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Francesco Munzi – director – Black Souls (Anime Nere)

FRED’s Cristiana Palmieri interviews Francesco Munzi, director of the film Black Souls (Anime Nere), featured in the official competition of the 2015 Sydney Film Festival. Director Francesco Munzi talks about Black Souls, a contemporary drama that ticks all the boxes of the Greek tragedy and its archetypes.

BLACK SOULS (ANIME NERE): Black Souls follows three brothers from a Calabrese crime family faced with a crisis and no easy resolution. Calabria’s mafia, the ‘Ndrangheta, is on the background of this powerful tale of morality and the challenges of breaking cycles of crime and violence.

Evocatively capturing both the moral and physical decay of Calabria, Black Souls is an intelligent and bracing crime film.

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Robert Gordon – director – Best of Enemies

FRED’s Antonio Back intervies Robert Gordon, director of the documentary Best of Enemies from the Contemporary Lives section of the Biografilm Festival in Bologna, Italy.

In this interview, you can listen to Robert Gordon talk about the incident in US television history which changed television into a sensation-seeking medium.

BEST OF ENEMIES: Best of Enemies is a behind-the-scenes account of the explosive 1968 televised debates between liberal Gore Vidal and conservative William F. Buckley Jr., and their rancorous disagreements about politics, God and sex.

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Terezie Krizkovska – co-founder – NaFilm: National Film Museum

FRED’s Matt Micucci interviews Terezie Krizkovska, one of the creators and founders of NaFilm – National Film Museum in Prague, Czech Republic.

NaFilm is a project which was started by a group of students, with the aim to raise awareness of Czech cinema among a wider public, and give the Czech Republic its first true National Film Museum.

The exhibition that is running at the moment, from June to October, at the Museum Montanelli is – as Terezie tells us – just the start, a trailer, a teaser, a testing ground. Through this exhibition, she says, their intention is not only to achieve a solid level of education and entertainment on Czech cinema and filmmaking in general, but also to understand what they need to have in the resulting museum and film centre from the feedback they will be receiving to the visiting public.

Terezie also tells us about the long and hard journey to get the project off the ground. How it started out of an idea and a passion, and how they were able to raise awareness and gather enough funds to get it all going. She also shares with us her opinion and ideas on film education, and about whether or not film belongs in a museum as much as it does in the cinema.

NAFILM – NÁRODNÍ FILMOVÉ MUZEUM – NATIONAL FILM MUSEUM: Why doesn’t Czech cinema have its own museum? Hasn’t Czech film heritage been hidden in archives and depositories for too long? What if we finally – after over hundred years – present it to public?

NaFilM was founded to answer all these questions.

The founders of the NaFilM (National Film Museum) project are students from the Film Studies department at Charles University, Prague. They endeavor to establish a unique institution whose purpose is to examine, re-evaluate and publicly present the importance of the Czech Republic’s national film heritage not only to the Czech people but also to visitors from all around the world.

The intended institution should become an engaging place to experience film open to both the general public and to experts and film professionals. Students and academics from the Film Studies department have been in dialogue with theorists, experts and curators to work on the concept of a National Film Museum for the past two years.

The elaborated film museum concept and its architectural design along with selected sections of future museum exhibitions will be showcased at a special exhibition held in Prague in June 2015. This exhibition will present not only our significant cinematographic heritage, but also possible curatorial approaches to exhibiting the film medium and its history.

The accompanying program of the exhibition will consist of various workshops, screenings and discussions, including a series of lectures called ‘How to present film or Why doesn’t Prague have a film museum?’ that will offer a unique opportunity to participate in the process of establishing the National Film Museum.

Click here to visit the official website of NaFilm – National Film Museum, Prague, Czech Republic.

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Film: Eat Sleep Die (2012)

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Jan Soldat – filmmaker

The newly founded Madrid International Film Festival has two retrospective programmes this year. One is dedicated to Filipino director Lav Diaz. The other is dedicated to the German documentarian Jan Soldat. FRED’s Gonzalo Suárez met up with Jan Soldat to mark the occasion, and talk with the 31-year-old about his works.

The works that are screened at the 2015 Filmadrid as part of this focus are: The Incomplete (Der Untertige, 2013), The Sixth Season (Die Sechste Jahreszeit, 2015), Be Loved (Geliebt, 2009), Law and Order (Zucht und Ordnung, 2012), Prison System 4614 (Haftanlage 4614)

JAN SOLDAT: Ever since his first short film back in 2009 up to his last work, Prison System 4614, which premiered at the Berlinale’s Panorama sidebar, Jan Soldat has tried to portray the German homosexual men in his films as honestly as possible, showing their BDSM and other unusual sexual practices in the most unprejudiced way, perhaps making him an anthropologist first rather than a film-maker.

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Laura Nix – director – The Yes Men Are Revolting

FRED’s Antonio Back interviews director Laura Nix, who was at the 2015 Biografilm Festival in Bologna, Italy, to present her latest documentary The Yes Men Are Revolting, which premiered at the 2015 Berlinale earlier this year.

Director Laura Nix is probably the only person in the world who has managed to keep up with the Yes Men and their crazy stunts. Learn the secrets behind her work and how you can spread the Yes Men word.

THE YES MEN ARE REVOLTING: For nearly two decades, Yes Men Mike and Andy have pulled off notorious media hoaxes that expose corporate crimes. Now middle-aged, they’re taking on the biggest threat they’ve ever faced – climate change. Can they overcome insurmountable political forces before it’s too late to save the planet?

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Golshifteh Farahani – actress – Two Friends (Les Deux Amis)

Golshifteh Farahani talks about the construction of her character, her sense of freedom… She also remembers so it was to work with actor-turned-director Louis Garrel, and about how much rehearsing was necessary to reach that level of spontaneity.

TWO FRIENDS (LES DEUX AMIS): Two Friends is about Abel (Louis Garrel) and Clément (Vincent Macaigne), two clumsy, hopelessly romantic young Parisians with nothing but their friendship. When they “kidnap” Mona (Golshifteh Farahani), a wild and fun food-vending girl Clément has fallen in love with, their “bromance” falters.

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Louis Garrel – filmmaker – Two Friends (Les Deux Amis)

FRED’s Bénédicte Prot meets filmmaker Louis Garrel, who talks about his latest work Two Friends (Les Deux Amis) from the Semaine de la Critique of the 68th Cannes Film Festival.

Louis Garrel envisages his role as director and scriptwriter as that of a piano-tuner and disk-jockey.

He tells us about co-writing with Christophe Honoré, being in front and behind the camera, his thorough work with the actors to obtain spontaneity and intimacy, the depth of lightness, and passes on a piece of advice from Jean-Claude Carrière which made for a fantastic scene in his film.

TWO FRIENDS (LES DEUX AMIS): Two Friends is about Abel (Louis Garrel) and Clément (Vincent Macaigne), two clumsy, hopelessly romantic young Parisians with nothing but their friendship. When they “kidnap” Mona (Golshifteh Farahani), a wild and fun food-vending girl Clément has fallen in love with, their “bromance” falters.

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Suha Arraf – filmmaker – Villa Touma

FRED’s Cristiana Palmieri meets director, screenwriter and producer of the film Villa Touma, which was features in the programme of the 2015 Sydney Film Festival.

Suha Arraf talks to us about her directorial debut Villa Touma, her work as screenwriter and her outlook on Palestinian society as well as the resilience of Palestinian women.

VILLA TOUMA: The film offers a rare glimpse into aristocratic Palestinian Christian society. Three unmarried sisters cling desperately to their former glory, until their orphaned niece arrives to turn their world upside down.

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Film: Io Sono Li (2011)

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