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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Amy Rose and May Abdalla, directors of the VR experience The Collider. 

Amy Rose and May Abdalla conceived, created and produced The Collider. This immersive VR experience is intense and deep, makes you think and analyse yourself profoundly and it is also a magical and sensorial experience. Amy and May tell us more about it.

The Collider: The Collider is an immersive virtual and theatrical experience exploring power and dependency. The viewer is invited to enter a machine built to decode the mysteries of human relationships. It operates like the Large Hadron Collider, except instead of atoms, it hurls people against each other. Its mission: to identify and understand the invisible material that passes between people—the corrosive, delightful, and mysterious matter that keeps us together and pulls us apart. The experience guides the viewer along a journey, creating a moving choreography that becomes its own private spectacle within the heart of the machine.

To learn more about the film The Collider, click here.

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PODCAST | Daily news and updates from the 76th Venice Film Festival, with Chiara Nicoletti and Matt Micucci.

FRED’s Matt Micucci and Chiara Nicoletti come to you with the final daily report from the 2019 Venice International Film Festival. Aside from talking about this year’s closing film, Giuseppe Capotondi’s The Burnt Orange Heresy (starring, among others, legendary Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger), Matt and Chiara discuss some of the minor prizes already announced and predict winners ahead of the award ceremony.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Amjad Abu Alala, director of the filmYou Will Die at 20. 

Director Amjad Abu Alala talks to us about his latest feature film, You Will Die at 20, presented in the Giornate degli Autori section of the 2019 Venice International Film Festival, which FRED Film Radio is media partner of. Abu Alala grew up in Dubai but went back for a lengthy production process in Sudan to make this movie, and he explains why in this interview. He also talks about some of the significance of You Will Die at 20, as well as its tone of hopefulness and whether he things about death, one of the central themes implied in the title, often.

You Will Die at 20: Sudan, province of Aljazira, the present. Shortly after Muzamil was born, a prophecy by the holy man of the village predicts that he will die at age 20. Muzamil’s father cannot stand the curse and leaves home. Sakina raises her son as a single mother, overly protective. One day, Muzamil turns 19.

To learn more about the film here the Festival Page.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Yonfan, director of the film No. 7 Cherry Lane. 

Yonfan presented his latest film, No. 7 Cherry Lane, in the main competition of the 2019 Venice International Film Festival. This film also feels historic because it is the first Hong Kong production to compete for the main prize at the Venice festival in nearly a decade, the first film directed by Yonfan in about a decade and his first work of animation – though he likes to define it a “motion picture,” and he tells us why here. Also in this interview, the director talks about the sexuality expressed in this movie and what it is that makes it a love letter to Hong Kong and cinema.

No. 7 Cherry Lane: During the rise of the materialistic comfort of life in the 1960s, there emerges an undercurrent of danger in Hong Kong. Ji yuan tai qi hao tells the tale of Ziming, a Hong Kong University undergraduate, entangled between his amorous feelings for Mrs Yu, a self-exiled mother from Taiwan in the White Terror period, and her beautiful daughter Meiling. He takes them to different movies and through a series of magical moments on the big screen, forbidden passions are revealed. The era coincides with Hong Kong’s turbulent times of 1967.

To learn more about the film here the Festival Page.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Karim Aïnouz, director and president of the jury for Giornate degli Autori.

Karin Aïnouz has been the president of the jury for Giornate Degli Autori. We talk about the film that won, of course, but mostly we discuss his way of making films, his aesthetic signature and what it is needed to make a good book adaptation.

For more information about Giornate degli Autori, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Shannon Murphy, director of the film Babyteeth.

Shannon Murphy is one of the two women directors competing for the Golden Lion at the 76th Venice International Film Festival. Her debut film Babyteeth is a perfect mix between a coming of age story, a love story and a family one. Milla (Eliza Scanlen) is a teenager, she’s ill and could die. She has two soundly imperfect parents who constantly try to face their fear. She still has a babyteeth but her adolescence is kicking and screaming inside of her only to finally explode when she meets Moses (Toby Wallace), wild, impulsive, addicted to life, medicine and drugs. Moses is a breath of real life for Milla and rapidly becomes the only chance at living love before it’s too late. Shannon Murphy takes nothing for granted and explains how she keeps the balance between irony and drama, life and death from the beginning till the end. Colors, music and editing are in sync with Milla’s path.

Babyteeth: When seriously ill teenager Milla Finlay falls in love with smalltime drug dealer Moses, it’s her parents’ worst nightmare. But as Milla’s first brush with love brings her a new lust for life, things get messy and traditional morals go out the window. Milla shows everyone in her orbit—her parents, Moses, a sensitive music teacher, a budding child violinist, and a disarmingly honest pregnant neighbor—how to live like you have nothing to lose. What might have been a disaster for the Finlay family instead leads to letting go and finding grace in the glorious chaos of life. Babyteeth joyously explores how good it is not to be dead and how far we will go for love.

If you want to know more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Daily news and updates from the 76th Venice Film Festival, with Angelo Acerbi and Nicolò Comotti.

Angelo Acerbi and Nicolò Comotti team together for their last Engish daily show from the Venice Festival. They talk about Roger Waters Us+Them, about the winners of Giornate degli Autori (La Llorona by Jayro Bustamante) and of the Queer Lion Award (El Principe by Sebastian Munoz). Some attention is given to their personal best films from the festival: Ema by Pablo Larrain, J’Accuse by Roman Polanski, Marriage Story by Noah Baumbach, The Kingmaker by Lauren Greefield, among others.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Tommaso Santambrogio, director of the film The Oceans Are the Real Continents.

Italian director Tommaso Santambrogio sits down with us to introduce his short film The Oceans Are the Real Continents, in the International Critics’ Week’s short film selection SIC@SIC.

The Oceans Are the Real Continents: Having Cuba as a background, decadent and in crisis, in a black-and-white lacerated by the Caraibic swinging rain, Alex and Edith, a couple in their 30s, live their love story made of small daily gestures, stories from the past, nostalgia, and a deep intimacy.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Ahmad Ghossein, Karam Ghossein and Sahar Minkara, director and actors of the film All This Victory.

Director Ahmad Ghossein talks about his film, All This Victory, from the International Critics’ Week section of the 2019 Venice International Film Festival. We’re also joined by the actors Karam Ghossein and Sahar Minkara, who are part of the ensemble cast and talk about the experience of being part of the intense film production which finds them trapped inside a house, with the threat outside and unseen, in a style that recalls Alfred Hitchcock’s The Birds.

All This Victory: Lebanon, July 2006. War is raging between Hezbollah and Israel. During a 24h ceasefire, Marwan heads out in search of his father who refused to leave his Southern village. As the ceasefire is quickly broken, Marwan finds himself under the rain of bombs and takes shelter in a house with a group of elders. Suddenly, a group of Israeli soldiers enter the first floor. Trapped in the house and hostages of their own fears, the next three days will see the situation spiral out of control.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi and Chiara Nicoletti host the roundtable Diversity in the film industry, with Brian Robinson (Flare Film Festival London – Queer Lion Jury), Michel Reihlac (VR section at Biennale), Isabel Sandoval (director) and Sebastian Munoz (director).

The roundtable touched the issue of Diversity in the film industry, starting form the representation of diversity in film festivals, and the perception of diversities in the film industry, both independent and mainstream, including the VR world that is becoming bigger very fast and very inclusive.

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