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Davide Abbatescianni


2127 articles available in total starting from 12/09/2017. Last article published on 25/07/2025.

Review: Quiet Life

Review: Quiet Life

VENICE 2024: Alexandros Avranas’s latest effort tackles a highly sensitive topic – child resignation syndrome – but does so through overly slow pacing and flat acting  

30/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

Trailer for Venice Immersive competition title This Is My Heart

Trailer for Venice Immersive competition title This Is My Heart

Nicolas Blies and Stéphane Hueber-Blies’s work promises to be a contemporary tale recounting an extraordinary love story – that of the reconciliation of a child with his body  

30/08/2024 | Venice 2024

Review: Kill the Jockey

Review: Kill the Jockey

VENICE 2024: After an intriguing set-up introducing its quirky lead character, Luis Ortega’s film loses its way owing to confusing writing and clunky character development  

30/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

The 12th edition of the Baltic Pitching Forum announces its selected projects

The 12th edition of the Baltic Pitching Forum announces its selected projects

The Lithuanian short-focused industry event, set to run in Vilnius from 8-11 October, will showcase 12 projects from Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, plus this year's guest country, Croatia  

29/08/2024 | Baltic Pitching Forum 2024

Cologne’s European Work in Progress announces the international jury for its 2024 edition

Cologne’s European Work in Progress announces the international jury for its 2024 edition

The jurors at this year’s event will be Heino Deckert, Priscila Miranda, Urte Fink, Sophie Stejskal and Paul Ridd  

29/08/2024 | European Work in Progress Cologne 2024

Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas to headline Anders Thomas Jensen’s dark comedy Back to Reality

Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas to headline Anders Thomas Jensen’s dark comedy Back to Reality

The project, currently in production and being staged by Zentropa, promises to be a humorous, intriguing and devious tale about identity  

28/08/2024 | Production | Funding | Denmark/Sweden

EXCLUSIVE: Poster for Venice out-of-competition title Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

EXCLUSIVE: Poster for Venice out-of-competition title Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989

Göran Hugo Olsson’s documentary uses SVT’s extensive archive footage to zoom in on 30 years of history in the war-torn region  

28/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Lisa Langseth filming her new effort, The Dance Club

Lisa Langseth filming her new effort, The Dance Club

Toplined by Nils Wetterholm, Alva Bratt and Pernilla August, the film centres on an eccentric psychology student who forms an unconventional dance club with his patients  

26/08/2024 | Production | Funding | Sweden/Norway

The Worst Person in the World’s Thomas Robsahm producing Mari Storstein’s debut feature, My First Love

The Worst Person in the World’s Thomas Robsahm producing Mari Storstein’s debut feature, My First Love

The picture offers a truthful and heartfelt story about a young, disabled woman, told from the perspective of the director, who has been in a wheelchair herself for her entire life  

26/08/2024 | Production | Funding | Norway

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Olha Zhurba’s Venice title Songs of Slow Burning Earth

EXCLUSIVE: Trailer for Olha Zhurba’s Venice title Songs of Slow Burning Earth

The helmer’s sophomore feature is an audiovisual diary of Ukraine’s immersion in the abyss of the first two years of Russia’s full-scale invasion  

23/08/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

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