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DRAMA, MYSTERY, COMING OF AGE 85’ FESTIVAL & AWARDS 2021 , • Berlinale Panorama 2021 – In competition WATCH THE TRAILER

DIRECTED BY Ferit Karahan (The Fall From Heaven) Yusuf and his best friend Memo are Kurdish pupils at a boarding school secluded in the Anatolian mountains. When Memo falls CAST mysteriously ill, Yusuf is forced to struggle through the bureaucratic Samet Yıldız obstacles put up by the school’s repressive authorities to try to help Ekin Koç DIGITAL SCREENINGS him. When the adults finally understand the seriousness of Memo’s Mahir İpek condition and try to get him to the hospital, the school is cut off from Nurullah Alaca MONDAY 1 the world by a heavy snowfall. With no way out and now desperate Cansu Fırıncı 2h00 PM @ PANORAMA to find help, teachers and pupils engage in a blame game where Melih Selçuk grudges, feelings of guilt and hidden secrets emerge, as time ticks THURSDAY 4 mercilessly on. PRODUCTION 4h30 PM @ VIRTUAL CINEMA 35 Asteros Film Flama Booking

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COMEDY, DRAMA 95’ FESTIVAL & AWARDS 2020 • Warsaw IFF 2020 - Free Spirit Competition WATCH THE TRAILER • São Paulo International Film Festival 2020 DIRECTED BY - International Perspective Teemu Nikki (Euthanizer) • Amsterdam LGBTQ FF 2021 - Official Competition A comedy about intolerance among tolerant people. CAST Susanna Pukkila Mervi travels to her hometown in Finland, with her German-Iranian Almila Bagriacik DIGITAL SCREENINGS girlfriend Kata, to confront her parents and come out of the closet. Elias Westerberg (The Other Side of Hope) There, she finds out that she’s not the only one hiding secrets. The Matti Onnismaa (Euthanizer) TUESDAY 2 two girls will find themselves in the middle of social mayhem in a Mari Rantasila (Absolution) 11h00 AM @ VIRTUAL CINEMA 28 community of gang bangers, bisexual pastors, activists, racists, Antti Reini (The Man Without a Past) refugees, alcoholics and drug abusers. Finally, a belligerent neo- Ona Kamu (Juha) WEDNESDAY 3 Nazi group break in. Jouko Puolanto (Euthanizer) 9h20 AM @ VIRTUAL CINEMA 1 PRODUCTION It’s Alive Films Oy Bon Voyage Films Doppelganger AB

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DRAMA 95’ FESTIVAL & AWARDS 2020 , • Venice International Critics’ Week - In WATCH THE TRAILER Competition DIRECTED BY • Haifa International Film Festival 2020 - Panorama Mauro Mancini (first feature) • Raindance Film Festival 2020 - Discovery • Villerupt Italian Film Festival 2020: Official Simone is an established surgeon with a satisfying life, an elegant flat CAST Selection and no ties. The conflicts with his father, a prison camp survivor, are just Alessandro Gassmann (Quiet Chaos) • Denver Film Festival 2020: Italian Showcase a memory, now that his father passed away. During a boating training, Sara Serraiocco (Salvo, “Counterpart”) • Kolkata IFF 2020 - Cinema International he witnesses a car accident and, as a doctor, he intervenes to save Luka Zunic • Cairo IFF 2020 - International Panorama the victim. When he discovers a Nazi tattoo on his chest, he hesitates, Lorenzo Buonora • Stockholm IFF 2020 - Discovery leaving the man to his fate. But immediately, Simone, tormented by Lorenzo Acquaviva • Chennai IFF 2021 - World Cinema guilt, starts investigating on the dead man, reaching to his family in a working-class neighborhood. PRODUCTION DIGITAL SCREENINGS Movimento Film Agresywna Banda TUESDAY 2 Notorius Pictures 3h15 PM @ VIRTUAL CINEMA 27 Rai Cinema WEDNESDAY 3 4h30 PM @ VIRTUAL CINEMA 24 THE TRUTH ABOUT LA DOLCE VITA COMPLETED LA VERITÀ SU LA DOLCE VITA

DOCUMENTARY 83’ FESTIVAL & AWARDS 2020 ITALY • Venice Film Festival - Out of Competition WATCH THE TRAILER • Denver Film Festival 2020: Italian Showcase DIRECTED BY • Taipei Golden Horse Film Festival - Fellini at 100 Giuseppe Pedersoli (first feature) • Kolkata IFF 2020 - Cinema International Rome, October 20th, 1959, Giuseppe Amato, a great producer of many • Moscow Italian Doc Fest 2020 CAST Neorealism masterpieces, is alone in a small screening room. On the Luigi Petrucci screen, what will become the most famous film by , that Giovanna Ralli no one wanted to produce. The rough cut is more than four hours long, Sandra Milo DIGITAL SCREENINGS and Fellini doesn’t want any cut, Rizzoli, the distributor, doesn’t want to Federico Fellini (archive) release it. This will become the more challenging experience of Amato’s Vittorio De Sica (archive) TUESDAY 2 career and life. 12h40 PM @ VIRTUAL CINEMA 27 Based on original and never published before letters, contracts and PRODUCTION production paperwork, this docu-drama portrays the real story behind Arietta Cinematografica WEDNESDAY 3 the scenes of the most famous Italian film ever. Istituto Luce/Cinecittà 11h30 AM @ VIRTUAL CINEMA 13

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DRAMA 85’ FESTIVAL & AWARDS 2020 • Tribeca Film Festival 2020 - Best Actress, WATCH THE TRAILER Best Cinematography, Nora Ephron Prize DIRECTED BY • Warsaw International Film Festival 2020 - Ruthy Pribar (first feature) Competition 1-2 Asia (35) is a settled immigrant and single mother to 17-year-old Vika. • Guanajuato International Film Festival - Having become a mother at an early age, Asia finds it hard to relate to CAST Official Selection her motherhood and has a fairly distant relationship with Vika. Their Alena Yiv • IFFMH – International Filmfestival Mannheim- Shira Haas (Emmy Awards Nominated relationship is strained even more due to the fact that Vika has been Heidelberg 2020 - Main Section long diagnosed with an incurable, degenerative disease. for “Unhortodox”) • PingYao Crouching Tiger IFF 2020 - Special Gera Sandler Mention Jury Award Tamir Mula • Film Fest Gent 2020 - New Voices PRODUCTION • Thessaloniki IFF 2020 - Out of Competition Gum Films • Kosmorama 2021 - Relations • Winner of 9 Ophir Awards • Israeli Oscars Entry 2021 - Best Foreign Film [ UPCOMING] UPCOMING THE BLIND MAN WHO DID NOT WANT TO SEE TITANIC IN POST-PRODUCTION SOKEA MIES, JOKA EI HALUNNUT NÄHDÄ TITANICIA

DRAMA, THRILLER 82’ An intense movie, shot from a blind man’s perspective. An atypical action/ 2021 FINLAND thriller film about a man who has to go through hell to reach his loved one.

DIRECTED BY Jaakko is blind and disabled, tightened to his wheelchair. He loves Sirpa. Teemu Nikki (Euthanizer) Living far away, they have never met in person, but they meet every day over the phone. When Sirpa is overwhelmed by shocking news, Jaakko de- CAST cides to go to her immediately despite his condition. In any case, he just Petri Poikolainen needs to rely on the help of five strangers in five places: from home to taxi, Marjaana Maijala from taxi to station, from station to train, from train to taxi and finally from Hannamaija Nikander (Euthanizer) taxi to… her. Matti Onnismaa (Euthanizer) Samuli Jaskio (Heavy Trip) Rami Rusinen

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DRAMA, COMING OF AGE 94’ Dog days of summer in a Kurdish city in Turkey, two unruly bright twins 2021 TURKEY from a poor neighborhood are distracted by their daily routine and school duties, having an only goal in life: to dive into a proper swim- DIRECTED BY ming pool, one in particular, in the luxury site on their way to school. Aydın Orak (First Film) Between them and their dream, a boundary wall and behind it the stubborn and irreproachable watchmen who‘​​s​ everyday their laughing stock. They CAST will start their little own class warfare. Mırza Zarg Mırhat Zarg Pelın Batu Iştar Gokseven Alı Seçkıner Alıcı Ferıde Çetın Rıza Sonmez Aydın Orak

PRODUCTION Orak Film UPCOMING N-ICE CELLO IN POST-PRODUCTION STORIA DEL VIOLONCELLO DI GHIACCIO

DOCUMENTARY 78’ From the heart of a glacier in the Italian Alps, at 2.800 meters of altitude, an 2021 ITALY American sculptor, Tim Linhart, shaped a Cello, fully made of ice. Together with cellist and composer Giovanni Sollima they start a journey through Italy DIRECTED BY performing in the main cities to end up in Sicily, 1.500Km southern, for the Corrado Bungaro (First Film) last show in the magnificent Palermo theater. An on the road impossible journey, a real adventure challenging time, CAST complications and forces of nature to keep alive the most fragile freight ever. Giovanni Sollima Tim Linhart

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DRAMA 62’ Diyarbakır, Turkey. The film portrays the ordinary under the enduring state 2021 TURKEY, ITALY of exception, from the perspective of its three characters. A painter living with her parents: Gulbîn is trying to make her own way DIRECTED BY in life, while obsessively painting a portrait of her mum with inspiration Ali Kemal Çınar from Whistler’s Mother. The mother models for her daughter while trying to insulate her house from the noise of the bombs to no avail. The father, CAST whose health is deteriorating, tries to reimagine his war-stricken city with Gulbîn Bozan old photos. Rabia Çınar Hüsnü Timur İhsan Şakar Lisa Çalan

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