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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Marie Grahto, Lisa Carlehed and Victoria Carmen Sonne, director and actors of the film Psychosia. 

Director Marie Grahto talks about her feature debut, Psychosia, presented at the Venice International Film Critics’ Week from the 2019 Venice International Film Festival. Joining her are the two main actors in the film: Lisa Carlehed and Victoria Carmen Sonne. Together, the three guests talk about the film, its themes of desire and boundaries and more.

Psychosia: Viktoria is an odd and extremely self-disciplined researcher in the field of suicide. She is invited to a psychiatric ward to treat the suicidal patient Jenny. Through intimate night conversations, they form a tight bond. Viktoria slowly opens up to experience closeness with another person for the first time in her life, but the closer the two women get, the more it becomes clear that something is not as it seems.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews 3D animator Craig Caton.

Craig Caton was in Venice to hold two masterclasses, thanks to the New York Film Academy, at Giornate Degli Autori. In this interview with Angelo Acerbi he tells some funny facts about E.T., Jurassic Park and some professional suggestions he tells his students.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Mattie Do, director of the film The Long Walk.

Mattie Do explains her vision for the film, in the tradition of Laotian films Asian films in general. She wanted to do a film outside of the box of what was expected, and she mixed traditional stories with modernity and a pinch of science fiction.

The Long Walk: An old man walks the dusty roads between his isolated farm and the nearby rural village in the company of a silent spirit whose death he witnessed fifty years earlier. For decades, the old man’s regret over losing his mother to tuberculosis has bred a pathological need to ease the suffering of the terminally ill, and over the years, he has quietly euthanized several sick women. As he realizes that his spectral companion is able to transport him back in time, the old man trespasses into his own past to set in motion a plan to convince his younger self to preempt his mother’s terminal suffering.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Tim Robbins, director of the film 45 Seconds of Laughter.

Tim Robbins is a nice man, a great actor and a committed director. All this shows in his documentary about the workshop The Actor’s Gang he brought in a maximun security jail in California. The simplicity of the film lets the powerful message of self-awareness and love spread out in all its strength. He has a mission of making lives of incarcerated men better through making them rejoin their inner selves. And it works.

45 Seconds of Laughter: A group of incarcerated men from Calipatria State Prison participate in a theatrical workshop with Tim Robbins’ theatre company, The Actors’ Gang. Defying racial barriers and gang affiliations, the men tap into emotions that have long been dormant while unexpected bonds emerge between former enemies. Using stock characters from the Commedia dell’Arte, the men struggle with the challenges of the violent environment they live in as they work towards a transformation and liberation unknown to their life behind bars.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Sergei Loznitsa, director of the film State Funeral.

The internationally esteemed filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa sits down with us in Venice to talk about his latest work, State Funeral, a film all based on the dictator Josef Stalin’s passing and its subsequent monumental funeral and mourning.

State Funeral: Unique, mostly unseen before, archive footage from March 1953, presents the funeral of Joseph Stalin as the culmination of the dictator’s personality cult. The news of Stalin’s death on March 5, 1953, shocked the entire Soviet Union. The burial ceremony was attended by tens of thousands of mourners. We observe every stage of the funeral spectacle, described by Pravda newspaper as “the Great Farewell”, and receive an unprecedented access to the dramatic and absurd experience of life and death under Stalin’s reign. The film addresses the issue of Stalin’s personality cult as a form of terror-induced delusion. It gives an insight into the nature of the regime and its legacy, still haunting the contemporary world.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Ascanio Petrini and Pasquale Donatone, director and actor of the film Tony Driver.

Director Ascanio Petrini and Pasquale Donatone are respectively the director and the actor/protagonist of Tony Driver, this amazing story that fuses documentary and fiction to tell the unique story of Tony/Pasquale and his fight to go back to his real homeland: the USA.

Tony Driver: One day, Pasquale decides to change his name and to be called Tony. Because despite being born in Bari in the mid 60s, he crosses the ocean with his family at 9 years of age and grows up as a real American. He becomes a taxi driver in Yuma, but he is arrested due to his “side job”: carrying illegal immigrants to the US through the Mexican border. He is therefore forced to choose: jail in Arizona or deportation to Italy. Once back in the region of Puglia, he finds himself living alone in a cave in Polignano a Mare, looking at Italy as a small, stuck country, with no opportunities and without dreams. But Tony is not willing to surrender…

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Atom Egoyan, director of the film Guest of Honour.

Atom Egoyan talks to FRED about the performance of David Thewlis, his favourite part of filmmaking and the issue of Roman Polanski being in competition in Venice Film Festival

Guest of Honour: Jim and his daughter Veronica, a young high-school music teacher, attempt to unravel their complicated histories and intertwined secrets. After a hoax goes very wrong, Jim’s daughter is falsely convicted of abusing her position of authority over 17-year-old Clive. Veronica is nevertheless convinced she deserves to be punished, but for much earlier crimes. Confused and frustrated by Veronica’s intransigence, Jim’s anguish begins to impinge on his job as a food inspector. He wields great power over small family-owned restaurants; a power he doesn’t hesitate to use.

 For more information about the film Guest of Honour, click here.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Keren Ben Rafael and Judith Chlema, director and actress of the film The end of love.

Director Keren Ben Rafael and actress Judith Chlema talk about their work together on Keren’s film The End of Love, part of the Biennale College in the 76th edition of the Venice Film Festival.

The end of love: Julie and Yuval live in Paris, are in love and have just had a baby. When Yuval needs to return to Israel to renew his visa, they start sharing their family routine via video call. Watching each other obsessively through a screen, however, begins to take its toll on their relationship. Will their love survive the perils of this new form of interaction?

 For more information about the film The end of love, click here.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Labina Mitevska, producer of the film God Exists, Her Hame is Petrunija.

Labina Mitevska, producer and also actress in the film of her sister Teona, talk with Angelo Acerbi about the growing success the film is having since last February when it premiered in Berlin. The weirdness of a Macedonian film is pairing with the freshness and boldness the story has, and the impact the lead actress ( a non professional at her first screening experience) added to the film. So the Lux Prize come as a surprising but logical recognition, giving the film a push in the distribution and the diffusion in Europe.

God Exists, Her Hame is Petrunija: Every 19th January during Epiphany, a unique ceremony takes place all around Macedonia: the high priest throws a cross into the local waters while hundreds of men charge for it. The one who finds it is blessed for the whole next year and becomes kind of a local hero. Petrunija is single unemployed 31-year-old woman and a historian who lives with her parents. Returning home from a failed job interview in a sweatshop factory she witnesses the ceremony, decides to jump, swims and catches the cross. Immediately, the men attack her and wrestle the cross out of her hands since as a woman she has no right to participate. A commotion follows and at the moment of heightened confusion Petrunija runs away with the cross. Over the next few hours her jump into the icy water becomes an Internet sensation. Petrunija is taken to a police station, and this is where her ordeal begins: against the local men, against the world, against the system. From a room to a corridor, to a room again, she spends the night being transferred around the impersonal governmental spaces. She insists that she is the winner and refuses to return the cross. One by one, the policemen, the inspector, the priest unsuccessfully try to convince her to give up. Through these 24 hours we discover a society full of stereotypes, with collapsed social and justice system.

 For more information about the Lux Prize, click here.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Gitanjali Rao, director of the animation film Bombay Rose.

Gitanjali Rao joins us in Venice to talk about her impressive work Bombay Rose, an exquisite animation that took years and years to be completed. It was worth the wait.

Bombay Rose: Amidst the struggle of survival in a big city, a red rose brings together three tales of impossible loves. Love between an unavailable girl and boy. Love between two women. Love of an entire city for its Bollywood stars.

For more information about the film Bombay Rose, click here.

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