16/07/2015 - Other Italian films selected and being shown out of competition include Genitori by Alberto Fasulo, I sogni del lago salato by Andrea Segre, and Romeo e Giulietta by Massimo Coppola

Pietro Marcello will be representing Italy in the International Competition of the 68th Locarno Film Festival (5-15 August 2015). The Caserta-born director, who won the Award for Best Film with The Mouth of the Wolf [+see also:
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film profile]. Produced by Avventurosa in cooperation with Rai Cinema and supported by the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage and Activities, the film is an on-the-road story about the Italian province of Caserta, filmed on photographic film: from the bowels of Vesuvius, Pulcinella is sent to Campania to grant the final wishes of the shepherd Tommaso, that is, to save a young buffalo by the name of Sarchiapone. Pulcinella finds the little buffalo in the Carditello palace, an abandoned Bourbon residence buried deep in the heart of the land of fire, and takes it with him to the North, embarking on a long journey through a beautiful and lost Italy, at the end of which they fail to find what they were hoping to. The film will be distributed by Istituto Luce Cinecittà. 

Four more Italian films have been selected for screening out of competition at Locarno. First up is Parents [+see also:
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interview: Andrea Segre
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Signs of Life, the section of the Locarno Film Festival dedicated to films that experiment with new narrative models, will feature L’infinita fabbrica del Duomo [+see also:
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Then, when the Golden Leopard is awarded, the debut feature film of Marco Bellocchio, Fist in His Pocket (1965), will be screened in Piazza Grande, 50 years on from its first screening at Locarno; screenings of some of the famous director’s other films, My Mother’s Smile [+see also:
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film profile], will also be held. Finally, Pastorale cilentana, a short film by Mario Martone made for Expo in Milan, will be screened in its international premiere in Piazza Grande: the film is a story of humanity told through the relationship between man and agriculture, and is a Palomar production.

(Translated from Italian)