Jonas Odell, interview with the protagonist of Animation cinema: AnReal at the 43° Bergamo Film Meeting

03/10/25 • 16 min

Jonas Odell is one of the guests of Animation cinema: AnReal, the section at the 43° Bergamo Film Meeting dedicated to animated documentaries.

As in the last decade, the interest in animated non-fictional storytelling has become increasingly evident carving out an important space for itself even within sectoral festivals such as DOK Leipzig (for documentary cinema) or Annecy (for animated cinema), the 43°BFM decided to explore the new trends of animated cinema.

In particular, through Animation cinema: AnReal, the festival, taking place from March 8 to 16, will embark on a journey of discovery through animated documentaries.

Along with filmmaker Alexander Lahl who will also attend the Festival, Jonas Odell will not only present his remarkable “Tussilago” but will also hold a conversation on the development of animated documentary.

In “Tussilago”, Odell tells the story of “A”, arrested because she was the former partner of Norbert Kröcher, a West German terrorist who in 1977 was imprisoned on suspicion of planning the kidnapping of Swedish politician Anna-Greta Leijon.

In this case, animation fosters the need to hide the woman’s identity: remaining in service, yes, but simultaneously elevating the subject matter at hand.

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Jonas Odell is one of the guests of Animation cinema: AnReal, the section at the 43° Bergamo Film Meeting dedicated to animated documentaries.

In particular, through Animation cinema: AnReal, the festival, taking place from March 8 to 16, will embark on a journey of discovery through animated documentaries.

In this case, animation fosters the need to hide the woman’s identity: remaining in service, yes, but simultaneously elevating the subject matter at hand.

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Alice Nellis, interview with the protagonist of Europe, Now! at the 43° Bergamo Film Meeting

Czech screenwriter and director Alice Nellis is Bergamo Film Meeting’s protagonist of Europe, Now!, the section dedicated to contemporary European auteur cinema.

Along with german Director Christian Petzold, Nellis will present, at the Festival, her complete filmography including her famous “Ene bene – Eeny Meeny”, 2000, “Tajnosti – Little Girl Blue”, 2007 and “Buko”, 2022.

Her feature debut, “Ene bene” (Eeny Meeny, 2000), a tragicomedy exploring family relationships in a small Czech community during local elections, won the Best Screenplay award at the FAMU Festival and the bronze Rosa Camuna ex-aequo at the 18th edition of Bergamo Film Meeting. This success marked Nellis as an emerging voice in European cinema.

About her comeback at the 43rd Bergamo Film Meeting she says: “BFM marked the start, back in 2000, of my professional international career so it’s an honor to be back”

Along her career she explored, through her films and TV Series, themes like the coming-of-age, parenthood, motherhood and dysfunctional families.

The director who recently returned to TV co-writing and co-directing with “Jiří Havelka” for the miniseries “Náhradníci”(Surrogates), comments on the challenges and developments of cinema narratives and TV narratives.

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Diana Cipriano, interview with a programmer at BFI Flare 2025

Ahead of the 39th edition of BFI Flare, Fred FM got the lowdown on this year’s lineup from one of the festival’s programmers, Diana Cipriano.

Cipriano shared some of the highlights for this year, particularly some of the trends and key themes arising across the selection and how they reflect the current landscape for LGBTQIA+ film, for instance, parenthood in all its iterations in opening night title “The Wedding Banquet“, Rebecca Lenkiewicz‘s “Hot Milk” and “Outerlands“, about a non-binary nanny tackling trauma.

The programmer gave some of her own personal recommendations of movies that spoke to her, such as “Queens of Drama“, told in flashback, which is “funny, camp, trashy and full of earworm songs”, and “Night Stage“, offering a queer take on the erotic thriller genre, plus those that she expects to make a splash during the 10-day event at London’s BFI, like the restoration of 1983 Brazilian cult comedy movie “Onda Nova“.

We also discussed the broader landscape for queer cinema and the continuing importance of the festival as a platform for films and filmmakers in the LGBTQIA+ sphere, particularly for providing a safe space for connections to be made and conversations to be prompted.

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