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BERLINALE 2016 Market

True Colours’ slate boasts some of the most promising titles of 2016

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- The new international sales agent is heading to the market in Berlin with Andrea Molaioli’s Slam, Roberto Andò’s The Confessions and Francesco Patierno’s Naples '44

True Colours’ slate boasts some of the most promising titles of 2016
Toni Servillo in The Confessions by Roberto Andò

True Colours, the new international sales agent co-founded by Indigo Film and Lucky Red (read the article), will be at the upcoming European Film Market in Berlin to present a rich line-up including some of the most eagerly anticipated Italian films of 2016 and a raft of directors whose names are highly respected abroad. 

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The slate kicks off with three of the most interesting projects lined up for the year, which are still either in production or in post-production: Slam by Andrea Molaioli (The Girl by the Lake [+see also:
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), based on the novel of the same name by Nick Hornby and produced by Indigo together with RAI Cinema. The cast includes Jasmine Trinca and Luca Marinelli, in addition to the two young lead actors, Ludovico Tersigni and Barbara Ramella. The film’s Italian release is scheduled for the second half of 2016. Meanwhile, Naples ’44 [+see also:
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by Francesco Patierno (The War of the Volcanoes), produced by Dazzle Communication and RAI Cinema, will feature a voice-over courtesy of British actor Benedict Cumberbatch (nominated for an Oscar in 2015 for The Imitation Game [+see also:
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). The Confessions by Roberto Andò, produced by BIBI Film, RAI Cinema and Barbary Films, is a political thriller that boasts a cast of international actors: Toni Servillo, Daniel Auteuil, Connie Nielsen, Pierfrancesco Favino, Moritz Bleibtreu, Marie-Josee Croze and Lambert Wilson. The film, which was presented at the MIA market in Rome, has been pre-sold in various territories, including Latin America (CDI films and MaresFilmes), Benelux (Imagine), Taiwan (SwallowWings), Greece (Danaos) and Hungary (Cinenuovo), and will be released in France by Bellissima.

True Colours is also taking four market premieres to the European Film Market: the first two are One Kiss [+see also:
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by Ivan Cotroneo, produced by Indigo Film and Titanus with RAI Cinema; and Solo [+see also:
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by Laura Morante, produced by Cinemaundici, which is the second directorial effort by the actress from The Son’s Room [+see also:
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, who after La cerise sur le gâteau (Ciliegine) [+see also:
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is making a new comedy. The cast includes Morante herself, Lambert Wilson and Piera Degli Esposti. The other two are The Last Will Be Last [+see also:
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by Massimiliano Bruno, produced by Italian International Film and RAI Cinema, with a cast comprising Paola Cortellesi, Alessandro Gassmann and Fabrizio Bentivoglio; and Them Who? [+see also:
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by Francesco Micciché and Fabio Bonifacci, produced by Picomedia and Warner Bros Italia, which tells a story teetering between comedy and thriller territory. The cast includes Marco Giallini and Edoardo Leo.

There will also be market screenings for Me, Myself and Her [+see also:
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by Maria Sole Tognazzi, a comedy starring Margherita Buy and Sabrina Ferilli, and the mockumentary Burning Love [+see also:
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by Alberto Caviglia. True Colours Glorious Classics, True Colours’ catalogue of classic films, will also be presented for the first time at the EFM. It comprises more than 50 titles directed by the great masters of cinema such as Ettore Scola, Nanni Moretti, André Téchiné, Dino Risi and Dario Argento, and starring famous top-drawer actors such as Vittorio Gassman, Marcello Mastroianni, Emmanuelle Beart Nino Manfredi, Philip Noiret and Isabelle Huppert.

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(Translated from Italian)

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