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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Sabrina Sarabi, director of the film Prelude.

Sabrina Sarabi presents to Fred Film Radio her film at the Torino Festival; the story of a young pianist trying to affirm himself and to be admitted in a prestigious school in USA. But his passion is a cage and freeing himself from it will make his world crumble.

Prelude: The story of piano student David, who hurls himself into the world of music and into his first love. Full of zest for life but with growing pressure, he soon begins to lose control.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Jing Haase, from Swedish Film Institute.

Jing Haase is the head for short films at the Swedish Film Institute, and a real passionate about short films. We talked about this passion and how she uses it for her work; she told us about the situation of short film production in Sweden and how they worked to help it grow.

To discover more about the Torino Short Film Market, click here.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews BFI Short films programmer, Elaine Wong.

Elaine Wong works for the BFI and the London Film Festival as short film programmer and she is also a consultant for VR projects. Let’s hear from her about her work and the activities put in place from the BFI for short film production and diffusion.

To discover more about the Torino Short Film Market, click here.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Programming Consultant, Eihb Collins.

Eibh Collins programs short films for the Galway Film Flare and she is also programmer for the Torino Short filmMarket. We talked about the different approach in programming for the two kind of events, and the world of short films .

To discover more about the Torino Short Film Market, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Bob Byington, director of the film Frances Ferguson.

It is a non judgmental tale about a teacher, making very bad choices because of how unhappy she is with her life: Frances Ferguson by Bob Byington is at the 37th Torino Film Festival in the Festa Mobile section. The director comments on the choice of a female protagonist, played by Kaley Wheless and the idea of having his friend Nick Offerman as the narrator of the events, a voice-over interrupting, intervening, anticipating the happenings in the story.

Frances Ferguson: Frances is substitute teacher with a dead marriage and she is bored and discontent. One day at school, she meets a student and she starts an affair with him, which of course she gets nabbed for. She pays the price: an arrest, a trial, incarceration. And then a new identity, one that’s not terribly comfortable. Based on actual events.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Bruce McDonald, director of the film Dreamland.

Bruce McDonald knows his last film Dreamland is weird and with a strange narrative pace, not always narratively clear but fascinating. If you let your mind go with it and follow its rhythm is a great film , otherwise it could be more difficult. He knows it , he jokes on this and he explains the reason for this choice.

Dreamland: After getting slighted by a legendary jazz trumpet player, sadistic gang boss Hercules puts his number one enforcer, Johnny Deadeyes, on a mission of revenge. His instructions are simple: cut off the trumpet player’s pinkie finger before he plays a wedding reception. Johnny finds himself getting pushed into dark places: a night club called Al Qaeda, an old-world vampire, a junky child bride and a femme fatale.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Mohammed Hefzy, President of the Cairo International Film Festival.

An interview with the president of the Cairo International Film Festival Mohammed Hefzy, recorded in the midst of the festival’s 2019 edition. Last year, we attended to report and document a session that marked a new beginning for the festival. Hefzy shares with us some of its ambitions and the ways in which that growth and development has manifested. He also talks with us about its importance within the region’s film industry and the ways in which it connects with the local audience. To end it all, he shares with us a thought about the Youssef Cherif Rizkallah, the prominent and deeply influential Egyptian film critic who was a central figure in the history of the Cairo International Film Festival.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Tamara Kotevska, director of the film Honeyland.

Tamara Kotevska glows when she talks about Hatizde, the lead character of her ( and Ljiubo Stefanov’s) film Honeyland. The premises of the film where different but when they met Hatzide and her mother they knew that a new film was coming . Tamara tells Angelo Acerbi, at the European Film awards in Berlin, all the difficulties and complexities both technical and physical to complete the shooting, and how Hatzide’s life is today.

Honeyland:  The last female bee-hunter in Europe must save the bees and return the natural balance in Honeyland, when a family of nomadic beekeepers invade her land and threaten her livelihood.

To discover more about the EFA – European Film Award 2019, click here.

This interview has been recorded during the 32nd EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS ceremony on 7th December 2019 in Berlin. FRED Film Radio is media partner of the event.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Ingvar Sigurðsson, actor of the film A White White Day.

Ingvar Sigurðsson gives a stunning performance as the father in A White,White Day, an Icelandic thriller drama directed by Hlynur Pàlmason ( which won the Best Film award at the Torino Film Festival 2019). He talks with Angelo Acerbi in Berlin at the European Film Awards 2019 about this role, his work with director and friend Pàlmason and how he approaches each character he chooses to play.

A White White Day: In a remote Icelandic town, an off-duty police chief begins to suspect a local man of having had an affair with his late wife, who died in a tragic accident two years earlier. Gradually his obsessions for finding out the truth accumulates and inevitably begins to endanger himself and his loved ones. A story of grief, revenge and unconditional love.

To discover more about the EFA – European Film Award 2019, click here.

This interview has been recorded during the 32nd EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS ceremony on 7th December 2019 in Berlin. FRED Film Radio is media partner of the event.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Beniamino Barrese, director of the film The Disappearance of My Mother.

Beniamino Barrese is the son of Benedetta Barzini, an iconic model of the sixties , a worldly famous face and body, now fiercely critical of the world of image, also her own, and the portrayal of the women body in advertising and fashion. The film was born as a personal diary of the director, with no intentions of making a film. But then things changed and Beniamino tells us how and why.

The Disappearance of My Mother: Benedetta wants to disappear. An iconic fashion model in the 1960s, she became a muse to Warhol, Dali, Penn and Avedon. As a radical feminist in the 1970s, she fought for the rights and emancipation of women. But at the age of 75, she becomes fed up with all the roles that life has imposed upon her and decides to leave everything and everybody behind, to disappear to a place as far as possible from the world she knows. Hiding behind the camera, her son Beniamino witnesses her journey. Having filmed her since he was a child in spite of all her resistance, he now wants to make a film about her, to keep her close for as long as possible – or, at least, as long as his camera keeps running.

To discover more about the EFA – European Film Award 2019, click here.

This interview has been recorded during the 32nd EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS ceremony on 7th December 2019 in Berlin.  FRED Film Radio is media partner of the event.

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