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Joselito Altarejos, Sandino Martin – Unfriend #Berlinale2014

Joselito Altarejos, Sandino Martin - Director and Actor - Unfriend Festival section: Panorama Director Joselito Altarejos and actor Sandino Martin talk about the film UNFRIEND, which was presented in the Panorama section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. A 15-year-old boy stands on the edge of the roof of a building site; his hand playfully reaches into the air. Beneath David lies the city and behind him his friend …

February 9, 2014

Interview

Zeresenay Berhane Mehari – Difret #Berlinale2014

Zeresenay Berhane Mehari - Director and writer - Difret Festival section: Panorama Ethiopian filmmaker Zeresenay Berhane Mehari talks about his feature film DIFRET, which was presented in the Panorama section of the 64th Berlin International Film Festival. In Addis Ababa, lawyer Meaza Ashenafi has established a network providing poor women and children with free legal representation. Courageously, she stands up to all manner of harassment from the police and male …

February 9, 2014

Rotterdam Film Festival Interview

Jon Jost – Coming to Terms #IRFF

Jon Jost, Director, Producer, DP, Editor, Coming to Terms. Festival Section: Spectrum. Legendary indie American filmmaker Jon Jost talks about the death of cinema and his new film, COMING TO TERMS, which stars another iconic indie filmmaker James Benning and was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam. Meditation on death and its psychological impact on a broken family - a subject that has kept Jost (1943) very busy …

January 30, 2014

Rotterdam Film Festival Interview

Abolfazl Saffary – From Tehran to Heaven #IRFF

Abolfazl Saffary, Director and Co-Screenwriter, From Tehran to Heaven. Festival Section: Signals: How To Survive... Filmmaker Abofazl Saffary talks to FRED about his film FROM TEHRAN TO HEAVEN (Az Tehran ta beshesht), which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam. A woman finds a note from her husband on the fridge: I have gone to a place called Heaven. But her fevered search leads her to hell, in …

January 30, 2014

Rotterdam Film Festival Interview

Ikeda Akira – Anatomy of a Paper Clip #IRFF

Ikeda Akira, Director, Screenwriter and Producer, Anatomy of a Paper Clip. Festival Section: Hivos Tiger Awards Competition. Japanese filmmaker IKEDA AKIRA chats to FRED about his feature ANATOMY OF A PAPER CLIP (Yamamori clip koujo no atari), which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam. Kogure is a paperclip bender in a paperclip factory. A man without characteristics. A stoical loser. One day he finds a butterfly in …

January 30, 2014

Rotterdam Film Festival Interview

Alessandro Rossetto – Piccola Patria #IRFF

Alessandro Rossetto, Director and Co-Screenwriter, Piccola Patria. Festival Section: Spectrum. Filmmaker Alessandro Rossetto talks to FRED about his film PICCOLA PATRIA (Small Homeland), which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam. Superb fiction debut from an experienced documentary maker shows a small community in northern Italy, where city and countryside merge, like a patchwork quilt unravelling under pressure from the crisis, migration and decadence. In the stultifying summer heat, two …

January 30, 2014

Rotterdam Film Festival Interview

Iva Radivojevic – Evaporating Borders #IRFF

Iva Radivojevic, Director, Evaporating Borders. Festival Section: EU-29. Filmmaker Iva Radivojevic talks to FRED about her thought-provoking documentary EVAPORATING BORDERS, which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam. Originally from Yugoslavia, Iva Radivojevic investigates the effects of large-scale immigration on the sense of national identity in Cyprus, one of the easiest ports of entry into Fortress Europe. Poetically photographed and rendered, the film passionately weaves the themes of …

January 29, 2014

Rotterdam Film Festival Interview

Lee Chatametikool – Concrete Clouds #IRFF

Lee Chatametikool, Director, Screenwriter, Co-Editor, Concrete Clouds. Festival Section: Hivos Tiger Awards Competition. Filmmaker Lee Chatametikool talks about his new film CONCRETE CLOUDS (Pavang rak), which was presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam. Father jumps off roof. Economy caves in. Childhood sweetheart remains out of reach. Nice girl next door slides into prostitution. Elder brother knows better. Younger brother has no idea. Only a very special filmmaker could turn that …

January 29, 2014

Rotterdam Film Festival Interview

Shahram Mokri – Fish and Cat #IRFF

Shahram Mokri, Director and Screenwriter, Fish and Cat. Festival Section: Signals: How To Survive... Filmmaker Shahram Mokri talks to FRED about his remarkable feature FISH AND CAT (Mahi va gorbeh), winner of the Special Orizzonti Award for Innovative Content and presented at the 43rd International Film Festival Rotterdam. A group of young people camp by a lake and some woods. There's a restaurant in the village, but how does the …

January 29, 2014

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Joselito Altarejos, Sandino Martin – Unfriend #Berlinale2014

Zeresenay Berhane Mehari – Difret #Berlinale2014

Jon Jost – Coming to Terms #IRFF

Abolfazl Saffary – From Tehran to Heaven #IRFF

Ikeda Akira – Anatomy of a Paper Clip #IRFF

Alessandro Rossetto – Piccola Patria #IRFF

Iva Radivojevic – Evaporating Borders #IRFF

Lee Chatametikool – Concrete Clouds #IRFF

Shahram Mokri – Fish and Cat #IRFF

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