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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Arthur Harari, director of the film Onoda.

The Un Certain Regard opening film, Onoda, is a story about resilience, resistance and the power of imagination as the most powerful force in human life. The film is described by its director, Arthur Harari as coming from a story he heard from his father when he was looking for an adventure film to shoot. The protagonist wants to believe in something, he doesn’t want to accept the world as it is. Onoda is the result of a fruitful co-production between many countries including Italy.

Onoda:Japan, 1944. Trained for intelligence work, Hiroo Onoda, 22 years old, discovers a philosophy contrary to the official line: no suicide, stay alive whatever happens, the mission is more important than anything else. Sent to Lubang, a small island in the Philippines where the Americans are about to land, his role will be to wage a guerilla war until the return of the Japanese troops. The Empire will surrender soon after, Onoda 10.000 days later.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Ella Manzheeva, actress of the film Titane.

The protagonist of Palme d’Or Winner Titane , Agathe Rousselle, talks about her unique experience acting in the film directed by Julia Ducornau. The actress the also elaborates on the very present elements of body and violence in the film and the constant co-existing between life and death. Agathe Rousselle confirms that she wants to carry on with her acting career after the amazing experience with Ducornau and at the Festival de Cannes.

Titane: A young man with a bruised face is picked up by airport customs officers. He claims to be Adriane Legrand, who disappeared as a child ten years ago. For Adriene’s father Vincent, a long nightmare has finally come to its end, and he takes the young man home. At the same time, a series of gruesome murders is ravaging the area…

To discover more about the film, click here.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Heather Graham at the Filming Italy Sardegna Festival 2021.

Heather Graham is a wonderful actress and a beautiful woman. We talked about the importance, positive and negative, of beauty, making pivotal films ( as she did) and the ability of acting in different tones, comic and dramatic. Plus Heather Graham is a huge philanthropist, which we like a lot.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Vanessa Hudgens at the Filming Italy Sardegna Festival 2021.

Vanessa Hudgens is a blast. She is funny, nice and into the politics of filmmaking, where issues and messages have to walk hand in hand with entertainment. And being a singer actress dancer is the demonstration of all that she is ( and why she will star in the next Lin-Manuel Miranda film among many others, just saying…).

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews the actor Harvey Keitel, guest of honour of Filming Italy Sardegna 2021.

Harvey Keitel, guest of honour of Filming Italy Sardegna 2021, is a legend. He tells us a story to explain what being a legend can be (but also cannot).

Besides this, we talked about The Bad Lieutenenat, one of his most celebrated characters of bad guys, that were not so bad in reality…

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Stefanie Plappert, curator of the exhibition Catastrophe. What Comes After the End?.

A conversation with Stefanie Plappert, curator of a new exhibition exploring disaster movies that recently opened at the German Film Museum in Frankfurt. The exhibition is titled “Catastrophe. What Comes After the End? ” It opened on July 14 and will run through January 9, 2022. Aside from focusing on the history of this cinematic subgenre, form earlier examples to present-day blockbusters, disaster movies are explored in part through object and scientific expertise in partnership with the Senckenbert Naturmuseum, which will also present a companion program in their building during the run of the show.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Ella Manzheeva, director of the film White Road!.

A conversation with Ella Manzheeva, Kalmyk director best-known for her critically-acclaimed 2015 feature debut, The Gulls. Manzheeva was recently selected as one of the filmmakers presenting their forthcoming projects at L’Atelier de la Cinéfondation at the 2021 Cannes Film Festival. Here, she shares with us her experience and talks about her forthcoming road movie, White Road!, which she is set to begin filming next in a month.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Ali Atassi, producer of the film Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege.

A conversation with Ali Atassi, producer of an award-winning documentary called Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege, which was presented in the program of ACID, the parallel section of the Cannes Film Festival. The film is directed by Abdallah Al-Khatib and is an insightful look at life in Yarmouk, in Damascus, Syria – the world’s biggest Palestinian refugee camp. Atassi is also the founder of Bidayyat, the organization that gives grants to first-time Syrian documentarians and experimental film projects.

Little Palestine, Diary of a Siege: During the Syrian civil war, the district of Yarmouk, home to thousands of Palestinians, became the scene of dramatic and ferocious fighting. Little Palestine (Diary of a Siege) is a film that follows the destiny of civilians during the brutal sieges, imposed by the Syrian regime, that took place in the wake of the battles. With his camera, Abdallah Al-Khatib composes a love song to a place that proudly resists the atrocities of war.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Špela Čadež, director of the film Steakhouse.

A conversation with director/animator Špela Čadež about her short film Steakhouse, which will compete at the Locarno Film Festival. In this interview, she talks about the expressive potential of animation and the psychological themes she tries to explore in her animated short. She also talks about some of the challenges she had to overcome working on the film during the pandemic and more.

Steakhouse : Franc takes great pleasure in preparing a steak. On the other side of the city Liza is hurrying from work. The apartment is thoroughly engulfed in smoke. She extinguishes the damage, but the anger growing in Franc cannot be extinguished so easily.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Udi Nir, director of the film Viral.

A conversation with Udi Nir, co director with Sagi Bornstein, of the film Viral, which premiered at this year’s Docaviv. The film retraces the general tumult of 2020 via the first-hand documentation of a diverse range of YouTubers. In this interview, Nir discusses the genesis of this project and his interest in YouTube and social media, as well as how their rise in popularity may even have impacted the film industry and cinematic language.

Viral: Composed entirely of videos uploaded to social media in 2020, Viral tells the story of a new generation, coming of age during a global pandemic. Seven YouTubers in their early 20’s all have big plans for 2020, but as the year unfolds the world around them starts to change dramatically: news of a new virus emerges, Black Lives Matter protests take to the streets, the US elects a new president, and an economic crisis is looming on the horizon. As the YouTubers try to find their way in this increasingly unforeseeable future, they turn to social media to communicate and express themselves, while documenting everything from long distance relationships, to unemployment and financial hardships, to surprising political awakenings.

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