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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Victoria Bousis, director of the film Tu Vivra Mon Fils.

Victoria Bousis is film director who decided to dedicate some of her time to new forms of expressions, such as the immersive Vr cinema. She fell in love with the book and decided, as the film version of it was already in the making, to expand the idea and turn it into an immersive experience. Not an easy path, also due to the philosophy that lies behind immersive cinema and the use that the audience wants and needs to do, as she explains here.

Tu Vivra Mon Fils: Based on the internationally celebrated memoirs of Pin Yathay, Tu vivras, mon fils, the immersive, mythical, and cinematic experience puts the player into the shoes of a Cambodian genocide survivor and father. The author’s enduring heart, metaphorically represented by the wondrous temple of Angkor Wat, searches for a missing son and personal salvation. The player uncovers hidden memories from Yathay’s story by completing various puzzles while learning about Cambodia’s troubled history and rich culture. As the player solves each puzzle, Yahtay’s heart experiences healing. A nation similarly heals from its tragic past. Transpiring over 45 years, this is an inspirational saga of a father’s relentless will to survive for his family’s love and bring justice to his country.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Hanna Västinsalo, Cyril Jacob Abraham, director and producer of the film Palimpsest.

Hanna Västinsalo and her producer Cyril Jacob Abraham created an interesting and valid film even under the strict rules of Biennale College. The stakes were high, as the plot could have been too much for the budget they had, but a smart screenplay and avoiding all futuristic and scientific aspects , keeping it all more human oriented was the secret, as the two tells us in this interview.

Palimpsest: Tellu and Juhani (80s) have barely anything in common, except a room they share while waiting for death. Their fates change when Tellu and Juhani are chosen for a gene therapy trial, akin to the fountain of youth. As their bodies get younger, Tellu and Juhani explore the world they thought they had lost forever. While Tellu doesn’t want to think too much about the future, Juhani is forced to reconsider his second chance after his wife, Matilda, passes. Juhani realizes his newfound youth gives him a chance to turn his childhood dream into reality, as in this changed world, traveling to the stars is no longer impossible. Juhani’s newfound passion for life makes Tellu question her choices. She never considered that her quiet roommate would leave the program and when he does, she is unable to stop her spiral into the hedonism of youth. Tellu, in her pre-teen body, tells Juhani that she has been approved to rejuvenate further and would need someone to adopt her. Before losing her memories, Tellu tries to reconnect Juhani with his daughter, who has not been able to accept her father’s new youth. Juhani now has to decide whether he should help his friend to erase herself.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Eldar Shibanov, director of the film Mountain Onion.

Eldar Shibanov’s Mountain Onion is among the projects selected for the Biennale College program 2022. A comedy drama on parenthood, good or bad, and the perception of adult figure that kids have : A tour de force productive-wise but a good and formative experience, as Eldar tells us.

Mountain Onion: About 11-year-old Jabai sells mountain onions alongside the highway and one day he catches his idol trucker having sex with his mom. Jabai and his sister, Saniya, embark on a journey from their small village in Kazakhstan to China, to obtain the only thing that will save their father and help him become a strong man, the ‘Golden Viagra’. 

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Tahmina Rafaella and Katayoon Shahabi, director and producer of the film Banu.

Tahmina Rafaella director and Katayoon Shahabi producer tell us about the experience of the Biennale College, with its strict budget rules and timing. The intensity of the film is intact though as Tahmina confirms, and its power as well.

Banu: While the Second Nagorno-Karabakh war rages on far away from Baku, Azerbaijan, Banu has four days to find someone to support her in court against her influential soon to be ex-husband, Javid. He is trying to get full custody of their son Ruslan by claiming that Banu suffers from psychiatric issues. Banu embarks on a journey to find someone to help her in a society in which everyone’s attention is preoccupied with the ongoing war.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Makbul Mubarak, director of the film Autobiography.

Makbul Mubarak brings, with Autobiagraphy, on the surface the moral and education Indonesian have been taught of in ages, under the dictatorship. these are the core significance of the film and this tale serves the purpose of analyzing and questioning this assumption: Is it moral to be faithful to someone who is immoral?

Autobiography: With his father in prison and his brother abroad for work, young Rakib works as the lone housekeeper in an empty mansion belonging to Purna, a retired general whose family Rakib’s clan have served for centuries in a rural Indonesian town. After Purna returns home to start his mayoral election campaign, Rakib bonds with the older man, who becomes a close mentor and father figure, and finds his calling as Purna’s assistant in work and life. When Purna’s election poster is found vandalised one day, Rakib doesn’t hesitate to track down the culprit, kicking off an escalating chain of violence…

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Nicolas Winding Refn, Angela Bundalovic and Lola Corfixen , director and actresses of the film Copenhagen Cowboy.

Nicolas Winding Refn is back into the series world with Copenhagen Cowboy. Here, with his lead actresses Angela Bundalovic and Lola Corfixen, incidentally his daugter, he explains what intrigued him to make a noir thriller with western touches here and there. And apologizes, with great humour, for the lack of blood.

Copenhagen Cowboy: Copenhagen Cowboy is a thrill-inducing, neon-drenched noir series set across six episodes which follows enigmatic young heroine, Miu. After a lifetime of servitude and on the verge of a new beginning, she traverses the ominous landscape of Copenhagen’s criminal netherworld. Searching for justice and enacting vengeance, she encounters her nemesis, Rakel, as they embark on an odyssey through the natural and the supernatural. The past ultimately transforms and defines their future, as the two women discover they are not alone, they are many..

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Jakob Bro, actor of the film Music for black pigeons.

Jakob Bro, one of the most influential composers and musicians alive, talks about his experience in these 14 years of shooting and how his perception of music and its evolution changed, without him noticing it at first. We also talk about the essence of music for a musician and how to reach a balance between regualr life and music life.

Music for black pigeons is the first collaboration between Jørgen Leth and Andreas Koefoed. The film poses existential questions to influential jazz players such as Bill Frisell, Lee Konitz, Midori Takada and many others: How does it feel to play, and what does it mean to listen? What is it like to be a human being and spending your whole life trying to express something through sounds? The characters wake up, rehearse, record, perform and talk about music. In some moments they are on the edge, the edge of existence, constantly challenging themselves. They listen. They devote themselves to finding a space to create a connection to something bigger than themselves. Something that will outlast all of us. For the past 14 years, the filmmakers followed Danish composer Jakob Bro, witnessing his musical encounters with acclaimed and eccentric musicians from across generations and nationalities. Through Bro’s compositions, the film’s characters explore the space of music—and in doing so answer some of the questions the film poses, in a poetic, life-affirming and entertaining way.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Jorgen Leth and Andreas Koefoed, directors of the film Music for black pigeons.

Jorgen Leth and Andreas Kofoed tell us the long voyage that Music for black pigeons has been. They met and taped most of the greatest jazz players and built a lasting memoir of their work and on the essence of what being a jazz musician is.

Music for black pigeons is the first collaboration between Jørgen Leth and Andreas Koefoed. The film poses existential questions to influential jazz players such as Bill Frisell, Lee Konitz, Midori Takada and many others: How does it feel to play, and what does it mean to listen? What is it like to be a human being and spending your whole life trying to express something through sounds? The characters wake up, rehearse, record, perform and talk about music. In some moments they are on the edge, the edge of existence, constantly challenging themselves. They listen. They devote themselves to finding a space to create a connection to something bigger than themselves. Something that will outlast all of us. For the past 14 years, the filmmakers followed Danish composer Jakob Bro, witnessing his musical encounters with acclaimed and eccentric musicians from across generations and nationalities. Through Bro’s compositions, the film’s characters explore the space of music—and in doing so answer some of the questions the film poses, in a poetic, life-affirming and entertaining way.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Ti West and Mia Goth, director and actress of the film Pearl.

Ti West is the director of Pearl, starring Mia Goth, who also wrote together with Ti this prequel of the hugely acclaimed X. We talk about how this happened, why making a prequel set one century before, and the way of working as a team.

Pearl: Trapped on her family’s isolated farm, Pearl must tend to her ailing father under the bitter and overbearing watch of her devout mother. Lusting for a glamorous life like she’s seen in the movies, Pearl’s ambitions, temptations, and repressions all collide, in the stunning, technicolor-inspired origin story of X’s iconic villain.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Rachel Brosnahan and Christoph Waltz, actors of the film Dead for a dollar.

Rachel Brosnahan and Christoph Waltz talk with Fred Radio about their roles in the new Walter Hill’s western Dead for a dollar, and the singularity of them as told in the script .

Dead for a dollar  follows veteran bounty hunter Max Borlund deep into Mexico where he encounters professional gambler and outlaw Joe Cribbens—a sworn enemy who Max sent to prison years before. Borlund is on a mission to find and return Rachel Kidd, the hostage wife of a wealthy Santa Fe businessman. Discovering that Mrs. Kidd has actually fled from an abusive marriage, Max is ultimately faced with a choice: finish the dishonest job he’s been hired to accomplish or stand aside while ruthless mercenary outlaws and his long-time rival close in… Max and his partner Alonzo Poe have nothing to gain if they resist— nothing save honour.

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