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Welcome to our daily insights from the 81. Venice International Film Festival, with Angelo Acerbi.

Join us as we dive into exclusive interviews with filmmakers, actors, and festival insiders, uncovering the stories behind the most anticipated films.

Stay tuned for festival highlights, red carpet moments, and behind-the-scenes glimpses that you won’t want to miss.

Whether you’re a film buff or just curious, we’ve got all the excitement from Venice right here!

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Welcome to our daily insights from the 81. Venice International Film Festival, with Angelo Acerbi, David Martos and Maria Bonsanti.

Join us as we dive into exclusive interviews with filmmakers, actors, and festival insiders, uncovering the stories behind the most anticipated films.

Stay tuned for festival highlights, red carpet moments, and behind-the-scenes glimpses that you won’t want to miss.

Whether you’re a film buff or just curious, we’ve got all the excitement from Venice right here!

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“Stranger Eyes” is directed by Yeo Siew Hua and is included in the Competition at the 81st Venice International Film Festival. Ina thriller form, the film faces the issues of privacy, visibility and control: being watched and wtahc otehr, being controlled through cameras, choosing to be seen are all aspects that modernity and technology have brought into our lives. And we have to deal with them, as the characters in the film have too.

The thesis of “Stranger eyes” is that in our ties we cannot escape been seen and observed, wether we like it or not. On this premise, Yeo Siew Hua based the writing and creation of his film, as he explains in our talk.

“Stranger Eyes” was conceived over a long period of time, first because it was difficult to fund, then the pandemic came and the world changed, and technology as well; so it needed a refresh before the finalized script to make it actual and contemporary.

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“April” is the second feature film from Georgian director Dea Kulumbegashvili, in competition at the 81st Venice International Film Festival. The main topic of the film is womanhood in a rural area where a female gynaecologist, Nina, is trying to help women to free form the heaviest imposition of patriarchy, risking her job in the process. but it is more than that, as the director tells us in this interview

Dea Kulumbegashvili, director of “April“, comes from the same area narrated in the film, she was child of a teenage mom: basically her preparation for the film unconsciously started very back in the past.

The astounding visuals of “April” are often enhanced by simple steady shots of nature. Dea Kulumbegashvili explains the function of this choice, made both for the sake of the film and for herself

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The Venice Production Bridge day in 4 minutes!

Welcome to our Venice Production Bridge Daily Snapshot, your quick 4-minute update on the latest happenings at the industry hub of the Venice Film Festival!

Join us as we delve into the world of film financing, co-productions, and market trends, bringing you exclusive insights, interviews with industry professionals, and behind-the-scenes highlights, all packed into a brief but informative segment.

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Welcome to our daily insights from the 27 Times Cinema.

The 2024 edition of 27 Times Cinema will bring together ten former participants to serve as the jury for the GdA Director’s Award, marking the tenth anniversary of this accolade.

Together with their jury president, these former 27 Times Cinema participants will evaluate the films in competition with a fresh perspective, informed by their diverse experiences across various film-industry fields.

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Welcome to our daily insights from the 81. Venice International Film Festival, with Angelo Acerbi and Fedra Fateh.

Join us as we dive into exclusive interviews with filmmakers, actors, and festival insiders, uncovering the stories behind the most anticipated films.

Stay tuned for festival highlights, red carpet moments, and behind-the-scenes glimpses that you won’t want to miss.

Whether you’re a film buff or just curious, we’ve got all the excitement from Venice right here!

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Every day from the Venice Lido, Rita Di Santo hosts in the studios of FRED Film Radio several critics from all over the world talking about this year’s Venice festival movies, the actors and actresses attending the festival, as well as takes you into the magical atmosphere of the Venice Film Festival.

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“I’m Still Here” ( Ainda Estou Aqui) is Walter Salles’ title in the Official Competition of the 81st Venice International Film Festival. The film stars Fernanda Torres, that  our reporter Angelo Acerbi met together with the director, after the press conference for the premiere on the Lido. the film narrates the story of Ruben Paiva, an architect who became a martyr and a hero for Brasil, whose wife fought for a lifetime to have him declared dead and acknowledged.

Walter Salles tells about his personal connection with the Paiva family, with the house in Rio where they lived and with the kids, included Marcelo Paiva who is the author of the book which the film “I’m Still Here” is inspired to.

Fernanda Torres  was honoured to be given the role of such a strong and important woman, both a pillar for her family and a militant lawyer for the new  Brasil that blossomed after the dictatorship. We hear from her voice  how much the film I’m Still Here means for her.

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At the 81th Venice Film Festival, Fred Film Radio interviewed Vojtĕch Strakatý, director of “After Party” featured at Orizzonti Extra.

“After Party” is inspired by the director’s own life and a difficult time for his family. Was choosing to tell this story also a way of freeing yourself from those past emotions? “The idea for the film started among, or amidst the bad things happening to our family. It was in debts because of my father’s actions and even though it was really sad and depressing and really tough to go through it, I was always thinking that if I wanted to be a filmmaker it’s always easier and better to draw from my own life because the closer the subject to you, the more authentic or the more true the film will turn out”, says Vojtĕch Strakatý. “But I never wanted to approach it as an autobiography. I wanted to just take elements that happened in real life to me and create this one day of my heroine but all of these were made up, but just filled with details of my own life that I’ve been through that I knew well. And because in real life things are so complicated that it would never translate well in film, it would be too complicated for the viewers, so you have to make it differently. I wanted to make this film inspired by my life, I’ve never thought of it as a therapeutic way or just going through it. I’ve never lived through it again during the filming process”.

The action takes place over 24 hours, but “After Party” also talks a lot about the past and future of the protagonist and her family. “Also in real life things usually happen very slow, like over days, weeks, months, years. And also in our case of our family it was like years or decades. But in cinema I’m always fascinated by the now, by the real time element of film that you’re capturing. I thought even in real life some days are more crucial to you, and I thought it would be interesting to condensate this story that spans more years into one day that will be just very decisive for Jędziszka. In terms of time there are things that happen before the film starts, and there are things that will happen after it ends, but I sort of thought that this specific day in her life is transformative, that it’s sort of a threshold for her in terms of becoming more adult in a way”.

Even if the world of the main character falls apart, Vojtĕch Strakatý decided to maintain a tone not so dramatic in “After Party”. A choice that is also reflected in the desire to use a lot of light during filming. “I think it’s important to offer light and hope, especially in the current state of the world, so that’s what I’m, even as a viewer, that’s what I look in when I’m watching films. I don’t want to watch things that are too nihilistic. I think there’s a lot of it in the world, and I think cinema can offer us at least a spark of hope, or a spark of lightness. And for me it was always a film that should have this summer vibe, coming of age movie elements that were contrasted with the family drama. Because I’ve seen many family dramas, and they are usually heavy and depressing. I didn’t want the audience and myself included to be only depressed. So I thought: ‘Let’s just try to balance these two energies'”.

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