26/11/2009

Felice Farina’s psychological thriller The Physics of Water [+see also:
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Iris has set for itself the difficult goal of developing a young and creative slate that can be freely and independently inserted in the film distribution and exhibition circuits. "We want to be the point of reference for independent filmmakers and promising young directors who cannot get their films distributed in today’s current system, who remain at the margins of distribution. In these months of hard work to compile our first line-up we combed every corner of Italy to find those works that match our criteria. We saw hundreds of first features, shorts and documentaries and think we’ve found in the heap several pearls to offer audiences," added Lelli.

The company’s slate includes Davide Sibaldi’s L'Estate D'Inverno (“The Summer of Winter, out next February); In Carne ed Ossa [+see also:
trailer
interview: Christian Angeli
film profile] (“In Flesh and Blood”, coming out in March) by Christian Angeli, who Cineuropa.org interviewed during the Lecce Film Festival; Sangue e Cemento (“Blood and Concrete”, April), an investigation by Gruppo Zero; and, lastly, the captivating Stanley and Us: The Movie (May) by Federico Greco, Mauro Di Flaviano, Stefano Landini.

Greco told Cineuropa that their film “came about from the need to improve and delve deeper, with a cinematic and thus more narrative angle, into the documentary we began in 1997 and finished after Stanley Kubrick’s death in 1999. The theatrical version will unveil in even greater detail the behind-the-scenes of a project everyone considered ‘impossible’ because we wanted to meet the director. The film was made thanks to the intervention of a character of Kubrick’s that after 40 years 'came back to life’ exclusively for us". Could it be HAL9000, the infamous computer of 2001: A Space Odyssey?

(Translated from Italian)