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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Matt Carter, Alexander King, Ivan Comisso, director and actors of the film In From The Side.

Matt Carter, director of In From The Side, and his actors Alexander King and Ivan Comisso have a fun chat at the Lovers Film Festival in Torino, where the film opened the festival. From the laws ( not rules) of rugby, for. the universal rules of love and of cheating, to the camaraderie and the sense of family that rugby brings forward and promotes, all is touched in this conversation. the guys are fun and sweet, as the film is.

In From The Side: The lives of a London gay rugby team, both on and off the pitch, are explored in this assured feature which reveals the many different games that people play. Two men in a gay men’s rugby club must conceal an adulterous affair they unwittingly fall into before it leads to the collapse of the delicate social and political fabric of the club.

Director Matt Carter, producer Andrew Faure, screenwriters Matt Carter, Adam Silver, with Alexander Lincoln, Alexander King, Will Hearle.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Peter McDowell, director of the film Jimmy in Saigon.

Filmmaker Peter Mcdowell have been wanting to find the truth over his brother’s death in Saigon for 12 years and now the result of his cinematic journey is Jimmy in Saigon, screening at the 37th Lovers Film Festival in the Real Lovers’ section. By interviewing the members of his family and some old friends of his brother, Mcdowell built his film little by little letting the emotions take over the mystery elements. As Tara Judah wrote in her review on ScreenDaily “Peter and his film are fuelled by the drive to make historical amends; to give visibility to queer love kept secret” and the Lovers Film Festival is the right place to celebrate this life and love.

Jimmy in Saigon: Jimmy was a boy who left for the Vietnam War and died under unclear circumstances in Saigon in 1972. His younger brother Peter McDowell, director of the documentary, was only five when Jimmy died and from that moment the whole family stopped talking about him. The documentary is the result of a 10-year effort to break the silence and the shame that was spinning around the figure of Jimmy. Through old photographs, letters and interviews with Jimmy’s closest friends, the director manages to bring an almost forgotten queer existance back to life.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Horacio Alcalà, director of the film Finlandia.

“The earthquake is the central character of the film”says Horacio Alcalà, director of Finlandia, screening in the All the Lovers section at the 37th Lovers Film Festival in Turin. After discovering the existence of the Muxes of Oaxaca, people living their life in a third genre, not recognizing themselves as men or women. Alcalà explains how he developed the idea of the earthquake linking two places together through its effects and at the same time the saying that Earthquakes are the way in which the Earth can free itself of its ghosts.

Finlandia: A devastating heartquake hits Oaxaca. After that, nothing will be the same for the lives of the Muxes, the so-called third gender.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Jude Law, Eddie Redmayne, Mads Mikkelsen, actors of the film Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore.

We will feel a bit nostalgic while watching the third chapter of the Fantastic Beasts series of films set in the Wizarding World created by JK Rowling. By unveiling the past and secrets of Albus Dumbledore, we will get the chance of going virtually back to Hogwarts again and better understand how he became the wise wizard we have grown to love in the Harry Potter movies. Played by Jude Law, Dumbledore will have to face the consequences of his love and relationship with the now villain Grindelwald ( Mikkelsen) while Newt Scamander will become a leader of the team trying to defeat him. Listen to the extract from the press conference where Jude Law, Mads Mikkelsen and Eddie Redmayne talk about their approach to the story.

Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore: Warner Bros. Pictures’ Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore is the newest adventure in the Wizarding World created by J.K. Rowling. Professor Albus Dumbledore (Jude Law) knows the powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Mads Mikkelsen) is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone, he entrusts Magizoologist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) to lead an intrepid team of wizards, witches and one brave Muggle baker on a dangerous mission, where they encounter old and new beasts and clash with Grindelwald’s growing legion of followers. But with the stakes so high, how long can Dumbledore remain on the sidelines? The film features an ensemble cast, including Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything), two-time Oscar nominee Jude Law (Cold Mountain,The Talented Mr. Ripley), Ezra Miller, Dan Fogler, Alison Sudol, William Nadylam, Callum Turner, Jessica Williams, Victoria Yeates, Poppy Corby-Tuech, Fiona Glascott, Katherine Waterston, Maria Fernanda Cândido, Richard Coyle, Oliver Masucci, Valerie Pachner, Aleksandr Kuznetsov, and Mads Mikkelsen. Fantastic Beasts: The Secrets of Dumbledore was directed by David Yates, from a screenplay by J.K. Rowling & Steve Kloves, based upon a screenplay by J.K. Rowling.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews John Maddend, director of the film Operation Mincemeat.

It looks like a surreal story but it is based on true facts, Operation Mincemeat, directed by John Madden. The film had its world premiere in Malaga, its italian premiere in Bari at the Bif&st and will be released in theatres in May 12 with Warner Bros. The director confirms the film served also as an origin story to Ian Fleming’s James Bond/007. Operation Mincemeat oddly sees the participation of two formers Mr Darcy(s), Firth and Matthew Macfadyen and manages to build the suspence even though you can read from history books how the Operation ended, during World War II.

Operation Mincemeat: It’s 1943. The Allies are determined to break Hitler’s grip on occupied Europe and plan an all-out assault on Sicily; but they face an impossible challenge – how to protect a massive invasion force from potential massacre. It falls to two remarkable intelligence officers, Ewen Montagu (Colin Firth) and Charles Cholmondeley (Matthew Macfadyen), to dream the most inspired and improbable disinformation strategy of the war – centred on the most unlikely of secret agents: a dead man.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Justin Benson and Aaron Moorhead, directors of the series Moon Knight.

Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead are the co-directors with Mohamed Diab of the new Marvel Series Moon Knight, on Disney+ from March 30th. Impersonated by Oscar Isaac, Moon Knight struggles with Dissociative Identity Disorder which results in a double personality and Isaac playing two different characters, Steven Grant and Marc Spector. As Egyptian Director Mohamed Diab pointed out, this character’s inner conflict is actually visual so Justin Benson & Aaron Moorhead unveil how they worked on “directing” this struggle with Diab while mixing their expertise on psychilogical thriller and horrors with the attentive look on Egyptian Culture brought by Diab.

Moon Knight : Exclusively for Disney+, comes the all-new, original, live-action series Moon Knight, starring Oscar Isaac, Ethan Hawke and May Calamawy. The story follows Steven Grant, a mild-mannered man who lives a mundane life, plagued by blackouts and mysterious memories of a life somehow separate from his own. After one fateful encounter, Steven discovers that he has Dissociative Identity Disorder and shares a body with Marc Spector – a former mercenary and the ruthless avatar of Khonshu, the Egyptian god of the moon and vengeance. With their enemies converging upon them, Steven must learn how to adapt to this revelation and work with Marc. With other godly motives at play, the two must navigate their complex identities amid a deadly battle played out among the powerful gods of Egypt.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Pascal Diot, director of the European Coproduction Forum.

A tired but happy Pascal Diot talks with Angelo Acerbi about the outcomes of the European Co-Production Forum, again finally in person. We discuss some of the most interesting issues that raised from the panels and we get a feel of the atmosphere in the contemporary film and tv European industry.

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PODCAST | Cristiana Palmieri interviews Eddie Tamir, artistic director of the Jewish International Film Festival.

Artistic director Eddie Tamir unpacks the program, talking about the opening night and the closing night films and everything else in between. This year the program has a strong focus on heroes of change, including Sigmund Freud, Simone Veil, Helmut Newton, and many more. It’s an extraordinary arts-themed cinema on the big screen: prominent Jewish writers, Amos Oz and Saul Bellow, are profiled in two warts-and-all documentaries, alongside two very different musical superstars: Tiny Tim and Leonard Cohen.

The Jewish International Film Festival opened nationally on March 2nd and runs until April 3rd in Sydney, Melbourne, Perth, Brisbane, Canberra, and for the first time also in Surfers Paradise. The program includes 55 premiere films from 20 countries, alongside a program of live music, comedy, cabaret and theatre.

To discover more about the Festival, click here.

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PODCAST | The WICIP podcast is the official podcast of the WICIP project – Women in Italian Cinema, an Inclusive Project – the first international project aimed at promoting Italian cinema written, produced, and directed by women, which is also available in an accessible version. It was selected as a Special Project by the Italian Ministry of Culture.

The mission of the project is to showcase women’s talent in cinema and promote Women Empowerment in an inclusive format.

One of the main goals of WICIP is to emphasise the importance of making films accessible to people with sensory disabilities according to the inclusivity standards now followed in many countries around the world. One in six people, at some point in their lives, will become sensory impaired; therefore, one of the primary aims of WICIP – in addition to drawing the attention of institutions, of the world of culture and entertainment and of audiences to female talent – is social inclusion. Thus, all the films selected by WICIP will be fully accessible, with subtitles for the deaf and hard-of-hearing and audio descriptions for the blind and visually impaired.

To discover more about WICIP project and next events, click here.

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Project organisation by:
L’AGE D’OR – Italian film production company, also active in the field of social cultural projects.

in collaboration with SUB-TI ACCESS – Italian company which deals with cultural accessibility and is in charge of creating accessible content for the films included in the project.

Technical partners include:

EARCATCH – provides the ‘second screen’ app, thanks to which blind and visually impaired people will be able to attend screenings by downloading the audio description onto their smartphones, which will automatically synchronise with the film soundtrack.

MyMovies – the project partner streaming platform, where virtual screenings and events will be made available.

Local partners include:
Cinema Italia UK, the Italian company Zerilli Marimò in New York, the association WILL Women in Leadership in Latin America, the Argentinean film directors’ association PCI, the human rights festival One World in Slovakia, the movie theatre chain Movingstory in Australia, the GALMA Galician Observatory for Media Accessibility in Spain, the Italian film festival of Toulouse in France, the Bozar cultural centre in Brussels. 
Academic partners include:
The University of Nitra in Slovakia, the University of Vigo in Spain, the University of Pennsylvania in the United States, the University of Sydney in Australia and the University of Surrey in the United Kingdom.

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PODCAST | Matteo Ghidoni interviews Il Volo, singers of Il Volo Sings Morricone.

The Italian operatic pop trio talks about their new album entirely dedicated to the Maestro Ennio Morricone. “It’s the first time somebody sings the words on some the Morricone’s soundtracks. The words for the songs have been written but Andrea Morricone, son of the late Maestro. It’s an honor for us touring the world with this unique music and giving the voice to such a great piece of musical art. We all know Morricone’s soundtracks, but touring with them all over the USA, singing the melodies accompanied by actual words in front of an international audience, is a real sensation”.

Created and organized by Agnus Dei di Tiziana Rocca and the Italian Institute of Culture Los Angeles. Filming Italy – Los Angeles promotes Italy as a film set and bridge between Italian and American culture. The Festival, whose artistic direction is entrusted to Tiziana Rocca, is presented under the auspices of the Consulate General of Italy in Los Angeles and will see the presence of Consul General Silvia Chiave.

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