PODCAST | Chiara Nicoletti interviews Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito, Axel Koenzen, Pablo Lamar, directors of Out of Love, Deadweight, La Ultima Tierra.
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Paloma Aguilera Valdebenito, director of Out of Love, Axel Koenzen, director of Deadweight and Pablo Lamar director of La Ultima Tierra talk to Chiara Nicoletti about their films and their experience at the Torino Film Lab
Torino Film Lab. OUT OF LOVE: Out of Love encapsulates the sweltering and devastating dynamics of love in the turbulent relationship between Varya and Nikolai, where genuine love and hope, contend with destruction and despair. DEADWEIGHT: Ahti Ikonen is a reliable captain at the height of his career. He is in command of the 35,000-ton container vessel Brugge, which enters the port of Savannah (United States) behind schedule. The loading of the ship commences in haste as the crew, led by the ambitious Romanian officer Katia, works by the piece so that they can sail in time. The Filipino seaman James has an accident during this semi-legal lashing procedure. Ahti has to face the consequences of his orders. In the port of Rotterdam (Netherlands) unionized dockworkers exploit the incident and refuse to unload the ship. Standstill. The captain is caught between the frontlines. Ahti is keen to elucidate the accident, but the situation becomes more and more contradictory… LA ULTIMA TIERRA: A man is sitting at his wife’s death bed. He feeds her, watches over her and reassures her. After she dies, in the early morning, he takes care of her body. She is no longer part of time, while he has to continue, rudderless. He seeks solace in practical things – digging the grave, washing the body – while a sorrow wells up in him that traditional mourning rituals are powerless to overcome. His response is a gesture as radical as death itself.