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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Ana Moreira, actress of the film Sombra.

A conversation with Ana Moreira, actress of Sombra, the Portuguese film that had its world premiere at this year’s BCN Film Festival. The film explores the grief of a mother who continues to fight to discover the truth about her son’s disappearance. In this interview, Moreira talks about working with Gascon to bring her character to life and the research this process involved. She also talks about the psychological aspect of working on a film exploring heavy themes and more, including her experience of working on livestream theatrical production throughout the times of COVID.

Sombra:  Years after her son’s disappearance, a mother keeps trying to find him after a kidnapping that justice cannot resolve, as she moves into a universe that wants to force her to mourn a child she believes is still alive. Based on real events.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Bruno Gascon, director of the film Sombra.

A conversation with director Bruno Gascon, director of Sombra, the Portuguese film that had its world premiere at this year’s BCN Film Festival. The film explores the grief of a mother who continues to fight to discover the truth about her son’s disappearance. In this interview, Gascon talks about the genesis of the project and the research that went into its construction. He also talks about working with lead actress Ana Moreira and through the early days of the pandemic.

Sombra:  Years after her son’s disappearance, a mother keeps trying to find him after a kidnapping that justice cannot resolve, as she moves into a universe that wants to force her to mourn a child she believes is still alive. Based on real events.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Bob Wells and Swankie, actors of the film Nomadland.

They not only brought their own van-life experience into Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland but Bob Wells and Swankie also gifted the film with two amazing performances as actors, playing with two times Oscar winner Frances McDormand. A few days before the Oscar night 2021 where the film is nominated in 6 categories, the two now actors speak about their experience in the film and how Nomadland changed people’s perception and prejudices towards their life style, nomadic life. Both Bob Wells and Swankie mixed their personal experience with some fictional ones written for the film and the result is a very close, touching and moving cinematic experience for the audiences. Nomadland will be out in cinemas in Italy on April 30th and will also be available on Disney + in the Star section.

Nomadland : Following the economic collapse of a company town in rural Nevada, Fern (Frances McDormand) packs her van and sets off on the road exploring a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad. The third feature film from director Chloé Zhao, NOMADLAND features real nomads Linda May, Swankie and Bob Wells as Fern’s mentors and comrades in her exploration through the vast landscape of the American West.

To discover more about the film, click here.

To watch the trailer, click here.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews David Herdies and Georg Götmark, directors of the film Bellum – The Daemon of War.

A conversation with David Herdies and Georg Götmark, directors of Bellum – The Daemon of War. The film will have its world premiere in the International Feature Film Competition of the 2021 Visions du Réel. The documentary takes a meditative look at the theme of war, particularly by exploring the lives of three different characters who are linked to it in different ways, and via poetic narrative interludes. In this interview, the directors talk about the origins of their collaborations as well as those of this film, the points of view on the theme of war that Bellum offers and more.

Bellum-The Daemon of War :  War has always been the fate of humanity, its form evolving with “progress” over the ages. But the advent of artificial intelligence and the hyper-digitalisation of weapons is a game changer. In these new conflicts, which are increasingly remotely operated, the front seems to take the shape of a new demon. Bellum-The Daemon of War offers an equally chilling and fascinating consideration of this. 

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Volkan Üce, director of the film All-In.

A conversation with Volkan Üce, whose film All-In in the NEXT:WAVE section of CPH:DOX. The film follows the lives of two young men during the course of one summer, as they work in a Turkish all-inclusive hotel. In this interview, Üce talks about how he met the two protagonist of the documentary and his interest in pursuing this project, that is observational in nature. Among other things discussed in this chat is master’s degree in Political and Social Sciences influences his filmmaking.

All-in : Two young men have applied for jobs at an all-inclusive hotel to learn English and move on in life. 17-year-old Ismail settles down in the kitchen, while the slightly older Hakan would rather stay in his room and read Schopenhauer and dream of Hollywood than tend to his brain-dead job. We join them for an entire summer as they try to feel at home in the absurd microcosm of bikinis and slides, hot dishes and lethargic tourists. ‘Take a picture of yourself before you start work,’ says the hotel’s manager, ‘When the summer is over, you will be a different person’. These are valid words, but in a different way than the head of the discount luxury holiday residence imagines in Volkan Üce’s amusing coming-of-age story about modern alienation in the workplace. An existentialist comedy with palm trees, where Western ideas of happiness and freedom are hung out to dry under the scorching sun.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Tiny Mungwe, producer at STEPS.

A conversation with Tiny Mungwe, documentary and arts producer working at Social Transformation and Empowerment Projects (STEPS), where she produces a pan-African anthology of 30 documentaries from different African countries called Generation Africa. In this interview, she talks about STEPS and Generation Africa, offering specific examples of the work that has been done so far as part of the anthology through two of its documentaries, Zinder and The Last Shelter. Zinder, directed by Aicha Macky, is premiering in the International Feature Film Competition of Visions du Réel. The Last Shelter, directed by Ousmane Samassekou, is premiering in the main competition of CPH:DOX.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Matthew Rankin, director of the film The Twentieth Century. 

A conversation withh Canadian filmmaker Matthew Rankin on his feature debut The Twentieth Century, screened as part of the Discoveries program of the 26th Vilnius Film Festival. This surrealist tale is inspired by the real-life journals of turn of the 20th-century Canadian statesman William Lyon Mackenzie King. In this interview, he talks about strong style of the film and its wide-ranging influences, as well as his interest in this particularly exciting period in history and more.

The Twentieth Century: Canada at the turn of the 20th century is looking for a new prime minister, and a young William Lyon Mackenzie King feels up to the task. Driven by Oedipal political aspirations, his path to leadership is littered with obstacles: an ongoing Boer war in Africa, a national separatist movement, an elusive love interest, as well as an internal struggle to repress his footwear fetish and onanist impulses. Mackenzie King’s ambition will come out on top in the battles of good vs evil, love vs hate.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Margje de Koning, artistic director of Movies That Matter Festival.

A conversation with Margje de Koning, artistic director of the Movies That Matter Festival, the annual human rights film festival held in The Hague, Netherlands, that will run online this year on April 16-25, in response to the pandemic. Aside from the film screenings, the festival offers other events, including conversations, panels, Q&A sessions and more.

In this interview, de Koning talks about some of what will be offered as part of this year’s Movies That Matter Festival program as well as how it will work, what makes The Hague such an appropriate place for an international human rights film festival and more.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Algirdas Ramaska, CEO of Vilnius International Film Festival.

A conversation with Algirdas Ramaska about this year’s edition of the Vilnius International Film Festival, the 26th in the history of this prestigious international film festival and one of the most important of the region.

Here, he talks with us about the challenges faced in the times of the coronavirus, including an initiative launched in collaboration with some of the top-rate hotels across the Lithuanian capital. He also talks about some of the winners and highlights of this year’s program, which also ran online this year with the hopes of returning to theatre venues as normal next year.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Saulė Bliuvaitė director and actress of the film Limousine. 

A conversation with Saulė Bliuvaitė, director of Limousine, presented in the Shorts Competition program of the 2021 Vilnius Film Festival. This is the young Lithuanian filmmaker’s debut documentary short and it observes groups of people of different generations as they ride in a limousine for a limited period of time. Aside from talking about her interest in the documentary form and limousines, Bliuvaitė also talks about the importance of observation as an aspect of the filmmaking process and shares that she is currently preparing her feature debut.

Limousine: Groups of people from different generations rent a limousine for one hour. They aim to commemorate certain life events or simply to have a good time. However, they get tangled up in resolving personal matters and struggle to find the best way to have the desired fun in this strictly limited period of time.

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