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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Sebastian Meise, director of the film Great Freedom.

An interview with Sebastian Meise, director of Great Freedom, recently presented at the 2021 Torino Film Festival. The film is a prison-set LGTBQ drama about friendship and love, against the backdrop of postwar Germany and the little-known Paragraph 175 provision of the German Criminal Code. In this inteview, Meise talks about researching Paragraph 175, directing a movie within the limitations of a prison setting and working with the cast, including Franz Rogowski, who won an acting award for his performance in the film at the Torino Film Festival.

Great Freedom : In postwar Germany, Hans is imprisoned again and again for being homosexual. The one steady relationship in his life becomes his long time cell mate, Viktor, a convicted murderer. What starts in revulsion grows to something called love.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Avi Mograbi, director of the film The First 54 Years – An abbreviated Manual For Military Occupation. 

Avi Mograbi uses the for of the tutorial in his The First 54 Years to explain what happened and how, and to which extent errors were made in Isarel about the Palestinian territories issue, in the first 54 years of occupation. An interesting talk.

The First 54 Years – An Abbreviated Manual For Military Occupation : Through the testimonies of soldiers who participated in a colonial occupation of the Israeli army, Avi Mograbi investigates the functioning of this practice and the logic behind it. Working on materials relating to the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, which has been underway for 54 years now, the director draws a sort of “Military Occupation Manual”.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige.

Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige talks with Angelo Acerbi about the reasons of their work, her approach to memory and the reason why we keep them , we save them and why we are sometimes afraid of sharing them.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Isabel Ivars, Juror of 39th Torino Film Festival.

Isabel Ivars talks about the difference that in these last years appear in the world of film marketing and sales, and also about her approach to her task here at the torino Film Festival, to judge and award the feature films included in the International Competition.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Ildiko Enyedi, director and president of international Jury of 39th Torino Film Festival.

Ildiko Enyedi is the head of the International Jury at the 39th Torino Film Festival. The famous and acclaimed film director shares with us the responsibilities she feels to carry while judging first and second feature films, knowing how much such decisions can influence the career of a first time director.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Selman Nacar, director of the film Between Two Dawns.

Selman Nacar has a law education and a passion for the issues of responsibility, guilt and redemption. In Between Two Dawns he treats all of them in a movie about a moral dilemma his lead character has to face. He explains his approach to the story and to the directorial choices in this chat with Angelo Acerbi.

Between Two Dawns: After a serious accident involving a worker in the family business, Kadir is forced to make a moral decision that will have a strong impact on his projects, on the lives of his loved ones and on that of the wife of the injured worker.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Micaela Gonzalo, director of the film La Chica Nueva.

Micaela Gonzalo talks about her intentions while filming La Chica Nueva, in competition at Torino Film Festival 39. She had a clear idea of the issues she wanted to address and the kind of film making she needed to perform in order to get that result. Let’s hear it form her voice.

La Chica Nueva: Jimena travels to Río Grande, on the island of Tierra del Fuego, the extreme south of Argentina, on a quest to join her half-brother Mariano. She has almost no money for her ticket but manages to finally arrive there, with the hope she will do better in that manufacturing region. The wind, the cold and the complex economic crisis form the background in which Jimena will develop her empathy and sense of belonging with regards to the people around her, as well as where she will learn to acknowledge and finally accept herself.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Garth Jennings, director of the film Sing 2.

Having a chat with Garth Jennings is a pleasure. He talks about his new animated film Sing 2 with such passion and fun that you cannot feel the same way. He tells us about the creativity and the expertise of his collaborators, about the musical choices and the new characters in a film that is a feast for the eyes and the heart.

Sing 2 : In Sing 2, Buster Moon and his cast of underdogs push their talents beyond their local theater, hoping for a shot to perform at the most prestigious venue in the entertainment capital of the world: The Crystal Tower Theater in glamorous Redshore City. But with no connections, they’ll first have to sneak into Crystal Entertainment Offices and impress the powerful and egotistical entertainment mogul — and likely gangster— wolf, Jimmy Crystal, to prove that they are worthy of his stage. Crystal will let them perform, on the condition that Buster convince the world’s most reclusive rock legend, lion Clay Calloway, out of his self-imposed seclusion after the death of his wife and persuade him to perform in the show.

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PODCAST| Cristiana Palmieri interviews Blerta Basholli, director and screenwriter of the film Hive.

Director and screenwriter Blerta Basholli shares with FRED that when she became familiar with Fahrije Hoti’s story she felt overwhelmed by the tenacity and the courage of this indomitable woman. Despite being a story profoundly rooted in the Kossovo’s culture and history, Hive is a universal powerful story.

Hive : The debut feature by Kosovo-born filmmaker Blerta Basholli is inspired by real-life beekeeper Fahrije Hoti. Seven years after Fahrije’s husband went missing in the Kosovo War, she is struggling to provide for her two children. Her plan to establish a women’s co-operative and sell ajvar (pepper relish) is met with scorn by men in her village. In this patriarchal place, a woman’s morals can be questioned for even the slightest show of independence. But Fahrije is no ordinary woman.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Srđan Keča, director of the documentary Museum of the Revolution.

A conversation with Srđan Keča, director of Museum of the Revolution, a new documentary presented at IDFA 2021. The film observes the life of marginalized people living on the old ruins of a ambitious title building, which was never completed. In this interview, Keča discusses the intersection of history and contemporary times, the dangers of gentrification and how he was able to establish a relationship with both the location and the protagonists of his documentary.

Museum of the Revolution : “The wind got up in the night and took our plans away,” reads the proverb in the opening titles of Museum of the Revolution. The words are a reference to the 1961 plan to build a grand museum in Belgrade as a tribute to Socialist Yugoslavia. It was supposed to “safeguard the truth” about the Yugoslav people. But the plan never got beyond the construction of the basement. The derelict building now tells a very different story from the one envisioned by the initiators 60 years ago. In the damp, pitch-dark building live the outcasts of a society reshaped by capitalism. The film focuses on a girl who earns a little cash on the street by cleaning car windows with her mother. The girl has a close friendship with an old woman who also lives in the basement. Against the background of a transforming city, the three women find refuge in each other.

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