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Spaghetti Story opens the third season of Distribuzione Indipendente

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- The young company involved in the re-launch of independent cinema will release one film a month starting this December and running through November 2014

Spaghetti Story opens the third season of Distribuzione Indipendente

December 2013 will mark the beginning of a new season for Distribuzione Indipendente, a company seeking to re-launch independent cinema over the last three years (distributed films include The Ghostmaker by Mauro Borrelli and W Zappatore by Massimiliano Verdesca – read the news story). Starting this December, D.I. will release one film a month through November 2014.

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The new catalogue (curated by Giovanni Costantino) includes nine different titles, which, following tradition, will touch on different themes and genre. The first release, forecast for December 19, 2013, is Spaghetti Story [+see also:
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(photo) by young director Ciro De Caro, an ironic generational portrait, which looks to the future with the eyes of today’s thirty-year-olds.

Socially aware films will then follow, including Red Krokodil by Domiziano Cristopharo (release date: 23 January 2014), on the tragedy of krokodil, the most lethal, destructive drug currently in distribution, and Carta Bianca [+see also:
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by Andrés A. Maldonado (26 June), based on the real story of young immigrant Sahid Belamel, who was left to die of hypothermia on the streets of Ferrara in 2010. Others include thriller In Nomine Satan [+see also:
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by Emanuele Cerman (24 April), surreal comedy Una domenica notte [+see also:
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by Giuseppe Marco Albano (20 February), Wrath of the Crows, the new and much anticipated horror film Ivan Zuccon (30 October).

Three foreign films will be part of the selection: from the Czech Republic, The Karamazov Brothers [+see also:
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by award-winning Petr Zelenka (27 March), an experimental, touching film based on the opera by Fëdor Dostoevskij starring Prague, Warsaw and Krakow’s most veneered stage actors; from China, Song of Silence by Chen Zhuo (29 May), a film suspended in between symbolism and authenticity, which explores sensitive aspects of contemporary China; from Serbia, debut work The Life and Death of a Porno Gang by Mladen Djordjevic (20 November), a ferocious anti-war film on the wealth of a few and cultural and social degradation.   

Starting this year, beyond the usual venues of clubs, cultural associations, and trial cinemas (created by the company in collaboration with ficc, uicc, cgs, ancci, fidec, ucca, cinit, csc and fic), films will also be released in traditional cinemas.

To consult the Distribuzione Indipendente 2014 catalogue, click here

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(Translated from Italian)

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