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Tala Hadid (Director) – TIGMI NIGREN (HOUSE IN THE FIELDS)

Hakar Abdulqadir (Director) and Shamal Sabri (Producer) – HAVIBON (SEPARATION)

Angelo Acerbi talks with some of the directors and producers of this year’s Final Cut event: Tala Hadid, Hakar Abdulqadr, Shamal Sabri.

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Atia Al-Daradji (Director) and Zeina Al Hariri (Producer) – TARIK AL-JENAH (PATH OF PARADISE)

Sherif Elbendary (Director) – ALI MEA’ZA WE IBRAHIM (ALI, THE GOAT, AND IBRAHIM)

Angelo Acerbi meets with some of the protagonists of 2015’s Venice Final Cut: Atia Al Daradji, Zeina Al Hariri, Sherif Elbendary

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Senem Tuzen – Director – Motherland (Ana Yurdu)

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Green Zeng – Director – The Return

FRED’s Nicolò Comotti interviews Green Zeng, director of the film THE RETURN, which was presented in the International Critics Week section of the 72nd Venice Film Festival. Green Zeng presents his first feature “The Return”, a subtle and yet powerful look on today’s Singapore, with an eye on its dark past.

THE RETURN: Wen is a political detainee who is released after many years of imprisonment. Arrested for being an alleged communist, he returns, an old man, to an uneasy reunion with his children. Wen also wanders through the city to see how his homeland has transformed into a shining metropolis. He is philosophical about his long detainment without trial and is ready to move on. But as the past collides with the present, unforeseen circumstances force his journey to take a tragic turn.

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Vetri Maaran – Director – Interrogation (Visaaranai)

FRED’s Nicolò Comotti interviews Vetri Maaran, director of INTERROGATION (Visaaranai), which was presented in the Orizzonti section of the 72nd Venice Film Festival. He talks to us about his film and personal and moral need to make it.

INTERROGATION (Visaaranai): A group of immigrants (Pandi, Murugan, Afsal and Kumar) are detained by the local state police, tortured and forced to admit to a crime they have no knowledge of. When all hope seems to be lost, a policeman from their hometown speaks on their behalf at the court hearing, setting them free. The policeman asks for a return favour and the boys oblige, oblivious to the ill fate that awaits them. As they unwittingly bear witness to a political treason, the system seeks to silence them, at any cost. But Pandi is determined to be heard.

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Mehmet Ozgur – Actor – Frenzy (Abluka)

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews the actor Mehmet Ozgur, who stars in the film FRENZY by Emin Alper that premiered in the main competition of the 72nd Venice Film Festival.

This marks the second collaboration with the director, so we ask him what makes their creative collaboration so special. Of course, we also ask him about his character in FRENZY and how the journey to his performance of this character began.

FRENZY (Abluka): Istanbul is in the grip of political violence. Hamza, a high-ranking police officer offers Kadir a conditional release from prison. To be released he has to accept to work in the new intelligence unit of garbage collectors. Kadir accepts, and starts collecting trash from the shanty towns, checking to see whether it contains material related to bomb-making. Kadir finds his younger brother Ahmet in one of those neighborhoods. Ahmet works at the municipality as part of a team responsible for destroying stray dogs. Ahmet’s unwillingness to bond with Kadir as brothers, in spite of Kadir’s insistance, leads Kadir to plot conspiracy theories to explain Ahmet’s distance.

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