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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Fedra Fateh, deputy festival director of Torino Film Festival.

Fedra Fateh, deputy director of the Torino Film Festival, is a lawyer that chose gender equality as one of the aims of her work. In connection with her commitment at Torino Film Festival, she launched a campaign for a worldwide recognition and acknowledgment of women rights and equality called The Lady Boss campaign. Check about it on instagram and facebook, but first listen to her telling us about the reasons, the motivations and the actions that the campaign will bring on.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Raffaella Delvecchio, production manager of Apulia Film Commission, and Nevina Satta, director of Sardegna Film Commission.

Raffaella Delvecchio of Apulia Film Commission and Nevina Satta of Sardegna Film Commission join AngeloAcerbi for a chat on the way to promote the territory, which intentions and ideals hide behind this and the way that a territory can be used in narrating stories for cinema, using the example of a special person and film director who worked in both regions, Valentina Pedicini, who suddenly passed away some days ago.

To discover more about Apulia Film Commission activities, click here.

To discover more about Sardegna Film Commission activities, click here.

This interview was recorded during the 38th edition of Turin Film Festival, in partnership with the Italian Film Commissions Association and with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Rezwan Shahriar Sumit, director of the film The Salt in Our Waters. 

Rezwan Shahriar Sumit directs a lean and poetic film, where art and superstition clash, where nature rules but it is Allah that rules everything anyway, where simple people can be manipulated and where life is anyway happy and simple, too. The film has been selected for and developed through the Audience Design program of the Torino Film Lab.

The Salt in Our Waters: For his latest art installation, Rudro journeys to a remote mangrove isle on the Bangladeshi Delta, a day’s boat ride and a world away from modern, crowded Dhaka. Welcomed by the local fishermen and their leader Chairman, Rudro’s modern ideas and lifelike sculptures enchant the village boys and his landlord’s daughter. But when the local Ilish catch proves elusive, the elders blame Rudro’s “idolatry” for the curse of empty nets. In this vanishing land where sea and sky merge, a storm is brewing and change – welcome or not – is coming.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri, directors of the film This Is My Desire. 

A conversation with Arie Esiri and Chuko Esiri, directors of This Is My Desire from the 2020 Torino Film Festival. In this interview, they share the motivations that drive their filmmaking. They also talk about how they wanted to humanize the theme of migration via their work, the importance of observation in their process, the reason behind their shooting This Is My Desire on 16mm film and more.

This Is My Desire: Mofe and Rosa live in Lagos. He works in a factory; she is a hairdresser. They want to emigrate in the hope of finding a better life abroad than the one they have in Nigeria. But destiny seems to thwart their plans and when their dream evaporates, they are forced to reconsider the possibility of constructing their longed-for future at home. From Nigeria, a powerful debut in which drama, but also patience and the ability to come up with solutions, take on the form of daily life.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Mian Mian Lu, director of the film Mickey on the Road. 

A conversation with Mian Mian Lu, director of Mickey on the Road, presented at the 30th Torino Film Festival. The film talks about two young women who set off from Taiwan to China, one in search of her boyfriend, the other in search of her father. In this interview, Mian Mian Lu talks about the origins of her interest in cinema, as this is her feature debut. She also talks about several of the themes explored in the movie, including gender, the contrast of modernity and tradition, and more.

Mickey on the Road: Taiwan. Mickey and Gin Gin are best friend. Mickey looks after her depressed mother and spends her free time at the temple, trying to join the all-male martial art group. Gin Gin, more impulsive, makes money dancing in nightclubs. When Gin Gin came up with a plan to meet Jay in Guangzhou, China, Mickey decide to devote herself finding her father, who abandoned her and her mother years before. Facing sometimes comic and sometimes brutal situations, Mickey and Gin Gin strenghten their friendship and achive a mature self-awareness.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Fedra Fateh, deputy festival director of Torino Film Festival.

Fedra Fateh is the Deputy Director of Torino Film Festival 38. She organized three masterclasses on how cinema can change (and must change) the world. We talk with her about the last two masterclasses (with Moshen Makmalbaf, and Water Murch and Taghi Amirani) to dig into this statement and how her guests delivered it.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Maria Komninos, head of the Greek Film Archive.

Maria Komninos, head of the Greek Film Archive, talks with us about the restoration of long-lost film, The Apaches of Athens, a landmark Greek film recently screened in the Limited Edition of the Pordenone Silent Film Festival. Originally released in 1930, this is a landmark film in Greek film history, though it was lost for several decades. Komninos talks about what makes this film so important and takes us through the process that it led to its return to cinema screens. She also talks about the Greek Film Archive and comments on today’s challenges of the film preservation sector.

The Apaches of Athens: Oi Apachides ton Athinon [The Apaches of Athens] is the first screen adaptation of an operetta by Nikos Hadjiapostolou (libretto by Yannis Prineas) that premiered on 19 August 1921 to wild acclaim and remains celebrated for its revolutionary populist treatment of working-class characters – “Apaches” in this case comes from the French term for members of an underworld subculture of the period. The film takes liberties with the operetta plot while notably incorporating atmospheric scenes of daily life in Athens circa 1930.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Nisan Dağ, director of the film When I’m Done Dying.

A conversation with Nisan Dağ, director of When I’m Done Dying, presented at the 2020 Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival. The film explores the hip-hop culture of the slums of Istanbul, Turkey. In this interview, she talks about the significance of hip-hop in contemporary Turkey and her own connection with this culture. She also talks about her background in documentary and animation, how these experiences shaped When I’m Done Dying, and more.

When I’m Done Dying: Set in a rough neighbourhood of Istanbul, the story follows Fehmi (Oktay Çubuk), a talented 19-year-old rapper who is addicted to bonzai, a cheap synthetic and deadly drug, jeopardizing any success for his music career. Fehmi will cross paths with Devin (Hayal Köseoğlu), a 25-year-old upperclass DJ, who is also a lost soul. They will fall hard for each other, and by spending time together, they will find love and the inspiration they were lacking, which will be expressed through music. However, the simultaneously passionate and troubling relationship between this odd couple will soon become quite toxic.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Fedra Fateh, deputy festival director of Torino Film Festival.

Fedra Fateh , deputy director of the Torino Film Festival talks with Angelo Acerbi about the choice of Isabella Rossellini for the Stella Della Mole Award – why she is the right woman and artist to deserve it – and about the tribute that will be aired on November 27 on YouTube in her honour, with guests such as David Lynch and Guy Maddin.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Fedra Fateh, deputy festival director of Torino Film Festival.

Fedra Fateh beside being the Deputy Director of the Torino Film Festival is a lawyer, dedicated also to gender equality and human rights, In this first meeting with her, we start talking about the Women In Film masterclass, to then widen the talk to women misrepresentation in society and the critical situation about the perception of the body and the role of women in our capitalistic world, that creates an image of women objectifying the body completely and inoculating the concept of absolute beauty.

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