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Ruchika Oberoi – Director – Island City

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Ruchika Oberoi, who presented her feature directorial debut named Island City at the Venice Days section of the 72nd Venice Film Festival.

Ruchika explains in detail the nature of the film and the themes and issues from which she drew inspiration. She also tells us about the techniques she used in making the film, and also about the structure of the film which is clearly split up into three episodes.

ISLAND CITY: The film follows three stories set in Mumbai. The first one is about a middle-aged man who wins the office “Fun Committee Award”, which entitles him to a whole day full of fun. He is most reluctant to leave the safety of his cubicle, but he has to. The second story begins with a domineering pater familias, Anil, who is on life support. Seeking some relief, his family decides to buy a TV, which Anil had banned; now, every night, the family plugs into a popular soap. The third one centers on Aarti, whose repetitive existence has slowly made her more and more mechanical and numb. Then one day there arrives a most intimate letter and everything changes.

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Didier Costet – producer – The Endless River

Didier Costet speaks about his experience as Olivier Hermanus’ latest film The endless River, officially competing for Venice 72.

THE ENDLESS RIVER: A young waitress welcomes her husband home to the small South African town of Riviersonderend (Endless River) after his four-year jail sentence. At first it appears their plans for a new life together are finally being realized. But when the family of a foreigner living on a nearby farm is brutally murdered, the young woman and the grieving widower begin gravitating towards each other. Trapped in a cycle of violence and bloodshed, the two form an unlikely bond seeking to transcend their mutual anger, pain and loneliness.

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Alireza Amini – Director – Block 9 Exit 2

Alireza Amini talks about his last film and new projects, and his work as actor and filmmaker in contemporary Iran.

Block 9 Exit 2: Block 9 Exit 2 is the story of a divorced couple and their only daughter who struggles to cope with the loss of her grandmother. The film is a compelling portrait of a family who tries to deal with past lies and untold truth.

*In the picture: Cristiana Palmieri (Fred reporter), Director Alireza Amini (left) and Festival Director Amin Palangi (right)

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Mette Damgaard-Sorensen – artistic director – New Danish Screen

An interesting talk with one of the panelists of the European Film Forum at the Venice Film Market about the reason and life of short films, the need of an identified audience for feature films and the importance of marketing in the era of online distribution.

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Shira MacLeod – Director Of Regent Street Cinema

A new cinema and a lively new reality has landed in London. Have a listen!

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Juan Antonio Bayona – Director

The director of The Impossible and Penny Dreadful talks about being a European director who works with Hollywood stars.

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Joana Vicente – Independent Filmmaker Project – New York Media Center.

An interesting talk about films and distribution, how to have your film seen, and on its essential qualities. Plus, you can discover what the New York Media Center is and how its formula is something to check out and duplicate.

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Grant Gee – Director – Innocence of Memories-Orhan Pamuk’s Museum and Istanbul

Grant Gee brings us through the Museum Of Innocence in Istanbul, using a mixture of fiction and documentary, with the precise intent to fascinate us , and it works.

Orhan Pamuk – Turkey’s Nobel laureate for Literature – opens a museum in Istanbul. A museum that’s a fiction: its objects trace a tale of doomed love in 1970’s Istanbul. The film takes a tour of the objects as the starting point for a trip through love stories, landscapes and the chemistry of the city. “Like many people, when I first visited Istanbul, I read Orhan Pamuk. From the very start, my view of the city was through the prism of his imagination. And I knew that Orhan had imagined a place called ‘The Museum of Innocence’ and in 2008 had published a big novel of that name. What I didn’t know was that, two months after my first visit to Istanbul in 2012, Orhan would open the doors to the real Museum of Innocence. A real, 5-storey museum of real objects – the debris and treasure of a tragic love affair from 30 years ago. A museum which immediately became established as part of Istanbul’s real cultural itinerary: the Bosphorus Cruise, Hagia Sophia, Blue Mosque, Grand Bazaar, Museum of Innocence.” [Grant Gee]

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Kuba Czekaj (Director) and Magdalena Kaminska (Producer) – Baby Bump

Fred speaks freely with Kuba Czekaj, Magdalena Kaminska, respectively director and producer of the film Baby Bump, here in Venice with Biennale College.

Baby Bump: 11-year-old Mickey House is no longer a child. But who is he? He doesn’t know. He’s friendless. He doesn’t understand his mother. He hates what’s happening to his body. Reality and imagination come together in a toxic mix. Events escalate to extremes… at home and at school. Mickey has to find the strength within him to put a stop to what’s begun. Where will his encounter with his own maturing body take him? Growing up… not for kids.

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Ricky Mifune – Poducer – Mifune: The last Samurai.

Ricky Mifune, grandson of the heroic actor Toshiro Mifune, talks about the new documentary Mifune: the last Samurai.

Plot: It tells the story of Toshiro Mifune, legendary Japanese actor for many Akira Kurosawa films, who is the first Asian international star even before Bruce Lee and who has won the Best Actor Award at Venice International Film Festival for Akahige (Red Beard) exactly 50 years ago. The documentary also explores the world of the golden era of Japanese cinema and its history, along with the war that affected Mifune’s life and career.

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