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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Savi Gabizon, director of the film Longing.

Fred has the pleasure to meet Savi Gabizon, director of Longing, a beautiful study on identity and parenting…with the child’s absence. Longing is in the Giornate degli Autori’s selection.

Longing:  Ariel, a well-off, childless man, gets a phone call from his college girlfriend. She needs to tell him a couple of very surprising things: first, when they broke up twenty years ago, she was pregnant and went on to have a lovely baby boy. The second thing will change his life forever. This is a journey that creates laboratory-like conditions under which to explore the hidden aspects of parenthood that go beyond giving and responsibility.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Kim Nguyen, director of the film Eye on Juliet.

Kim Nguyen brings us a love story so strange and dreamy, in modern way, that you will be pleasantly shocked. A link between a romantic drama and a sci-fi flick, with a contemporaray side and an harsh look on the global surveillance we cannot escape, Eye on Juliet is the mean Kim uses to tell us that purity of the heart can still survive and blossom, even in a world where control and drones rule globally.

Eye on Juliet:  A love story through the eye of a spider drone. Across the landscape of a Middle Eastern desert and an oil pipeline, appears a strange spider-like robot that seems to be scoping the horizon. At the other end of the world, in America, Gordon, drone operator and safe keeper of the pipeline, surveys the desolate landscapes from his screens. Having lost his way in a world he no longer comprehends, he becomes fascinated by Ayusha, a young woman promised to an older man she doesn’t love. Despite the distance, their mutual fear and their imperfect interaction, Gordon will do everything in his power to help Ayusha escape her fate, falling for her in the process.

For the official page of the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Susanna Nicchiarelli and Trine Dyrholm,  director and actress of the film NICO, 1988

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Fred has the pleasure to chat with Susanna Nicchiarelli, here in Venice’s Orizzonti with her latest feature NICO, 1988. The film covers the last few years of the legendary singer Christa Päffgen, a.k.a Nico. Trine Dyrholm brilliant performs as the troubled and deeply fascinating music star, that managed to influence entire generations with her dark and moving opus.

NICO, 1988: Set in Paris, Prague, Nuremberg, Manchester, the Polish countryside and the Roman coast, Nico, 1988 is a road movie dedicated to the final years of Christa Päffgen, stage name Nico. The muse of Andy Warhol, singer with the band Velvet Underground and a woman of legendary beauty, Nico gained a new lease of life after the story everyone knows, when she launched her solo career.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Vithaya Pansaringarm, David Asavanond and Stephane Sednaoui, actors in  the film Samui Song

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The three lead actors of Samui Song are here with us to talk about their characters’ differences and their approaches to playing them. From the guru to the rejected husband to the con man plagiarized by that same woman, all of them related to the art of the director to explore and give their best performance. Have a listen …

Samui Song: Viyada, a Thai soap opera actress in her mid-30s, finds herself increasingly pressured by her husband Jérôme, a rich foreigner entirely devoted to a charismatic cult leader called The Holy One. Viyada has no other choice than to take the most drastic measures in order to escape from the cult’s influence once and for all.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Pen-Ek Ratanaruang, director of the film Samui Song.

Pen-ek Ratanaruang pens a noir movie that starts in the classic manner and then turns into a satire, a feminist declaration, with a splash of violence. A fascinating mixture that captures the audience from the start, until the unexpected turn that makes it even more gripping. Pen-Ek, who wrote the script too, got the initial inspiration from something that happened to him… But you can hear it directly from him.

Samui Song: Viyada, a Thai soap opera actress in her mid-30s, finds herself increasingly pressured by her husband Jérôme, a rich foreigner entirely devoted to a charismatic cult leader called The Holy One. Viyada has no other choice than to take the most drastic measures in order to escape from the cult’s influence once and for all.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Nevina Satta, the director of Sardinia Film Commission.

Nevina Satta is a hyper active director of one of the most productive film commissions in Italy. Her passion and stubborness has helped the Sardinia Film Commission to develop and grow so much in the last 5 years that is nearly unbelievable. You can listen directly to Nevina Satta talking about all the programmes, activities, production facilities and incentives that this film commission can provide…and then book your flight to Cagliari right after.

To visit the official website of Sardinia Film Commission click here. 

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

Pascal Diot tells us about the upcoming edition of the Venice Production Bridge, where the quality of the participants has increased, virtual reality is rocking and the Books Adaptation Market and the Venice Gap-Financing Market still rules. An intense but still relaxed and easy-to-use market, that makes the most out of the peculiar situation that only Venice can offer.

Click here to see the program of the Venice Production Bridge.

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PODCAST | Mina Stanikic interviews Vagelis Zouglos, director of  Tin Pest, presented at Pack & Pitch of the 11th Talents Sarajevo

The 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival was home for the 11th Talents Sarajevo for 7 days. After being tutored in presenting and pitching their projects, producers and directors presented their works in front of the jury of Pack&Pitch competing for money prizes and chance to get into the CineLink industry talks next year. One of the

One of the presenters was Vagelis Zouglos from Greece, who talks for Fred Film Radio about his upcoming project named Tin Pest. Zouglos explains what the name of the film exactly means, and reveals that the topic is centered on a Syrian refugee working in the factory that does not provide not even the minimal healthy working conditions. He also discusses the implementation of his educational background in architecture in his directorial feature debut, as well as why he decided to create his protagonist as a refugee and not deal with the refugee crises at all.

Interview by Mina Stanikic, one of the members of Talents Press at the 11th Talents Sarajevo.

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PODCAST | Mónika Bajnóczi interviews filmmaker Želimir Žilnik at the 23rd Sarajevo Film Festival.

Besides his jury duties, Želimir Žilnik gave a lecture about documentary filmmaking as well as telling the story behind his latest movie. During a talk moderated by festival doc programmer Rada Sesic, the internationally renowned director – alongside Rati Oneli, the director of award-winning documentary City of the Sun – discussed the notion of creating filmic “characters” from real-life subjects as well as giving an insight in the creative process of making his latest doc, Logbook Serbistan.

Logbook Serbistan follows a bunch of refugees arriving from war zones and seeking asylum in Serbia. Most of them, however, plan to continue their journey to EU countries. As a follow-up to the lecture, he went into details of financial issues of production given the delicacy of the topic in the Central European region, finding, getting to know and keeping in touch with the main characters even after parting ways at the Hungarian border, the overall positive reaction from refugees to his idea of documenting their travels, and how the medium of film gave an opportunity to these people to express their thoughts.

Interview by Mónika Bajnóczi, one of the members of Talents Press at the 11th Talents Sarajevo.

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PODCAST | Aslı Ildır interviews Senad Šahmanović, future director of Sirin, presented at Pack & Pitch of 11th Talents Sarajevo.

Montenegrin director Senad Šahmanović, the future director of Sirin, and also the winner of the Pack & Pitch of Sarajevo Film Festival told us about his story and his inspirations behind the project. Sirin, which is a name based on a Eastern European legend, tells the story of a Parisienne lawyer who goes back to her hometown in Montenegro for an inheritance case. Sahmanovic’s story is about being in limbo and its consequences, which was inspired by his producer’s personal experience.

Interview by Aslı Ildır, one of the members of Talents Press at the 11th Talents Sarajevo.

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