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Italian Cinema Worldwide JOURNAL_4/2005 (GB) 6-12-2005 14:42 Pagina 1 Italian Cinema Worldwide an initiative of the European Union ONCE YOU’RE BORN just two generations has achieved significant COME INTO THE LIGHT outside the city gates, Brancaccio, also MEDIA Programme with the (Quando Sei Nato Non Puoi Più wealth. One night, during a sailing trip (Alla Luce del Sole) his birthplace, Giuseppe Puglisi in less support of the Italian Government Via Soperga, 2 • 20127 Milano • Italy Nasconderti) through the Mediterranean, Sandro falls in- Year of production: 2003 than two years was able to build a com- to the sea, and the others on board notice munity center. Here, assisted by a group tel. +39.02.66984405 Year of production: 2005 fax +39.02.6691574 too late. When they return to look for him, Director: Roberto Faenza. of young volunteers, he worked hard there is no sign of the boy. Although given every day to try and save the lives of e-mail: [email protected] Director: Marco Tullio Giordana. Country of origin: Italy. up for dead, Sandro, instead, has managed small innocent children. Soon he un- http://www.mediasalles.it Country of origin: Italy/France/UK. Language spoken: Italian. to be rescued by a fishing boat carrying il- derstood that to make a dent in that dis- Language spoken: Italian. Genre: Drama. legal aliens to Italian shores. integrating structure he needed to do and Genre: Adventure/Drama. Production: Jean Vigo Italia, with the Thus, begins an adventurous return to Italy. give more. Doing more and giving more, Production: Cattleya, Rai Cinema, Babe, contribution of MiBAC. International Edition no. 4 – “Special CineAsia” issue – year VII – December 2005 Having confronted hitherto unknown ex- mean’t going up against the inertia of the Aquarius Film. World sales: The Works. pectations, rejections, hopes and disillu- local powers: in order to have a sewage World sales: TF1 International. Asiatic distributor: Palace Films, Aus- sionments, Sandro has crossed over that thin system, a school, a medical center, sev- Asiatic distributor: Palace Films, Australia. tralia. An initiative on behalf of Italian film-mak- line between adolescence and adulthood. And eral things that had always been miss- ing, with the aim of bringing its latest pro- Synopsis: CULTURE AND THE ECONOMY: Synopsis: once over that threshold, nothing is like it ing in Brancaccio. Inevitably his path will ductions into the limelight, even on markets, Thirteen year-old Sandro is from Brescia in was before. From the novel by Maria Pace Having been called by the archbishop of place him in a position of conflict with THE COMMITMENT OF ITALY Northern Italy, only son of a family that in Ottieri, with the same name. Palermo to watch over the parish just the interests of the mafia powers... such as Russia and China, that have been the almost exclusive prerogative of US films up AND THE EU TO THE SUCCESS GOOD MORNING, Synopsis: THE KEYS TO Asiatic distributor: Zazie THE DAYS OF DON’T TELL to now. This, briefly, is Italian Cinema OF THEIR FILMS NIGHT Chiara leads a quiet life. THE HOUSE Films, Japan (April 2006). ABANDONMENT (La Bestia Worldwide, which I have the pleasure of She works as a librarian, introducing in this edition, entirely devot- (Buongiorno, Notte) (Le Chiavi di Casa) Synopsis: (I Giorni Nel Cuore) is recently married and “I think Italy has to co-operate closely with “The future of European cinema closely regards Year of production: Year of Production: Gianni, a young man like dell’Abbandono) Year of production: ed to it. has moved into a new the other countries to build a European cul- all of us. Our imagined world, the emotions, many others, after years of In line with MEDIA Salles’ vocation, this new 2003 apartment with her hus- 2004 Year of production: 2005 tural policy on two bases: cultural goods stories and culture that the cinema brings us denial, meets his son Pao- initiative, made possible thanks to the sup- band. And that’s how 2005 lo for the first time, on a train are not a commodity like any other but en- are a basic part of our continent’s wealth. Director: Marco Belloc- Chiara wants to be seen. Director: Gianni Amelio. Director: Cristina port of the Italian Government, again sees cin- going to Berlin. Paolo is a titled to special safeguarding, because it is The protection of our common European chio. What nobody knows, is Country of origin: Director: Roberto Faenza. Comencini. ema exhibitors as its prime interlocutors, fifteen year old with serious through them that a people’s conscience cinema heritage, its conservation and restora- Country of origin: Italy. that she is a member of one Italy/France/Germany. Country of origin: Italy. Country of origin: handicaps but an exuberant, and their most important meetings as its Language spoken: Ital- of the world’s most feared Language spoken: Ital- Language spoken: Italian. Italy/UK/France/Spain. takes shape and is consolidated; the culture tion, the systematic collection of works for carefree and happy indi- venues. For this reason, if its beginning was ian. terrorist groups who have ian. Genre: Drama. Language spoken: Ital- industries must work together, so as to build the cinema but also of the work of promot- vidual. The film is the sto- marked by the presentation, at Cinema Genre: Drama. kidnapped the Prime Min- Genre: Drama/Family. Production: Jean Vigo Italia, ian. a European common market of culture, able ing and spreading the knowledge of ry of an unexpected and Production: Filmalbatros, ister of their country and Production: ACHAB Film, Medusa Film. Genre: Drama. Expo International in Amsterdam last June, frail happiness: to know to stand up to the impact of American hege- European cinema is not an abstract matter Rai Cinema, Sky (co-op- are holding him hostage in Pola Pandora Film, Arena World sales: Medusa Film. Production: Cattleya, Rai of the “European Producer of the Year” and rediscover oneself, far mony. The European Union numbers 450 for fans. It is a sign of care for our shared eration), with the contri- their basement. Based on Films, Arte France Ciné- In negotiation with Asiatic Cinema, Aquarius Films, Award to Elda Ferri – who in recent years has away from home. Their stay million citizens and if we succeed in co-or- history and for a highly important industry bution of MiBAC. the true story of the kid- ma, 01 Rai Cinema, Bavaria countries. Alquimia Cinema, Babe in Germany and then sud- produced some of the most outstanding and World sales: Celluloid napping of Aldo Moro in Film, Jean Vigo Italia, Pan- (Paris). dinating our European policies, we are ca- which, like all of us, daily comes up against den trip to Norway turns the Synopsis: successful Italian films and who is here in Dreams. 1978, a crime which dora Filmproduktion Producers: Riccardo Tozzi, pable of producing a cultural voice that is the difficulties of globalisation”. relationship between the Olga, a still young woman, Venice with the latest work by Roberto Faen- Asiatic distributors: Bit- stunned a nation, this sen- GmbH, with the contribu- Marco Chimenz, Giovanni just as strong as that of the United States”. two of them into one of tranquil and satisfied, is all Nikolaos Sifunakis ters End, Japan (May sitive and thoughtful film tion of Eurimages. Stabilini. za, The Days of Abandonment, – it is followed findings, secrets, con- of a sudden abandoned by 2006); Palace Films, Aus- explores the failure of rad- World sales: Lakeshore World sales: TF1 Interna- by other, very important appointments, such Rocco Buttiglione Chairman of the Committee frontations and happiness... her husband and falls into tralia. ical ideology. Entertainment. tional. as Kino Expo, held in Moscow in September, Italian Minister for Cultural Resources on Culture and Education of the a bottomless vortex. The Asiatic distributor: days of abandonment are ShowEast, held in Orlando in October, and and Affairs European Parliament ALL THE INVISIBLE Communications, Japan Palace Films, Australia. THE TIGER AND THE love with lyrics, but even the endless hours of losses, CineAsia, now in Beijing. CHILDREN (Autumn/Winter 2006). SNOW more, with a woman inflicted and suffered, the Synopsis: Recently a showman of the stature of Rober- The releases that have already been planned Year of production: Sabina is beautiful, enjoys ITALY IN ASIA (La Tigre e La Neve) named Vittoria. Unfortu- Synopsis: times of hard emotions and to Benigni stated: “in the cinema, two things will be joined by the promising negotiations 2005 Stolen childhood, accord- feelings that devastate her, her job and loves her AND THE PACIFIC RIM: Year of production: nately his love is unre- are important: the screen and the seats. Both now going on for The Days of Abandonment quited, and so Attilio who ing to eight talented di- of the love sickness that boyfriend, but is she truly A NEW SEASON OF FILMS 2005 is an exuberant and ex- Directors: Mehdi Charef, rectors, from seven differ- suffocates her. happy? have to be filled”. and The Tiger and The Snow, for which travagant man to try and Emir Kusturica, Spike Lee, ent perspectives, in seven Shot mainly from a sub- For some time now strange We trust that Italian Cinema Worldwide will Countries in the Far East and the Pacific the sales agent, Focus Features, is setting Director: Roberto Benig- win over his belle, and Kátia Lund, Jordan and different countries, includ- jective point of view and nightmares have torment- succeed in contributing to this undertaking Area will see a healthy selection of Italian films up an authentic “grand tour” of the East for ni. not hesitate in getting in- Ridley Scott, Stefano Vene- ing China, the setting for accompanied by the nar- ed her, and finding herself on both fronts.
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