Video Interview: Beppe Tufarulo – Baradar | Best Live Action Short Entry for the 93rd Academy Awards

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Eligible for consideration in the ‘Best Live Action Short’ category at the 93rd Academy Awards in 2021 is ‘Baradar (Brother)’ from director Beppe Tufarulo. The film is a brief but harrowing snippet from the memoirs of Ali Eshani, an orphaned refugee who made a perilous journey from war-torn Afghanistan to Italy by way of Turkey in the early 2000s. Tufarulo discusses the origins of and project as well as the hurdles of casting and language barriers. Plan for an upcoming feature and potentially revisiting a larger portrait of Eshani are discussed in my interview with the filmmaker.

Nicholas Bell
Nicholas Bell
Los Angeles based Nicholas Bell is IONCINEMA.com's Chief Film Critic and covers film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Cannes and TIFF. He is part of the critic groups on Rotten Tomatoes, The Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), FIPRESCI, the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) and GALECA. His top 3 for 2023: The Beast (Bonello) Poor Things (Lanthimos), Master Gardener (Schrader). He was a jury member at the 2019 Cleveland International Film Festival.

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