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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Brad Pitt and Liv Tyler, actors of the film Ad Astra.

Brad Pitt talks about his relationship with science fiction and the fascination of it. Liv Tyler talks about being his girlfriend (in the film), loving a man that is more comfortable in space than on Earth.

Ad Astra: Astronaut Roy McBride travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his missing father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. His journey will uncover secrets that challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews James Gray and Ruth Negga, director and actress of the film Ad Astra.

James Gray tells us why he chose science fiction as a mean to tell the story of a man’s tranformation; Ruth Negga talks about being born and stuck in space and the connection between space and the personal quests we all have.

Ad Astra: Astronaut Roy McBride travels to the outer edges of the solar system to find his missing father and unravel a mystery that threatens the survival of our planet. His journey will uncover secrets that challenge the nature of human existence and our place in the cosmos.

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

FRED’s first daily report from the 2019 Venice Film Festival, hosted by Matt Micucci and Nicolò Comotti. On this interview, we touch base on some of our activities from the oldest and one of the most prestigious film festivals in the world, including Haifaa al-Mansour receiving our FRED Award and Pedro Almodóvar receiving the festival’s Lifetime Achievement Award. Plus, talk of star power with Brad Pitt hitting the red carpet presentation of Ad Astra and Scarlett Johanssenn and Adam Driver for Marriage Story. Plus more from the parallel sections, including Giornate degli Autori, Critics’ Week, Venice Classics, Venice Production Bridge and beyond.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Dominik Moll, director of the film Only the Animals. 

Filmmaker Dominik Moll’s latest film, Only the Animals, opened this year’s edition of the Giornate degli Autori section of the 2019 Venice International Film Festival in Italy and we cuaght up with him for a chat about it. The film is about the mystery of connection and the desire or need for illusion in the modern world, and Moll based it on a book by Colin Niels. The director tells us about some of these themes, including that of multiculturality, and a little bit about the novelistic structure of the film, which he also applied to his movie.

Only the Animals: A woman has disappeared. The day after a snowstorm, her car is found on a road leading to a plateau with nothing but a few scattered farms. The gendarmes have nothing to go on, while five individuals well know they have something to do with the woman’s disappearance. They all keep their secrets to themselves, but no one suspects that the whole story began far from these windswept wintry peaks: on another continent, in the burning sun, where poverty doesn’t stop desire from taking the law into its own hands.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Stefano Francia di Celle, co-curator of the Venice Classics. 

An extended chat with Stefano Francia di Celle, co-curator with Alberto Barbera of the Venice Classics section, which features world premieres of film restorations of titles from all over the world. Some of the titles in this year’s edition include Bernardo Bertolucci’s The Grim Reaper and The Spider’s Stratagem, Jack Arnold’s The Incredible Shrinking Man, Forough Farrokhzad’s The House Is Black, Gustav Machaty’s Ecstasy and more. We run through these films and more. Stefano Francia di Celle also introduces our chat by telling us a bit about himself and how his passion developed into a profession.

To discover more about Venice Classics, click here.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Katrin Gebbe, director of the film Pelikanblut.

Katrin Gebbe sits down with us at our radio call studio in Venice to talk about her feature Pelikanblut – Pelican Blood – an intense tour de force in the realm of motherhood, the unknown and (super)Nature.

Pelikanblut: Wiebke lives together with her nine-year-old adoptive daughter Nicolina on an idyllic horse farm. After many years of waiting, she now has the chance to adopt Raya, a five-year-old girl, to provide Nicolina with the longed-for sister. The first weeks are harmonious, and the siblings get along great. But shortly thereafter, Wiebke realises that Raya, initially shy and charming, is becoming increasingly aggressive and poses a danger to herself and others. The mother will soon have to cross borders and take extreme decisions to protect her cubs.

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews João Nicolau, director of the film Technoboss.

We talked with João Nicolau, director of Technoboss presented in the international competition of the 72 Locarno Film Festival. The director talks with FRED about his intention to make a film about a character of sixty years old avoiding all the kinds of commiseration that usually surrounds aging, the importance of music in Technoboss, and the reason behind the unconventional choose of Miguel Lobo Antunes as the main protagonist.

Technoboss: Luís Rovisco, divorced and well into his sixties, is hoping to retire soon from his job as the commercial director of SegurVale – Integrated Systems of Access Control. Until that happens, he can more often be found behind the wheel of his car, singing about what he sees along the way. Quick on the draw and with a ready smile, his years of experience allow him to gracefully avoid the traps that technology, his coworkers and a mysteriously absent boss keep setting on his path. Not even the death of Napoleão (a cat), the constant pain in his knee or a family altercation overpower him: there’s no wrong that a song can’t make right. But before Lucinda, the receptionist at Almadrava Hotel, he finds himself singing to a different tune.

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Joe Talbot, director of the film The Last Black Man in San Francisco.

FRED interviews Joe Talbot who is at the 72nd Locarno Film Festival in the international competition with his first feature film, The Last Black Man in San Francisco. The director tells how was born the idea of this film: the true story of his friend Jimmie Fails, the first day of shooting, and the sentiment that binds him to San Francisco: a city that you can’t hate unless you love it first.

The Last Black Man in San Francisco: Jimmie Fails dreams of reclaiming the Victorian home his grandfather built in the heart of San Francisco. Joined on his quest by his best friend Mont, Jimmie searches for belonging in a rapidly changing city that seems to have left them behind. As he struggles to reconnect with his family and reconstruct the community he longs for, his hopes blind him to the reality of his situation. A wistful odyssey populated by skaters, squatters, street preachers, playwrights, and the other locals on the margins, The Last Black Man in San Francisco is a poignant and sweeping story of friendship, community, and the true meaning of home. Joe Talbot’s directorial debut is a deep and resonant meditation on the stories we tell ourselves to find our place in the world.

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews actor Song Kang-ho.

The Excellence Award of the 72nd Locarno Film Festival goes to Song Kang-ho, a many-sided figure in South-Korean and international cinema. An exceptional, remarkably versatile artist, Song has tested himself constantly across a career stretching over more than two decades, tackling an endless variety of genres and roles and subtly altering the register of his approach to find ever greater dramatic depth. In this interview Song talks about his experience in Locarno, his approach to acting and his future projects.

The Excellence Award pays tribute to film personalities whose efforts and talents have enriched cinema. Winners of the Excellence Award at previous Festivals include Ethan Hawke, Mathieu Kassovitz, Edward Norton, John Malkovich, Juliette Binoche, and Isabelle Huppert.

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PODCAST | Diego Aparicio interviews Pituka Ortega, director of the International Film Festival Panama.

Pituka Ortega is Director of the International Film Festival Panama, which takes place in Panama City every year since 2012. In the past five years, the festival has become the strongest in the region. Most of the programme is Latin American, but IFF Panama also programmes a carefully curated international section.

During the 2019 edition of New Horizons, we talked to some of the participants of the ICO’s course for festival professionals, “Developing Your Film Festival”. “Developing Your Film Festival” is an intensive training program for professionals working in the festival industry. The training is organized by the London Independent Cinema Office. Each year, it is held as a part of a different European film festival. So far participants of more than 170 film festivals around the globe took part in “Developing Your Film Festival”. The instructors were experts of Berlinale, Hot Docs, as well as Rotterdam and Toronto film festivals. Training participants will have the opportunity to learn how to increase their audience, promote the festival internationally, gain sponsors and more.

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