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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Maren Ade, director of the film Toni Erdmann from the 69th Cannes Film Festival.

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Toni Erdmann is a film which, to cite director Maren Ade’s words, deals with a “conflict of values.” The conflict of values between a post-war father and his daughter, whom he things is conducting a career-driven life. Maren Ade also elaborates on the comic tones of her new film, presented in competition at the 69th Cannes Film Festival, since for her, comedy is something that comes from drama; like all good comedy, TonI Erdmann is fundamentally very serious.

TONI ERDMANN: Practical joker Winfried disguises himself as flashy “Toni Erdmann” to get busy Ines’ attention and change her corporate lifestyle. The father-daughter challenge reaches absurd proportions until Ines begins to see that her eccentric father deserves a place in her life…

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Pascal Diot, head of the Venice Film Market from the 69th Festival de Cannes

Pascal Diot, head of the Venice Film Market, the relatively new market of the annual Venice Film Festival, was at the 69th Festival de Cannes. We caught up with him to get a preview of what its next edition has in store and some of the new features that will define it, including a new name and a new space dedicated to literature..

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Boo Junfeng, director of the film Apprentice from the Un Certain Regard section of the 69th Festival de Cannes.

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Through his masterful handling of characters and plot, director Boo Junfeng brings us inside a solid drama about a young man’s obsession with his father’s killer. The twist comes when he realizes that the perpetrator of his father’s death is not the monster he thought he was. Apprentice is a film about death penalties, analyzed from the inside and seen from an unusual point of view. Profoundly affecting.

APPRENTICE: Aiman, a 28-year-old correctional office, is tranferred to the territory’s top prison. He strikes up a friendship with Rahim, who is revealed to be the chief executioner of the prison, and one of the world’s most prolific. Can Aiman overcome his conscience and a past that haunts him to become the executioner’s apprentice?

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Hayley Squires, actress in the film I, Daniel Blake by Ken Loach from the 69th Cannes Film Festival.

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Our interview with Hayley Squires, actress in Ken Loach’s film I, Daniel Blake, in the main competition of the 69th Cannes Film Festival. Squires takes us through the whole process of the making of the film, from the auditions to the preparation of the role and the challenges of Ken Loach’s technique – the director is known for revealing very little info and details on his film and the characters before shooting. Hayley Squires also reflects on how the situation her character, Katie, is struggling with is relatable and it is something that could happen to everybody.

I, DANIEL BLAKE: Daniel Blake, 59, has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, after a heart attack and nearly falling from a scaffold, he needs help from the State for the first time in his life. He crosses paths with a single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn’t know some 300 miles away. Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern day Britain

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Mohamed Diab, director of Clash from the Un Certain Regard section of the 69th Cannes Film Festival.

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The opening film of the Un Certain Regard section of the 69th Cannes Film Festival, Clash, is a film is set two years after the Egyptian revolution and manages to portray impartially every political vision of modern Egypt.

Mohamed Diab is known for his directorial debut film Cairo 678, which was released a month before the Egyptian revolution, a drama about three women who unite to fight against the plague of male chauvinism in Cairo. As the director says in the interview, the situation in Egypt hasn’t changed and he hopes that films like this will open people’s eyes and minds.

CLASH: Cairo, summer of 2013 – two years after the Egyptian revolution. In the wake of the ouster of Islamist president Morsi, a police truck full of detained demonstrators of divergent political and religious backgrounds roams through violent protests. Can the detainees overcome their differences to stand a chance of survival?

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Dave Johns, actor in Ken Loach’s film I, Daniel Blake from the 69th Cannes Film Festival

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Dave Johns plays the role of the protagonist in I, Daniel Blake, the new film by Ken Loach, in competition at the 69th Cannes Film Festival. Dave is an English stand-up comedian, writer and actor. I, Daniel Blake marks his debut on a feature film. As per usual, Ken Loach didn’t give his actors the script of the film ahead of time, so Dave Johns told us about how he prepared for his role and about how he auditioned for the part.

I, DANIEL BLAKE: Daniel Blake, 59, has worked as a joiner most of his life in Newcastle. Now, after a heart attack and nearly falling from a scaffold, he needs help from the State for the first time in his life. He crosses paths with a single mother Katie and her two young children, Daisy and Dylan. Katie’s only chance to escape a one-roomed homeless hostel in London has been to accept a flat in a city she doesn’t know some 300 miles away. Daniel and Katie find themselves in no-man’s land caught on the barbed wire of welfare bureaucracy as played out against the rhetoric of ‘striver and skiver’ in modern day Britain

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PODCAST | Francesco Belais interviews Tor Iben, director of the film Where Are You Going, Habibi? from the 31st Torino Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

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Coming out in a very conservative Turkish family based in Berlin and the impossible love with a handsome straight guy. This is the story of Ibrahim, the main carachter in the new Tor Iben‘s film, which screened at the 31st Torino Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

WHERE ARE YOU GOING, HABIBI (Wo willst du hin, Habibi?): Ibrahim, called Ibo, is a good guy born into a Turkish family in Berlin and he has just finished a degree in architecture. Since he is gay, he has troubles talking about his sexual identity at home, where a strong traditional mentality rules. The only person who is helping him in the process of self-affirmation is his intellectual, open-minded uncle. When Ibo meets handsome blonde muscly wrestler Ali who, in his spare time, is a thief, a sincere and complicit relationship begins. In spite of his much vaunted heterosexuality, Ali seems to be interested in Ibo’s attentions.

A Berlin “ballad” filled with grace and a sweet virility, which go hand in hand with a cosmopolitan, breezy, multicultural city. In the finale, bulletten, the typical Berlin meatballs, play an important role. This is the second film for director Tor Iben, who debuted at the 2011 TGLFF with Cibrâil.

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PODCAST | Francesco Belais interviews Wieland Speck, who was one of the members of the feature film competition jury at the 31st Torino Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

German film director Wieland Speck was in the jury of the feature film competition of the 31st Torino Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. We caught up with him for a chat on his experience and more.

Wieland Speck (1951) studied German Literature, Drama and Ethnology at the Freie Universität in Berlin and cinema at the San Francisco Art Institute. At the same time, he has also been artistic director of the Tali-Kino, an independent arthouse cinema, and directed and produced feature films, documentaries and tv series. In 1982, he was appointed assistant to Manfred Salzgeber, who was responsible for the Berlinale Panorama section. In this role, in 1987 he founded the Teddy Award, the most important European showcase for the LGBTQ cinema worldwide. In 1992, he was appointed director of the Panorama section.

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PODCAST | Francesco Belais interviews director William Fairman and health operator David Stuart, directors of Chemsex from the 31st Torino Gay and Lesbian Film Festival.

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William Fairman, the director, and David Stuart a health operator, talking about Chemsex, which screened at the 31st Torino Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. A cruel and sobering documentary on the dangerous phenomenon of chemical drugs and sex in the London gay community.

CHEMSEX: The term “chemsex” refers to the combination of sex and drugs, often synthetic drugs, used as a way to remove inhibitions and enhance libido, usually in the context of group sex and S/M sessions, which can last for days. This practice has spread through the British gay community, mostly in London, where it has become a real emergency. The main risks of the chemsex phenomenon are virus transmission, not least HIV, and the spread of dangerous addictions with a destructive impact on the body and the psyche. Sixteen stories, sixteen confessions made by sixteen people of all ages, especially 40- year-olds, who are the victims of a practice that has become the cause of extreme distress, isolation and illness.

Chemsex is a shocking documentary, co-produced by the English production company Peccarillo Pictures and “Vice” media, which sheds light on the dangerous risks and consequences of a practice too often considered only a marginal activity.

Chemsex from Peccadillo Pictures on Vimeo.

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PODCAST | Producer Emanuele Nespeca, one of the participants at the 2016 EFP Producers on the Move, talks about Italian production company Solaria Film.

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FRED Film Radio is media partner of the Producers on the Move networking platform which will take place at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival. We asked the 20 producers that have been invited to participate to introduce themselves to our airwaves, tell us about their work, their company and some of the projects from their past, present and future. Here is one of them: Emanuele Nespeca, producer at Solaria Film.

EMANUELE NESPECA entered the film industry in 2005, producing such films as Daneile Gaglianone’s Pietro. In 2012, he became a partner with Mario Mazzarotto in Movimento film and produced Alicia Scherson’s The Future and Adriano Valerio’s 2015 Venice title Banat the Journey. In 2013, Emanuele founded his own company Solaria film and is currently preparing new films by co-directors Marco De Angelis and Antonio Di Trapani (White Flowers) and Samuele Rossi (Glassboy) as European co-productions.

http://www.movimentofilm.it/  / Solaria Film www.solariafilm.it

20 of the most energetic, emerging producers from across Europe are selected to participate in the networking platform PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE at the Cannes International Film Festival. EFP has set a high standard for participation and creates a tightly focused working environment involving project pitchings, 1:1 meetings as well as extensive promotion of the producers via profiles in the international trade papers. The aim of this initiative is to assist European producers in finding partners for their upcoming projects, to strengthen industry networking opportunities and to offer a platform where the producer’s potential is recognised.

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