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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Saeed Roustaee, director of the film Leila’s Brothers.

Saeed Roustaee comes to Cannes with his immense film Leila’s Brothers, in Competition. We talked about modernity vs traditions in Iran, the role of a woman and the family dynamics that are very similar all over the planet. Saeed is a lover of Italian cinema and he talks about his film references, as well.

Leila’s Brothers: At 40 years old, Leila has spent her whole life taking care of her parents and her four brothers. The family argues constantly and is crushed by debts, in a country caught in the grip of international economic sanctions. As her brothers are trying to make ends meet, Leila formulates a plan: to start a family business that would save them for poverty. While they are in desperate need of financial support, Leila finds out that their father Esmail has secretly been hiding a family heirloom. He had been saving it as an offering to become the new Patriarch of the clan, the highest honour in the Persian tradition. This uncovering will bring chaos to the already fragile family dynamics. As the father’s health deteriorates, the actions of each family member will gradually lead the family one step closer to implosion.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Maksim Nackonechnyi, director of the film Butterfly Vision.

Maksim Nackonechnyi brings to Cannes his first feature film, after having directed some documentaries. We talk about this shift and how it has influenced his filmmaking for Butterfly Vision and about war and taking sides.

Butterfly Vision: After spending months as a prisoner in Donbas, Ukrainian aerial reconnaissance expert Lilia returns home to her family. But the trauma of captivity continues to torment her and surface in dreamlike ways. Something growing deep within Lilia will not allow her to forget, yet she refuses to identify as a victim and will fight to liberate herself.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Hylnur Palmason, director of the film Godland.

Hylnur Palmason brings his third film to Cannes with much anticipation. A stunningly beautiful film, a demanding and complex tale of self-discovery. many themes are the base of the narrative, as he tells us: religion, inner demons, social difference and language barriers.

Godland: In the late 19th century, a Danish priest travels to a remote part of Iceland to build a church and photograph its people. But the further he delves into the landscape, the further he strays from his mission and morality.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Édgar Ramírez, guest of the Filming Italy Sardegna Festival.

To quote a famous 90’s movie, Sliding Doors, there was a moment in Édgar Ramírez’s life where he could have stayed a political journalist instead of pursuing his acting career – the actor reveals during his stay at the 5h edition of Filming Italy Sardegna Festival. He recently was part of the Un Certain regard jury at this year’ Festival de Cannes and this experience gave him a different insight on today’s cinema and film trends.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Cuba Gooding Jr, guest of the Filming Italy Sardegna Festival.

At the 5th edition of Filming Italy Sardegna Festival, Cuba Gooding Jr, among the guests, shares anedoctes and memories from the shooting of Jerry Macguire which got him the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Gooding Jr then also talks about the change in the cinema field, in terms of inclusion and representation.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Shaunak Sen, director of the documentary All that breathes.

By following the life of two brothers who devoted their life to protecting the bird known as the black kite, Shaunak Sen with the documentary All that Breathes, screening at the 75th Festival de Cannes in the Special screenings’ section, manages to explore New Delhi through the skies and more generally, to depict toxicity – in the air and among people.

All that breathes:In one of the world’s most populated cities, cows, rats, monkeys, frogs, and hogs jostle cheek-by-jowl with people. Here, two brothers fall in love with a bird – the black kite. From their makeshift bird hospital in their tiny basement, the “kite brothers” care for thousands of these mesmeric creatures that drop daily from New Delhi’s smog-choked skies. As environmental toxicity and civil unrest escalate, the relationship between this Muslim family and the neglected kite forms a poetic chronicle of the city’s collapsing ecology and rising social tensions.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Serge Bozon, director of the film Don Juan.

It is not the first time that Serge Bozon uses a reverse technique to explore a theme in his films. With Don Juan, screening at the 75th Festival de Cannes in the Cannes Premiere section, the director, following the idea of co-writer Axelle Ropert, tells the story of a reverse Don Juan who gets abandoned by the woman he loves and keeps being seduced and left by every other woman afterwards. The idea is to create a duet between two great actors: Tahar Rahim and Virginie Efira and explore the crisis of a macho version of the male figure.

Don Juan: Jilted on his wedding day, Laurent, a stage actor playing the role of the famous seducer Don Juan, cannot help but see his ex-fiancée in every women he meets. In an attempt to mend his broken heart and ego, he tries to seduce them all but none are receptive to his elaborate (and musical) advances. Meanwhile, at the theater, the leading lady quits and the production brings in Laurent’s ex-fiancée as the replacement.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Mikko Myllylahti, director of the film The Woodcutter Story.

Former screenwriter of The Happiest Day in the Life of Olli Mдki, Mikko Myllylahti, debuts as a director with The Woodcutter Story, an unpredictable philosophical fable about an iper-optimistic woodcutter who teaches us how we should face the adversities life throws at us.

The Woodcutter Story: Pepe is a woodcutter in an idyllic small town in Finland. In the span of a couple of days, a series of tragic events gradually destroys his quiet and happy life – but Pepe seems to be fine with it all. As if he held a secret to existence that is hard to grasp.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Clément Cogitore, director of the film Sons of Ramses.

Magic realism and the energy from a real and live neighborhood in France are the keys for Clément Cogitore’s film in the Semaine de la Critique at the Festival de Cannes 2022. The director explains how he built his protagonist and managed to never judge him despite his behaviour, his scamming people. The film’s original title comes from a neighborhood, La Goutte d’Or, Cogitore once lived in and knows very well.

Sons of Ramses: Ramses is a skillful clairvoyant in the multicultural Parisian district of La Goutte d’Or. When a gang of fearless kids start terrorizing the locals, the balance of his thriving business and of the whole neighborhood is disturbed. Until one day, when Ramses has a real vision.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Chie Hayakawa, director of the film Plan 75.

In her dystopian story about a Plan 75 in Japan that encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society, Chie Hayakawa in the Un Certain Regard section at the 75th Festival de Cannes manages to create a dialogue with today’s world. We have no Plan 75 confirms the director but we all know that the situation towards the elderly people is not looking good. Hayakawa also describes how the pandemic affected her 5 years project development and how the film project was supported by Hirokazu Kore-eda.

Plan 75: In a Japan of the near future, government program Plan 75 encourages senior citizens to be voluntarily euthanized to remedy a super-aged society. An elderly woman whose means of survival are vanishing, a pragmatic Plan 75 salesman, and a young Filipino laborer face choices of life and death.

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