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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Selman Nacar, director of the film Between Two Dawns.

Selman Nacar has a law education and a passion for the issues of responsibility, guilt and redemption. In Between Two Dawns he treats all of them in a movie about a moral dilemma his lead character has to face. He explains his approach to the story and to the directorial choices in this chat with Angelo Acerbi.

Between Two Dawns: After a serious accident involving a worker in the family business, Kadir is forced to make a moral decision that will have a strong impact on his projects, on the lives of his loved ones and on that of the wife of the injured worker.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Micaela Gonzalo, director of the film La Chica Nueva.

Micaela Gonzalo talks about her intentions while filming La Chica Nueva, in competition at Torino Film Festival 39. She had a clear idea of the issues she wanted to address and the kind of film making she needed to perform in order to get that result. Let’s hear it form her voice.

La Chica Nueva: Jimena travels to Río Grande, on the island of Tierra del Fuego, the extreme south of Argentina, on a quest to join her half-brother Mariano. She has almost no money for her ticket but manages to finally arrive there, with the hope she will do better in that manufacturing region. The wind, the cold and the complex economic crisis form the background in which Jimena will develop her empathy and sense of belonging with regards to the people around her, as well as where she will learn to acknowledge and finally accept herself.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Garth Jennings, director of the film Sing 2.

Having a chat with Garth Jennings is a pleasure. He talks about his new animated film Sing 2 with such passion and fun that you cannot feel the same way. He tells us about the creativity and the expertise of his collaborators, about the musical choices and the new characters in a film that is a feast for the eyes and the heart.

Sing 2 : In Sing 2, Buster Moon and his cast of underdogs push their talents beyond their local theater, hoping for a shot to perform at the most prestigious venue in the entertainment capital of the world: The Crystal Tower Theater in glamorous Redshore City. But with no connections, they’ll first have to sneak into Crystal Entertainment Offices and impress the powerful and egotistical entertainment mogul — and likely gangster— wolf, Jimmy Crystal, to prove that they are worthy of his stage. Crystal will let them perform, on the condition that Buster convince the world’s most reclusive rock legend, lion Clay Calloway, out of his self-imposed seclusion after the death of his wife and persuade him to perform in the show.

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PODCAST| Cristiana Palmieri interviews Blerta Basholli, director and screenwriter of the film Hive.

Director and screenwriter Blerta Basholli shares with FRED that when she became familiar with Fahrije Hoti’s story she felt overwhelmed by the tenacity and the courage of this indomitable woman. Despite being a story profoundly rooted in the Kossovo’s culture and history, Hive is a universal powerful story.

Hive : The debut feature by Kosovo-born filmmaker Blerta Basholli is inspired by real-life beekeeper Fahrije Hoti. Seven years after Fahrije’s husband went missing in the Kosovo War, she is struggling to provide for her two children. Her plan to establish a women’s co-operative and sell ajvar (pepper relish) is met with scorn by men in her village. In this patriarchal place, a woman’s morals can be questioned for even the slightest show of independence. But Fahrije is no ordinary woman.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Srđan Keča, director of the documentary Museum of the Revolution.

A conversation with Srđan Keča, director of Museum of the Revolution, a new documentary presented at IDFA 2021. The film observes the life of marginalized people living on the old ruins of a ambitious title building, which was never completed. In this interview, Keča discusses the intersection of history and contemporary times, the dangers of gentrification and how he was able to establish a relationship with both the location and the protagonists of his documentary.

Museum of the Revolution : “The wind got up in the night and took our plans away,” reads the proverb in the opening titles of Museum of the Revolution. The words are a reference to the 1961 plan to build a grand museum in Belgrade as a tribute to Socialist Yugoslavia. It was supposed to “safeguard the truth” about the Yugoslav people. But the plan never got beyond the construction of the basement. The derelict building now tells a very different story from the one envisioned by the initiators 60 years ago. In the damp, pitch-dark building live the outcasts of a society reshaped by capitalism. The film focuses on a girl who earns a little cash on the street by cleaning car windows with her mother. The girl has a close friendship with an old woman who also lives in the basement. Against the background of a transforming city, the three women find refuge in each other.

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PODCAST| Matt Micucci interviews Christian Bräuer, President of CICAE.

A conversation with Christian Bräuer, President of CICAE, the International Confederation of Arthouse Cinemas. Here, Bräuer talks about the history and mission statement of CICAE and talks about this year’s edition of the European Arthouse Cinema Day, organized in partnership with Europa Cinemas, to promote European filmmaking and moviegoing.

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PODCAST| Cristiana Palmieri interviews Tuija Halttunen, director and screenwriter of the film How to Kill a Cloud.

Tuija Halttunen talks about the making of How to kill a cloud, exploring how she deals with the complex issue of science versus ethics, without forcing the audience to take a side. She also explores challenges and opportunities presented by the fascinating process of making the film while immersed in a cultural context that she had never explored before.

How to Kill a Cloud : Hannele Korhonen, a brilliant Finnish scientist, takes on a multimillion-dollar three-year project funded by the United Arab Emirates, to make rain in the desert. Korhonen sees it as an opportunity to further her research into clouds and their behaviour, and to bring about the seemingly impossible. But creating artificial rain may have unforeseen and unwelcome impacts. It soon becomes clear that her sponsors have their own agenda. Caught in a fiendish dilemma between research, finance, politics and ecosystems, Korhonen’s integrity is at risk. A fascinating and highly topical documentary.

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PODCAST| Matt Micucci interviews Robin Petré, director of the film From the Wild Sea.

A conversation with Robin Petré, director of From the Wild Sea. The film was selected as part of the European Film Promotion’s showcase of wide-ranging new films by European women filmmakers, EUROPE! Voices of Women in Film, presente at the 2021 Sydney Film Festival. From the Wild Sea is a documentary exploring the work of marine animal rescue organizations. In this interview, Petré wanting to tell the story from an animal perspective and the importance of style, as well as her personal mission statement as a documentary filmmaker and her thoughts on the current state of the environmentalist plight and battles.

From the Wild Sea: Across Europe’s seas marine life is under pressure from pollution and violent weather fuelled by climate change. Winter is approaching and severe storms are forecast. Volunteers work around the clock to rescue exhausted and injured seals, dolphins and other coastal wildlife. The animals gaze at their rescuers with fear and trepidation, inching away from helping hands, as they undergo rehabilitation. In poetic images, From the Wild Sea captures this troubling scenario, a collision between society and the environment.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Noah Amir Arjomand and Adam Isenberg, directors of the documentary Eat Your Catfish.

A conversation with Noah Amir Arjomand and Adam Isenberg, directors along with Senem Tüzen of a new documentary titled Eat Your Catfish. The film is being presented at this year’s edition of the International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam in the Netherlands and documents the life of a woman left paralyzed and needing 24-hour care by a neuromuscular disease. In this film, we talk about the conception of the project, the protagonist’s initial reaction to the idea, the use of a very specific POV style of filmmaking and more.

Eat Your Catfish : New Yorker Kathryn has the deadly disease ALS and is completely paralyzed. She can only communicate by pointing out letters with her eyes on a special keyboard and she needs 24-hour care. It’s a horrific situation that Kathryn puts into words incisively and pragmatically. The only reason she hasn’t asked to be taken off life support yet, she says, is that she isn’t ready to say goodbye to her children. She wants at least to experience her daughter Minou’s wedding day.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Fatimah Dadzie, director of the documentary Fati’s Choice.

A conversation with Fatimah Dadzie, director of the documentary Fati’s Choice, presented at the 2021 edition of DOK Leipzig. The film tells the story of a Fati, a woman who returns to her Ghanaian village after emigrating to Italy. In this interview, Dadzie talks about her first encounter with Fati and the challenges faced by “returnees,” as well as her own background in filmmaking. The film is part of the Generation Africa initiative, which aims to shine a light on the future of youth in Africa through the topic of migration.

Krai : A beach reminds us of Fati’s recent past. She came to Italy by sea, without papers, pregnant for the fifth time. Longing for her children, she returned to Ghana six months later – without her husband. The people around her can’t understand this decision. “You’ve created a mess,” a friend says. “How do I tell people?” a sister asks. But Fati wants to provide for her family, even though she still has to liberate three of her children from the custody of her in-laws.

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