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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Tilda Swinton, actress of the film The Human Voice.

With her appearance at the 77th Venice Film Festival as Golden Lion for lifetime recipient, Tilda Swinton confirms her divine being status. The actress is also the protagonist of Pedro Almodovar’s short film The Human Voice, freely based on Jean Cocteau’s piece of 1930 and presented out of competition at the Festival. Tilda Swinton describes the emotion of joining the Olympus of Pedro Almodovar’s muses as this might only be the first film the two shoot together.

The Human Voice: A woman watches time passing next to the suitcases of her ex-lover (who is supposed to come pick them up, but never arrives) and a restless dog who doesn’t understand that his master has abandoned him. Two living beings facing abandonment. During the three days of waiting, the woman only goes out to the street once, to buy an axe and a can of gasoline. The woman goes through all sorts of moods, from helplessness to despair and loss of control. She makes herself up, she dresses up as if going to a party, she considers throwing herself off of the balcony, until her ex-lover calls on the phone, but she’s unconscious because she’s taken a combination of thirteen pills and cannot answer the call. The dog licks her face until she wakes up. After a cold shower, revived by a coffee as black as her state of mind, the telephone rings again and this time she can answer. The human voice is hers, we never hear the voice of her lover. At first she pretends to act normal and calm, but she is always on the verge of exploding in the face of the man’s hypocrisy and meanness. The Human Voice is a moral lesson about desire, even though its protagonist is on the verge of the very same abyss. Risk is an essential part of the adventure of living and loving. Pain is very present in the monologue. As I said at first, it is about the disorientation and distress of two living beings who grieve their master.

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Hiam Abbass, director of the film The Furnace.

Australian director Roderick MacKay comes to Venice Film Festival with his first feature film, The Furnace, set in the 1890’s. The filmmaker talks about the situation of Indian, Afghan and Persian workers that were taken to Australia by the British Empire in order to work handling camels.

The Furnace: 1897 Western Australia. To escape a harsh existence and return home, a young Afghan cameleer partners with a mysterious bushman on the run with two 400oz Crown-marked gold bars. Together the unlikely pair must outwit a zealous police sergeant and his troopers in a race to reach a secret furnace—the one place where they can safely reset the bars to remove the mark of the Crown. The film is an unlikely hero’s tale, navigating greed and the search for identity in a new land. It illuminates the forgotten history of Australia’s “Ghan” cameleers, predominantly Muslim and Sikh men from India, Afghanistan and Persia, who opened up the Nation’s desert interior, thereby forming unique bonds with local Aboriginal people.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Sam Pope, associate producer of the film Final Account.

We talk with the associate producer Sam Pope about the journey of Final Account, began in 2008 by director Luke Holland that decided to look for all survived affiliated with SS, that worked as officials or soldiers in the SS army, to analyse their perceptions of what happened in those days. An outcome fascinating and devastating at the same time.

Final Account, over a decade in the making, is an urgent portrait of the last living generation of everyday Germans to participate in Adolf Hitler’s Third Reich – raising vital questions about authority, conformity, national identity, and responsibility, as men and women ranging from former SS members to civilians reckon in very different ways with their memories, perceptions and personal appraisals of their own roles in the greatest human crimes in history.

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Hiam Abbass, actress of the film Gaza Mon Amour.

Hiam Abbass, very well-renowned actress all over the world by her roles in huge titles as Blade Runner 2049 or HBO’s Succession, talks to FRED about Gaza Mon Amour, the last film by the Nasser brothers, selected in Orizzonti in this Mostra 2020.

Gaza Mon Amour tells the story of Issa, a mature man that lives in the Gaza Strip and never got married. But he know a woman he wants to marry. At the same time he finds a valuable item at sea, when he’s out with his fishing boat. This particular item will bring him some trouble…

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Lakshvir Saran, actor of the film Milestone.

A conversation with Lakshvir Saran, actor of Ivan Ayr’s latest film, Milestone, presented in the Orizzonti section of the 77th Venice International Film Festival. Saran talks about his character, the generational theme of the movie and how during its production, he acquired a new skill: driving a truck. He also shares his thoughts on the atmosphere of the current Venice festival and whether his own work has been impacted, as of late, by the coronavirus pandemic.

Milestone: As soon as veteran driver Ghalib’s truck touches the 500,000 kilometers mark—a record at his company—he is struck by a sudden pain in his back. He decides to go home, where he finds a letter at his doorstep. Ghalib visits his village to defend a compensation claim made by his late wife’s family. When the village council rules against him, he is given 30 days to determine an appropriate compensation. As Ghalib struggles to recover from his back injury, he is asked to train a young new driver, at which point Ghalib begins to fear that his job and life are slipping out of his hands. Like any milestone, Ghalib’s record too has come at a price.

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Jasmila Zbanic, director of the film Quo Vadis, Aida?.

Jasmila Zbanic, the first director in competition in Venezia 77, tells FRED how she’s living this international film festival amidst a pandemic and how difficult was for her to get to Venice from Bosnia.

Quo Vadis, Aida? tells the story of a female interpreter working for the United Nations in the middle of the events that led to the Srebrenica killings, in 1995.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Pascal Diot, director Venice Production Bridge.

Pascal Diot, director of the Venice Production Bridge, talks with Angelo Acerbi about this weird but important 2020 edition. news and different ways to “use” the VPB have been decided , the numbers look good and the excitement of being at work again of the film industry is palpable.

To discover more about this edition of Venice Production Bridge, click here.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Christos Nikou, director of the film Apples.

Christos Nikou chooses to tell us the tale of a man who loses his memory and has to build a new life and a new persona. A surreal film with a comic twist. Comedy was the only way on Christos’ mind to tell though a film such a deeply existential plot, and he tells us more.

Apples: Amidst a worldwide pandemic that causes sudden amnesia, middle-aged Aris finds himself enrolled in a recovery program designed to help unclaimed patients build new identities. Prescribed daily tasks on cassette tapes so he can create new memories and document them on camera, Aris slides back into ordinary life, meeting Anna, a woman who is also in recovery.

To discover more about the film Apples, click here.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Maori Karmael Holmes, founder, artistic director and CEO of BlackStar Film Festival.

The BlackStar Film Festival is an annual event that takes place in Philadelphia and celebrates the visual and storytelling traditions of the African diaspora and of global communities of colour, showcasing films by Black, Brown and Indigenous people from around the world, with a focus on independent filmmaking. This year, the festival will take place mostly online from the 20th to the 20th of August and we talk about its with its founder, artistic director and CEO, Maori Karmael Holmes. In this conversation, we talk about the history of the festival as well as its present, including how BlackStar is responding to the coronavirus crisis and some of the events and screenings that will be featured in this year’s edition.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Toni Booth and Alice Parsons, Associate Curator and Interpretation Manager of the film Robert Paul: The Forgotten Showman.

Bradford’s Science and Media Museum is currently hosting a major exhibition on the Father of the British Film Insustry, Robert Paul, titled “Robert Paul: The Forgotten Showman.” In this conversation, we talk about it with the museum’s associate curator of film, Toni Booth, and its interpretation manager Alice Parsons. Aside from a brief history of Robert Paul’s life and influence, they talk about how the exhibition is structured and what will be exhibited. We also chat about the Museum itself, its history and its exhibition space, as well as the film culture of Bradford itself, which is the world’s first UNESCO City of Film.

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