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PODCAST: FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews director Udi Aloni, actor Tamer Nafar and actress Samar Qupty on the film Junction 48 from the 66th Berlinale

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Presented in the Panorama section of the 66th Berlin International Film Festival, Junction 48 stars real life rapper Tamer Nafar, who wrote the screenplay inspired by his own personal experiences as part of the Arab hip-hop scene in Tel Aviv. This is a story of love and struggles, and it speaks to young people with the hope of making a change.

JUNCTION 48 is the love story of two young Palestinian hip-hop artists who use their music to fight against both the external oppression of Israeli society and the internal repression of their own crime-ridden, conservative community. It depicts a new generation of young Arabs who seek normality through their love and music – and against all odds.

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PODCAST: FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Amir Jadidi, Homayoun Ghanizadeh and Ehsan Goudarzi, actors of the film A Dragon Arrives! (Ejhdeha Vared Mishavad!) by Mani Haghighi, presented in competition at the 66th Berlinale.

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Amir Jadidi, Homayoun Ghanizadeh and Ehsan Goudarzi are the three protagonists of Mani Haghighi’s A Dragon Arrives!, in competition at the 66th Berlinale. The actors reveal that they were honored to be cast for this film and to be working with Mani Haghighi, so they allowed him to guide them through this cinematic experience.

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A DRAGON ARRIVES: An orange Chevrolet Impala drives across a cemetery towards an abandoned shipwreck in the middle of a desert landscape. It is the 22nd of January, 1965. The day before, the Iranian prime minister was shot dead in front of the parliament building. Inside the wreck, a banished political prisoner has hung himself. The walls are covered in diary entries, literary quotes and strange symbols. Can they help Police Inspector Babak Hafizi in his investigations? Will they shed any light on why there is always an earthquake whenever somebody is buried in this desert cemetery?

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PODCAST: FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Cynthia Nixon, actress of the film A Quiet Passion by Terence Davies from the 66th Berlinale

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Cynthia Nixon plays the leading role in Terence Davies‘ new film, A Quiet Passion, on the life of Emily Dickinson. The film was presented at the 66th Berlinale as a Special Gala, and also stars Jennifer Ehle and Keith Carradine. Nixon comments on the reasons why she accepted to portray the American poet and the comedic approach used by Davies in the screenplay and the film.

A QUIET PASSION is the life story of the celebrated American poet Emily Dickinson, from her youth as a headstrong schoolgirl to her reclusive adulthood where poetry was solace.

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PODCAST: FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Andrew Neel, director of Goat from the panorama section of the 66th Berlinale.

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Co-written by Andrew Neel, David Gordon Green and Mike Roberts and based on the acclaimed memoirs by Brad Land, Goat provides a searing portrayal of masculinity, violence and brotherhood. Christine Vachon and David Hinojosa of Killer Films were the ones who suggested Neel should direct Goat, which they were planning to produce, as they were working together on a different project.

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GOAT: Reeling from a terrifying assault, a 19 year-old boy enrolls into college with his brother and pledges the same fraternity. What happens there, in the name of “brotherhood” tests the boy and his loyalty to his brother in brutal ways.

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PODCAST: FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Nick Jonas, actor in the film Goat by Andrew Neel, presented in the Panorama section of the 66th Berlinale.

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The whole story of Goat focuses on the theme of masculinity and what it stands for in today’s world. Nick Jonas plays the role of the main character Brad (Ben Schnetzer) in the film, who tries to help his brother regain his masculinity by urging him to pledge his same fraternity. Jonas talks to us about how he fell in love with the screenplay from the moment he read it, and how he hopes that Goat will raise a conversation on the topic it deals with.

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GOAT: Reeling from a terrifying assault, a 19 year-old boy enrolls into college with his brother and pledges the same fraternity. What happens there, in the name of “brotherhood” tests the boy and his loyalty to his brother in brutal ways.

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PODCAST: FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Morgan Neville, director of The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble, presented at the 66th Berlinale.

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Morgan Neville, Oscar winning director of the documentary 20 Feet from Stardom, was at the 66th Berlinale to present his latest film The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble as one of the festival’s Special Galas. Dealing once again with music, this time Neville follows the legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma and his fellow musicians of the Silk Road Ensemble as they tour around the world. While film, Neville interviews some of the musicians, with the aim to investigate into their personal stories and backgrounds, in order to allow his audience into their world.

THE MUSIC OF STRANGERS: YO-YO MA AND THE SILK ROAD ENSEMBLE: From the director of the Oscar-winning documentary 20 Feet from Stardom and the critically acclaimed Best of Enemies, the new film The Music of Strangers: Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble tells the extraordinary story of the renowned international musical collective created by legendary cellist Yo-Yo Ma. The feature-length documentary follows this group of diverse instrumentalists, vocalists, composers, arrangers, visual artists and storytellers as they explore the power of music to preserve tradition, shape cultural evolution and inspire hope.

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PODCAST: FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Tomasz Wasilewski, director of United States of Love (Zjednoczone stany milosci), in competition at the 66th Berlinale.

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The winner of the 2016 Silver Bear for Best Screenplay, filmmaker Tomasz Wasilewski, talks about his choice of making a film featuring only women as protagonists, through whom the audience can experience the atmosphere of Poland in 1990, a time of big change and transformation for the country. Wasilewski also talks about being only interested in “broken” characters, and his wish to “put his finger inside the audience’s heart,” as he puts it, in order to connect with them and get them emotionally involved in his film.

UNITED STATES OF LOVE (Zjednoczone stany milosci): Poland, 1990. The winds of change are blowing in Poland. The first euphoric year of freedom, but also of uncertainty for the future. Four apparently happy women of different ages decide it’s time to change their lives, fight for their happiness and fulfill their desires. Agata is a young mother, trapped in an unhappy marriage, who seeks refuge in another, impossible relationship. Renata is an older teacher fascinated with her neighbour Marzena – a lonely former local beauty queen, whose husband works in Germany. Marzena’s sister Iza is a headmistress in love with the father of one of her students.

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PODCAST: FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Mani Haghighi, director of A Dragon Arrives! (Ejhdeha Vared Mishavad!), in competition at the 66th Berlinale.

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After participating twice in the Forum Section with his previous films, director Mani Haghighi steps up to the Berlinale competition with A Dragon Arrives! This is a film that takes the audience away on a trip through the desert, in a precarious balance among dream-like hallucinatory states and the search for the truth.

A DRAGON ARRIVES: An orange Chevrolet Impala drives across a cemetery towards an abandoned shipwreck in the middle of a desert landscape. It is the 22nd of January, 1965. The day before, the Iranian prime minister was shot dead in front of the parliament building. Inside the wreck, a banished political prisoner has hung himself. The walls are covered in diary entries, literary quotes and strange symbols. Can they help Police Inspector Babak Hafizi in his investigations? Will they shed any light on why there is always an earthquake whenever somebody is buried in this desert cemetery?

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Lav Diaz‘s latest mastodontic film, presented in competition at the 66th Berlinale, is the 8 hours long A Lullaby to the Sorrowful Mystery. The film retraces the events of the Philippine Revolution (1896-97) by evoking mythology to better communicate with the Filipino society and the international audience in the hope for change.

A LULLABY TO THE SORROWFUL MYSTERY: Interconnected narrative threads on the Philippine Revolution of 1896-1897 against Spain characterize Hele Sa Hiwagang Hapins – The story of the ballad Jocelynang Baliwag, which became the hymn of the revolution; Gregoria De Jesus forlorn search for the body of the Father of Philippine Revoution Andres Bonifacio; the journey of our national heroes’ fictional book characters Simon and Isagani; The role of the Philippine mythical hero of strength Bernardo Carpio and the half-man, Half-horse tikbalang/Engkanto, on the Filipino psyche. It is a marriage of history, literature and mythology.

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PODCAST: FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti interviews Danis Tanović, director of Death in Sarajevo (Smrt u Sarajevu) in competition at the 66th Berlinale.

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FRED Film Radio catches up once again with director Danis Tanović. This time, the subject of the interview is his latest film Death in Sarajevo (Smrt u Sarajevu), which marks his return to the Berlinale after his earlier film An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker was awarded the Jury Grand Prix in Berlin three years ago.

In Death in Sarajevo, Tanović gathers together an imaginary group of VIPs in the famous Sarajevo’s Hotel Europe, set in the Holiday Inn, during the centennial of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination. The hotel and its guests aim to represent a satirical metaphor of the circles of hell, which Bosnia finds itself in the midst of. And for the first time, the film talks publicly about some “taboo” subject that have always only been discussed privately.

DEATH IN SARAJEVO: Sarajevo’s Hotel Europe is bustling in preparation for tonight’s European Union gala for the centennial of Archduke Franz Ferdinand’s assassination. But the disgruntled staff plans to strike because they haven’t been paid for two months. If this prestigious political dinner fails, the already mortgaged hotel will be shut down by the bank. Desperate to stop the strike, hotel manager Omer must turn to tough guy Enzo, who runs the cellar strip club. Things get tricky for head receptionist Lamija when her mother Hatidza is elected strike leader. While the French VIP guest rehearses his keynote speech in his room, TV journalist Vedrana conducts interviews on the roof for a centennial special. Among her guests is Gavrilo Princip, the namesake descendant of the Archduke’s assassin. Firm political stances quickly lead to age-old disputes. From the roof to the cellar, via the reception, laundry room and kitchen, increasing tensions turn the Hotel Europe into an ideological pressure cooker.

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