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romalaziocinemadaysforinternationalbuyers fifth edition rome 16th - 20th october 2019
roma lazio cinema days
for international buyers
welcome
to rome
ass.for.seo
President | Paolo luci
Manager | elisabetta Verrecchia
italian film boutiQue
ifb Curator | Vanessa tonnini
Programming | alessandro zoppo
Logistics Manager | martina zigiotti
ifb Press office | raffaella spizzichino - reggi & spizzichino communication
lazio region the Project
claudio di berardino Paolo luci
Lazio region – Assessor to Labor and new rights, training, school and right Ass.for.seo President
to study in universities, reconstruction Policies
in a european and international context, highly competitive and do-
italy is the country that has won more oscars for best foreign Lan- minated by unpredictable economic and technological variables,
guage film: 14 Academy Awards. if i am remembering this number an industrial system – like audiovisual – must be ductile and able to
is because behind a simple number there lies the perfect artistic pander market revolutions. but this is not enough. the audiovisual
and cultural answer, but also industrial, of a national system with a system must also renew itself but always taking into account the
long tradition of quality movies, appreciated all over the world. public as well as social changes that are the object and the content
of artistic research.
the italian audiovisual, and we are talking not only of movies but
also of tV, is successful and collects prizes thanks to the combination the MoVie uP 2020 Global Grant was launched with the aim of re-
of talent and excellences supported by a strong system of companies. sponding to the current transformations with a set of tools designed
the duty of our institutions, today, is to exploit tradition but also and to sustain the players of the audiovisual supply chain and to support
especially to work next to the different operators of the production them in reconfiguring their profiles and competitiveness.
chain in order to provide them with all the necessary tools useful to training, updating and internationalisation of skills are the key points
support them in getting stronger to face the challenges imposed of this action that aims not only at developing the employment po-
by a rapidly changing contemporaneity. tential of the sector but also at enlarging its market.
With this aim the Lazio region has among its primary and essential in this framework, also this year the Global Grant organizes italian
goals the promotion of contemporary audiovisual production. film boutique, born in 2014 as a platform to promote the export of
regional audiovisual products by enabling the conditions to support
Among the tools at disposal of the region, certainly the Global Grant networking and exchange with foreign operators.
MoVie uP 2020 is able to reply in a modern and effective way to the the success abroad of italian audiovisual is certainly due to the quality
different needs of the sector through various actions that focus on of products but also to the ability of institutions to support the system.
training and internationalisation as key factors for the future.
With this conviction, we are glad to continue and to strengthen the
We are very glad to greet the fifth edition of italian film boutique collaboration with Alice nella Città, with whom we thought to cha-
for young Audience, an event that promotes cinema, especially the racterize this project by favoring especially new authors and cinema
youngest one, helping to enhance the diversity and cultural vivacity targeted to a young audience.
of our region.
MOViE UP 2020 is an initiative financed by Regione Lazio – Assessorato Lavoro e
nuovi diritti, Formazione, Scuola e diritto allo studio universitario, Politiche per la
ricostruzione - POR FSE 2014-2020 – Asse 3 Istruzione e formazione
4 5
italian
film
facilities boutiQue
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www.auditorium.com
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screenings schedule
17th october 18th october 19th october 20th october
tony driVer don't forget to breathe simPle women darkness
Barberini 1 – h. 9:30 Quattro Fontane 3 – h. 10:30 Barberini 4 – h. 11:00 Quattro Fontane 2 – h. 9:30
neVia one more jumP the good one neVia
Barberini 4 – h. 11:00 Quattro Fontane 4 – h. 11:00 Quattro Fontane 3 – h. 11:30 Quattro Fontane 4 – h. 10:00
the dog snatch the good one sole the Park
Quattro Fontane 1 – h. 16:00 Barberini 5 – h. 15:00 Quattro Fontane 4 – h. 12:00 Quattro Fontane 4 – h. 11:30
the kingdom the lamb bellissime
Barberini 3 – h. 16:30 Quattro Fontane 1 – h. 16:30 Quattro Fontane 1 – h. 12:30
Volare my brother chases maternal
Quattro Fontane 1 – h. 17:30 dinosaurs Barberini 1 – h. 14:00
Barberini 3 – h. 17:30
lessons of loVe
shortcut Barberini 3 – h. 14:00
Quattro Fontane 2 – h. 18:00
the dog snatch
the Vacation Barberini 4 – h. 16:00
Quattro Fontane 3 – h. 18:30
stay still
Barberini 3 – h. 17:30
8 9
director Producer
elisa Amoruso domenico Procacci
screenplay Production
elisa Amoruso, fandango,
Antonella Gaeta, timVision,
flavia Piccinni supported by MibAC
cinematography world sales
Martina Cocco fandango
Viale Gorizia, 19
editing 00198 rome – italy
irene Vecchio tel : +39 06 85 21 81 55 biography
fax : +39 06 85 21 81 20 elisa Amoruso was born
music in rome in 1981. she has
www.fandango.it written several short films
Lorenzo tomio
(including Aria, winner of
a david di donatello
raffaella di Giulio
Award, a silver ribbon,
raffaella.digiulio@fandango.it
and the Jameson Peo-
ple's Choice Award by
sofia Kurdoglu the european film Aca-
sales@fandango.it demy) and feature films
as Good Morning Aman
festival & awards and Ice Forest by Claudio
rome film fest 2019 noce, and Chlorine by
bellissime (Alice nella Città - Lamberto sanfelice. Off
Competition) Road (Fuoristrada), her di-
rectorial debut, won the
italy, 2019, 82' Prospettive doc italia
genre: documentary section of the rome film
festival 2013. Strange
four extraordinarily emblematic experiences will make it possible to investigate Strangers (Strane stra-
what the passage of fame, of the spotlight, of visibility multiplied by magazines, niere), her second docu-
mentary, premiered at
advertising, and commercials can mean in a child's life. A single family
rome film fest 2016. in
nucleus, united and protected by beauty worship. Little women, extremely 2019 she directed Chiara
well-maintained, regulars at the gyms and the beauty salon, in search of an Ferragni: Unposted: the
opportunity, a chance to shine again – and their mother who, more than they, Amazon Prime docu-
and perhaps more tenaciously, takes great pains to massage these possibilities, mentary charting the rise
proudly claiming "i raised them really well." their days. We follow each of instagram star Chiara
member of this blonde quartet, with their private trajectories and shared ob- ferragni premiered at
Venice film festival 2019
jectives: entering Accademia della Moda for Giò, the new Miss Mascotte se-
and grossed a stellar
lections for francesca, Valentina's auditions for Il Collegio, and their mother €1.6 million record at the
Cristina's departure for ibiza. An open reflection on beauty, on the worship of italian box office over its
appearance, on what it means to be a girl, a teenager, a mother, in a 3-days theatrical run.
continuous play of references between past and present.
saturday 19th • h 12:30 • Quattro fontane 1
10 11
director Producer
emanuela rossi Claudio Corbucci
cast Production
denise tantucci, Courier film,
Valerio binasco, with the support of
Piemonte film tV fund
Gaia bocci,
and film Commission
olimpia tosatto
torino Piemonte
screenplay
Via Germanico, 166
emanuela rossi,
00192 rome – italy
Claudio Corbucci biography
tel : +39 06 3219310
emanuela rossi worked
cinematography as a freelance journalist
Claudio Corbucci
Marco Graziaplena for italian magazines as
courierfilmsrl@gmail.com
Grazia, Marie Claire, D-
editing Donna, and Gulliver, and
festival & awards
Letizia Caudullo then she began her ca-
rome film fest 2019
reer as a screenwriter for
(Alice nella Città –
music several italian tV series.
Panorama italia) rossi directed and pro-
Corrado Carosio,
Pierangelo fornaro duced three short films,
including Carla's Child (Il
darkness Production design
bambino di Carla), scree-
ned at Lincoln Center in
Massimo santomarco
buio new york, and The Inter-
com (Il citofono), premie-
costume design red at torino film festi-
italy, 2019, 98' Carola fenocchio val. she was one of the
genre: thriller / sci-fi / drama three directors of Thou
Shalt Not Kill (Non ucci-
stella, 17 years old, lives with her father and her two younger sisters, dere), the italian crime tV
Luce and Aria, in an isolated house with windows blocked by heavy show starring Miriam
Leone. Buio is her direc-
wooden boards. the father is the only one who can go outside, where
torial debut.
lays the Apocalypse. However, in the story of father and stella, something
doesn't add up.
sunday 20th • h 09:30 • Quattro fontane 2
12 13
director Producers
Martin turk ida Weiss,
Marta Zaccaron,
cast darija Kulenović Gudan,
Matija Valant, Marina Andree Škop
tine ugrin,
Production
Klara Kuk,
bela film, Quasar,
ronja Matijevec Jerman,
studio dim,
nikola Đuričko,
rai Cinema,
iva Krajnc bagola, radio televizija slovenija,
Jakob Cilenšek, with the support of
Miha rodman fondo Audiovisivo fVG, biography
slovenski filmski Center, Martin turk was born in
screenplay Viba film, 1978 in trieste, italy. He is
Martin turk, Creative europe, a member of the slove-
Gorazd trušnovec re-ACt nian ethnic minority living
in italy. in 1998 he moved
cinematography to slovenia to study film
world sales
radislav Jovanov – Gonzo directing at the Ljubljana
intramovies
film Academy (AGrft).
Via e. Manfredi, 15 He graduated in 2004.
editing 00197 rome – italy turk made several short
beppe Leonetti tel : + 39 06 807 72 52 films that traveled all
fax : + 39 06 807 61 56
don't forget to breathe music
around the world and
won several prizes, inclu-
ne Pozabi dihati teho teardo www.intramovies.com ding Every Day Is Not the
Same, premiered at Can-
sound Manuela tambascia nes directors' fortnight.
italy / slovenia / Croatia, 2019, 98' Antonio Petris in 2009 he was selected
manuela.tambascia@
genre: drama / Coming of Age intramovies.com for the 18th session of the
Production design Cannes Cinéfondation
Klemen (15) adores his brother Peter (18) who is also his idol and best design Marco Juratovec Geremia biagiotti residence. in 2012 he
friend. the boys, raised by a single mother, are growing up in a small made his first feature film
geremia.biagiotti@
costume design Feed Me With Your Words
countryside town, spending their days on the tennis court, training to be intramovies.com
emil Cerar and in 2018 his second
champions. Klemen's well-established routine gets interrupted by Peter's feature film, Good Day's
sudden and passionate love affair with his gorgeous peer sonja, which festival & awards Work, premiered at bu-
triggers a torrent of conflicting emotions and reckless actions in Klemen. rome film fest 2019 san film festival.
An atmospheric and intimate coming of age drama about the fragility of (Alice nella Città -
teenage period, jealousy, erotics and the inevitable process of accepting Competition)
the fact that the world is changing.
friday 18th • h 10:30 • Quattro fontane 3
14 15
director Producers
Chiara Campara damiano ticconi,
tancredi Campello
cast
Leonardo Lidi, Production
Alice torriani, Ang film,
biennale College Cinema
Giancarlo Previati,
Giovanni de Giorgi
world sales
Wide
screenplay
17 rue Cadet
Lorenzo faggi,
75009 Paris – france
Chiara Campara biography
tel: +33 1 53 95 04 64
Chiara Campara was
cinematography born in 1987 and studied
infos@widemanagement
Giuseppe Maio documentary cinema in
.com
Milan. she produced and
editing co-directed Photofinish -
festival & awards
Alice roffinengo Una stagione alle corse
Venice film festival 2019
(2014, with davide Cipo-
(biennale College Cinema)
sound lat, Giovanni dall'Avo
Lorenzo dal ri, Manfroni, and Lorenzo
Alessio fornasiero faggi), premiered at the
55th festival dei Popoli in
florence, and Sotterra-
Production design
nea (2016, with Matteo
lessons of loVe elisabetta Viganò
ninni and Carlo tartivita).
Tempting Promises (Le al-
costume design lettanti promesse), co-di-
italy, 2019, 76' Valentina Carcupino, rected with Lorenzo
genre: drama / Coming of Age Valentina Moro faggi in 2017, screened at
festival dei Popoli and
yuri is 30 years old and has never had a girlfriend. He works with his full frame documentary
father on a small farm in a depopulated mountain village he knows all ff in durham, north Ca-
rolina. Lessons of Love,
too well – a world he's never really chosen. At a nightclub he has
her first feature film, was
frequented since he was a boy, he meets Agata, a stripper, and finally among the three final
sees the chance for a relationship with her. in an attempt to save himself projects of the biennale
from a life of solitude, yuri takes the first decision in his life in the College – Cinema 2018-
interest of his own wellbeing: he leaves his father and family and moves 2019.
to the suburbs of a nearby city. His uncle offers him a job and the
chance to imagine another form of existence.
saturday 19th • h 14:00 • barberini 3
16 17
director Producers
Maura delpero Alessandro Amato,
Luigi Chimienti,
cast Marta donzelli,
Lidiya Liberman, Gregorio Paonessa,
denise Carrizo, nicolas Avruj,
diego Lerman
Agustina Malale,
isabella Cilia,
Production
Marta Lubos,
dispàrte, Campo Cine,
renata Palminiello, Vivo film, rai Cinema,
Livia fernán, in association with etrusca srl
Alan rivas supported by inCAA, biography
MibAC, ibermedia, After graduating in litera-
screenplay idM, regione Lazio, ture, Maura delpero stu-
Maura delpero tfL Audience design died dramaturgy and
fund screenwriting in buenos
cinematography Aires. Her documenta-
soledad rodriguez ries, including Signori
distribution
professori (2009) and Na-
Memento films [fr]
dea e Sveta (2012), have
editing
won awards all over the
ilaria fraioli, world sales world. she has been no-
Luca Mattei Charades minated for the david di
17 boulevard Jules ferry
maternal sound 75011 Paris – france
donatello Award and re-
ceived the special Jury
hogar Vincenzo urselli tel : +336 29 87 45 04 / Mention of the Premio
+336 61 22 23 12 solinas. Maternal is her
Production design first feature film.
italy / Argentina, 2019, 91' yamila fontán http://lineup.charades.eu/
genre: drama
costume design Jean-félix dealberto
the Hogar is a paradoxical world in which the precocious maternity of a Jam Monti jeanfelix@charades.eu
group of teens lives together with the vow of chastity made by the nuns
who welcomed them, between rigid rules and Christian love. sister nicolas rebeschini
Paola has just arrived in buenos Aires from italy to finish her novitiate nicolas@charades.eu
and take her final vows at the Hogar, an italian religious centre for teen
mums in buenos. Lu and fati are 17-year-olds abruptly converted into festival & awards
mothers. three different women who will influence each other's lives Locarno festival 2019
and their relationship with motherhood. (Concorso internazionale
– special Mention, europa
Cinemas Label),
bfi London film festival
2019 (Love),
busan international ff
2019 (World Cinema),
rome film fest 2019
(Alice nella Città –
saturday 19th • h 14:00 • barberini 1 Panorama internazionale)
18 19director Producers
stefano Cipani isabella Cocuzza,
Arturo Paglia,
cast Antonia nava
Alessandro Gassmann,
isabella ragonese, Production
Paco Cinematografica,
rossy de Palma,
neo Art Producciones,
francesco Gheghi,
rai Cinema,
Gea dall'orto,
in association with
Maria Vittoria dallasta, imprebanca,
Lorenzo sisto, with the support of
roberto nocchi, regione Lazio, biography
Arianna becheroni, regione emilia-romagna, stefano Cipani studied
saul nanni, iCeC, tV3, MibAC film history and criticism
edoardo Pagliai at the university of bolo-
Piazza rondanini, 29 gna and became a part
of thesPonKstudios, a
screenplay 00186 rome – italy
film and art collective in
fabio bonifacci, tel : +39 06 6875073
italy. He worked in diffe-
Giacomo Mazzariol +39 06 68130526
rent positions on feature
(based on the novel by films and also directed a
Giacomo Mazzariol) www.pacocinematografica.it number of short films
and music videos. After
cinematography Arturo Paglia
my brother chases dinosaurs sergi bartrolí info@pacocinematografica.it
his graduation he moved
to Los Angeles to do a
mio fratello rincorre i dinosauri Master's in filmmaking.
editing Gioia Abbattista He also attended the
Massimo Quaglia gioia.abbattista@ new york film Academy,
italy / spain, 2019, 102' during which time he di-
pacocinematografica.it
genre: Comedy / Coming of Age music rected two shorts, Napo-
Lucas Vidal distribution leon's Charm and While
Jack has a brother, Giò, who has down syndrome. As a child, Jack believed eagle Pictures [it] God Is Watching Us. After
the tender lie his parents told him, that Giò was a special being with collaborating with us
sound
production companies
superpowers, as in a comic book. now that he is about to go to high school, Antonio barba festival & awards
and MtV italia, Cipani
however, Jack no longer believes that his brother is a superhero, in fact, he is Venice film festival 2019
came back to italy and
almost ashamed of him, especially since he met Arianna, the first love of his Production design (Giornate degli Autori – directed Symmetry (2014)
life. Jack cannot allow himself to make any gaffes of bad impressions with the ivana Gargiulo different smile Award) starring isabella ferrari,
girl of his dreams and looking after his little brother and his unpredictable and started working with
behavior soon becomes a burden, to the point that Jack pretends not to have costume design figures of the caliber of
Gemma Mascagni dante ferretti, ennio Mor-
any brother and hides the existence of Giò from the eyes of his new classmates
ricone and Vittorio so-
and, above all, of Arianna. but you cannot be loved by someone as you are, if
dano. My Brother Chases
you cannot love someone despite his faults and this is a life-lesson that Jack Dinosaurs is his first fea-
will have to learn – it will be his brother Giò to teach him that, with his straight ture.
ways, his unique point of view and his simple but surprisingly wise words.
friday 18th • h 17:30 • barberini 3
20 21director Producer
nunzia de stefano Matteo Garrone
cast Production
Virginia Apicella, Archimede,
Pietra Montecorvino, rai Cinema,
supported by MibAC
Pietro ragusa,
rosy franzese,
world sales
franca Abategiovanni,
true Colours
simone borrelli, Largo italo Gemini, 1
Lola bello, 00161 rome – italy
Gianfranco Gallo tel : +39 06 37 35 2334 biography
born in naples and grew
screenplay www.truecolours.it up in a big family, nunzia
nunzia de stefano, de stefano worked for
Chiara Atalanta Catia rossi years as an elephant ta-
mer in a circus in secon-
catia@truecolours.it
cinematography digliano. from 2008 to
Guido Michelotti 2018 she worked with
Gaetano Maiorino
Matteo Garrone on the
gaetano@truecolours.it films Gomorrah, Reality,
editing
Tale of Tales, and Dog-
sarah Mc teigue Giulia Casavecchia man. Nevia is her direc-
giulia@truecolours.it torial debut, premiered at
music Venice film festival 2019
neVia Michele braga festival & awards in the orizzonti section.
Venice film festival 2019
sound (orizzonti – special
italy, 2019, 86' Vincenzo urselli Mention fediC, Lizzani
genre: drama Award, nuovoimaie talent
Production design Award: Virginia Apicella)
nevia is 17 and lives in the suburbs of naples with her beloved little daniele fabretti
sister enza, their aunt Lucia and their grandmother nana. she is a
stubborn teenager, determined to get from life much more than fate costume design
has planned for her, but it's hard to be a girl in a place where only men Massimo Cantini Parrini
can make the rules and apparently there are no options but make ends
meet with little illegal jobs. until one day, a circus comes to town,
changing everything in nevia's life and giving her a new hope...
thursday 17th • h 11:00 • barberini 4
sunday 20th • h 10:00 • Quattro fontane 4
22 23director Producer
emanuele Gerosa enrica Capra
screenplay Production
emanuele Gerosa Graffitidoc,
AMKA films Productions,
cinematography rsi radio televisione
Matteo delbò della svizzera italiana,
Al Jazeera Arabic,
editing itAr Productions,
nicolò tettamanti oneWorld docuMakers,
rai Cinema
music biography
Zeno Gabaglio world sales emanuele Gerosa was
fandango born in 1975 in rovereto,
Viale Gorizia, 19 italy. He graduated in
sound design
00198 rome – italy Contemporary History at
Massimo Mariani,
the university of bologna
tommaso barbaro tel : +39 06 85 21 81 55
in 2001. in 2008 he star-
fax : +39 06 85 21 81 20
ted collaborating with an
italian nGo to direct his
www.fandango.it first medium-length do-
cumentary, Kamenge Nor-
raffaella di Giulio thern Quarters (2010). in
raffaella.digiulio@fandango.it 2012 he directed his se-
cond medium-length
one more jumP sofia Kurdoglu doc, Lion Souls, followed
sales@fandango.it in 2015 by his first feature
doc, Between Sisters, pre-
italy / switzerland / Lebanon, 2019, 81' miered at the 56th festi-
festival & awards
genre: documentary rome film fest 2019 val dei Popoli in florence.
(Alice nella Città - One More Jump has been
When Abdallah – founder of the Gaza Parkour team – was invited to Competition) part of the european wor-
europe, a few years ago, he decided not to make return to Gaza, with kshop esodoc, won an
award at the solinas
the aim of becoming a professional athlete. His friend and teammate
Award – documentario
Jehad still lives segregated in the strip. every day he trains the youngest per il Cinema, and was
members of the team: only sport can keep their hopes alive… He too selected among the fina-
dreams of leaving Palestine. but Jehad is aware that, fleeing alone, lists at Atelier – Milano
Abdallah has made things even worse for them. one day Abdallah film network.
decides that the time has come to join the main european parkour
competition in sweden, and to confront reality. in the same days Jehad
finally receives the visa he has been waiting years for. Can you ever be
free if you must leave everything you love behind?
friday 18th • h 11:00 • Quattro fontane 4
24 25director Producers
Alessio Liguori simona ferri,
roberto Cipullo,
cast Gabria Cipullo,
Jack Kane, simon Pilarsky,
Zak sutcliffe, Konstantin Korenchuk
Andrei Claude,
Production
sophie Jane oliver,
Play entertainment,
terence Anderson
Camaleo film,
sternenberg films,
screenplay Mad rocket
daniele Cosci entertainment, biography
with the support of Alessio Liguori has stu-
cinematography regione Lazio died at dams in rome.
Luca santagostino He directed the sci-fi in-
world sales dependent feature Re-
editing port 51 (2013), the tV mo-
Minerva Pictures
Jacopo reale vie Darkly (2016), and the
Via del Circo Massimo, 9
short film Come Back
00153 rome – italy
music (2018). He co-founded
tel : +39 06 84242430 Mad rocket entertain-
benjamin Kwasi bjurrell
ment, a young film pro-
www.minervapictures duction company dedica-
Production design international.com ted to the development
Miriam Judith reichel
of genre projects and the
shortcut costume design
Monica Ciarli discovery of new talents.
monica@minervapictures. in 2019 Liguori has direc-
Jessica Materno com ted his second feature,
italy / Germany, 2019, 80' the psychological horror
genre: fantasy / Horror / Coming of Age francesca delise In the Trap.
f.delise@minervapictures.
A group of five teenagers is trapped inside their school bus after the in- com
vasion on the road of a mysterious creature. it is night. they are alone in
the middle of a desert road. time runs and every passing minute Antonino salerno
decreases their survival chances against the constant threats of that a.salerno@minervapictures.
unknown entity. A story of friendship and courage in the delicate phase com
of pre-adolescent growth where imagination and deeper fears leave
room for a more concrete world of responsibility, bonds, relationships
and indissoluble values.
friday 18th • h 18:00 • Quattro fontane 2
26 27director Producers
Chiara Malta Marta donzelli,
Gregorio Paonessa,
cast Ada solomon
Jasmine trinca,
elina Löwensohn, Production
Vivo film,
francesco Acquaroli,
rai Cinema,
Anna Malvica,
Micro film,
Mirella Mazzeranghi,
tVr televiziunea româna
betti Pedrazzi, supported by
Cosmina olariu, MibAC,
Paolo Graziosi Guvernul româniei, biography
regione Lazio Chiara Malta was born in
screenplay rome and has been li-
Chiara Malta, world sales ving in Paris since 2002.
sébastien Laudenbach, the Match factory GmbH she graduated with a de-
Marco Pettenello gree in film, theater and
domstraße 60
Media studies and then
50668 Cologne –
cinematography attended the Ateliers Va-
Germany
ran. Her documentary Ar-
tudor Vladimir Panduru tel : +49 221 539 709-0 mando and Politics (Ar-
mando e la politica, 2008)
editing www.the-match- premiered as the ope-
ioachim stroe, factory.com ning film at torino film
Giogiò franchini festival and was aired on
simPle women Michael Weber Zdf and Arte. she has
music info@matchfactory.de written and directed
olivier Mellano many shorts, mixing fic-
italy / romania, 2019, 85' tion, animation, and docu-
thania dimitrakopoulou
genre: drama sound thania.dimitrakopoulou@ mentary, including L'Isle,
Gianluca scarlata, matchfactory.de J'attends une femme,
When struggling and passionate young director federica makes a film riccardo spagnol L'amour à trois. With her
together with elina, the icon of her youth, not all goes as planned. in the short Les Yeux du Renard,
Carolina Jessula
Production design she has started a reflec-
heat of the moment federica has a fit of epilepsy that turns her mind carolina.jessula@
Massimiliano nocente tion on childhood, tinted
inside out. everything seems to blur, until almost magically, everything matchfactory.de
with magical realism.
finds a new perspective. Simple Women, which
costume design festival & awards she developed as a Villa
Loredana buscemi tiff - toronto Medici resident artist in
international film festival rome, is her first feature
2019 (discovery – film.
opening film)
saturday 19th • h 11:00 • barberini 4
28 29director Producers
Carlo sironi Giovanni Pompili,
Agnieszka Wasiak
cast
sandra drzymalska, Production
Claudio segaluscio, Kino Produzioni,
Lava films,
barbara ronchi,
rai Cinema,
bruno buzzi
supported by MibAC,
with the support of
screenplay
eurimages,
Giulia Moriggi,
Polish film institute,
Carlo sironi, biography
torino filmLab,
Antonio Manca Carlo sironi was born in
idM südtirol – Alto Adige
film fund & Commission rome in 1983. He began
cinematography his career directing music
Gergely Poharnok videos and has worked
distribution
as a writer, actor, cinema-
officine ubu [it]
editing tographer, and Ad. He di-
Andrea Maguolo rected the acclaimed
world sales
short films Sofia (2008, in
Luxbox competition at torino
music
6 rue Jean-Pierre film festival), Cargo
teoniki rożynek
timbaud (2012, in competition at
75011 Paris – france Venice and nominated
sound
tel : + 33 171 37 9934 for a david di donatello
sole stefano sabatini,
Marzia Cordò,
Award), and Valparaiso
www.luxboxfilms.com (2016, awarded at Lo-
Michał fojcik carno). Sole is his debut
italy / Poland, 2019, 102' feature film.
fiorella Moretti
genre: drama Production design
fiorella@luxboxfilms.com
ilaria sadun
ermanno and Lena are two strangers. Lena has come from Poland to Hédi Zardi
sell her baby. ermanno has to pretend to be the father so that he can costume design
hedi@luxboxfilms.com
olivia bellini
entrust the newborn to his uncle fabio. As Lena rejects her motherly
desire, ermanno starts to assume his role as if he was the actual father Valentin Carré
of sole, the baby girl. unexpectedly, they will experience family life festivals@luxboxfilms.com
together.
festival & awards
Venice film festival 2019
(orizzonti – fediC Award:
best film, Lanterna Magica
Award, nuovoimaie talent
Award: Claudio segaluscio),
tiff - toronto
international film festival
2019 (discovery),
busan international ff
saturday 19th • h 12:00 • Quattro fontane 4 2019 (World Cinema)
30 31director Producers
elisa Mishto Martina Haubrich,
Andrea stucovitz
cast
natalia beltiski, Production
Luisa-Céline Gaffron, CALA filmproduktion,
Partner Media investment,
Giuseppe battiston,
supported by MibAC,
Martin Wuttke,
farbfilm Produktion,
Katharina schüttler,
Cine Plus filmproduktion,
Kim riedle, with the support of
ole Lagerpusch, bKM,
Jürgen Vogel German federal film biography
board, elisa Mishto is a screenwri-
screenplay Medienboard berlin- ter and film director born
elisa Mishto brandenburg, in italy and based in berlin.
German Motion Picture After graduating with a MA
cinematography in semiotic at the univer-
fund
francesco di Giacomo sity of bologna, she stu-
died script writing at Gol-
world sales
dsmith College in London.
editing intramovies she directed and produ-
beatrice babin, Via e. Manfredi, 15 ced her first feature docu-
Cristiano travaglioli 00197 rome – italy mentary States of Mind,
tel : + 39 06 807 72 52
stay still music fax : + 39 06 807 61 56
which premiered in com-
petition at idfA and was
stillstehen sascha ring (Apparat), distributed in the us and
Philipp thimm www.intramovies.com Mexico by indiePix and
worldwide by Wide Mana-
Germany / italy, 2019, 90' Production design gement. Her short film
Manuela tambascia
genre: drama / black Comedy sylvester Koziolek manuela.tambascia@ Emma and the Fury had its
intramovies.com world premiere at the fil-
Julie is a young, rich and sarcastic patient in a mental clinic, living with a costume design mfestival Max ophüls Preis
"doing nothing" manifesto: she doesn't study, she doesn't work, she Gitti fuchs and its international pre-
Geremia biagiotti
miere at the Palm springs
doesn't have friends. Agnes is a naive nurse and young mother of a geremia.biagiotti@
film festival. Stay Still is
three years old child with only one problem in life: she doesn't get the intramovies.com
her first feature film and it
all thing about being a mother. When the two wild spirits meet in the premiered at the Munich
mental clinic, they start a rebellion that will question and set on fire eve- festival & awards international film festival
rything and everybody around them. A witty and radical portrait of a ge- filmfest München 2019 where it was nominated
neration with nothing to lose and nothing to gain. (neues deutsches Kino – for best director and best
CineCoPro Competition), script. it has won best
rome film fest 2019 screenplay at the endas
(Alice nella Città – expo, Cinerockom inter-
Panorama italia) national film festival and
Mexico international film
festival. Mishto has been
working as a video artist,
song lyricist and boxing
promoter.
saturday 19th • h 17:30 • barberini 3
32 33director Producers
fulvio risuleo donatello della Pepa,
Annamaria Morelli
cast
edoardo Pesce, Production
silvia d'Amico, revok film,
timVision,
daphne scoccia,
supported by MibAC
silvana bosi,
Anna bonaiuto,
distribution
Vittorio Viviani, Vision distribution [it]
federico tocci,
sabrina Marchetta world sales biography
true Colours born in 1991, fulvio risu-
screenplay Largo italo Gemini, 1 leo studied directing at
fulvio risuleo 00161 rome – italy the experimental Cinema
tel : +39 06 37 35 2334 Centre in rome, gradua-
cinematography ting in 2013. in 2014 he
Juri fantigrossi won the third prize at the
www.truecolours.it
Cannes film festival in
the Cinéfondation sec-
editing Catia rossi tion with the short film
ilenia Zincone catia@truecolours.it Sourdough (Lievito ma-
dre). His short film Chic-
music Gaetano Maiorino
the dog snatch robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe gaetano@truecolours.it
kenpox (Varicella, 2015)
was awarded the sony
il colPo del cane (Lichens) CineAlta discovery Prize
Giulia Casavecchia at the semaine de la Cri-
sound giulia@truecolours.it tique in Cannes. His first
italy, 2019, 90' francesco Lucarelli feature film, Look Up
genre: Comedy (Guarda in alto, 2017) pre-
Production design miered at rome film
rana and Marti are dog sitters at their first workday, when the french Gianni Coletti fest in the Alice nella
bulldog of a rich lady they were look after at is stolen. they decide to Città section. risuleo has
costume design also written and directed
chase the thief, a self-proclaimed vet who calls himself dr. Mopsi. it will
stefano Ciammitti Il caso Ziqqurat, the first
be necessary to throw back in order to discover what is the mystery italian interactive web se-
hidden behind this heist. ries. The Dog Snatch is his
second feature film.
thursday 17th • h 16:00 • Quattro fontane 1
saturday 19th • h 16:00 • barberini 4
34 35director Producers
Vincenzo Marra Marco belardi,
Annamaria Morelli
cast
Massimo Ghini, Production
ramiro Garcia, Lotus Production - Leone
film Group,
Max tortora,
timVision
francesco Montanari,
Gioia spaziani,
distribution
Massimo Wertmüller, Altre storie [it]
Antonio Gerardi,
Alessandro forcinelli world sales biography
true Colours born in naples, Vincenzo
screenplay Largo italo Gemini, 1 Marra began his career
Vincenzo Marra 00161 rome – italy as a photojournalist. in
tel : +39 06 37 35 2334 2001, his first feature film
cinematography Sailing Home (Tornando a
Gianluca Laudadio casa), earned him critical
www.truecolours.it
acclaim. His filmography
includes Land Wind
editing Catia rossi (Vento di terra, 2004), The
Marco Costa, catia@truecolours.it Trial Begins (L'ora di
Luca benedetti punta, 2007), First Light
Gaetano Maiorino
the good one music gaetano@truecolours.it
(La prima luce, 2015), and
Equilibrium (L'equilibrio,
la Volta buona Pasquale Catalano 2017).
Giulia Casavecchia
sound giulia@truecolours.it
italy, 2019, 90' roberto remorino
genre: drama festival & awards
Production design rome film fest 2019
bartolomeo is sixty and has a career as a sports attorney behind. Life flaviano barbarisi (Alice nella Città –
has not been too generous to him, his vice of gambling made him lose Panorama italia)
money and family. He spends his days in the suburban soccer fields se- costume design
arching the new Maradona, with no luck. one day he receives a phone Magda Accolti Gil
call, a little sign of destiny, this might be the right time: his friend bruno
has scouted a very young talent in uruguay, Pablito. He must absolutely
take him to italy and have him break into the soccer world. bartolomeo
sees this meeting as the chance to take back everything he has lost,
and feels that Pablito, who dreams of living a better life, could be the
good one.
friday 18th • h 15:00 • barberini 5
saturday 19th • h 11:30 • Quattro fontane 3
36 37director Producer
francesco fanuele domenico Procacci
cast Production
stefano fresi, fandango,
Max tortora, rai Cinema,
supported by MibAC
silvia d'Amico,
fotinì Peluso,
world sales
Liliana fiorelli,
fandango
Valeria belardelli, Viale Gorizia, 19
francesca nunzi, 00198 rome – italy
enzo Casertano tel : +39 06 85 21 81 55 biography
fax : +39 06 85 21 81 20 born in 1988, francesco
screenplay fanuele studied direc-
francesco fanuele, www.fandango.it ting at the experimental
stefano di santi Cinema Centre in rome,
graduating in 2016. He di-
raffaella di Giulio
cinematography rected several short films,
raffaella.digiulio@fandango.it
Gherardo Gossi including Punch Drink
(2013), Il grande maschio
sofia Kurdoglu (2014), and his graduation
editing sales@fandango.it short The Kingdom (Il re-
Julien Panzarasa gno, 2016). The Kingdom
the kingdom music
is his first feature film.
il regno umberto smerilli
sound
italy, 2019, 95' stefano Campus
genre: Comedy / fantasy
Production design
A city bus driver discovers that his father who abandoned him thirty Marcello di Carlo
years earlier has, at the moment of his death, left him an inheritance:
the throne of a near-Medieval kingdom. After finding himself leading – costume design
and endangering – this secret community, the bus driver will fight the eva Coen
italian state to save it and win its independence. in so doing, he finally
sheds his inferiority complex towards his father figure, and at long last
heals the wounds of his abandonment.
thursday 17th • h 16:30 • barberini 3
38 39director Producers
Mario Piredda ivan olgiati,
Chiara Galloni
cast
nora stassi, Production
Luciano Curreli, Articolture,
Mat Productions,
Michele Atzori,
rai Cinema,
Piero Marcialis
supported by MibAC,
with the support of
screenplay
regione sardegna,
Mario Piredda,
sardegna film
Giovanni Galavotti biography
Commission foundation,
filming Cagliari fund, Mario Piredda was born
cinematography in 1980 in sassari. in 2002,
società umanitaria -
fabrizio La Palombara he founded orfeo tV, the
Cineteca sarda
first italian street tV. in
editing 2005 he won the contest
world sales
Corrado iuvara AVisA Visual Anthropo-
tVCo
logy in sardinia, and he
Via buccari, 16
music directed his first short
00195 rome – italy film, Il suono della mi-
Marco biscarini
tel : +39 06 31 05 56 90 niera. His second short, Io
sound sono qui (2010), won al-
www.tvco.eu
the lamb Piero fancellu
most 70 awards wor-
ldwide. in 2011, Piredda
l'agnello Production design
Vincenzo Mosca directed Los aviones que
vincenzo@tvco.eu se caen, filmed in Havana.
Pietro rais in 2017, his short film
italy, 2019, 97' Home (A casa mia) won
simonetta Polese
genre: drama / Coming of Age costume design the david di donatello
simonetta@tvco.eu
stefania Grilli Award. The Lamb is his
sixteen year-old rebel Anita's father is seriously ill and waiting for a billy Montacchini first feature film.
marrow transplant. His brother is a compatible donor, but the two billy@tvco.eu
haven't spoken in years. Anita decides to intervene, in a rough and con-
taminated sardinia. festival & awards
rome film fest 2019
(Alice nella Città -
Competition)
friday 18th • h 16:30 • Quattro fontane 1
40 41director Producers
Claudia brignone erica barbiani,
Lucia Candelpergher
screenplay
Claudia brignone Production
Videomante,
cinematography rai Cinema,
Claudia brignone with the support of
fondo regionale
editing Audiovisivo friuli Venezia
Lea dicursi, Giulia,
Chiara de Cunto regione Campania,
fondazione film biography
music Commission regione born in naples in 1985,
dario Miranda Campania Claudia brignone gra-
duated in Communica-
Via Leonardo da Vinci, 3 tion studies, then, she
sound design and mix
worked with the Human
Marco saitta 33043 Cividale del friuli –
rights international festi-
italy
val of buenos Aires, and
color grading tel : +39 393 5660733
she attended a course of
ercole Cosmi photography and cinema
erica barbiani in the Women's Prison of
info@videomante.it buenos Aires. in 2014 she
the Park Lucia Candelpergher
directed her first docu-
mentary La malattia del
la Villa lucia.candel@gmail.com desiderio (Desire Disor-
der), winner of the Au-
festival & awards dience Prize and of a
italy, 2019, 61' special mention at the
rome film fest 2019
genre: documentary (Alice nella Città – salina doc fest. she took
Panorama italia) part to different wor-
scampia, naples. in the heart of the neighbourhood, amongst tall kshops with Mario bal-
buildings and stretches of concrete paving, there is a large public park, samo, Gianfranco Pan-
none, Pietro Marcello,
La Villa Comunale: a natural oasis, where people meet in search of a
sara fgaier, tarek benab-
space to feel free. the whirring sound of helicopters and police sirens dallah, Leonardo di Co-
ring among the voices of the neighbourhood residents, who come to stanzo, Alessandro ros-
the fore thanks to a filter of nature and beauty. director Claudia brignone setto, bruno oliviero,
spent about three years in the park in order to talk about a suburban Carlotta Cristiani. bri-
neighbourhood, starting from this unique location: The Park. being here, gnone then directed the
listening, amongst the trees and the flowers, seemed enough to restore short films L'altalena and
I sogni son desideri. she
the complexity of what is outside.
worked as a casting as-
sistant and assistant di-
rector for The Intruder by
Leonardo di Costanzo,
the tV series My Brilliant
Friend, and Piranhas by
Claudio Giovannesi.
sunday 20th • h 11:30 • Quattro fontane 4
42 43director Producers
enrico iannaccone Luciano stella,
Maria Carolina terzi
cast
Antonio folletto, Production
Catherine spaak, Mad entertainment,
big sur,
Carla signoris,
rai Cinema,
Veruschka,
with the support of
Luca biagini,
fondazione film
Luca saccoia, Commission regione
Martina Klier, Campania
Marco Cavalli biography
Piazza del Gesù nuovo, 33 enrico iannaccone (1989)
screenplay 80134 naples – italy is a neapolitan director
enrico iannaccone tel : +39 081 5527106 and composer. between
2012 and 2016 he direc-
cinematography ted six short films, among
Luciano stella
Gianluca Palma which The Execution
lucianostella@
(L'esecuzione), david di
madinnaples.com
donatello award winner
editing
in 2013. His first feature
Alessandra Carchedi Maria Carolina terzi film Golden Parachute (La
mariacarolinaterzi@ buona uscita) has been
music gmail.com
the Vacation Cristiano de Petrillo,
released in theatres in
2016. The Vacation (La va-
la Vacanza Luigi scialdone, Lorenza stella canza) is his second fea-
enrico iannaccone lorenzastella.ls@ ture film.
gmail.com
italy, 2019, 98' Production design
genre: drama Antonella di Martino distribution
Adler entertainment [it]
the life hysterically dissipated of Valerio, a charming 30-year-old affected costume design
by bipolar disturb and lost in sex, drugs and self-destruction, gets a Alessandra torella festival & awards
positive surge when he meets an old woman, Carla, a former magistrate, rome film fest 2019
who manifests the first symptoms of the Alzheimer's disease. two (Alice nella Città –
complex souls that find in their unexpected friendship the strength to Panorama italia)
confront the demons of their past, before their respective diseases will
not allow them anymore to face who hurt them. A journey between
present and past. two generations in comparison, chronologically so
distant, and yet so close.
friday 18th • h 18:30 • Quattro fontane 3
44 45director Producers
Ascanio Petrini Marco Alessi,
Giulia Achilli,
cast Helmut dosantos,
Pasquale donatone Lucia ferrante,
Ascanio Petrini
screenplay
Ascanio Petrini Production
dugong films,
cinematography fulgura frango,
Mario bucci rabid film,
supported by MibAC,
with the support of biography
editing
fondazione Apulia Ascanio Petrini was born
benedetta Marchiori
film Commission in bari and graduated
with the support of from dAMs in bologna.
music He directed a few short
francesco Cerasi banca etica
films, and extensively
worked on italian and in-
sound distribution
ternational movies sets,
filippo restelli, Wanted Cinema [it]
in different capacities and
Vincenzo santo roles. Tony Driver is his
world sales first feature.
sound editing and mix Cat & docs
Marzia Cordò, 18 rue Quincampoix
stefano Grosso 75004 Paris – france
tony driVer tel : +33 1 44 61 77 48
www.catndocs.com
italy / Mexico, 2019, 70'
genre: documentary Catherine Le Clef
cat@catndocs.com
one day Pasquale decides to change his name, he becomes tony. born
in bari, Madonnella neighbourhood, aged 9, in the mid-sixties he Maëlle Guénégues
migrated with his family to the us and grew up like a true American. maelle@catndocs.com
rockabilly and hot dogs included. He never returned to italy till the day
when, at that point a professional taxi driver, an anti-immigration blitz at Aleksandra derewienko
the Mexican border forced him to choose: jail in Arizona, or deportation aleksandra@catndocs.com
to italy for 10 years. His crime? smuggling illegal migrants into the us,
on board his taxi. tony opts for deportation. back in italy, with his festival & awards
Venice film festival 2019
American dream laying in pieces, he's completely alone in what he
(international film Critics'
defines "another planet," a small, still country with no opportunities. on
Week)
the desolating backdrop of where he lives next to the motorway, tony
still wears his cowboy hat and doesn't seem willing to give up…
thursday 17th • h 09:30 • barberini 1
46 47directors Producer
ram Pace, Michele santoro
Luca santarelli
Production
screenplay Zerostudio's
ram Pace, Via delle Mantellate, 14/b
Cecilia sala, 000165 rome – italy
Luca santarelli biography
ram Pace ramchandra Pace is a self-
cinematography rampace@libero.it taught filmmaker. in 2005
ram Pace he made a series of docu-
Luca santarelli mentaries in Kenya under
luca.santarelli82@ the artistic direction of Pupi
editing
gmail.com Avati. He has directed vi-
federico tozzi
deos for Greenpeace, Al Ja-
Cecilia sala zeera and the main italian
ceciliasala.cs@gmail.com broadcasters. Pace works
as video-reporter. He also
festival & awards directed several short films.
His documentary, Samsara
rome film fest 2019
Diary (2015), premiered at
(Alice nella Città –
biografilm festival and
Panorama italia) screened at Visioni fuori
raccordo in rome.
Volare
italy, 2019, 60'
genre: documentary
face tattoos, designer clothes, cult of success and rhymes on the verge biography
of provocation. these appear like the signs of being part of a tribe, but Luca santarelli studied and
they are only the most recognizable ones of a new striking phenomenon graduated in philosophy in
between the italian teens: trap music. through the stories of four rome, carrying out more
aspiring young trap musicians (Jama don, yolo, Chfnik, Christian King) in-depth studies into film
and through the voices of two italian famous rappers (Ketama126 and aesthetics. He first became
an editor for cinema tV
side baby), Volare paints a fresco of a generation that seems to consider
shows as La 25a ora and La
individual success as the only weapon of redemption. valigia dei sogni, and later
worked as producer and vi-
deomaker for most of the
italian broadcasters. He
collaborates with Michele
santoro since 2018, partici-
pating in the making of M
di Michele Santoro - Il caso
Moro. Volare is his first do-
thursday 17th • h 17:30 • Quattro fontane 1 cumentary feature.
48 49Pitchbook mart
At the sidelines of the fifth edition of MiA and italian film boutique for
young Audience, the project Pitchbook Mart offers to the audiovisual
industry a considerable range of quality editorial contents "to be se-
rialized", addressing a young audience. the invited publishing houses
will be given the opportunity to present their editorial projects in a
qualified context such as MiA's one, in order to relate to the protagonists
of the audiovisual sector and to explore the strategies and the oppor-
tunities for an international development. today, the novel, or more
generally young adult fiction, as well as comics, in the form of graphic
novel, are experiencing a time of great creative exuberance and
unusual cultural attention from the audiovisual sector.
Pitch
during the last century, the directions of comics and books have re-
peatedly been crossing with cinema: book stories and cinemato-
graphic novels have often swapped characters and narrative starting
book
points. this is the beginning, Alice nella Città and APA, with the
support of SIAE (italian society of Authors and Publishers) and in
collaboration with the Global Grant MOViE UP 2020 by Ass.For.SEO,
CNA Audiovisivo and BilBOlbul International Comics Festival con-
mart
ceived the idea of an accelerator which, in a qualified context such as
MiA's one, connected some quality editorial contents addressing
young people with the audiovisual field; the whole thing in order to
explore strategies and opportunities to serialize characters and scripts
from young adult books and graphic novel.
the books selected for the first edition of MiA's Pitchbook are:
1. ALien by Aisha franz – Canicola, 2012
2. CHeese by ZuZu – Coconino Press, 2019
3. Code.nAMe.Zero by Luigi ballerini – il Castoro, 2015
4. LA fAVoritA by Matthias Lehmann – 001 edizioni, 2017
5. LunA deL MAttino by francesco Cattani – Coconino Press, 2017
6. MeLVinA by rachela Aragno – bao Publishing, 2019
7. red by Chiara rapaccini – nave di teseo, 2019
8. tHe beAsts by Manlio Castagna and Guido sgardoli – edizioni
Piemme, 2019
9. tHe GirLs' WAr by simona dolce – Mondadori, 2019
10. tHe you by davide Morosinotto – rizzoli, 2019
50 51code.name.zero
alien io sono zero
A mother, a girl, and a child. A touching wo- Zero is about to turn 14. He has never tou-
men's tale where the discovery of sexuality ched another human being, he has never
unfolds between adventure and desire. Ca- suffered the cold or the heat, he doesn't
refree days, amidst fantasies and regrets, know what the wind or the snow are. Zero
when the appearance of an alien can help has lived in the World, a protected environ-
you grow or feel more alone. A publishing ment, where he was educated, coached
sensation in Germany and france. and trained to fight through drones and to
achieve goals. but one day, suddenly, Zero
enters the world, the real world, and disco-
vers who he really is. A dystopian novel
winner of the bancarellino Award 2016.
author author
Aisha franz Luigi ballerini
Publishing house Publishing house
Canicola, 2012 il Castoro, 2015
cheese la faVorita
the story of the friendship between Zuzu, Constance is 10 and lives in a large country
dario and riccardo. the crazy love stories, house with a crazy and violent grandmo-
the boredom of the days in the suburbs ther, an alcoholic grandfather and the cat
and the unmotivated enthusiasm, the de- noirette. A small world closed in on itself,
sire to tear the world apart, Zuzu’s difficult where punishment is always around the
relationship with her body and anorexia, the corner and fantasy is the only way out. but
foolish laughter and the first real tears. the when a Portuguese family is hired to main-
story of a trio, a closed ecosystem, an is- tain the garden, Constance begins to won-
land hideaway from whose shores the der about her place in the world: dark
three friends can observe and challenge secrets come to light and the precarious
the endless sea of possibilities and dangers balance of this unique community begins
author of adulthood. the debut graphic novel by author to waver. A bold tale about childhood and
ZuZu the rising star of italian comics. Matthias Lehmann the construction of a gender identity.
Publishing house Publishing house
Coconino Press, 2019 001 edizioni, 2017
52 53red
luna del mattino rossa
tommi is a teenager who grew up in an in a near future, that looks very much like the
urban suburb – an industrial area of landfills present, nature has been defeated and huma-
and roundabouts, small gardens besieged nity is at a crossroads. Mankind is restricted to
by cement and bars run by Chinese people, living off freeze-dried foods and all human ac-
factories etc. during the hottest winter of tivities are now performed by robots, hired by
the last hundred years, tommi will enter the olduns. this faction has taken control and
adulthood, through a path made of anger, is aiming to exterminate all children and ado-
fear, pain, and moments of astonished poe- lescents. they are sadistic, evil and greedy, and
try. the italian graphic novel that received theirs is a fight against life itself. but the brave
the most important awards in 2018 and was Littleuns, hell-bent on saving humanity, are
one of the finalists at the Angoulême inter- preparing to fight back. red, 14, is among them.
author national Comics festival 2019. author this is the story of her adventures. it's distur-
francesco Cattani Chiara rapaccini bing, bleak and provocative: a dystopic vision
that feels like a distorted and modern take on
Publishing house Publishing house
a Grimm fairy-tale, describing a momentous
Coconino Press, 2017 nave di teseo, 2019
clash between past and future, featuring re-
bellion, violence and ultimately, freedom.
the beasts
melVina le belVe
Melvina feels left aside by her parents, who three penniless robbers, with animal nick-
make decisions about her future without names and masked with rough cotton
consulting her. she would love to be grown sacks, take a class of high school students
up already, to confront them as equals. but hostage in a former sanatorium where the-
then she meets otto, a gentleman who has y've taken refuge after a robbery gone
a painful secret, and who explains to her wrong. in the hospital, an abandoned
that she has a great destiny to fulfil. A jour- jewel of rationalist architecture nestled in
ney into the parallel world of Aldiqua will a spooky park, the kidnapping will soon
help Melvina discover the importance of gi- get rather bloody: within the cracked
ving herself time, of deciding while liste- walls, supernatural forces, restless sha-
ning to her heart, while otto will learn the dows and gruesome visions reawaken.
author deepest sense of friendship. the debut author following escape attempts, violent con-
rachela Aragno graphic novel by rachele Aragno is a small Manlio Castagna, flicts and hallucinatory visions lurking in
wonder of world building and meticulous Guido sgardoli the dark, the survivors' journey turns into
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care of the details. their worst nightmare conjuring a past fil-
bao Publishing, 2019 Publishing house
edizioni Piemme, 2019 led with dark morbid secrets.
54 55the girls' war
la battaglia delle bambine contact
August 1991, Palermo. in a street full of noi- alien melVina
ses, life and smells, five young girls ally Liliana Cupido Vanessa nascimbene
themselves against the gang of bullies who info@canicola.net vanessa.nascimbene@baopublishing.it
targeted them. until in their carefree tel : +39 3493560315 tel : +39 02 49531460
games, reality breaks out, to prove that the www.canicola.net www.baopublishing.it
Mafia is not just a word on the news, it really
cheese red
exists. the pulsating and complex sicily of
ratigher (francesco d'erminio), Chiara rapaccini
the early nineties is recalled from the work
Alessandra sternfeld rapacic@gmail.com
of one of the greatest italian photogra-
ratigher@coconinopress.it tel : +39 333 471 5361
phers: Letizia battaglia.
alessandra@am-book.com www.chiararapaccini.com
tel : +39 06 85218121 / +39 338 4490554
author
simona dolce the beasts
code.name.zero rosamaria Pavan
Publishing house Paola francesca Corsini rosam@bookonatree.com
Mondadori, 2019 paola.francesca.corsini@gmail.com tel : +39 335 5277374
www.bookonatree.com
la faVorita
Matthias Lehmann the girls' war
+33 (0)6 79038348 marta.mazza@mondadori.it
matthiaslehmann@hotmail.com tel : +39 02 75423275
the you www.ragazzimondadori.it
Voi luna del mattino
ratigher (francesco d'erminio), the you
Alessandra sternfeld rosamaria Pavan
the story of a girl called blu and her four ratigher@coconinopress.it / rosam@bookonatree.com
friends: Abel, tilly, Cameron and Luka. Abel alessandra@am-book.com tel : +39 335 5277374
has always been blu's best friend, tilly lives tel : +39 06 85218121 / +39 338 4490554 www.bookonatree.com
in another city but video-chats constantly,
Cameron is American and doesn't speak a
word of italian, and Luka comes from a far-
off land, has superhuman strength and is
invisible. A tale of courage and adventure,
of friendship and love that takes on chal-
lenges and overcomes the fear of the other.
author
davide Morosinotto
Publishing house
rizzoli, 2019
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