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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Majid Majidi, director of the film Sun Children.

A conversation with Majid Majidi, director of Sun Children, presented in competition at the 77th Venice International Film Festival. In this interview, the filmmaker talks with us about the theme of child labour, which he chose to represent in his latest movie. He also shares with us that the young protagonists of his film are also child workers and it’s worth mentioning that the young lead actor, Rouhollah Zamani, was awarded with the festival’s Marcello Mastroianni award.

Sun Children: This is the story of 12-year-old Ali and his three friends. Together they work hard to survive and support their families, doing small jobs in a garage and committing petty crimes to make fast money. In a turn of events that seems miraculous, Ali is entrusted to find a hidden treasure underground. He recruits his gang, but first, to gain access to the tunnel, the children must enroll at the Sun School, a charitable institution that tries to educate street kids and child laborers, close to where the treasure is located.

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PODCAST | A virtual conversation with the actor Sam Rockwell.

Actor Sam Rockwell is the third international actor to join the Mastercard virtual conversations “Life Through a Different Lens: Contactless Connections” at the 77th Venice Film Festival. In conversation with Francesco Castelnuovo the actor comments on how cinema allowed him to see life through a different lens.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Alessandra Speciale, Head of Final Cut In Venice.

Alessandra Speciale, head of Final Cut in Venice, talks about the projects included in this year’s edition, the criteria of selection and the awards given, in this year of weirdness and necessary changes in the fruition of the event from the film industry.

To discover more about this edition of Final Cut in Venice, click here.

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PODCAST | A virtual conversation with the actress Nadine Labaki.

Filmmaker Nadine Labaki is one of the international guests to join the Mastercard virtual conversations “Life Through a Different Lens: Contactless Connections” at the 77th Venice Film Festival. The director and actress reflects on how cinema can act as an agent for social change.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Valentina Martelli, CEO ITTV Festival.

Valentina Martelli is at Fred Radio to tell us about the ITTV festival of Los Angeles, its reasons and purposes, how they are working to pursue them and which are the new goals that in this strange year the vent has come up with in order to be more relevant and useful to the film community.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Laura Gabrielalaityte, Cultural attaché Lithuanian Institute Of Culture.

We talk with Laura Gabrielalaityte from the Lithuanian Institute of Culture about their presence in Venice for two films in the line up of the festival, and also we discover the activities of the Institute in Italy and abroad.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Chloè Zhao and Frances McDormand, director of the film Nomadland.

In a Zoom conference, Chloè Zhao and Frances McDormand talk about their adventure making Nomadland, film in competition at the 77th Venice International Film Festival.

Nomadland: Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. Nomadland features real nomads Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells as Fern’s mentors and comrades in her exploration through the vast landscape of the American West.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Natalya Vorozhbit, director of the film Bad Roads.

Natalya Vorozhbit the director of Bad Roads tells us about the choice of the four stories that compose the film, the weirdness of a daily life in the war zones, were the army rules and regulate life and travelling, and the violence people get accustomed to.

Bad Roads: Four short stories are set along the roads of Donbass during the war. There are no safe spaces and no one can make sense of just what is going on. Even as they are trapped in the chaos, some manage to wield authority over others. But in this world, where tomorrow may never come, not everyone is defenceless and miserable. Even the most innocent victims may have their turn at taking.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Naián González Norvind, director of the film Nuevo Orden.

Naián González Norvind is among the protagonists of Michel Franco’s Nuevo Orden, in competition at the 77th Venice Film Festival. The actress discusses the film being a warning as what may come if we don’t really start to change. Naián González Norvind also comments on what she said in the press conference, that actors are pieces of a big puzzle directed by Michel Franco.

Nuevo Orden: In this riveting, suspenseful dystopian drama, a lavish upper-class wedding goes awry in an unexpected uprising of class warfare that gives way to a violent coup d’etat. As seen through the eyes of the sympathetic young bride and the servants who work for- and against- her wealthy family, Nuevo Orden breathlessly traces the collapse of one political system as a more harrowing replacement springs up in its wake.

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