15/02/2023 - The Italian sales agent’s line-up includes Antonio Bigini’s debut film in the Generation Kplus section and Laura Luchetti’s new movie in post-production

True Colours is returning to the European Film Market, unspooling within the 73rd Berlinale, with a film competing in the Generation section and 16 other titles. Selected in the Generation Kplus competition, The Properties of Metals [+see also:
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This 73rd edition of the market will also see the Italian sales agent pinning its hopes on La bella estate (read our news), which is the new film, still in post-production, by Laura Luchetti, whose delicate second work Twin Flower [+see also:
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True Colours’ line-up also includes LGBT+ drama Norwegian Dream, which is directed by Leiv Igor Devold and co-produced by Norway, Poland and Germany via Spætt Film, Solo Film and Riva Filmproduktion. The movie revolves around Robert, a 19-year-old Polish immigrant who works in a fish factory in Norway and who realises he has feelings for his colleague, aspiring drag queen Ivar.

Likewise gracing the line-up, and produced by Spain and Argentina (Meridional Producciones, Oeste Films, Patagonik Empieza, El Baile AIE, Habitación 1520, El Gato Verde Producciones, Áralan Films, Reina de Pike), is Let the Dance Begin [+see also:
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The sales agent’s generous film-slate likewise includes Sophie Chiarello’s documentary Il cerchio [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)