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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Shekhar Kapur, filmmaker and president of the jury of the 1st International Film Festival & Awards – Macao.

Filmmaker Shekhar Kapur makes history as the president of the jury of the competition of the inaugural edition of the International Film Festival & Awards Macao. Kapur recognized the establishment of this festival as something quite important, as is the choice of establishing it in a city like Macao, which is a discovery in itself. In terms of his position as president of the jury, he expresses his opinion on the high quality of the selection. But we soon move on and talk about the potential role that this festival could have in the film industry – and why film industry should take an active interest in China. We also discuss other things, such as the power of bridging cultures that cinema, more than any other artform has, and the differences in the way in which we consume cinema – in other words, what is the difference between watching films in a theatre and watching it on a small computer screen. This also leads Kapur on reflection on the future of cinema and VR.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Tim Burton, director of the film Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.

Tim Burton’s new film Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children will be released in the italian cinema theatres from December 15th with Twentieth Century Fox. The Director of Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice and Nightmare Before Christmas has landed in Rome to present the film to the italian audience and to talk about his cinema. The film is based on Ransom Riggs’ book, the first of a trilogy which decribes these “peculiar” children. The book title was the spark that led Burton to adapt the bestseller on the big screen. So he decided to work a way to combine his world with Riggs’ universe. Tim Burton also talked about his choice of casting Eva Green in the role of Miss Peregrine which, from what he says, was immediate after their first successful collaboration on Dark Shadows.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children: from visionary director Tim Burton, and based upon the best-selling novel, comes an unforgettable motion picture experience. When Jake discovers clues to a mystery that spans alternate realities and times, he uncovers a secret refuge known as Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As he learns about the residents and their unusual abilities, Jake realizes that safety is an illusion, and danger lurks in the form of powerful, hidden enemies. Jake must figure out who is real, who can be trusted, and who he really is.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Joyce Wong, Matt Greyson, Harry Cherniak, director and producers of the film Wexford Plaza.

Director Joyce Wong and producers Matt Greyson and Harry Cherniak tell us about their film and the visions they had while making it. A kind of personal tale for the director, who recalls stories of friends in the narrative of Wexford Plaza. The choice of showing a second point of view of the same story gives more depth and perspective, making the audience question what they have understood so far, and this is a good challenge for both film and audience to take.

Wexford Plaza: Betty works as a security guard in a desolate and depressing shopping mall. Besides the jaded panorama of her days, the fact that she is doesn’t fit society’s norms about bodyweight certainly doesn’t help her find her soul mate, who she unsuccessfully looks for using a social networking dating app. One day, at the mall, she meets Danny, who also has a load of problems, and it’s love at first sight. Unfortunately, things get complicated when a photo of a scantily dressed Betty becomes more public than expected.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Ivan Kral, director of the film The blank generation.

Angelo Acerbi meets Ivan Kral, a living testimonial of the wildest and most free era of rock music. We’d need hours to talk about all he could have told us. Ivan Kral lived his life in US with the leGends of rock n roll, and he has stories that heard now are so unbelievable they were difficult to process while interviewing him…so many names and situations we dreamt of, that he lived and so many people with whom he walked a path in music that now has become historical. As the film he is presenting at TFF34. Still incredible…

The Blank Generation: The Patti Smith Group, Television, Ramones, Heartbreakers, Talking Heads, and Blondie are some of the most famous protagonists of the musical avant-garde (and more) which is shaking New York in the mid-’70s. A series of bands which, according to some, invented punk rock. They orbit around CBGB, a historical club located in the seamy Bowery neighborhood and the cradle of a toxic, mocking new wave which will find followers throughout the world. The underground directors Amos Poe and Ivan Král film their performances, bringing to the silver screen the shockwaves agitating the nights of the Big Apple, which seems on the verge of collapsing and yet has never been so dynamic.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Chris Peckover, director and actor of the film Safe Neighborhood.

Is it possible to make a horror film in 5 weeks and deliver it after the same weeks of editing? Yes if you are a crazy and passionate guy as Chris Peckover. Safe Neihborhood is a blast of a film, with so many twists and unexpected turns that make you dizzy. Let’ hear it from him directly. Oh, he forgot to tell us that his set design was the same of George Miller’s Mad Max, just to say it…

Safe Neighborhood: Deandra and Robert Lerner live in a residential neighborhood with their thirteen-year-old son, Luke. They decide to spend an evening out with their friends during the Christmas holidays and entrust the boy to Ashley, the girl who has been babysitting Luke for years and will soon be leaving town. Luke decides to take the bull by the horns and is ready to declare his love for beautiful Ashley, a feeling he has been hiding for a while. But the evening takes an unexpected turn when someone, armed and determined, tries everything to break into the Lerner’s home.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Douglas Seok and Kanitha Tith, director and actor of the film Turn left, turn right.

Douglas Seok uses the typical structure of a music album, dividing his film not in parts but in tracks, each one of a diferent length and tone, to tell us the story of the life of Kanitha, a youg girl in Phnom Penh. A visionary look on contemporary Cambodia, still balanced between modernism and rural traditions.

Turn left, turn right: After fifteen years of living together, Marie and Boris decide to get a divorce. Marie had bought the house in which they live with their two daughters, but it was Boris who had completely renovated it. Since he cannot afford to find another place to live, they must continue to share it. When all is said and done, neither of the two is willing to give up.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Joaquin Del Paso, director of the film Maquinaria Panamericana.

After presenting his first film Maquinaria Panamericana at the Guadalajara Film Festival and being compared to Luis Bunuel in the approach to his characters and setting, Joaquin Del Paso is in Torino competing with his film in the official section of the 34th Torino Film Festival. In a modern Mexico that at the same time it looks like it’s set in a out of time place, after the death of their boss, the faithful workers of the factory Maquinaria Panamericana lock themselves up in the company and react, their own way, to this loss and to being suddenly unemployed.

Maquinaria Panamericana: The Maquinaria Panamericana garage is an ideal place to work: the mood is perfect, there’s harmony among the employees, the rhythm is relaxed and nobody ever says no to a coffee break. All this under the benevolent gaze of their boss, Don Alejandro. This is why the employees are thrown into a panic one morning when they find him dead. Not only have they lost the best boss in the world but they soon discover that they also risk losing their jobs, since the garage is bankrupt. At this point, there don’t seem to be many solutions to the problem and the best one is to keep Don Alejandro alive…

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Thomas Kruithof, director of the film La Mecanique de l’ombre.

Fred’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Thomas Kruithof, director of La Mecanique de L’Ombre, in competition at the 34th Torino Film Festival. It is a spy story set in Belgium relies totally on Francois Cluzet’s ability to portray this very rigid man,the perfect employee who learns to disobey. By Cluzet’side, italian actress Alba Rohrwacher.

La Mecanique de l’ombre: A middle-aged, financially struggling man is looking for work two years after suffering alcoholism. He gets hired by a mysterious employer to transcribe phone-tapped conversations, which propels him into the heart of a large-scale political plot and gets him trapped in the French services underworld.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito, Axel Koenzen, Pablo Lamar, directors of Out of Love, Deadweight, La Ultima Tierra.

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Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito, director of Out of Love, Axel Koenzen, director of Deadweight and Pablo Lamar director of La Ultima Tierra talk to Chiara Nicoletti about their films and their experience at the Torino Film Lab

Torino Film Lab. OUT OF LOVE: Out of Love encapsulates the sweltering and devastating dynamics of love in the turbulent relationship between Varya and Nikolai, where genuine love and hope, contend with destruction and despair. DEADWEIGHT: Ahti Ikonen is a reliable captain at the height of his career. He is in command of the 35,000-ton container vessel Brugge, which enters the port of Savannah (United States) behind schedule. The loading of the ship commences in haste as the crew, led by the ambitious Romanian officer Katia, works by the piece so that they can sail in time. The Filipino seaman James has an accident during this semi-legal lashing procedure. Ahti has to face the consequences of his orders. In the port of Rotterdam (Netherlands) unionized dockworkers exploit the incident and refuse to unload the ship. Standstill. The captain is caught between the frontlines. Ahti is keen to elucidate the accident, but the situation becomes more and more contradictory… LA ULTIMA TIERRA: A man is sitting at his wife’s death bed. He feeds her, watches over her and reassures her. After she dies, in the early morning, he takes care of her body. She is no longer part of time, while he has to continue, rudderless. He seeks solace in practical things – digging the grave, washing the body – while a sorrow wells up in him that traditional mourning rituals are powerless to overcome. His response is a gesture as radical as death itself.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Adrian Sitaru, director of the film The Fixer.

This is a film about the duality of our system of values, that’s how Adrian Sitaru describes his new film The Fixer, screening at the 34th Torino Film Festival. The Romanian director discusses the contrast between the protagonist’ search for truth and the difficulty that human beings encounter in understanding. Adrian Sitaru who is also a member of the official competition jury of the 34th Torino Film Festival,comments on his visual choices such as the strong use of the zoom and close ups.

The Fixer: Radu is doing an apprenticeship as a journalist at a French broadcasting station in Romania and a scandal over an underage prostitution ring between France and Romania seems like his chance to make progress in his career. He’s at an advantage since he knows the language, so when the underage prostitute Anca is repatriated, he offers to interpret for two journalists who have arrived from Paris. But the girl is entrusted to an institution run by nuns, and Radu and his colleagues have a hard time tracking her down and convincing her to talk. Above all, Radu hasn’t taken into account the conflict with his objectives, journalistic ethics and simple human compassion.

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