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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Lungyin Lim, director of the film Ohong Village.

The beauty of a fisherman village is the landscape where the story of Ohong Village develops, where the fights and the tensions between father and son, modernity and past, explode. Lungyin Lim directs the film with firm hand and with a clear aesthethic that pervades all the film.

Ohong Village: In the remotest corner of southern Taiwan, the sinking fisherman’s village prepares for another carnival for the god. Sheng, young man reaching his thirties that departed years ago, now returns in disguise as an established urban elite. As the carnival escalates, Sheng confronts his persistent father Ming who farms oysters throughout his entire life, and Kun, the childhood buddy who always envies his fragile “successfulness”.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Hoping Chen, editor of the film Wet Season.

Hoping Chen, editor of Wet Season by Anthony Chen, talks with FRED Film Radio from the Torino Film Festival about her role in the creative creation of the film, her way of working with the director and how important this connection is if you are a creative and narrative editor.

Wet Season: It is monsoon season in Singapore and the city is pouring with rain. Wet Season follows the light of Ling, a Chinese language teacher, whose marriage and school life are fraying apart because she is unable to bear a child. But an unlikely friendship with a student helps her reaffirm her identity as a woman.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews festival programmers Annina Wettsein, Vladimir Perisic and Severine Petit, during the second part of the Special about Documentary, recorded at the 37th Torino Film Festival.

Annina Wettsein (from Doc Leipzig and Rotterdam), Vladimiri Perisic (from festival of Authors Films in Belgrade) and Severine Petit (from Torino Film Festival) talk with Angelo Acerbi about their method in selecting films, about the needs that every festival has and the aim to pursue them when programming.

This interview has been recorded during the 37th Torino Film Festival, in collaboration with the Italian Film Commission Association, with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Lucio Castro, director of the film End of the Century.

Lucio Castro penned his first feature with a very personal and daring approach, getting to create a true story, a universal tale about love and chances and choices in life, a sliding doors kind of tale. He tells Angelo Acerbi about the great actors he was lucky to have and his inspiration in terms of the looks of his film.

End of the Century: An Argentinian man from New York and a Spanish man from Berlin hook up by chance while in Barcelona. What seems like a one-night encounter between two strangers becomes an epic, decades-spanning relationship, in which time and space refuse to play by the rules.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Gianluca Matarrese, director of the film Everything Must Go.

At the 37th Torino Film Festival, italian but Paris-based Director Gianluca Matarrese presents Everything Must Go in the TFF doc section. The film started as a documentary on the effects of the economical crisis in Italy and it slowly but passionately became a very personal film about the professional and working history of a family. By filming his parents and sister trying to survive the falling of an empire, Gianluca Matarrese comes back home physically and emotionally and realizes a universal film about fathers and sons, sisters and brothers, falling down and getting back on your feet again.

Everything Must Go: Founded in the early 1980s, the shoe cooperative Togo numbered over thirty stores in Turin and its province. Until 2012, when that dream and that empire began to crumble. Today, all that remain are two stores and 450,000 euros in debt. Every morning, my parents and my sister wake up and don’t know how they will cope. When I realized the disaster, I joined them and witnessed the explosion of malaise which, for years, I had pretended didn’t exist.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Eran Riklis, director of the film Spider In The Web.

Eran Riklis is at the 37th Torino Film Festival as juror of the official competition Torino 37. The Israeli director is also presenting, in the Festa Mobile section, his latest film Spider In The Web, starring Ben Kingsley and Monica Bellucci. As it is a spy story depicting a Mossad agent at the end of his career who doesn’t want to retire, the film is exploring the relationship between the old and the new wondering what we can learn from who’s ahead of us in terms of age and expertise and viceversa. Eran Riklis comments his casting choices starting from Ben Kingley to Itay Tiran and Monica Bellucci.

Spider In The Web: Surrounded by lies and deceit, veteran secret agent, Adereth, can no longer distinguish between enemy and ally. Corruption is detected in the production of Syrian chemical weapons and after a shocking kidnap, Adereth is brought in for one final mission. With the help of his accomplice, Daniel, Adereth searches for answers and soon forges a relationship with Angela. But when the mysterious woman appears and the lines of trust with his superiors begin to blur, Adereth realises the hunter may become the hunted in a world of mirrors and deceit.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Kire Paputts, director of the film The Last Porno Show.

Kire Paputts tells Angelo Acerbi all the work behind his first feature and the reasons too tell such a story, mixing family memories, father figures and porn films. A deep and heartfelt film, to be watched. Being the writer, producer and director of it, Paputts had to go through many dramas and problems in the making, as most of independent filmmakers had.

The Last Porno Show: Wayne, an amateur method actor, inherits the city’s last adult cinema from his estranged father Al. Seeing this as an unconventional opportunity to reconcile with the father he barely knew, Wayne absorbs himself in the underworld of the adult cinema business.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Kelly Copper and Pavor Liska, directors of the film Die Kinder Der Toten.

Die Kinder Der Toten is as unpredictable as its producer, austrian director Ulrich Seidl. Directors Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper, at the Torino Film Festival 2019 where the film is showcased in the After hours section, talk about its genesis from the book by Nobel prize winner Elfriede Jelinek. The directors explain how they turned all that creative freedom in a crazy unpredictable silent horror film.

Die Kinder Der Toten: The Holocaust in an undead version set in Tyrol, with zombie Nazis and Jews. The two directors, the founders of the Nature Theater of Oklahoma, adapt the same-titled novel by Elfriede Jelinek (the Nobel prize for literature in 2004) without ever having read the book: the result is a silent horror movie in 16mm with subtitles, in which very black humor helps “freeze” and strengthen the tragedy. The FIPRESCI prize at the Forum in Berlin. Produced by Ulrich Seidl.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Harry Cepka and Grace Glowicki, director and actress of the film Raf.

After the TIFF, at the 37th Torino Film Festival, Harry Cepka brings his first feature film, his thesis film Raf with Grace Glowicki playing Raf and Jesse Stanley in the role of Tal, the intoxicating woman, the protagonist Raf becomes friends with. The director and his best friend, actress Grace Glowicki comment on how the film depicts the power dynamics in a friendship and how a person’s character can be shaped by the people they surround themselves with.

Raf: A techno-laced exploration of a tumultuous friendship from its giddy beginning to its sudden end. In the twilight of her 20s, Raf works two jobs and spends her free time playing boardgames with her boyfriend’s roommates. Privately, she fantasizes of a life of performance and dance clubs. Over the course of several charged encounters, she becomes friends with a charismatic and wealthy woman named Tal. Raf becomes infatuated with Tal’s take-no-prisoners lifestyle. With Tal as her guide, Raf begins to see a new vision of herself, until a humiliating weekend at Tal’s country home reveals the true power balance between them.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Corneliu Poromboiu, director of the film La Gomera.

After Cannes 2019′ success, Corneliu Poromboiu brings his La Gomera at the 37th Torino Film Festival in the Festa Mobile section. Accompanied by his “dark lady” Catrinel Marlon, the rumenian director reveal the genesis of the film and the idea of building a film around “silbo”, a strange and whistled language people speak in a small island close to Tenerife, La Gomera. By homaging the classics of the thriller and noir genre, Poromboiu creates a neo-noir film with a touch of irony and comedy.

La Gomera: A corrupt Romanian policeman is in a big mess; he travels to a small island in the Canaries (the one in the title) in the company of a femme fatale to learn a strange language made of whistles which he intends to use as a code during a crime. The craftiest and most ironical director of the Romanian Nouvelle Vague creates a surreal, noir, and melodramatic comedy with masterly disenchantment, framing his story with music that ranges from The Passenger to the Radetzky March.

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