PIOVE

For a few days now, something strange has been going on in Rome: when it rains, a greyish slime oozes from gutters and manholes, along with a dense steam for which there is no explanation. No one would ever guess that whoever inhales these gases will be forced to confront everything they repress: their darkest instincts, their rage. Not the Morel family, either. Since Cristina died in an accident a year ago, the warmth has gone out of the Morel menage, at least between her husband Thomas and son Enrico, while little sister Barbara longs to regain a happy family, the way it was. The accident could have been avoided, and both men know it. But instead of manning up, taking their respective blame, and moving on, they are no longer on speaking terms, two tormented souls, devoured by rage and trapped in a city that resembles them: gloomy, tense, and at the boiling point. screenplay Jacopo Del Giudice Paolo Strippoli Gustavo Hérnandez cinematography Cristiano Di Nicola editing Marco Spoletini music Raf Keunen sound Paul Maernoudt Antoine Vandendriessche production design Nello Giorgetti costumes Nicoletta Taranta cast Fabrizio Rongione (Thomas) Cristiana Dell’Anna (Cristina) Francesco Gheghi (Enrico) Aurora Menenti (Barbara) Leon De La Vallée (Gianluca) Ondina Quadri (Alice) Orso Maria Guerrini (Ferrini) Elena Di Cioccio (Marta) Nicoló Galasso (Giacomo) Federigo Ceci (Leonardo) Pietro Bontempo (Giacomo's father) producers Marina Marzotto Mattia Oddone production Propaganda Italia Paolo Strippoli graduated with a performing arts degree from the Sapienza University of Rome and received a degree in directing from the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia. In 2019, he won the Franco Solinas Award for Best Original Story for the L’angelo infelice. In 2021, Strippoli’s first feature film, A Classic Horror Story, co-directed with Roberto De Feo, won the Best Director Award at the Taormina Film Fest. Piove is his second feature film. 2022 Piove 2021 A Classic Horror Story (directed with Roberto De Feo) 2019 Senza tenere premuto (short) 2018 Nessun dorma (short) 2018 Storia triste di un pugile scemo (short) 2017 Fine d'estate (short) 2016 Bassa stagione (short) 2015 Mio fratello (short) 2015 Fusa (short) 2015 Creme Aigre (short) 2015 Y Generation (short) 2014 Dimmi cosa senti (short) 2012 In un mondo violento (short)

PIOVE2022-11-24T00:51:55+01:00

IL MUTO DI GALLURA

Gallura, the mid-1800s. The feud between the Vasa and Mamia families – which really happened, leaving seventy people dead – is underway. Bastiano Tansu, a real-life character, is a deaf-mute since birth, mistreated and marginalized ever since, and his fury and his amazing aim are put to ‘good’ use in the feud. His blood ties and the murder of his brother Michele drive him to join forces with one of the two leaders of the factions, Pietro Vasa, who turns him into the most-feared assassin of the entire faida. When the Peace of Aggius puts and end to the bloodshed, Bastiano seems to have found peace himself in his love for a pastor's daughter, but in a violent and superstitious world that already labeled him the devil's son when he was just a boy, someone like him cannot be found innocent. screenplay Matteo Fresi Carlo Orlando cinematography Gherardo Gossi editing Valeria Sapienza music Paolo Baldini Dubfiles with the collaboration of Alfredo Puglia and Filippo Buresta sound Fabio Melorio production design Alessandro Vannucci costumes Monica Simeone cast Andrea Arcangeli (Bastiano Tansu) Marco Bullitta (Pietro Vasa) Giovanni Carroni (Antonio Mamia) Syama Rayner (Gavina) Aldo Ottobrino (Amedeo) Fulvio Accogli (Michele Tansu) Nicola Pannelli (Don Augusto) producers Domenico Procacci Laura Paolucci production Fandango with Rai Cinema Matteo Fresi received a degree in modern art history in 2005. His mother is from Umbria and his father from Gallura, in Sardinia, and during his years at university, he worked as a skipper and sailing instructor in the Maddalena archipelago. He then obtained a degree in narrative techniques from the Holden School, and has taught there since 2007. He is one of the founding partners of a small, Turin-based production company, Epica Film. Il muto di Gallura is his first film. 2021 Il muto di Gallura

IL MUTO DI GALLURA2022-11-24T00:45:01+01:00

GHIACCIO

Rome, 1999. Giorgio, a promising young boxer, lives with his mother on the dreary outskirts of the city. His father, murdered years earlier, had left his son with an outstanding debt with the local mob, a burden that keeps Giorgio from living his own life. With the help of a former boxer, Massimo, who sees Giorgio becoming the great champion he himself never was, his protegé finally has the chance to make good and break into professional boxing. The local mob, however, never forgets or forgives those who don’t play by its rules. screenplay Alessio De Leonardis Fabrizio Moro cinematography Simone Zampagni editing Luigi Mearelli   music Fabrizio Moro production design Gaspare De Pascali costumes Magda Accolti Gil cast Giacomo Ferrara (Giorgio) Vinicio Marchioni (Massimo) Claudio Camilli (Pisciasotto) Beatrice Bartoni (Elisabetta) Sara Cardinaletti (Floriana) Valerio Morigi (Sfascio) Lidia Vitale (Maria) Lorenzo Grilli (Blond) Emanuele Propizio (Michelino) Mauro Cremonini (Giovannone) production La Casa Rossa with Tenderstories Alessio De Leonardis studied film at the University of Bologna and broke into film in 2003 as a director’s assistant and then an A.D. starting in 2005. Over the course of his career, he has worked with filmmakers such as Krzysztof Zanussi, Daniele Vicari, Claudio Fragasso, Paolo e Vittorio Taviani, Gabriele Mainetti, Vincenzo Marra, and Marco Risi. He started directing his own films in 2011, first a number of award-winning shorts, then several music videos. In television, he worked as second unit director on the Raiuno series L’Aquila, grandi speranze. In 2015 he was a collaborating director to Paolo Cevoli on the film Soldato Semplice. Ghiaccio is his first feature film. Starting in 2000, singer Fabrizio Moro has taken part in the Sanremo Festival several times. And it was that same year that his first album as a songwriter, Fabrizio Moro, came out. In 2007, he signed with producers Giancarlo Bigazzi and Marco Falagiani and started putting together his album Pensa. His song of the same name won both the critics’ prize and the young talent section at Sanremo. In 2018, he joined forces with songwriter Ermal Meta to triumph at Sanremo with the song Non mi avete fatto niente. In 2021 he and Alessio De Leonardis co-directed the music video Sogni di rock’n’roll, which premiered at the Rome Film Festival. He has now teamed up with De Leonardis once more on Ghiaccio. 2022 Ghiaccio

GHIACCIO2022-11-24T00:38:31+01:00

ERO IN GUERRA MA NON LO SAPEVO

Milan in the late 1970s. Pierluigi Torregiani, a jeweler and a self-made man, endures a robbery attempt during which a young thief is killed. It wasn’t Torregiani who pulled the trigger, yet he is accused of being a ‘bourgeois vigilante”. The tense political climate of the times makes him the perfect target of a terrorist organization, PAC, headed by Cesare Battisti. PAC decide to punish him for his alleged crime. Torregiani and his family receive death threats so credible that they are placed under police protection. But the threats keep coming, so pervasive that they affect the man’s work and his relationships with his family members, until they reach the breaking point. screenplay Fabio Resinaro Carlo Mazzotta Mauro Caporiccio from the book with the same name by Alberto Dabrazzi Torregiani and Stefano Rabozzi cinematography Paolo Bellan editing Luciana Pandolfelli music Andrea Bonini production design Pasquale Tricoci costumes Enrica Barbano cast Francesco Montanari (Pierluigi Torregiani) Laura Chiatti (Elena) Gianluca Gobbi (Salvo Lo Russo) Pier Giorgio Bellocchio (detective Giardino) Stefano Fregni (bank manager) Luca Guastini (Albertini) Juju Di Domenico (Marisa) Gualtiero Burzi (doctor) producer Luca Barbareschi production Èliseo Entertainment with Rai Cinema Fabio Resinaro joined forces with Fabio Guaglione, a high school friend, to form a prolific artistic duo that turned out its first short film, Ti chiamo io, in 2001. In 2004, they directed a second short, science fiction this time, E:d:e:n, which won numerous awards, mostly abroad. Two medium-length films, The Silver Rope (2006) and Afterville (2008), were also well-received. In the following years, the two filmmakers alternated producing or writing films with directing a variety of music videos and promos. In 2016, Resinaro and Guaglione directed their first feature film, Mine. The film earned two nominations at the David di Donatello awards and the Silver Ribbons; above all, it did very well at the box office. Two years later, the duo produced Ride by Jacopo Rondinelli, nominated for the 2018 Caligari Prize. Since 2019, Resinaro has directed three more features: Dolceroma, Appunti di un venditore di donne, and Ero in guerra ma non lo sapevo. 2022 Ero in guerra ma non lo sapevo 2021 Appunti di un venditore di donne 2019 Dolceroma 2016 Mine (directed with Fabio Guaglione) 2008 Afterville (short, directed with Fabio Guaglione) 2006 The Silver Rope (short, directed with Fabio Guaglione) 2004 E:d:e:n (short, directed with Fabio Guaglione) 2001 Ti chiamo io (short, directed with Fabio Guaglione)

ERO IN GUERRA MA NON LO SAPEVO2022-11-24T00:39:58+01:00

VIKING

The Viking Society is recruiting volunteers for the first manned mission to Mars. The goal is to form a B-team that will mirror the mission here on Earth in order to find solutions to the interpersonal problems that the Mars-bound crew is experiencing. The film tells the story of David, a high school gym teacher, who seizes this opportunity to revive his dream of becoming an astronaut and making a difference. screenplay Stéphane Lafleur Eric K. Boulianne cinematography Sara Mishara editing Sophie Leblond   production design André-Line Beauparlant costumes Sophie Lefebvre music Organ Mood Christophe Lamarche-Ledoux Mathieu Charbonneau cast Steve Laplante (David) Larissa Corriveau (Steven) Fabiola N. Aladin (Janet Adams) Hamza Haq (Gary) Denis Houle (Liz) Marie Brassard (Christiane Comte) Martin-David Peters (Jean-Marc) Marie-Laurence Moreau (Isabelle) Christopher Heyerdahl (Mr Roy Walker) producers Luc Déry Kim McCraw production micro_scope world sales Sphère Films International apoirier@sphere-films.com lprice@sphere-films.com Stéphane Lafleur is a filmmaker, musician and film editor. His first feature film, Continental, un film sans fusil (2007) had its world premiere at the Giornate degli Autori. The film won the Citytv Award for Best Canadian First Feature Film at the Toronto International Film Festival. En terrains connus (2011) won the Ecumenical Jury Prize at the Berlin International Film Festival. Tu dors Nicole had its world premiere in The Directors’ Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival in 2014. Lafleur has edited numerous films including Monsieur Lazhar and La déesse des mouches à feu. He’s also the leader of the folk band Avec pas d’casque and half of the instrumental duo Feu doux. 2022 Viking 2014 Tu dors Nicole (You’re Sleeping Nicole) 2011 En terrains connus (Familiar Grounds) 2007 Continental, un film sans fusil (Continental, a Film Without Guns)

VIKING2022-11-24T00:03:43+01:00

SILENT NIGHT

Silent Night follows parents Nell and Simon who have invited their closest friends to join their family for Christmas dinner at their idyllic home in the English countryside. As the group comes together, it feels like old times–but behind all of the laughter and merriment, something is not quite right. The world outside is facing impending doom, and no amount of gifts, games or Prosecco can make mankind’s imminent destruction go away. Surviving the holidays just got a lot more complicated.  screenplay Camille Griffin cinematography Sam Renton editing Pia Di Ciaula Martin Walsh music Lorne Balfe sound Rob Entwistle production design Franckie Diago costumes Stephanie Collie cast Keira Knightley (Nell) Matthew Goode (Simon) Roman Griffin Davis (Art) Annabelle Wallis (Sandra) Lily-Rose Depp (Sophie) Ṣọpẹ́ Dìrísù (James) Kirby Howell-Baptiste (Alex) Lucy Punch (Bella) Rufus Jones (Tony) producers Celine Rattray Trudie Styler Matthew Vaughn productions Maven Pictures Marv Films world sales Endeavor Content Camille Griffin studied film at the Bournemouth Film School in the UK and then at the Binger Filmlab in Amsterdam. She originally trained in the camera department and moved on to directing, making several short films. Silent Night is her first feature film. Griffin is currently working on two further feature films: a Keira Knightley project, with Celine Rattray and Trudie Styler producing, and a Netflix science fiction film. 2022 Silent Night

SILENT NIGHT2022-11-23T23:52:03+01:00

RAGTAG

Ragtag is a chronological timeline collage based on a wide corpus of footage taken from the so-called classic era of American cinema which, après la lettre, French critics of the 1950s labeled film noir. The decoupage-based work covers roughly twenty years, or 310 noir films, spanning from the early 1940s to the late 1950s. It also includes some foreign-made film noirs. screenplay Giuseppe Boccassini editing Giuseppe Boccassini sound Giuseppe Boccassini producer Giuseppe Boccassini world sales Light Cone rentals@lightcone.org www.lightcone.org Giuseppe Boccassini is an Italian filmmaker mainly working in Germany and Italy. He studied film theory at the University of Bologna and film directing at the New University of Cinema and Television located in Cinecittà, Rome. His work has been shown at several international film festivals and exhibitions, including FID Marseille, Edinburgh International Film Festival, Jihlava International Documentary Film Festival, Torino Film Festival, IndieLisboa, Crossroads SF, Avvistamenti, Punto de Vista, Museo Storico del Trentino, ZKM, Microscope Gallery e Pesaro Film Festival. He is in charge of programming at the showcase Fracto Experimental Film Encounter, held yearly at Kunsthaus ACUD, in the heart of Berlin. 2022 Ragtag 2020 As in a Land, a Vagary (short) 2019 La notte salva (short) 2018 Temple of Truth (short) 2017 Debris (short) 2016 Orbit (short) 2014 The Tin Hat (short) 2013 Lezuo (short)

RAGTAG2022-11-23T23:42:30+01:00

MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK

2022 marks the hundred-year anniversary of Alfred Hitchcock’s first feature. A century on, Hitchcock remains one of the most influential filmmakers in the history of cinema. But how does his vast body of work and legacy hold up in today’s society? Mark Cousins tackles this question and looks at the auteur with a new and radical approach: through the use of his own voice. As Hitchcock rewatches his films, we are taken on an odyssey through his vast career – his vivid silent films, the legendary films of the 1950s and 60s and his later works – in playful and revealing ways.  screenplay Mark Cousins cinematography Mark Cousins editing Mark Cousins music Donna McKevitt sound Ania Przygoda narrator Alistair McGowan producer John Archer production Hopscotch Films world sales Dogwoof cleo@dogwoof.com yung@dogwoof.com www.dogwoof.com Mark Cousins is an Irish-Scottish director and writer. His films – including The Story of Film: An Odyssey, What is This Film Called Love?, Life May Be, A Story of Children and Film, Atomic, Stockholm My Love, I am Belfast and The Eyes of Orson Welles – have premiered at the Cannes, Berlin, Sundance and Venice film festivals and have garnered awards such as the Prix Italia, a Peabody, the Stanley Kubrick Award and the European Film Award for Innovative Storytelling. Cousins has filmed in Iraq, Sarajevo during the siege, Iran, Mexico, across Asia, and in America and Europe. Mark’s books include Imagining Reality: The Faber Book of Documentary and The Story of Looking. He has collaborated with Tilda Swinton on innovative film events. His fourteen-hour documentary Women Make Film tries to rethink cinema. His newest films are The Storms of Jeremy Thomas, The Story of Looking and The Story of Film: A New Generation. 2022 My Name Is Alfred Hitchcock (doc) 2022 Marcia su Roma (doc) 2021 The Storms of Jeremy Thomas (doc) 2021 The Story of Film: A New Generation (doc) 2021 The Story of Looking (doc) 2020 Alexander's Film (doc) 2020 40 Days to Learn Film (doc) 2019 Storm in My Heart (doc) 2018 Women Make Film: A New Road Movie Through Cinema (doc) 2018 Lo sguardo di Orson Welles (doc) 2016 Stockholm, My Love 2016 Bigger than the Shining (doc) 2016 Eisenstein on Lawrence (short) 2015 Atomic: Living in Dread and Promise (doc) 2015 I Am Belfast (doc) 2015 Your Eyes Flash Solemnly with Hate (short) 2014 The Place (short) 2014 6 Desires: DH Lawrence and Sardinia (doc) 2014 The Film That Buys the Cinema (doc) 2014 But Then Again, Too Few to Mention (short) 2014 Life May Be (doc) 2013 Here Be Dragons (doc) 2013 A Story of Children and Film (doc) 2012 What Is This Film Called Love? (doc) 2009 The First Movie (doc) 2008 The New Ten Commandments (doc) 1993

MY NAME IS ALFRED HITCHCOCK2022-11-23T23:37:53+01:00

HEOJIL KYOLSHIM – DECISION TO LEAVE

A man falls to his death from a mountain peak. The detective in charge, Hae-joon, comes to meet the dead man’s wife Seo-rae. “I worry when he does not come back from a mountain, thinking he might die at last,” she tells him. Seo-rae does not show any signs of agitation at her husband’s death. With her behavior so unlike that of a grieving relative, the police can’t help but consider her a suspect. Hae-joon interrogates Seo-rae, and while observing her on a stakeout, feels himself slowly developing an interest in her. A suspect who is hiding her true feelings, and a detective who suspects and desires his suspect: their Decision to Leave. screenplay Chung Seo-kyung Park Chan-wook cinematography Kim Ji-yong editing Kim Sang-bum music Cho Young-wuk production design Ryu Seong-hie costumes Kwak Jung-ae cast Tang Wei (Seo-rae Song) Park Hae-il (Hae-joon Jang) producer Park Chan-wook production Moho Film world sales CJ ENM www.cjenm.com Park Chan-wook established his reputation as a leading Korean director in the year 2000, with his Joint Security Area, followed by Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance, the first part of his Vengeance Trilogy, in 2002. He would shoot to global fame with his next title, Oldboy (2003), winner of the Grand Prix at Cannes. In the years since, he has continued to receive worldwide acclaim, courtesy of Sympathy for Lady Vengeance (2005) and Thirst (2009), which received the Jury Prize at, once again, Cannes. His 2013 film Stoker was his Hollywood debut, and three years later The Handmaiden (2016) not only premiered at Cannes, in competition, but also won the Best Film Not in the English Language at the 71st BAFTA Awards. Decision to Leave marks Park Chan-wook’s return to Cannes for another prestigious accolade: the award for Best Director. 2022 Decision to Leave 2016 The Handmaiden 2013 Stoker 2009 Thirst 2006 I’m a Cyborg, but That’s OK 2005 Sympathy for Lady Vengeance 2003 Oldboy 2002 Sympathy for Mr. Vengeance 2000 Joint Security Area 1997 Trio 1992 The Moon Is...the Sun's Dream

HEOJIL KYOLSHIM – DECISION TO LEAVE2022-11-23T23:33:22+01:00

TAFRIGH – SUBTRACTION

When Farzaneh spots a man on a city bus who looks an awful lot like her husband, Jalal, she follows him to an unfamiliar building. There, she sees the residents greet him as if they know him and watches from the street as he enters an apartment to meet with another woman. Three months pregnant and barely present in her job as a driving instructor, Farzaneh is convinced she’s caught Jalal in an affair. When they discuss it, he’s adamant about his alibi, reminding her that he was miles away at the time. Farzaneh begins to fall apart, but she swears she saw him, and, unable to let go, she continues to pull on the thread before making an unsettling discovery about the man on the bus.  screenplay Amir Reza Koohestani Mani Haghighi cinematography Morteza Najafi editing Meysam Molaei music Ramin Kousha sound Amir Hossein Ghasemi Rashid Daneshmand direction design Mohsen Nasrollahi costumes Neda Nasr cast Taraneh Alidoosti (Farzaneh, Bita) Navid Mohammadzadeh (Jalal, Mohsen) Esmail Poor-Reza (Jalal's father) Farham Azizi (Bardia) producer Majid Motalebi production Majid Film Production world sales Films Boutique contact@filmsboutique.com www.filmsboutique.com Mani Haghighi studied philosophy at McGill University in Montréal. His first feature, Abadan (2003) premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Men at Work (Berlinale, Forum 2006), based on a story idea by Abbas Kiarostami, won the Best Screenplay Prize at the 2007 Asian Film Awards. Haghighi has co-written two screenplays with the Oscar-winning Iranian director, Asghar Farhadi: Fireworks Wednesday (2006) and Canaan (2008), based on a short story by Alice Munro. Modest Reception (Berlinale, Forum 2012) won the Free Spirit Award at the Warsaw Film Festival. After A Dragon Arrives! (Berlinale, Competition 2016), Haghighi made the romantic comedy 50 Kilos of Sour Cherries (2017). Pig (Berlinale, Competition 2018) earned him l’Amphore d’Or for Best Film at the Festival du film Grolandais in Toulouse. 2022 Tafrigh (Subtraction) 2018 Pig 2017 50 Kilos of Sour Cherries 2016 Dragon Arrives! 2012 Modest Reception 2006 Men at Work 2003 Abadan

TAFRIGH – SUBTRACTION2022-11-25T15:43:19+01:00