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PODCAST | Diego Aparicio interviews Dag Johan Haugerud, director of the film BARN (Beware of Children).

Norwegian director Dag Johan Haugerud talked to us about his feature film BARN (Beware of Children), in competition at the 16th edition of the Giornate degli Autori strand in Venice.

BARN (Beware of Children) traces the dramatic aftermath of a tragic event in a middle class suburb of Oslo. During a break in school 13 year-old Lykke, the daughter of a prominent Labour Party member, seriously injures her classmate Jamie, the son of a high profile right-wing politician. When Jamie later dies in hospital, contradicting versions of what actually happened risks making a difficult and traumatic situation worse. Was it only innocent play behind? Liv, the school’s principal and the secret lover of Jamie’s father, must find the strength to confront a community in distress, and her own highly conflicted emotions.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews director Nina Davuluri.

Nina Davuluri has been nominated Miss America in 2014. She suffered since then a terrible attack by the right wing and red-neck people in US for her skin color. She decided to fight back right away and she created a movement worldwide for non-discrimination. She is preparing a documentary on the cosmetic industry and the skin whitening business.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Isabel Sandoval and Eamon Farren, director and actor of the film Lingua Franca.

Isabel Sandoval wrote, produced, directed edited and starred in her third film, where the life of a trans Filipino illegal woman in the USA is shaken by the arrival of Alex (Eamon Farren) whose love is a gift and a danger at the same time. Eamon Farren talks about the character of Alex who feels threatened by the nature of his love, not by choice but by social constraint.

Lingua Franca: Olivia, an undocumented Filipino immigrant paranoid about deportation, works as a caregiver to a Russian Jewish grandmother in Brighton Beach, Brooklyn. When the American man she’s secretly paying for a green-card marriage backs out, she becomes involved with the old woman’s nephew, Alex, a slaughterhouse worker who is unaware that she’s transgender. When Alex’s machismo is threatened upon discovering her transgender status, he finds himself weaponizing her immigration anxieties to emotionally brutalize Olivia.

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PODCAST | Matt Micucci interviews Marie Grahto, Lisa Carlehed and Victoria Carmen Sonne, director and actors of the film Psychosia. 

Director Marie Grahto talks about her feature debut, Psychosia, presented at the Venice International Film Critics’ Week from the 2019 Venice International Film Festival. Joining her are the two main actors in the film: Lisa Carlehed and Victoria Carmen Sonne. Together, the three guests talk about the film, its themes of desire and boundaries and more.

Psychosia: Viktoria is an odd and extremely self-disciplined researcher in the field of suicide. She is invited to a psychiatric ward to treat the suicidal patient Jenny. Through intimate night conversations, they form a tight bond. Viktoria slowly opens up to experience closeness with another person for the first time in her life, but the closer the two women get, the more it becomes clear that something is not as it seems.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews 3D animator Craig Caton.

Craig Caton was in Venice to hold two masterclasses, thanks to the New York Film Academy, at Giornate Degli Autori. In this interview with Angelo Acerbi he tells some funny facts about E.T., Jurassic Park and some professional suggestions he tells his students.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Mattie Do, director of the film The Long Walk.

Mattie Do explains her vision for the film, in the tradition of Laotian films Asian films in general. She wanted to do a film outside of the box of what was expected, and she mixed traditional stories with modernity and a pinch of science fiction.

The Long Walk: An old man walks the dusty roads between his isolated farm and the nearby rural village in the company of a silent spirit whose death he witnessed fifty years earlier. For decades, the old man’s regret over losing his mother to tuberculosis has bred a pathological need to ease the suffering of the terminally ill, and over the years, he has quietly euthanized several sick women. As he realizes that his spectral companion is able to transport him back in time, the old man trespasses into his own past to set in motion a plan to convince his younger self to preempt his mother’s terminal suffering.

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PODCAST | Angelo Acerbi interviews Tim Robbins, director of the film 45 Seconds of Laughter.

Tim Robbins is a nice man, a great actor and a committed director. All this shows in his documentary about the workshop The Actor’s Gang he brought in a maximun security jail in California. The simplicity of the film lets the powerful message of self-awareness and love spread out in all its strength. He has a mission of making lives of incarcerated men better through making them rejoin their inner selves. And it works.

45 Seconds of Laughter: A group of incarcerated men from Calipatria State Prison participate in a theatrical workshop with Tim Robbins’ theatre company, The Actors’ Gang. Defying racial barriers and gang affiliations, the men tap into emotions that have long been dormant while unexpected bonds emerge between former enemies. Using stock characters from the Commedia dell’Arte, the men struggle with the challenges of the violent environment they live in as they work towards a transformation and liberation unknown to their life behind bars.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Sergei Loznitsa, director of the film State Funeral.

The internationally esteemed filmmaker Sergei Loznitsa sits down with us in Venice to talk about his latest work, State Funeral, a film all based on the dictator Josef Stalin’s passing and its subsequent monumental funeral and mourning.

State Funeral: Unique, mostly unseen before, archive footage from March 1953, presents the funeral of Joseph Stalin as the culmination of the dictator’s personality cult. The news of Stalin’s death on March 5, 1953, shocked the entire Soviet Union. The burial ceremony was attended by tens of thousands of mourners. We observe every stage of the funeral spectacle, described by Pravda newspaper as “the Great Farewell”, and receive an unprecedented access to the dramatic and absurd experience of life and death under Stalin’s reign. The film addresses the issue of Stalin’s personality cult as a form of terror-induced delusion. It gives an insight into the nature of the regime and its legacy, still haunting the contemporary world.

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PODCAST | Nicolò Comotti interviews Ascanio Petrini and Pasquale Donatone, director and actor of the film Tony Driver.

Director Ascanio Petrini and Pasquale Donatone are respectively the director and the actor/protagonist of Tony Driver, this amazing story that fuses documentary and fiction to tell the unique story of Tony/Pasquale and his fight to go back to his real homeland: the USA.

Tony Driver: One day, Pasquale decides to change his name and to be called Tony. Because despite being born in Bari in the mid 60s, he crosses the ocean with his family at 9 years of age and grows up as a real American. He becomes a taxi driver in Yuma, but he is arrested due to his “side job”: carrying illegal immigrants to the US through the Mexican border. He is therefore forced to choose: jail in Arizona or deportation to Italy. Once back in the region of Puglia, he finds himself living alone in a cave in Polignano a Mare, looking at Italy as a small, stuck country, with no opportunities and without dreams. But Tony is not willing to surrender…

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PODCAST | David Martos interviews Atom Egoyan, director of the film Guest of Honour.

Atom Egoyan talks to FRED about the performance of David Thewlis, his favourite part of filmmaking and the issue of Roman Polanski being in competition in Venice Film Festival

Guest of Honour: Jim and his daughter Veronica, a young high-school music teacher, attempt to unravel their complicated histories and intertwined secrets. After a hoax goes very wrong, Jim’s daughter is falsely convicted of abusing her position of authority over 17-year-old Clive. Veronica is nevertheless convinced she deserves to be punished, but for much earlier crimes. Confused and frustrated by Veronica’s intransigence, Jim’s anguish begins to impinge on his job as a food inspector. He wields great power over small family-owned restaurants; a power he doesn’t hesitate to use.

 For more information about the film Guest of Honour, click here.

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