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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews director Babak Jalali.

Babak Jalali was nominated for the BAFTA Award for Best Short Film 2006 for his short Heydar, An Afghan in Tehran. His first feature film Frontier Blues was developed at the 2007 Cannes Cinéfondation Residence, it premiered in competition at the 2009 Locarno Festival and won the FIPRESCI Award in New Directors at the 2010 San Francisco International Film Festival. In 2016, his second feature film Radio Dreams won the Hivos Tiger Award at the IFFR, received the Special Jury Mention at the Seattle International Film Festival and was awarded Best Director at the Andrei Tarkovsky Film Festival. His latest feature film Land was developed within Torino Film Lab’s FrameWork 2012 (now FeatureLab), where it won a TFL Production Award. It had its world premiere at Berlinale Panorama 2018.

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews script consultant Franz Rodenkirchen.

Franz Rodenkirchen is a Berlin-based, internationally working script consultant and tutor. Apart from individual script consultations, he works as a tutor for Torino Film Lab, the Script Station of Berlinale Talents, CineLink Sarajevo, SEAFIC (SE-Asian Fiction Film Lab), dffb Berlin, a.o. With Françoise von Roy he runs the Script Circle, a bi-monthly script development workshop in Berlin and the script consulting workshop “Six Days of Practice” for film professionals. In the past 20 years, he has worked on many independent film projects from all over the world.

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PODCAST| Chiara Nicoletti interviews Börkur Sigþórsson, director of the film Vultures.

Two brothers, a villain and an antihero, due faces of Iceland today, the new vs the old: this is Vultures, the new film by Börkur Sigþórsson presented in competition at the 36th Torino Film Festival. The internatioanl title Vultures is not a literary translation of Vargur which can be either offensive or positive as the english “Sharks”. Two brothers representing two different social classes, two social dynamics as to represent Iceland today and its economic rise in the first years 2000′.

Vultures: Erik represents the aspirational face of modern Iceland. Atli, a petty criminal just released from prison, is stuck in a downward spiral. The distance between these two very different brothers vanishes when the duo teams up to smuggle cocaine into Iceland, inside plastic pellets swallowed by a young Polish mule, Sofia. But things go wrong when rule-breaking cop Lena starts closing in on them.

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PODCAST| Chiara Nicoletti interviews Andreas Prochaska, director of the TV series Das Boot.

Andreas Prochaska is not only at the 36th Torino Film Festival as a member of the official jury of the Torino 36 competition but he’s also presenting the first two episodes of his new TV Series Das Boot, a sequel to the 1981 film by Wolfgang Petersen. The TV series stars Vicky Krieps (already seen in Phantom Thread by Paul Thomas Anderson with Daniel Day Lewis) and Lizzy Caplan. Prochaska describes his approach in following up with the setting and atmospheres of the film and reveals how the TV series was very well apprecciated by the German audience and is coming out soon in other European countries such as the UK and Italy (on Sky Atlantic from January 4th).

Das Boot: A preview screening of the first two of the eight episodes of the much-awaited TV sequel, produced by Sky, of Wolfgang Petersen’s same-titled film from 1981. Directed by Andreas Prochaska (the horror movie Dead in 3 Days, the western The Dark Valley),the story shifts between the claustrophobia onboard the U-Boat 612, which sowed destruction in the Atlantic, and the charm of La Rochelle, where the French Resistance tried to halt the submarine’s actions. The cast includes Rick Okon, Vicky Krieps, and Lizzy Caplan.

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PODCAST| Angelo Acerbi interviews international film publicist Lucius Barre.

Lucius Barre has had an enormous career in promoting films and festivals in foreign markets. His CV is impressive and he has histories to tell about nearly all huge non-American directors in the last 30 years. Working also for international film festivals he has the pulse on film promotion and he is kind to share his views with us.

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PODCAST| David Martos interviews actor Robert De Niro, who received the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2018 Marrakech Film Festival.

De Niro just shot The Irishman with Martin Scorsese and both of them travelled to Morocco for the actor’s homage. The veteran actor talks about the debate between Netflix and cinemas, the process of financing The Irishman and the method for opposing Donald Trump.

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PODCAST| David Martos interviews Julian Schnabel, director of the film At Eternity’s Gate.

Julian Schnabel talks about being in Morocco with his film At Eternity’s Gate, the particular method of editing he followed and why he chose Willem Dafoe for the role.

At Eternity’s Gate is a journey inside the world and mind of a person who, despite skepticism, ridicule and illness, created some of the world’s most beloved and stunning works of art. This is not a forensic biography, but rather scenes based on Vincent van Gogh’s letters, common agreement about events in his life that present as facts, hearsay, and moments that are just plain invented.

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PODCAST| David Martos interviews director Guillermo del Toro at the 2018 Marrakech Film Festival.

Months after his Oscar for The Shape of Water, one of the most well-known Mexican directors addresses Netflix, his new film Pinnochio or pleasing the audience. Del Toro affirms that now he prefers to get a film made than guaranteeing that it’s going to be shown in a cinema. Praises Alfonso Cuarón’s Roma as one of his most cherished films and talks about his relationship to monsters.

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PODCAST| Matt Micucci interviews Mohammed Hefzy, president of the Cairo International Film Festival.

An interview with Mohammed Hefzy, film producer and president of the Cairo International Film Festival. The interview was recorded at the end of the 40th edition of the festival, and we begin our chat by asking him whether he was satisfied with how the festival went, particularly that this was the first edition on which he served as president. Beyond this, despite the international annual event’s rich history, this edition of the Cairo International Film Festival has been discussed as a first, and he tells us why it may be seen in this way. Besides this, he goes over the challenges of organizing the festival, the ways in which the festival interacts with the local audiences and promotes film culture in Cairo and more.

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PODCAST| Matt Micucci interviews Ahmad Abdalla, director of the film EXT. Night.

Director Ahmad Abdalla presented his latest film, EXT. Night, at the 40th edition of the Cairo International Film Festival in Egypt. The filmmaker tells us that he thinks this is not the type of movie you would expect from the Middle East at an international level, and this prompts a discussion about international perceptions of films from the region. But we also talk about the film itself, and how it differs from Abdalla’s previous, darker, efforts also via its sense of humor. Other topics discussed on this interview include the director’s interests in power structure, cinema’s ability to show realities of the world around us and more.

EXT. Night: Moe, Toutou, Mostafa are three individuals meeting on one extraordinary night. They break the social norm and flirt with its boundaries, each fighting his or her own battle. On the course of this night, they are led to a journey they did not expect inside their own city, and they see a side of it they never witnessed before.

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