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Emanuele Basso


75 articles available in total starting from 02/09/2021. Last article published on 11/09/2023.

Georgia Oakley • Director of Blue Jean

Interview: Georgia Oakley • Director of Blue Jean

"I wanted to create something that was inspired by the classics from the time, rather than a film that alluded to the 1980s"

VENICE 2022: In her first feature, the British director tells the story of those who were forced to conceal the fact that they were gay in homophobic, Thatcher-era England  

04/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Sébastien Lifshitz • Director of Casa Susanna

Interview: Sébastien Lifshitz • Director of Casa Susanna

"For so many years, these people have been invisible; now we need to build this history of the queer culture"

VENICE 2022: The French director talks about his new documentary, dedicated to what used to be a refuge for the first-ever clandestine network of cross-dressers  

04/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Christian Carmosino Mereu • Director of Land of Upright People

Interview: Christian Carmosino Mereu • Director of Land of Upright People

"This kind of impassioned involvement in politics took me back to my childhood years"

VENICE 2022: The Italian helmer chats about his documentary, which he shot in Burkina Faso from the 2014 revolution up until the most recent political developments  

04/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Isabel Achával, Chiara Bondì • Directors of Las leonas

Interview: Isabel Achával, Chiara Bondì • Directors of Las leonas

"Through football, these women feel like they are worth something, like they are the protagonists of their own lives"

VENICE 2022: The directors discuss their Nanni Moretti-produced documentary, which follows a group of South American immigrants in Rome brought together by their passion for football  

04/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Abel Ferrara • Director of Padre Pio

Interview: Abel Ferrara • Director of Padre Pio

"This is all happening in a small town where everyone knows everybody and everyone knows what's going on"

VENICE 2022: We chatted to the US director about his new film, dedicated to the life of Saint Pius of Pietrelcina, which features a visceral performance by Shia LaBeouf  

03/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Giulia Amati • Director of Kristos, The Last Child

Interview: Giulia Amati • Director of Kristos, The Last Child

"It was important to try to use this story as a parable and give as little historical context as possible"

VENICE 2022: In the French-Italian director's documentary, Kristos is the last remaining child on a tiny Greek island and has to decide what to make of his future  

03/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Jafar Najafi • Director of Alone

Interview: Jafar Najafi • Director of Alone

"Children should be living in a joyful, colourful world; they shouldn't be growing up too fast"

VENICE 2022: The Iranian director talks about his documentary that centres on a child who fights with all his might to stop his sisters from getting married too young  

03/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Cecilia Miniucchi • Director of Worlds Apart

Interview: Cecilia Miniucchi • Director of Worlds Apart

"One of the things we can do when we have a lot of time is to think and revaluate ourselves and the people we are with"

VENICE 2022: We met up with the director to talk about her film, which homes in on three couples reassessing their relationships, values and priorities  

03/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Roberta Torre • Director of Le Favolose

Interview: Roberta Torre • Director of Le Favolose

"Being remembered for what you were is a universal right"

VENICE 2022: The director talks about her new film that straddles reality and fiction, in which five trans friends reminisce about a friend of theirs who is no longer with them  

02/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka • Directors of Stonewalling

Interview: Huang Ji, Ryuji Otsuka • Directors of Stonewalling

"We decided to observe the behaviour, the emotions and the changes in a woman during the months she was pregnant"

VENICE 2022: The Chinese-Japanese duo talk about their film, starring a young woman who, after she finds out she's pregnant, decides to take her destiny into her own hands  

02/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

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