into the story,even though Remarque never wrote about him, as to anticipate what would have happened next, World War II.

Im Westen nichts Neues / All Quiet on the Western Front: Germany, World War I. A romanticised idea of heroism motivates the student Paul Bäumer to volunteer for the army at the age of 19. Full of patriotic zeal, he completes basic training before going to the Western Front with his comrades. In the trenches, however, it’s not long before Paul’s worldview is shattered and he is forced to experience first-hand how initial euphoria turns into fear and despair. With Im Westen nichts Neues, Edward Berger directs the first German film adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s pacifist world bestseller. With a great ensemble cast including Daniel Brühl, Albrecht Schuch and Devid Striesow, the result is a gripping drama that impressively demonstrates the absurdity and brutality of war.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Brett Morgen and Paul Massey, director and re-recording mixer of the film Moonage Daydream.

Director Brett Morgen and Paul Massey, Re-recording mixer, talk about their work on Moonage Daydream, a psychedelic trip into the world of David Bowie, guided by the artist’s voice.

Moonage Daydream: Moonage Daydream illuminates the life and genius of David Bowie, one of the most prolific and influential artists of our time. Told through sublime, kaleidoscopic, never-before-seen footage, performances and music, Brett Morgen’s (The Kid Stays in the Picture, Cobain: Montage of Heck, Jane) feature length experiential cinematic odyssey explores David Bowie’s creative, musical and spiritual journey. The film is guided by David Bowie’s own narration and is the first officially sanctioned film on the artist.

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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Angelo Gioe’, director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Melbourne and curator of Naples, the heartbeat of italian cinema.

Angelo Gioe’, the Director of the Italian Cultural Institute in Melbourne and curator of Naples, the heartbeat of italian cinema, talks about the New Neapolitan Cinema, a growing movement and now an artistic reference that has contributed to portray Naples as an emerging and iconic city. Together with Campania region, Naples is experiencing a real boom in the audio-visual industry. The result is a new image of Naples, which combines its contemporaneity with its historical identity, the tradition of stereotypes and that of folklore. The heterogeneity of topics and stories, as well as the diversity of cinematic styles will fascinate an international audience.

The Italian Film Festival opens in Sydney on the 13h September and it runs nationally in Australia at Palace Cinemas until the 19th October.

To discover more about the Italian Film Festival, click here.

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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Elysia Zeccola, director of the Italian Film Festival.

Festival Director Elysia Zeccola explores this year’s program that includes two very fresh films direct from their world premieres: Francesca Archibugi’s highly anticipated ensemble drama The Hummingbird (Il colibrì), direct from Toronto International Film Festival (Gala); and Gianni Amelio‘s Lord of The Ants (Il signore delle formiche), straight from Venice Film Festival (in Competition). The opening night film is the hilarious comedy Belli Ciao that delivers a light-hearted north versus south culture clash. The closing night film is a tribute to the best Italian cinema of the sixties, the Oscar-winning trilogy of romantic comedies Yesterday, today and tomorrow (Ieri, oggi e domani), set in different parts of Italy, with Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni from acclaimed director Vittorio De Sica.

The Italian Film Festival opens in Sydney on the 13h September and it runs nationally in Australia at Palace Cinemas until the 19th October.

To discover more about the Italian Film Festival, click here.

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