15/09/2009

Two Venice Days films, both documentaries, have been out in Italian theatres since September 4: Stefano Consiglio’s film on gay couples, L’Amore e Basta [+see also:
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film profile] (Lucky Red), and Videocracy [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile] (Fandango), a micro-history of Italian television by Italian-Swedish director Erik Gandini, which took fourth place at the box office in its first week on release.

On September 18, Valerio Jalongo’s What You Know About Me [+see also:
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film profile] (Cinecittà Luce), a highly topical documentary on the state of domestic cinema, will open a preview event held for the association of arthouse cinemas.

Other Venice Days titles that picked up Italian distributors on the Lido and will be released at a later date are: La Horde [+see also:
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film profile] (Fandango), the horror film by debut directors Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher that already has a cult following; Sherry Hormann’s Desert Flower [+see also:
film review
trailer
film profile], which sales agent The Match Factory has sold to numerous territories; and the top-selling film of Venice Days 2009, Daniel Monzón’s Celda 211 [+see also:
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interview: Daniel Monzón
film profile], picked up for Italy by Cinecittà Luce from international seller Films Distribution.

Films expected to be signed for Italy at the market of the Toronto Film Festival, which opened last Thursday, include Daniel Sánchez-Arévalo’s Gordos [+see also:
film review
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interview: Daniel Sánchez Arévalo
Interview with Daniel Sánchez-Arévalo,…
film profile], Goran Paskaljevic’s Honeymoons and, naturally, the “winner” of Venice Days 2009 (of the Label Europa Cinemas award), Alex van Warmerdam’s The Last Days of Emma Blank [+see also:
interview: The Last Days of Emma Blank…
film profile] (sold by Fortissimo Films).

(Translated from Italian)