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PODCAST | Annalisa Sandrelli interviews Yvonne Shelling, English ambassador at the 2019 edition of 28 Times Cinema at Venezia 76.

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The participants of the 28 Times Cinema project introduce themselves.

This project gives the opportunity to 28 young film-lovers, selected through the cinemas of the Europa Cinemas Network, to represent each of the 28 European Countries at the Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica.

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PODCAST | Annalisa Sandrelli interviews Victor Courgeon, French ambassador at the 2019 edition of 28 Times Cinema at Venezia 76.

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The participants of the 28 Times Cinema project introduce themselves.

This project gives the opportunity to 28 young film-lovers, selected through the cinemas of the Europa Cinemas Network, to represent each of the 28 European Countries at the Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica.

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PODCAST | Annalisa Sandrelli interviews Pau Vall Capdet, Spanish ambassador at the 2019 edition of 28 Times Cinema at Venezia 76.

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The participants of the 28 Times Cinema project introduce themselves.

This project gives the opportunity to 28 young film-lovers, selected through the cinemas of the Europa Cinemas Network, to represent each of the 28 European Countries at the Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Matthew Michael Carnahan, Suhail Dabbach and Adam Bessa, director and actors of the film Mosul.

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One of the two Commanders of the Nineveh SWAT Team, Colonel Rayyan, has been shot by ISIS terrorists three times. They’ve killed two of his brothers, kidnapped a third, killed his brothers-in-law, bombed his Father’s home, and shot his sister at his engagement party. Every one of his Men has a similar story of loss. And yet they haven’t stopped fighting once in 5 years. Director Matthew Michael Carnahan and actors Suhail Dabbach, Adam Bessa talk to us about their intense and rewarding experience on the set of Mosul, here out of competition in Venice 76.

Mosul: When ISIS took their homes, families and city, one group of men fought to take it all back. Based on true events, this is the story of the Nineveh SWAT team, a renegade police unit who waged a guerrilla operation against ISIS in a desperate struggle to save their home city of Mosul.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Diego Aparicio interviews Joe Odagiri and Akira Emoto, director and actor of the film They Say Nothing Stays the Same (Aru Sendo No Hanashi).

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Joe Odagiri (Saturday Fiction) talks about his directorial debut, They Say Nothing Stays the Same, alongside lead actor Akira Emoto (Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman). The film was presented at the 16. Giornate degli Autori at the 76. Venice Film Festival.

They Say Nothing Stays the Same (Aru Sendo No Hanashi): Toichi is a boatman who ferries the villagers to a town on the other side of the river. Besides rowing a boat for the villagers all day long, he barely has any communication with others except Genzo, a young neighbor. Upstream, a large bridge is being constructed. Everyone is excited, but Toichi has mixed feelings about it. One day, Toichi meets a mysterious young girl. Since she has no family and no place to go, Toichi lets her stay with him, but this encounter starts to bring about changes in Toichi’s life.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Mantas Kwedaravicius, director of the film Partenonas.

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Director and academic Mantas Kvedaravicius sits down with us in our Venetian studio to talk about what is behind his relentless hand held camera in Partenonas, his first feature film screening in the official selection of the International Critics Week.

Partenonas: In a cheap brothel at the foothills of an Athenian fortress, a man recounts the magnificent events of his life. His search for love and glory is retold and relived by many: a prostitute with an unredeemable past, a gangster haunted by bad luck, an icon painter who has no faith… In one of the stories, the man finds his riches, in another he becomes a vagabond prophet, in yet another he returns home to his wife. Memories betray him, but he knows for sure that in one of these lives, he will be killed.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Oliver Hermanus and Kai Luke Brummer, director and actor of the film Moffie.

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Oliver Hermanus and Kai Luke Brummer are respectively the director and the main actor in Hermanus’ latest work Moffie, screening in Venice 76 in the Orizzonti section.

Moffie: To be a moffie is to be weak, effeminate, illegal. The year is 1981 and South Africa’s white minority government is embroiled in a conflict on the southern Angolan border. Like all white boys over the age of sixteen, Nicholas Van der Swart must complete two years of compulsory military service to defend the Apartheid regime. The threat of communism and “die swart gevaar” (the black danger) is at an all-time high. But that’s not the only danger Nicholas faces. He must survive the brutality of the army—something that becomes even more difficult when a connection is sparked between him and a fellow recruit.

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Annalisa Sandrelli interviews Enrico Pigliacampo about the Live Text Access (LTA), project for real-time subtitling through respeaking and velotiping.

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Enrico Pigliacampo talks about Live Text Access (LTA), project co-funded by the ERASMUS+ programme of the EU. LTA is a strategic partnership addressing inclusion and innovation in higher education with a focus on three European priorities: development of curricula to meet labour market and societal needs, open education in the digital era and social inclusion.

Purpose of this project to train velotipest and re-speakers through the creation of open-source teaching materials available to all, which will be possible to consult directly from internet. Enrico tells us what is meant by respeakers and velotiper and what they foresee their work in particular.

The project has a balanced participation of three universities SDI, UAB and SSML, two accessibility service providers Sub-Ti Access and Velotype, one production company ZDF Digital, one certification association ECQA and one end user associations EFHOH.

For more information about Live Text Access (LTA) project, click here.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Mads Brugger, director of the film Cold Case Hammarskjold

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Mads Brugger’s latest film, Cold Case Hammarskjöld, is one of this year’s finalists for the LUX Prize and we caught up with the director to talk about it at the 2019 Venice International Film Festival. Brugger, who previously made the acclaimed 2011 film The Ambassador, returns to the Africa here to investigate on the mysterious death of Secretary-General of the United Nations, Dag Hammarskjold. In this interview, Brugger talks about his reasons for wanting to pursue this topic as well as the extent to which his fascination with fictional elements of mystery thriller novels influence his works and ambitions as a documentarian, among other things.

Cold Case Hammarskjold: Danish director Mads Brügger and Swedish private investigator Goran Bjorkdahl are trying to solve the mysterious death of Dag Hammarskjold. As their investigation closes in, they discover a crime far worse than killing the Secretary-General of the United Nations.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Gabriele Fabbro, director of the shortfilm 8.

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The Italian born, US based director Gabriele Fabbro stops by our studios in Venice to talk about his short film 8, shown here at the 76th edition of the Mostra Internazionale del Cinema di Venezia.

8: 8 is a narrative short film about a selfish and sexist billiard player that, while hustling for living, struggles to seduce a quiet woman pool master inside an isolated saloon in New Mexico.

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