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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Harry Cepka and Grace Glowicki, director and actress of the film Raf.

After the TIFF, at the 37th Torino Film Festival, Harry Cepka brings his first feature film, his thesis film Raf with Grace Glowicki playing Raf and Jesse Stanley in the role of Tal, the intoxicating woman, the protagonist Raf becomes friends with. The director and his best friend, actress Grace Glowicki comment on how the film depicts the power dynamics in a friendship and how a person’s character can be shaped by the people they surround themselves with.

Raf: A techno-laced exploration of a tumultuous friendship from its giddy beginning to its sudden end. In the twilight of her 20s, Raf works two jobs and spends her free time playing boardgames with her boyfriend’s roommates. Privately, she fantasizes of a life of performance and dance clubs. Over the course of several charged encounters, she becomes friends with a charismatic and wealthy woman named Tal. Raf becomes infatuated with Tal’s take-no-prisoners lifestyle. With Tal as her guide, Raf begins to see a new vision of herself, until a humiliating weekend at Tal’s country home reveals the true power balance between them.

To discover more about Raf, click here.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Corneliu Poromboiu, director of the film La Gomera.

After Cannes 2019′ success, Corneliu Poromboiu brings his La Gomera at the 37th Torino Film Festival in the Festa Mobile section. Accompanied by his “dark lady” Catrinel Marlon, the rumenian director reveal the genesis of the film and the idea of building a film around “silbo”, a strange and whistled language people speak in a small island close to Tenerife, La Gomera. By homaging the classics of the thriller and noir genre, Poromboiu creates a neo-noir film with a touch of irony and comedy.

La Gomera: A corrupt Romanian policeman is in a big mess; he travels to a small island in the Canaries (the one in the title) in the company of a femme fatale to learn a strange language made of whistles which he intends to use as a code during a crime. The craftiest and most ironical director of the Romanian Nouvelle Vague creates a surreal, noir, and melodramatic comedy with masterly disenchantment, framing his story with music that ranges from The Passenger to the Radetzky March.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews directors Davide Mandi and Callisto McNulty, and producer Narimane Mari, during the first part of the Special about Documentary, recorded at the 37th Torino film Festival.

Davide Mandi (director of L’Apprendistato), Callisto McNulty (director of Delphine et Carole) and Narimane Mari (producer of 143 Rue du desert) talk about their films and the paths to make them and about the situation of documentary film making.

This interview has been recorded during the 37th Torino Film Festival, in collaboration with the Italian Film Commission Association, with the support of the Italian Trade Agency.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Zachary Spicer, actor and producer of the film Ms. White Light.

Zachary Spicer is the producer and actor in Ms. White Light, in competition at the 37th Torino Film Festival. At the festival, the actor describes what was the starting point for him and his best friend, director Paul Shoulberg when they decided to talk about what in America they call “death doula”, a professional consultant that accompany people in the last moments of their lives. At first it was Zachary Spicer who was supposed to play the main character but then they thought it would be better to have a female protagonist with the charisma of Roberta Colindrez to give it such a strong and defined personality. Ms. White Light is a way to exorcize death and it makes the spectator reflect on what the most important things in life are. The film attempts to answer: the most important thing in life is to earn somebody’s affection and love.

Ms. White Light: Lex Cordova is a young woman who counsels terminally ill clients that have trouble letting go. While proving uniquely talented in her ability to connect with the dying, Lex is at a total loss when it comes to dealing with everyone else. Armed with only the misguided guidance of Gary, her father and business partner, unsolicited loyalty from Nora, a former client obsessed with samurai culture, and an awkward romance with Spencer, a seductive, but morally ambiguous psychic, Lex struggles to help Valerie, her most challenging client yet.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews director Teona Strugar Mitevska.

Teona Strugar Mitevska wears three hats at the 37th Torino Film Festival: she’s in official competition jury chaired by director Cristina Comencini, her 5 films are screened as part of a retrospective artistic director Emanuela Martini curated in her honor and she’s presenting her latest feature God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya, which premiered at the Berlinale 2019. On the occasion of the retrospective, Teona Strugar Mitevska looks back at her career and describes how she learned to own her place in the filmmaking world as a woman director.

Teona Strugar Mitevska (Skopje, North Macedonia, 1974) was born into an artistic family. She started as a child actor, trained as a painter and graphic designer and later studied at the Tisch School of Arts. She made her first short, Veta, in 2001; her first feature was How I Killed a Saint (2004), made under the auspices of the Sisters and Brother Mitevski, a company she established with her brother and her sister. Her next feature film, I Am from Titov Veles (2007), received a Special Jury Prize at the Sarajevo Film Festival. Her film The Woman Who Brushed Off Her Tears premiered at the 2012 Berlin Film Festival and in 2013 she directed the film Teresa and I, a documentary about Mother Teresa. Her feature film When the Day Had No Name (2017), premiered in the Panorama Special section of the 2017 Berlin IFF.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Roman Griffin Davis and Carthew Neal, actor and producer of the film Jojo Rabbit.

A real blast of a film on the shoulders of an incredible young actor, who is hilarious and seriously committed at the same time. Some behind the scenes hints are told, and the preparation about Nazism for a young boy of this millenium.

Jojo Rabbit: Set in Vienna during the last years of Nazism, the film tells the story of Jojo Betzler, a sweet and somewhat shy 10-year-old boy who, together with his big chubby and bespectacled friend, shares the dream of becoming a perfect young Nazi . Because Jojo has an idol, Adolf Hitler, who turned into an imaginary friend.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Jessica Woodworth and Peter Van Den Begin, director and actor of the film The Barefoot Emperor.

After the success of King of the Belgians, Jessica Woodworth and Peter Brosens felt the need to shoot a sequel that could follow up on the situation Europe is living today: The Barefoot Emperor, screening in the Afterhours section at the 37° Torino Film Festival. With protagonist Peter Van Den Begin playing the now “emperor”, the film changes the tones of the first chapter and tries to explore the idea of a leader. What does it mean to be a Leader? What kind of a leader does Europe at the moment? Jessica Woodworth and Peter Van Den Begin try to answer but leave room for a third film on the topic.

The Barefoot Emperor: Wounded at Sarajevo as he was trying to return home, Nicolas III, the king of Belgium, wakes up on a Croatian island, Tito’s former summer residence, in a sanatorium which is run by a strange doctor with suprematist tendencies. Outside, the European Union is imploding and some people are dreaming of the Empire. The sequel of King of the Belgians, in which the directors recount, with their hallmark surrealistic and satirical vein, the political climate in the Old World. The cast from the first movie has been joined by the always sulfurous Udo Kier.

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PODCAST | Sarah Bradbury interviews Paul Morrison, director of the film Solomon and Gaenor.

Paul Morrison, director of 1999 Oscar-nominated film Solomon and Gaenor, spoke to us about celebrating the film’s 20th anniversary at the UK Jewish Film Festival. He shared with us his initial inspiration for the film, the importance of representing the Jewish community in the UK on the screen and his mixed feelings of hope and despair about our current climate of tolerance in the UK.

Solomon and Gaenor: This Oscar-nominated classic of British-Jewish cinema is 20 years old this year. Set amid the anti-Jewish riots of 1911, and starring Ioan Gruffudd, Nia Roberts and Maureen Lipman, Solomon and Gaenor tells the story of a young Orthodox-Jewish man in South Wales who falls in love with a local girl. Will their love survive their respective communities’ prejudice and fear? Winner – Best Film, Best Design, Best Camera (Drama) & Best Costume, BAFTA Cymru Awards 2001 Nominated – Best Foreign Language Film, Academy Awards 2000 “[an] understated, beautifully layered performance.” – The New York Times.

To discover more about the Festival, click here.

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PODCAST | Sarah Bradbury interviews Michael Etherton, Chief Executive of the UK Jewish Film Festival.

We sit down with Michael Etherton, the Chief Executive of the UK Jewish Film Festival, to hear about the role of the festival and its programme for 2019 from classics such as When Harry Met Sally to new releases like Jo Jo Rabbit. Etherton also told us why it’s still important to challenge stereotypes in the representation of Jewish people on screen, bring those representations to a broad audience in the face of rising anti-semitism and how humour and satire can also be a surprisingly effective way to open up people’s perspectives.

At the core of UK Jewish Film’s values is the notion that film is universal. It crosses cultures and divides and has the ability to unite, engage and educate diverse audiences through the telling of cinematic stories that provide stimulating, interesting and unique views of Jewish and Israeli life and culture. UK Jewish Film aims to develop a culture where Jewish and Israeli film is recognised and enjoyed by the widest possible audience, and to bring Jewish related film to the heart of British culture. UK Jewish Film – through its flagship, annual, two week UK Jewish Film Festival (with approx 15,000 visitors), its festival in Geneva, as well as its 450 year-round screenings and previews at venues across London and the UK, showcases a wide range of feature films, documentaries and shorts, which reflect the diversity of Jewish and Israeli life and culture. Since its inception the UK Jewish Film Festival has welcomed over 300,000 visitors. Its popular video on demand platform brings its unique provision of film to many more. The organisation also runs acclaimed education programmes that reach hundreds of young people each year. UKJF’s work encourages pride in and knowledge of Jewish culture amongst younger generations and promotes understanding and awareness towards Jewish and Israeli people and culture. The 23rd UK Jewish Film Festival will take place from 6 – 21 November 2019, bringing the best of contemporary Jewish cinema from around the world, to a diverse range of UK audiences.

To discover more about the Festival, click here.

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Niclas Bendixen, director of the film Ditte & Louise.

The director of Ditte & Louse, Niclas Bendixen, talks to FRED two weeks before the 32nd European Film Awards gala. His film in nominated to Best European Comedy, and we ask him about the lack of work for mature actresses (the main topic of the movie). The filmmaker gives us his opinion on The favourite and Tel Aviv on fire, the two other contenders for the prize.

Ditte & Louise: Ditte and Louise are two middle-aged actresses who realize that the only thing the industry has to offer is roles of mothers or grandmothers. That’s why Ditte takes a radical decision: she dresses up like a man. And all of a sudden, the world is upside down! Contrary to expectations, Ditte succeeds as Ditlev. She suddenly gets lead roles. She gets tons of attention.

To discover more about the EFA – European Film Award 2019, click here.

This interview has been recorded on the occasion of the 32nd EUROPEAN FILM AWARDS ceremony on 7th December 2019 in Berlin. FRED Film Radio is media partner of the event.

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