Venice once again smiles at the French international sales company Alpha Violet, which has often shined on the Lido (with Apples [+lee también:
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In Giornate degli Autori, Virginie Devesa and Keiko Funato’s team will be betting on the directorial debut of a former director of photography turned producer and programmer (of the Zabaltegi-Tabakalera section in San Sebastián): Víctor Iriarte. The filmmaker, who also wrote the script of Foremost by Night with Isa Campo and Andrea Queralt, has gathered in the cast two well-known actresses, Lola Dueñas and Ana Torrent, who star alongside Manuel Egozkue. "It’s a plunge into one of the dark pages of Spain’s History, that of the children kidnapped under Franco. It’s a wonderful film that brings together thriller, historical crime and melodrama," notes Virginie Devesa. On the menu: three deaths, two robberies, and a runaway. The story of two women meeting on the banks of the Douro River. Discovered in the Work in Progress section of Les Arcs, Foremost by Night was produced by Spanish companies La Termita, Atekaleun, CSC Films, Inicia Films and by Víctor Iriarte, and co-produced by Portugal’s Ukbar Filmes and France’s 4 A 4 Productions.

In Critics’ Week (where Alpha Violet sold Los nadie in 2016, then Hunting Season [+lee también:
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It is worth noting that Alpha Violet, who scored some great sales in Berlin with Tótem [+lee también:
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