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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Amos Gitai, director of the film West of the Jordan River.

Amos Gitai presents West of the Jordan River at the Quinzaine Des realizateurs at the 70th Cannes Film Festival. The filmmakers returns to shoot in the West End 35 years after he made Field Diary. On FRED Gitai describes the reason why he decided to go back to those places, what he was expecting to find and how he structured the documentary. What’s the role of filmmakers in politics? Gitai talks about the importance of individual action in every attempt of changing the course of political events.

West of the Jordan River: Amos Gitai (Rabin, Free Zone) returns to the occupied territories for the first time since his 1982 documentary Field Diary. West of the Jordan River describes the efforts of citizens, Israelis and Palestinians, who are trying to overcome the consequences of occupation. Gitai’s film shows the human ties woven by the military, human rights activists, journalists, mourning mothers and even Jewish settlers. Faced with the failure of politics to solve the occupation issue, these men and women rise and act in the name of their civic consciousness. This human energy is a proposal for long overdue change.

For the official website of the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Jerome Paillard, director of the Cannes Film Market.

Jerome Paillard, the historical director of the Cannes Film Market, talks with us about numbers and achievements of this year’s edition, with an eye to the new needs of the film industry and the potential new developments ( Netflix and vod platform in general included) that the market will have to face in the future.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Sharunas Bartas, director of the film Frost.

The trip of a young couple with a humanitarian help van from Lithuania to Ukraine turns out to be more intense and dangerous than imagined.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Michel Franco, director of the film Las hijas de Abril.

After getting inspired by real facts he experienced in his own life, with April’s Daughter – Las Hijas de Abril, Mexican director Michel Franco decided to analyze motherhood and what it means to become a mother, especially at a young age as his protagonist in the film. After Chronic which was in competition, Franco is back in Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section. The film counts on the participation, in the role of April, of spanish actress Emma Suarez, who was Pedro Almodovar’s main actress in Julieta, at the Festival de Cannes last year.

Las hijas de Abril: Valeria is 17 and pregnant. She lives in Puerto Vallarta with Clara, her half-sister. Valeria has not wanted her long-absent mother, April, to find out about her pregnancy, but due to the economic strain and the overwhelming responsibility of having a baby in the house, Clara decides to call their mother. April arrives, willing to help her daughters, but soon it will be clear why Valeria had kept her away.

For the official page of the film on the festival website, click here.

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PODCAST | Bénédicte Prot interviews György Kristóf, director of the film Out.

Slovaquian director György Kristóf, who has previously collaborated with such directors as Kevin Macdonald, Mark Herman, and the latest Berlin Golden Bear winner, Ildikó Enyedi, explains why he chose, in this debut film, to follow a character who belongs to the generation of his parents. He describes Agoston’s journey further and further ‘out” as a journey of self-discovery but also of personal enjoyment, and unveils a few sources of inspiration for the many odd but endearing characters Agoston meets, as well as for the magnificent cinematography (esp. in the industrial scenes), and the recurrent rabbit motif in this absurd, very entertaining existential tale, fruit of a rather challenging multilingual Eastern European shoot.

Out: after Agoston, a Slovaquian naval plant worker in his 5Os, is amongst the unlucky ones in a wave of redundancies, he sets off on his first trip abroad, to Latvia and the Baltic Sea, to try and find work, and himself. On this journey, he meets a series of absurd, colourful characters. With this debut feature combining poetic humour and a truly superb cinematography, György Kristóf is amongst the contenders for the prestigious Caméra d’or.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Eugene Jarecki, director of Promised Land.

As a special event, the 70th Cannes Film Festival presents Promised Land, a documentary by Eugene Jarecki . On FRED the director describes the genesis of the film and its being more about American history narrated through the representative of the American dream: Elvis Presley. A nostalgic but rational road-trip through America to talk about how people have changed since then and how American society became what it is today.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Takashi Miike, director of Blade of the Immortal.

Takashi Miike is the most irriverent and prolific director Japan has ever had. He is back in Cannes out of competition with his 100th film, Blade of the Immortal and back on FRED after the Mole Song presented in Rome Film Festival 2013. Miike gets inpiration from a manga, The Immortal , for this tale of revenge about this young woman who “hires” an immortal fighter to help her avenge the killing of her father and kidnapping of her mother. The film, as the other films by the japanese master, manages to create a balance between tradition, comedy and violence. Miike explains how he works on this balance and how his turning codes upside down and his cinema is received by the Japanese audience in comparison to the European one.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Kornél Mundruczò, director of Jupiter’s Moon.

After winning the Prize Un Certain Regard at the 2014 Cannes Film Festival with White God, Kornel Mundruczo is back is Cannes and on FRED with Jupiter’s Moon, in competittion at this year’s Festival. Mundruczo defines this film as a tale of redemption, a tale of miracles and confirms what the international critic said: the film is a satire on Europe’s antirefugee paranoia. The director also describes how he particularly shot two scenes, a change of gravity one and long sequence of a car chasing another. The heroe’s flying is more of a floating up in the air, as the Bible often describes it.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Emir Kusturica, director of On The Milky Road.

After 8 months its participation to the Venice Film Festival’s competition, On the Milky Road, the new film by Emir Kusturica is finally out in Italian cinema theaters distributed by a little company, Europictures. On this occasion, Emir Kusturica and his protagonist, Monica Bellucci landed in Rome to present the film to the italian audiences. Back on FRED for the second time after Venice, Kusturica explains why he chose Monica Bellucci to be his main actress and why he decided to be her partner in the film. Since the film is set during the Balcans war, Kusturica talks about his country and its perception of the war 20 years later. While talking about war, Kusturica mentions a World War III we might be already experiencing right now but that we pretend not to see.

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PODCAST | Screenwriter Lars Hubrich talks about the film Goodbye Berlin – 2017 EFA Young Audience Award finalist.

Goodbye Berlin, directed by Fatih Akin and produced in Germany, is one of the finalist films of the 2017 EFA Young Audience Award. In this short clip, the screenwriter Lars Hubrich talks briefly about the film, which will be up for an award during Young Audience Film Day (7th of May). On this day, the three finalist European films will be screened simultaneously in 31 different countries of Europe to an audience aged between 12 and 14 years old. The young audience will then vote for the winning film at the end of the day.

GOODBYE BERLIN. Fatih Akin (Head On, Soul Kitchen) turns his directorial skills to a new kind of story with Goodbye Berlin, an adaptation of a best-selling young adult novel by Wolfgang Herrndorf. With his Mum in rehab and his Dad away with his assistant on a “business trip,” 14-year-old outsider Maik is spending the summer alone by the pool at his parents’ villa. Things couldn’t get any more boring. Until his new Russian classmate, Tschick shows up, with a stolen Lada.

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