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COME PECORE IN MEZZO AI LUPI

Vera is an undercover police officer. She’s a tough character, almost impossible to get close to, inured to the risks of her profession and burdened with a painful personal history. When she’s ordered to infiltrate an international crime syndicate, she soon discovers one of them is her younger brother Bruno, whom she has wanted to have nothing to do with for quite some time. Fresh out of jail and flat broke, Bruno plans to take part in a heist in order to patch things up with his daughter, Marta. After years and years apart, Vera and Bruno now find themselves face to face, on different sides of the law, yet forced to keep the secret between them. Old wounds are reopened, and the two will have decisions to make that will get in the way of the aims each wants to achieve. screenplay Filippo Gravino cinematography Giuseppe Maio editing Giuseppe Trepiccione music Ginevra Nervi production design Sonia Peng costumes Sara Fanelli cast Isabella Ragonese Andrea Arcangeli Carolina Michelangeli Aleksandar Gavranić Gennaro Di Colandrea Clara Ponsot Alan Katić Miloš Timotijević Gabriele Portoghese Imma Villa Tommaso Ragno producer Matteo Rovere production Groenlandia with Rai Cinema world sales True Colours – Glorious Films "These characters find themselves in a situation in which the framework is criminal and conflicts become physical and also internalized, which I like because it allows me to maintain the dynamics and the action in a broader sense, essential to filmmaking and storytelling. I simply can’t imagine telling a story that doesn’t have an action dynamic – it’s crucial and it stimulates me. True, I was able to specialize in that aspect, but for the stories I put on the screen, action is always interconnected with the characters." (Lyda Patitucci, interviewed by Benedetta Bragadini, Rolling Stone) Editor and filmmaker Lyda Patitucci studied film directing at ESCAC Film School in Barcelona. Before making her feature-directorial debut with Like Sheep Among Wolves, she learned the ropes by working on sets in different capacities. For example, she was an assistant director and second unit director on films such as Italian Race, the sequels to I Can Quit Whenever I Want, and The First King, directing mainly the action scenes. She also directed several episodes of the Netflix supernatural drama Curon. 2023 Come pecore in mezzo ai lupi

COME PECORE IN MEZZO AI LUPI2023-11-24T17:11:00+01:00

SANGUE DEL MIO SANGUE

Federico is a young soldier, who is seduced – just like his twin brother, a priest – by Sister Benedetta, a noblewoman forced into a convent. The nun is convicted and walled up alive in the ancient prisons in Bobbio where, centuries later, another Federico would arrive. The man, who claims to be an inspector from a ministry, discovers that a mysterious count is living in the building. But only at night. screenplay Marco Bellocchio cinematography Daniele Ciprì editing Francesca Calvelli Claudio Misantoni music Carlo Crivelli production design Andrea Castorina costumes Daria Calvelli cast Roberto Herlitzka Pier Giorgio Bellocchio Lidiya Liberman Fausto Russo Alesi Alba Rohrwacher Federica Fracassi Alberto Cracco Bruno Cariello Toni Bertorelli Filippo Timi Elena Bellocchio Ivan Franek Patrizia Bettini Sebastiano Filocamo Alberto Bellocchio producers Simone Gattoni Beppe Caschetto co-producers Fabio Conversi Tiziana Soudani Gabriella De Gara productions Kavac Film Ibc Movie con Rai Cinema co-productions Barbary Films Amka Film Rsi – Radiotelevisione svizzera "The film was inspired by the chance discovery of the ancient prisons in Bobbio, and it gave me the idea for the story of Benedetta, a nun walled up alive in the prison/convent of Santa Chiara in Bobbio. I felt that this story that had reemerged from such a distant past deserved a second look in present-day Italy, and more precisely Italy as it is reflected in a town, Bobbio, that has been erased by modernity and globalization." (Marco Bellocchio) In 1959, Marco Bellocchio (Piacenza, 1939), broke off his studies in philosophy at Milan’s Cattolica University to move to Rome to study at the CSC – National Film School. In 1961-1962, he made the short films Abbasso lo zio, La colpa e la pena and Ginepro fatto uomo, then moved again, to London, to attend the Slade School of Fine Arts. His feature directorial debut, Fists in the Pocket, won the Silver Sail at Locarno in 1965 and thrust Bellocchio into the international spotlight. In 2011, he received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the Venice Film Festival. Dozens of retrospectives of his films have been held all over the world, including the one at MOMA in New York in 2014, for his 50th anniversary in film, another at the 43rd La Rochelle Film Festival, and yet another at the British Film Institute in London in 2018. In 2021, he was awarded the Palme d’Or for Lifetime Achievement at Cannes. Since 2014, Bellocchio has been the president of the Cineteca di Bologna. 2023 Rapito 2022 Esterno notte 2021 Marx può aspettare (doc) 2019 Il traditore 2016 Fai bei sogni 2015 Sangue del mio sangue 2012 Bella Addormentata 2011 Sorelle Mai 2009 Vincere 2006 Sorelle 2005 Il regista di matrimoni 2004 Buongiorno, Notte 2002 Addio del passato 2002 L’ora di religione 1999 La balia

SANGUE DEL MIO SANGUE2023-11-24T17:16:21+01:00

ITALICA NOIR: I FERRI DEL MESTIERE

Italica Noir is a true crime series that combines animation techniques and historical reconstructions infused with the typical atmosphere of film noir and noir fiction, as a way of investigating the most bloody and sensational crimes in Italian history. After the success of the first season – narrated by Adriano Giannini – the second season, Italica Noir: I ferri del mestiere ("The Tools of the Trade") has arrived. To the voice of rapper Jake La Furia, four episodes by different directors show the various forms taken by Milan’s criminal underground, from the 1940s to the 1980s. From gunfights, heists, and spectacular getaways to prostitution rings and kidnappings, the criminals worked in gangs or went solo, sharpening their wits, developing friendships, gentlemen’s agreements and non-aggression pacts. screenplay Girolamo Lucania narrator Jake La Furia illustrations Gabriele Bollassa Alessandro Bellandi music Dimitri Scarlato co-productions Infinity LAB Grey Ladder Productions Amateru Federico Cadenazzi, an AD on ads by various name brands, has worked in animation in Amsterdam and Paris. He co-founded the Microfilmstudio, acting as animation director, supervisor, and art director. His short film Riflessi was shortlisted for a David di Donatello, while his animated web series Red Bull – F1 Sketches took the top prize in Best web series ADV at the Black Star Film Festival and the Austin Film Festival. Cadenazzi’s animated video Gentle Eyes in the Gloom was a finalist at the Lift-Off Session. His animation project Baby Death made the shortlist at the Milano Mobile Film Festival and won the Web Series Awards, while his stop-motion short New Year triumphed at the Japanese Avant-Garde Film Festival. His video The Ghibertins’ Intro won an award at the Los Angeles Animation Festival.

ITALICA NOIR: I FERRI DEL MESTIERE2023-11-24T17:12:32+01:00

AU BONHEUR DES OGRES

SCREENING SOLD OUT! There is something strange – some would even say abnormal – about the Malaussène family. But if you take a closer look, no one could be happier than this cheerfully chaotic family, even though their mother is usually off on one romantic adventure or another, leaving her children by different fathers (long decamped) to carry on in her absence. Her eldest son Benjamin Malaussène, professional scapegoat in a large department store, is the one in charge when Mom’s away. But when odd incidents start happening wherever he goes, the police begin to eye him suspiciously. Benjamin has to move fast to find out what is going on and who is so interested in ruining his life. screenplay Jérôme Fansten Serge Frydman Nicolas Bary based on the novel by Daniel Pennac cinematography Patrick Duroux editing Véronique Lange music Rolfe Kent production design Bettina von den Steinen costumes Agnès Béziers cast Raphaël Personnaz Bérénice Bejo Guillaume de Tonquédec Emir Kusturica Thierry Neuvic Mélanie Bernier Dean Constantin Marius Yelolo Bruno Paviot Alice Pol Youssef Hajdi Armande Boulanger producers Dimitri Rassam Jérôme Seydoux productions Alvy Développement Chapter 2 France 2 Cinéma Pathé Films Bidibul Productions Nicolas Bary studied audiovisual production at ESRA, but dropped out to be an intern on the set of Tom Thumb (2001). He then worked as an AD on a number of films, going to to direct and self-produce his first short films: Before... and Fragile in 2003 and 2004. Four years later, he made his feature directorial debut with Trouble at Timpetill, based on a novel by Henry Winterfeld. In 2013, he adapted Daniel Pennac’s renowned novel The Scapegoat for the screen. 2018 Galeries Lafayette: La Fabrique des Rêves (short) 2018 Cats on Trees: If You Feel (short) 2017 Le petit Spirou 2015 Piaget: Possession (short) 2014 Vianney: Pas là (short) 2013 Au bonheur des ogres 2008 Les enfants de Timpelbach 2006 Judas (short) 2005 Tabasco (short) 2004 Fragile (short) 2003 Before... (short)

AU BONHEUR DES OGRES2023-11-30T18:09:48+01:00

THE MARSH KING’S DAUGHTER

Helena has a loving husband, a beautiful daughter and a business that that fills her days. But she also has a secret: her mother was abducted as a teenager and held captive in a mountain cabin in the most remote forests in Canada, where Helena herself was born and lived as a child. Over twenty years later, her secret comes to light when her father breaks out of prison, and the only person who can stop him is the one who knows him better than anyone else: his daughter. screenplay Elle Smith Mark L. Smith based on the novel by Karen Dionne cinematography Alwin H. Küchler editing Naomi Geraghty music Adam Janota Bzowski production design Tim Grimes costumes Anne Dixon cast Daisy Ridley Ben Mendelsohn Brooklynn Prince Gil Birmingham Caren Pistorius Garrett Hedlund Joey Carson Pamela MacDonald Joshua Peace Dan Abramovici producers Keith Redmon Teddy Schwarzman Mark L. Smith productions Black Bear Pictures Anonymous Content Neil Burger is an American filmmaker, screenwriter and film and television producer. He graduated from Yale University. In the 1980s, he starting producing experimental films. In 2002, he wrote and directed his first film, Interview with the Assassin. Four years later he directed The Illusionist, based on a short story by Pulitzer-Prize-winning novelist Steven Millhause, Eisenheim the Illusionist. 2023 The Marsh King's Daughter 2021 Voyagers 2017 The Upside 2014 Divergent 2011 Limitless 2008 The Lucky Ones 2006 The Illusionist 2002 Interview with the Assassin

THE MARSH KING’S DAUGHTER2023-11-24T17:17:04+01:00

THE GARBAGE MAN

The story of a nameless sanitation worker, introverted and self-destructive, whose own father was abusive, yet who manages to find happiness in his job, finding “treasures” in the trash: forgotten belongings that people no longer want, but full of beauty. And while things finally seem to be looking up for him, bringing him a loving partner and a darling little girl, the rotten core and cruelty of the outside world will once again force him into a corner and turn him into a reluctant anti-hero, cleansing the streets of every possible form of evil. For once and for all. screenplay Alfonso Bergamo Armando Festa Craig Peritz cinematography Daniele Poli production design Fabio Tresca cast Paolo Briguglia Tony Sperandeo Roberta Giarrusso Randall Paul productions Fenix Entertainment Gika Productions “The genesis of The Garbage Man is a potent 'what if' image inspired by the tragedy of Melissa Bassi, the schoolgirl killed by a bomb outside her school in 2012: in this film, a street cleaner finds a bomb, on the job, and saves her. The core of the film is this: the everyday hero who finds beauty in his trade. In the production of an independent film, with all the challenges that entails, in Italy, I tried to created a genre film that dared to put the image before the story itself. Together with the cinematographer Daniele Poli and the production designer Fabio Tresca, we tried to create a visual universe that would convey strong emotions and celebrate the potency of the filmic image.” (Alfonso Bergamo) Alfonso Bergamo was born in Battipaglia in 1986. He studied film, attending NUCT (the New University of Cinema and Television), ACT (Academy of Cinema and Television, at the Cinecittà studios), and RUFA (the Rome University of Fine Arts). After directing numerous short films, in 2016, he made his first feature, Il Ragazzo della Giudecca, starring Giancarlo Giannini, Franco Nero, and Tony Sperandeo. His short film Il Soffio, made in 2020 during the lockdown, made the rounds of over forty international festivals. The Garbage Man is Bergamo’s second feature-length film. 2023 The Garbage Man 2023 Quattro minuti (short) 2022 Lia non deve morire (short) 2021 Baby Shower (short) 2020 Il soffio (short) 2018 I Remember when that Happened (short) 2016 Il ragazzo della Giudecca 2015 La differenza (short) 2012 The Labyrinth (short) 2010 The Composition (short)

THE GARBAGE MAN2023-11-24T17:16:38+01:00

OUT OF THE BLUE

Connor Bates is a young man who life has stalled out after spending time in prison following an assault charge. He now works in a library and spends his free time running and swimming and trying to piece his world back together. One day he meets Marilyn Chambers, the wife of a wealthy businessman, and they collide into an intense physical and emotional relationship that quickly escalates into idle talk about her husband’s murder. Connor thinks he’s found a way to escape the past. Marilyn thinks she’s found a way to escape her future. Both are headed down a path they could've never seen coming. screenplay Neil LaBute cinematography Walter Lloyd editing Kathryn J. Schubert music Adam Bosarge production design Megan Elizabeth Bell costumes Deborah Newhall cast Diane Kruger Ray Nicholson Gia Crovatin Hank Azaria Chase Sui Wonders KeiLyn Durrel Pamela Jayne Morgan Frederick Weller Victor Slezak producers Tara L. Craig Berry Meyerowitz production The Squid Farm Neil LaBute began working in film in 1997 with his feature debut, In the Company of Men, which made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival.The film went on to win the Filmmaker Trophy as well as the New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best First Feature. In addition to Sundance, it screened at the Cannes, Edinburgh, New Directors/New Films, London and Deauville Film Festivals and won two Independent Spirit Awards. Following In the Company of Men, LaBute also established himself as a playwright as well as a film & television writer/director. Among his films are Your Friends and Neighbors, Nurse Betty, The Shape of Things, Lakeview Terrace, Some Velvet Morning, Dirty Weekend and House of Darkness. In television, he has created three series for DirecTV: Full Circle, Ten x Ten and Billy & Billie. LaBute also served as showrunner on the series Van Helsing, which ran for five seasons on SYFY. 2023 Fear the Night 2022 Out of the Blue 2022 House of Darkness 2018 Oh! Squints III 2015 Dirty Weekend 2013 Oh! Squints II 2013 Some Velvet Morning 2010 Death at a Funeral 2008 Lakeview Terrace 2007 Oh! Squints 2006 The Wicker Man 2003 The Shape of Things 2002 Possession 2000 Nurse Betty 1998 Your Friends and Neighbors 1997 In the Company of Men

OUT OF THE BLUE2023-11-24T17:15:26+01:00

LÄIF A SÉIL

1838. Over the course of several centuries Luxembourg was subject to successive authoritarian and foreign regimes. Waves of famine and disease have now decimated its population. In the northern parts of the poverty-stricken region, The Graff family, a patriarch at its head, prevails within the walls of an isolated village. Thanks to them, its inhabitants have survived incessant woes and calamities. To guarantee their future, they have established strict, pious and oppressive rules that must be followed rigorously. But Helene, barely twelve years old, refuses to obey and tries to escape with the help of Graff’s youngest son, Jon, who is deeply attached to Helene. 15 years later Luxembourg is finally an independent nation. The landscape is being transformed by the construction of a railway, but the Graff family are still the undisputed rulers of their fortified village, despite the ageing and increasing physical fragility of the patriarch. When they discover a stranger, Oona, near the dead body of Graff’s right-hand man, they decide to welcome her into the village. screenplay Frédéric Zeimet Loïc Tanson cinematography Nikos Welter editing Loïc Tanson music Thorunn Egilsdottir Mike Koster production design Christina Schaffer costumes Magdalena Labuz cast Sophie Mousel Timo Wagner Jules Werner Marie Jung Luc Schiltz Jeanne Werner Philippe Thelen Jean-Paul Maes Denis Jousselin Max Gindorff Tommy Schlesser Larisa Faber Konstantin Rommelfangen Giusi Carenza Jamie Baillie Lou Beltramini producer Claude Waringo co-producer Patrick Quinet production Samsa Film production co-production Artémis Productions world sales One Eyed Films "The Last Ashes is rooted in a population closed in on itself, its traditions and its piety – traces of which still exist in current generations. However, I chose to anchor the story of The Last Ashes in the frame of a fairy tale, like those by Charles Perrault, whose desire in the 17th century was to make the fairy tale as popular as possible and for it to gain recognition as a literary genre. Perrault appropriated popular folk stories from the oral tradition and turned them into highly moral fairy tales. Mixing human barbarity with bloody violence, Perrault’s literary world describes a blunt and undeniable cruelty – a cruelty that can be understood in its etymological sense: Whoever sheds human blood." (Loïc Tanson) Loïc Tanson is a Luxembourg director and author. After studying cinema at the European Institute of Cinema and Audiovisual in Nancy, he attended a directing workshop at the New York Film Academy in Los Angeles. He has also worked as a journalist and film critic since 2003, both for the written press, as well as for the television and radio press. From 2005 to 2007, he was responsible for programming at the Utopia S.A. movie theatres group. In 2016, after co-directing three short films with Thierry Besseling (Laaf, Le faux depart and Sur le fil), he co-directed, still

LÄIF A SÉIL2023-11-24T17:13:17+01:00

MANTAGHEYE BOHRANI

Amir leads a lonely life. With his dog for sole company, he drives through the underworld of Tehran, dealing drugs of all kinds and healing troubled souls like a modern prophet. He navigates the city streets aimlessly, following the directions of his GPS while getting high to escape a town with no future. And yet, in his wandering he will find the seed of resistance. screenplay Ali Ahmadzadeh cinematography Abbas Rahimi editing Ali Ahmadzadeh Ashkan Mehri music Milad Movahedi cast Amir Pousti Shirin Abedinirad Alireza Keymanesh Maryam Sadeghiyan Saghar Saharkhiz Mina Hasanlou Saba Bagheri Alireza Rastjou Maman Pari Mr. Fred producers Sina Ataeian Dena Ali Ahmadzadeh production Counterintuitive Film world sales Luxbox "My films are mostly about the new generation and their life here in Iran, a life that is by its nature in constant conflict with the political power and the system. The regime doesn’t want our real pictures to be shown and seen because they want to present the image of a traditional religious islamic state to the outside world. In my new film Critical Zone, I depict everything in the most naked and radical way. I wanted to show that the city is like a big mental institution so sometimes we had to hide the camera. This suspense during production gave the cast and crew a strong feeling of being rebel fighters and I got the most out of the adrenaline in our blood." (Ali Ahmadzadeh) Ali Ahmadzadeh is a writer, director and producer of three successful feature films that convey a fatal portrait of an oppressed Iranian young generation. He was born in Tehran in 1986. Despite being qualified in architecture, his interest in music led him to graduate from the Neinava Music University. Later he graduated film directing from the Young Cinema Society. His films are banned by the Iranian authorities. 2023 Mantagheye Bohrani (Critical Zone) 2015 Madar-e Ghalb Atomi (Atomic Heart) 2013 Mehmouniye Kami (Kami’s Party)

MANTAGHEYE BOHRANI2023-11-24T17:13:50+01:00

LE PROCÈS GOLDMAN

A lawless desperado or a headstrong young man persecuted by a racist police state? In 1976, the second trial of Pierre Goldman, divided France when the far-left activist was retried for four robberies, one of which resulted in two deaths. He denied any involvement in the latter case. By choosing to stage this judicial huis-clos, Cédric Kahn makes a soft but powerful entry into the delicate genre of the courtroom drama. He also unearths a black box of distinctly French passions, upheavals and splits, that extend far beyond the 1970s. screenplay Cédric Kahn Nathalie Hertzberg cinematography Patrick Ghiringhelli editing Yann Dedet production design Guillaume Deviercy cast Arieh Worthalter Arthur Harari Chloé Lecerf producer Benjamin Elalouf production Moonshaker world sales Charades "We were quite methodical with Nathalie Hertzberg. First, we reconstructed the structure of the trial based on newspaper articles, checking them against one another to be as precise as possible. Then, we reconstructed the drama of the trial by putting the testimonies in the order that we felt was the most pertinent. [...] But we also needed the viewers to follow the trial like an investigation. It’s an immersive experience, the viewer needed to be placed in the position of a jury member who’d have a maximum of information to form their own conviction. Like an internal debate about the fact that conviction and point of view change with every new word spoken. (Cedric Kahn, interview by Fabien Lemercier, Cineuropa.org) Cédric Kahn started out as an assistant editor for Maurice Pialat’s Under the Sun of Satan and then directed his first short film Les Dernières Heures du millénaire in 1990. Two years later, his first feature film Bar des rails premiered at the Angers European First Film Festival and was then presented at the International Critic’s Week in Venice. He then received the Jean Vigo Prize with his next film Too Much Happiness in 1994 and the Louis-Delluc Prize with Boredom in 1998. In 2001, Roberto Succo was presented in the official selection of the Cannes Film Festival. He then directed Red Lights, which was presented at the Berlinale in 2004. In 2014, he won the Special Jury Prize at the San Sebastián Film Festival for Wild Life and in 2018, his lead actor Anthony Bajon won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the Berlin Film Festival for the film The Prayer. 2023 Making Of 2023 Le procès Goldman 2019 Fête de famille 2018 La prière 2014 Vie sauvage 2011 Une vie meilleure 2009 Les regrets 2005 L'avion 2004 Feux rouges 2001 Roberto Succo 1998 L'ennui 1994 Trop de bonheur 1991 Bar des rails 1990 Les dernières heures du millénaire (short)

LE PROCÈS GOLDMAN2023-11-24T17:13:33+01:00