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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Camilo Arancibia, Mark Stanley and Mishell Guana, actors of the film The Settlers.

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Interview with Camilo Arancibia, Mark Stanley and Mishell Guana, actors in The Settlers by Felipe Gálvez, presented at the 76th Festival de Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section.

The Settlers: Chile’s colonial past is explored in the first feature film by Felipe Gálvez, The Settlers, at the 76th Festival de Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section. The three main actors, Camilo Arancibia, Mark Stanley and Mishell Guana highlight how important this film and this story was for them and how it resonates with today’s world. The Settlers is set in Chile in 1901 where three horsemen are hired by a rich landowner to mark out the perimeter of his expansive property. The expedition, composed of a young Chilean half blood, an American mercenary, and led by a reckless British lieutenant, soon turns into a “civilizing” raid.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Alireza Khatami & Ali Asgari, directors of the film Terrestrial Verses.

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Interview with Alireza Khatami & Ali Asgari , directors of Terrestrial Verses, presented at the 76th Festival de Cannes in the Un Certain Regard section.

Terrestrial Verses: Iranian directors Alireza Khatami and Ali Asgari met in Venice some years ago and decided to join forces and co-direct Terrestrial Verses, premiering at the 76th Festival de Cannes in the Un Certain Regard Section. The film aims to explore power dynamics in contemporary Iranian society but at the same time manages to invite the audience to evaluate power in their own lives. As it is very personal and focused on real stories happened in Iran, the film is very universal.

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Mohamed Kordofani, director of the film Goodbye Julia.

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Interview with Mohamed Kordofani director of Goodbye Julia, presented at the 76th Festival de Cannes in Un Certain Regard.

Goodbye Julia: Goodbye Julia, the first feature film of Mohamed Kordofani, is the story of the friendship between two women Julia and Mona, two completely different worlds, representation of the Northern and Southern communities of Sudan. The story takes place in Khartoum during the last years of Sudan as a united country but we soon discover that it is only an apparent unity since the cultural differences that make the political situation precarious permeate the film. Kordofani tells us why he decided to tell this story from a female point of view, and the importance to find a way for a new national identity. Since Goodbye Julia is the first Sudanese film presented at the Cannes Film Festival, we also asked Mohamed Kordofani about the situation of cinema in Sudan.

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PODCAST | Giulia Bianconi interviews Jessica Hausner, actors of the film Club Zero.

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In Club Zero with Mia Wasikowska, screening in competition at the Cannes Film Festival, the austrian director Jessica Hausner talks about manipulation, teenage issues such as their relationship with food and group mentality, parents and teachers responsabilities.

Club Zero: Miss Novak joins the staff of an international boarding school to teach a conscious eating class. She instructs that eating less is healthy. The other teachers are slow to notice what is happening and by the time the distracted parents begin to realise, Club Zero has become a reality.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Lisandro Alonso, actors of the film Eureka.

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Interview with Lisandro Alonso, director of Eureka, presented at the 76th Festival de Cannes in Cannes Premiere.

Eureka: The new film by Lisandro Alonso, screening at the 76th Festival de Cannes in the Cannes Premiere section is, as the director confirms, the biggest challenge he has ever confronted himself with, since his first film, La Libertad in 2001. Divided into three parts but conceaved as a unique film, Eureka depicts the situation of Native Americans in the US and it counts on the participation of Viggo Mortensen and Chiara Mastroianni.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Rupert Friend and Maya Hawke, actors of the film Asteroid City.

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Interview with Maya Hawke and Rupert Friend, actors in Asteroid City by Wes Anderson, presented at the 76th Festival de Cannes in Competition.

Asteroid City: As a film is a team effort, this concept has even more meaning when it comes to Wes Anderson’s cinema counting on the participation of many great actors. This is what happens with Asteroid City, in competition at the 76th Cannes Film Festival where Maya Hawke and Rupert Friend play, respectively, June, a school teacher and Montana, a musician cowboy. Asteroid City is the name for a dot-on-the-map desert town in the American Southwest in the year is 1955 but, we will soon discover that it is also a play in its preparation, directed by a renown director, played by Edward Norton. Maya Hawke and Rupert Friend are also two actors then, working on this show in the Broadway and Hollywood of the 50’s. Hawke and Friend talk about the innocent and sophisticated pastel colored world of Wes Anderson and how it felt to be cast in this film. Have their ever wished to live and be actors in a different era like the 50’s? Listen to the interview to find out.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Magalie Lepine-Blondeau, actress of the film The Nature of Love.

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Interview with Magalie Lepine-Blondeau, actress in The Nature of Love by Monia Chokri, presented at the 76th Festival de Cannes in Un Certain Regard.

The Nature of Love: She’s not only among the most famous Canadian actresses but Magalie Lepine-Blondeau is also director’s Monia Chokri’s best friend. As the protagonist of Chokri’s new feature film, The Nature of Love, Symple Comme Sylvain, at the 76th Cannes Film Festival, she plays Sophia, a 40-year-old philosophy professor, who, from a stable if somewhat socially-conforming relationship with Xavier ends up falling in love with her craftsman, Sylvain, who turns her world upside down. Magalie Lepine-Blondeau walks us into her work with Chokri on relationships, passion, cultural differences, trying to analyze answering the question: “Opposites attract, but can they last?”.

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PODCAST | Federica Scarpa interviews Inês Teixeira, director of the film Shimmering Bodies.

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Interview with Inês Teixeira, director of Shimmering Bodies, first short film, presented at the 62° Semaine de la Critique during the Cannes Film Festival.

Shimmering Bodies: It is always a great emotion to discover new young directors making their cinematic debut, as in the case of Inês Teixeira with her short, in competition at the 62nd Semaine de la Critique, a parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival. Inês was inspired by teenage memories to tell the story of Mariana, a shy teenager who is invited by her friend Jorge to spend a weekend at her house in Leiria. She will discover aspects of herself that she did not know. The director tells us about her first day on set, what she learned making her first film, and how it feels to be in such a significant competition as La Semaine de la Critique.

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PODCAST | Bénédicte Prot interviews Amjad Al Rasheed, director of the film Inshallah A Boy.

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Amjad Al Rasheed, author of the first Jordanian film to ever grace the Critics’ Week, tells us how he came to decide to make his debut a striking and potent criticism of his society from such an intimately feminine angle, talks about the patriarchal oppression at the centre of his film, and reveals some details on the writing process as well as his work with his formidable lead actress.

Inshallah A Boy: Jordan, nowadays. After the sudden death of her husband, Nawal (Mouna Hawa), in her 30s, has to fight for her part of inheritance in order to save her daughter and home in a society where having a son would be a game changer.

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PODCAST | Giulia Bianconi interviews Emily Mortimer, jury president of the Riviera International Film Festival 2023.

At Riviera International Film Festival 2023 actress, director, scriptwriter and producer Emily Mortimer talks about her role as jury president, the importance of the failures in her career, her new projects and her point of view about Woody Allen affair

Emily Mortimer about the importance of failing: “Alive in the arts, but particularly in film as an actor, writer, director or producer. Anything is very difficult and it’s mainly going to consist of things not working and making a movie is the processes pretty much impossible. Getting the money to make the movie is pretty much impossible. The chances of making a good film are pretty impossible. The chances of that film, even if it’s good, being seen by anybody are very slim. It’s a crazy thing to do with your life. It’s more hope than expectation. But it’s all these reasons, I think a really beautiful thing to do, because everybody that’s here at this festival, everybody that puts their life into this kind of storytelling really believes in it and has at some point in their lives been really affected by a movie or television show or whatever that someone else has made. And I just find this kind of the beauty in this kind of everybody getting together to make things and nobody knowing the outcome. And it’s really in the face of so much adversity, yet people’s passions persists. And sometimes something magical happens and that’s what you hope and pray for but in the meantime, you go on an amazing journey with a lot of people who have light mines, and you probably fail but you fail nobly and beautifully”.

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