18/02/2013 - Names of films to be distributed in the next few months emerge, from the winner of the Golden Bear Child's Pose to Mood Indigo by Michel Gondry

In the days following the closure of the festival, names of films to be distributed in Italy have emerged.

Teodora Film and spazioCinema announced today their acquisition for distribution of Child's Pose [+see also:
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Koch Media acquired the rights to The Railway Man by Jonathan Teplitzky, an English Australian coproduction with Nicole Kidman, Colin Firth, Stellan Skarsgård and to Mood Indigo by Michel Gondry (photo), based on ‘L'Écume des jours’ by Boris Vian, a love story with Audrey Tautou, Romain Duris and Omar Sy.

Academy 2 announced the Beta acquisition of German Oh Boy [+see also:
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Vania Protti’s new company, Traxler, will also be distributing a film presented outside of competition in Berlin - Night Train to Lisbon by Bille August with Jeremy Irons.

Good Films acquired the Italian rights for a film which gained public and critical acclaim at Sundance: Don Jon’s Addiction, a directing debut for actor Joseph Gordon-Levitt, starring Scarlett Johansson.

Good Films will be bringing comedy It Boy (20 ans d’écart) by Frenchman David Moreau and Dallas Buyers Club by Canadian Jean-Marc Vallée with Matthew McConaughey to Italian shores.

Another film which premiered at Sundance, Kill Your Darlings by John Krokidas, was bought by Notorious Pictures which will bring it into movie theatres in the autumn, at the same time as it comes out in the United States. Starring Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter), the film brings the great poets from the beat generation including Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs to life on the big screen. Notorius also bought the rights to Belle et Sebastien, a French mega production based on the collection of French novels by Cécile Aubry which generated television series in the seventies, as well as a famous Japanese one in the eighties.

Officine Ubu bought La religieuse [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)