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PODCAST |Matt Micucci interviews Laurynas Bareisa, director of the film Pilgrims.

A conversation with Laurynas Bareisa, director of Pilgrims, presented in the Orizzonti section of the 78th Venice Film Festival. The film talks about a man and a woman’s investigation into the final hours of someone close to them, before he was brutally murdered. In this interview, Bareisa talks about some of the film’s main themes, including trauma and closure, as well as the spiritual dimension to its investigative structure and more.

Pilgrims: Indre and Paulius haven’t kept in touch lately; but as his foot is in a cast, she agrees to drive him out to a small town near the airport, where his brother and her boyfriend died. That evening they survey the air terminal where Matas arrived on a late flight. They go into a restaurant to ask for Ieva, who no longer works there. Paulius retraces Matas’ steps through the restaurant to a table where he and Vytenis got into an argument. Next morning an old lady shows them around a big family house for sale but refuses to follow them into the cellar, where they try to line up how the forensic photos on Paulius’ phone were taken. As they emerge, the old lady’s grandson, Jurgis, recognizes them. She kicks them out; but not before Paulius breaks the wing mirror off her car. Martynas arrives to sell a silver grey Audi. Paulius agrees to buy it only after he finds out what it is like to be locked in the trunk, as his brother had been. When they find Ieva working in a furniture store, Paulius demands to know why she did not call the police. The police arrive to arrest him for damaging the old lady’s car. Ieva tells Indre she witnessed what seemed to be only a typical bar fight.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Michel Franco, actors of the film Sundown.

Michel Franbco talks with angelo Acerbi about his film Sundown, in Competition at the 78th edition of Venice Film Festival.

Sundown: From writer-director Michel Franco comes a simmering, suspenseful sharp jolt: Alice and Neil Bennett are the core of a wealthy British family on vacation in Acapulco with younger members Colin and Alexa until a distant emergency cuts their trip short. When one relative disrupts the family’s tight-knit order, surprising tensions rise to the fore.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Isabel Sandoval, director of the film Shangri-la.

Isabel Sandoval comes back to Giornate Degli Autori with a short film included in the series Miu Miu Women’s tales. Shangri-la is a story of inclusion and acceptance, two issues Isabel cherishes and fights for. Lovely as usual, she talks about the reason of the film and the connection of its subject with the philosophy of the fashion brand that promotes the programme the short film is part pof.

Shangri-la: It’s California, during the Great Depression. A woman is confiding her most intimate thoughts in a church confessional, while the man on the other side listens silently and intently. But this is no ordinary religious ritual for seeking salvation. The woman – a second generation Filipino farmhand – is rapt in roleplay reverie, her sensuous words aimed at her white American lover, during a historic period when such interracial relationships were forbidden by state law. The confession box transforms into a romantic time machine, ecstatic and melancholic, traveling into alternate futures. She manifests as multiple, dazzling women, and they can love freely.

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PODCAST |Matt Micucci interviews Kaltrina Krasniqi, director of the film Vera Dreams of the Sea.

A conversation with Kaltrina Krasniqi, director of Vera Dreams of the Sea, presented in the Orizzonti section of the 78th Venice Film Festival. The film revolves around a middle-aged woman named Vera and the bitter dispute over a house following the sudden death of her husband. In this interview, Krasniqi talks about the personal story that inspired the movie, her observations on the role of women in Kosovar society, casting lead actress Teuta Ajdini Jegeni in the role of Vera and more.

Vera Dreams of the Sea: Vera is a middle-aged sign language interpreter, who leads a well-structured life: a wife to a renowned judge, a supportive mother, and a caring grandmother. Her serene life is disrupted by her husband’s suicide followed by an unwelcome, menacing parade of men who claim to have ownership over their village family house. When the tendrils of an underworld scheme begin to surface, Vera’s world will face danger and seem ready to collapse. Fear and mistrust will force Vera to take the family’s fate into her own hands.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Arsalan Amiri and Ida Panahandeh, director and co-writer of the film Zalava.

A conversation with Arsalan Amiri and Ida Panahandeh, respectively director and co-writer of Zalava, the Iranian film presented in the International Critics’ Week section of the 78th Venice Film Festival. In this inteview, they talk about the central themes of superstition and tradition, as well as the troubles of the failure to communicate, and the start of their beginning of their creative partnership, which has lasted 20 years. Amiri also talks about the messages of his movies, making an observation on the fact that the film is as profound as it is entertaining.

Zalava: 1978, in a small village called Zalava, villagers claim that a demon is among them. A young sergeant who investigates the claim crosses paths with an exorcist attempting to evict the demon from the village. He arrests the exorcist on charges of fraud, but suddenly finds himself stuck in a cursed house with his lover. The villagers who believe they are both possessed by the demon, decide to kill them.

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PODCAST | Ilaria Gomarasca interviews Monica Stan and George Chiper-Lillemark, directors of the film Imaculat.

A conversation with Monica Stan & George Chiper-Lillemark, directors of the Romanian film Imaculat settled in a rehab center and based on Monica Stan’s personal experience. Imaculat won the Lion of the Future and the 18th Giornate degli Autori Directors Award.

Imaculat: When young Daria enters rehab to kick the drug habit her first love left her with, her perceived innocence saves her from the sexual advances of the mostly male junkies inside and gains her their protection. Suddenly thrown into the spotlight and enjoying the attention, Daria soon finds out that special treatment comes at a great price.

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PODCAST | Ilaria Gomarasca interviews Dina Amer, director of the film You resemble me.

“This film was created to understand the roots of one woman’s trauma – a journey through layers of disassociation, from the personal and familial to the religious and colonial: a kaleidoscope of splintered identities and fractured dreams”. Director Dina Amer about her film You resemble me presented in Venice at Giornate degli Autori.

You resemble me: Cultural and intergenerational trauma erupt in this story about two sisters on the outskirts of Paris. After the siblings are torn apart, the eldest, Hasna, struggles to find her identity, leading to a choice that shocks the world. Director Dina Amer takes on one of the darkest issues of our time and deconstructs it in an intimate story about family, love, sisterhood, and belonging.

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PODCAST | Live from the 78th Venice Film Festival, it’s the BIG FRED VENICE! A daily journal from the oldest and one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world with news, reviews and all kinds of fun stuff, hosted by Matt Micucci and Angelo Acerbi. In this episode, we talk about some of the major films that have been screening in Venice recently, including: Leave No Traces by Jan P. Matuszyński; America Latina, directed by Damiano and Fabio D’Innocenzo; El Otro Tom, directed by Rodrigo Plá and Laura Santullo, presented in the Orizzonti section; Out of Competition feature The Accusation, starring Charlotte Gainsbourg and more.

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PODCAST | Live from the 78th Venice Film Festival, it’s the BIG FRED VENICE! A daily journal from the oldest and one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world with news, reviews and all kinds of fun stuff, hosted by Matt Micucci and Angelo Acerbi. In this episode, we talk about some of the major films that have been screening in Venice recently, including Gabriele Manetti’s latest film, Freaks Out, featuring an all-star Italian cast; the latest episode in the beloved Halloween horror franchise, Halloween Kills; competition favorite Captain Volkonogov Escaped, directed by Natasha Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov, and more.

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PODCAST |Matt Micucci interviews David Gordon Green, director of the film Halloween Kills.

A conversation with David Gordon Green, director of Halloween Kills, presented out of competition at the 78th Venice Film Festival. This is the middle chapter of his Halloween trilogy, based on the characters co-created by John Carpenter. Here, he talks with us about working within the horror genre and whether he draws inspiration from the news and current events. He also shares his memories of watching the original Halloween movie for the first time and talks about working with Jamie Lee Curtis, who not only appears in this movie but is also receiving a Golden Lion for Career Achievement at the Venice Film Festival this year.

Halloween Kills: The Halloween night when Michael Myers returned isn’t over yet. Minutes after Laurie Strode, her daughter Karen and granddaughter Allyson left masked monster Michael Myers caged and burning in Laurie’s basement, Laurie is rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries, believing she finally killed her lifelong tormentor. But when Michael manages to free himself from Laurie’s trap, his ritual bloodbath resumes. As Laurie fights her pain and prepares to defend herself against him, she inspires all of Haddonfield to rise up against their unstoppable monster.

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