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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Selma Vihunen, director of Little Wing, shown at Alice nella Città 2016.

Selma Vilhunen is the winner of the Camera d’Oro Taodue at the 14th edition of Alice nella Città with her second feature Little Wing. The jury was chaired by Matt Dillon and composed, among others, by italian directors Gabriele Mainetti and Claudio Giovannesi and italian actress Anna Foglietta. Little Wing is more than a simple coming of age story as the little protagonist starts by being her mother’s mum to becoming a child again.

LITTLE WING tells the story of 12-year-old Varpu (Linnea Skog), who’s quickly growing to adulthood, and about her mother Siru (Paula Vesala), who doesn’t want to grow up. Varpu lives with her mother and has never met her father. One night Varpu has enough of her riding buddies and her mother. She steals a car and drives up north in search of her father, of whom she only knows the name. But her father is not exactly what she had expected. Meeting him triggers something in Varpu and Siru’s life, making them realize their role in each other’s lives, and in the world.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Daniel Huttlestone, actor of the film London Town, in competition at Alice nella Città 2016.

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Daniel Huttlestone, young protagonist of London Town by Derrick Borte. The film is in competition at the 14th edition of Alice nella Città in Rome. The actor tells us how he got on board of the project and how he learned all the songs of The Clash. Although it is set in a specific time of UK’s history the film has very universal themes that can have teenagers nowadays relate to it.

LONDON TOWN follows a 14 (soon to be 15) years old kid named Shay (Daniel Huttlestone) living in the suburbs of London with his Scottish father (Dougray Scott) and his precocious little sister. Shay is good in school and has learned piano at the behest of his father, who owns and operates a piano store when he’s not driving a cab to make ends meet. Shay’s free-spirited mother (Natascha McElhone) took off when the kids were very young, and Shay gets invited to stay with her for the summer, even though he has a heap of familial responsibilities due to her absence. On a trip to the city, Shay meets a young punk girl named Vivian (Nell Williams) who introduces him to the music of the Clash.. After his father gets badly injured while moving a piano and has to remain in hospital for weeks, Shay is forced to work at the store and drive the cab on his own to try to keep everything afloat. As his world starts to fall apart he finds strength in the music and his new found love to get him through.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Derrick Borte, director of London Town, from the 2016 Alice nella Città.

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Derrick Borte, director of London Town in competitioin at the 14th edition of Alice nella Città. The film is a coming of age story set in London with the music of The Clash to be not only the soundtrack but the narrative structure of the film. Derrick Borte talks about being sixteen and being always to that part of yourself that never ceased to be an adolescent.

LONDON TOWN follows a 14 (soon to be 15) years old kid named Shay (Daniel Huttlestone) living in the suburbs of London with his Scottish father (Dougray Scott) and his precocious little sister. Shay is good in school and has learned piano at the behest of his father, who owns and operates a piano store when he’s not driving a cab to make ends meet. Shay’s free-spirited mother (Natascha McElhone) took off when the kids were very young, and Shay gets invited to stay with her for the summer, even though he has a heap of familial responsibilities due to her absence. On a trip to the city, Shay meets a young punk girl named Vivian (Nell Williams) who introduces him to the music of the Clash.. After his father gets badly injured while moving a piano and has to remain in hospital for weeks, Shay is forced to work at the store and drive the cab on his own to try to keep everything afloat. As his world starts to fall apart he finds strength in the music and his new found love to get him through.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Preston Thompson and Sebastian de Souza, writers and actors of Kids in Love, at Alice nella Città 2016.

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Sebastian De Souza and Preston Thompson among the protagonists of Kids in Love, screening at the 14th edition of Alice nella Città at the Rome International Film Festival. The two young actors are also co-writers of the film, a coming of age story whose characters are inspired by the many people the De Souza and Thompson have met in life.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Clive Oppenheimer, volcanologist and collaborator on Werner Herzog’s Into the Inferno, from the 11th Rome Film Fest.

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Clive Oppenheimer, volcanologist and friend of Werner Herzog, director of Into the Inferno, screening at the 11th Edition of Rome Film Festival in its official selection. This is the second time Oppenheimer works with Herzog and this time they took a trip almost inside the most famous and active volcanos in the world to analyze how these instruments of nature interacted with the population living around them. Everything is unpredictable with Werner Herzog so this is, obviously, more than a documentary.

INTO THE INFERNO. Werner Herzog and volcanologist Clive Oppenheimer embark upon a global journey exploring some of the world’s most mythical volcanoes in North Korea, Ethiopia, Iceland and the Vanuatu Archipelago. Speaking with scientists and indigenous peoples alike, they seek to understand the complex and deeply rooted relationship between mankind and one of nature’s greatest wonders. Produced by Spring Films, Werner Herzog Film and Matter of Fact Media, Into the Inferno artfully blends reportage, history and philosophy into a riveting cinematic experience.

The documentary debuts October 28th 2016 at 12.01 am PT in all territories where Netflix is available.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Kenneth Lonergan, director of Manchester by the Sea, at the 11th Rome Film Fest.

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Kenneth Lonergan, director of Manchester by the Sea, starring Casey Affleck, Kyle Chandler and Michelle Williams. As in his previous films, Lonergan tries to analyze how loss can or can’t be processed and how people deal with it and live through it. Casey Affleck delivers his most extraordinary performance and Lonergan describes in details one of the most cathartic and intense scenes of the film.

MANCHESTER BY THE SEA. In Manchester by the Sea, the latest film from award-winning writer and director Kenneth Lonergan, the life of a solitary Boston janitor is transformed when he returns to his hometown to take care of his teenage nephew. The story of the Chandlers, a working-class family living in a Massachusetts fishing village for generations, Manchester by the Sea is a deeply poignant, unexpectedly funny exploration of the power of familial love, community, sacrifice and hope. After the death of his older brother Joe (Kyle Chandler), Lee Chandler (Casey Affleck) is shocked to learn that Joe has made him sole guardian of his nephew Patrick (Lucas Hedges). Taking leave of his job, Lee reluctantly returns to Manchester-by-the-Sea to care for Patrick, a spirited 16-year-old, and is forced to deal with a past that separated him from his wife Randi (Michelle Williams) and the community where he was born and raised. Bonded by the man who held their family together, Lee and Patrick struggle to adjust to a world without him.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Ewan McGregor, director, and Jennifer Connelly, actress of the film American Pastoral

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Ewan McGregor and Jennifer Connelly in Rome to present McGregor’s directorial debut American Pastoral based on the Pulitzer Prize book by Philip Roth.

AMERICAN PASTORAL. Set in postwar America, a man watches his seemingly perfect life fall apart as his daughter’s new political affiliation threatens to destroy their family.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Gaby Dellal, director of About Ray from the 2016 Alice nella Città

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Gaby Dellal, director About Ray, the opening film screening at the 14th edition of Alice Nella Città – Rome International Film Festival.

The film stars Susan Sarandon in the role of the lesbian grandmother, Naomi Watts as the single mother and Elle Fanning as Ramona whose decision to change sex and become Ray define the course of the film as the entire family will have to face an inevitable transformation. Gaby Dellal comments on cliche and tries to define the “perfect family” for her.

ABOUT RAY tells the touching story of three women- all coming from the same New York family and each belonging to a different generation- all of them affected by a life-changing transformation by one. Ray (Elle Fanning) is a teenage girl that wants to become a boy. Ray has lived for years as she was a boy and now he wants to start the hormonal therapy. His single mother, Maggie (Naomi Watts), must track down Ray’s biological father to get his legal consent. Dolly (Susan Sarandon), Ray’s lesbian grandmother, is having a hard time accepting the change. The three women will have to face their own identity to fully understand Ray’s transformation and find again serenity and balance.

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PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Mick Jackson, director of Denial, from the 11th Rome International Film Festival.

FRED’s Chiara Nicoletti meets Mick Jackson, at the 11th Rome International Film Festival to introduce his new film Denial, based on the book Denial: Holocaust History on Trial written by Deborah Lipstadt.

The film portrays the legal battle that Lipstadt was involved in against David Irving, who accused her of libel when she declared him a Holocaust denier. Mick Jackson declares the uiversal importance of making films like this one as by talking about this very important and serious happening the discussion can lead to politics activity in denying unchallengeable truths.

DENIAL. An American professor finds herself the defendant in a high-profile British libel trial that would impact the way the history of the Holocaust is told in Denial, a taut courtroom drama based on one of the most significant international legal cases in recent memory. After historian Deborah Lipstadt’s (Rachel Weisz) book Denying the Holocaust: The Growing Assault on Truth and Memory is published in the U.K., she is shocked to learn that British author David Irving (Timothy Spall), a prolific writer of texts on World War II, is suing her for libel. Even more surprising to the American academic, under U.K. libel laws she is presumed guilty unless she can prove herself innocent. Lipstadt finds herself in the position of not only defending herself, but establishing beyond a doubt that the Holocaust took place.

Passionate, fiery and independent, Lipstadt refuses to settle the case and demands her day in court. With the cards solidly stacked against her, Lipstadt’s British legal team, led by solicitor Anthony Julius (Andrew Scott) and barrister Richard Rampton (Tom Wilkinson), presents her with a confounding strategy: neither she nor any Holocaust survivors will be called to the stand.

A powerful story about one woman’s relentless efforts to establish justice and remind the world about the tragedies of the Holocaust, Denial is a gripping, inspirational real-life account based on Lipstadt’s book Denial: Holocaust History on Trial (previously published as History on Trial: My Day in Court with a Holocaust Denier).

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PODCAST | Bénédicte Prot interviews Marisella Rossetti, Directorate-General for Communication of the LUX Prize.

Marisella Rossetti, in charge of the LUX Prize of the European Parliament, rejoices at the incredible success of this now 10-year-old initiative, which first started inside that institution on a strong premise – that of translating European films in all the languages of the Union to allow for a shared experience likely to strike a dialogue and enrich public debate – and was therefore able to spread its wings far beyond and reach out to a vast public of all ages, everywhere in Europe, through its presence at festivals and other dynamic events, such as the LUX Film Days.

The 10th anniversary celebration of the LUX Prize, held at the European Parliament on October 10, was conceived as a perfect illustration of the fantastic journey of the Prize and of its exciting achievements, with a keynote speech from the British maestro Ken Loach, a roundtable also involving past participants Céline Sciamma and Andrea Segre, the opening of the exhibition “10 years, 100 films”, and an evening Europe-wide simultaneous screening of Mustang (LUX Prize winner 2015) culminating in a live Internet Q&A between the director and all the viewers all across the continent.

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