06/02/2019 - The Italian sales company will be at the European Film Market’s Italian Pavillion with a line-up of various new releases: thrillers, comedies, a costumed adventure movie and a musical film

Italian sales company True Colours continues to establish itself as a major player in the international sales field with an impressive line-up at Berlin’s 2019 European Film Market. The films in premiere this year include thrillers, comedies, a costumed adventure movie, horrors, dramas and even a musical film. The Invisible Witness [+see also:
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However, the most intriguing new release in the company’s line-up is Forever You [+see also:
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Two films in the company’s line-up star Fabio De Luigi and both are definitely family comedies. In When Mom is Away [+see also:
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Among the top titles in True Colours’s line-up are The King's Musketeers [+see also:
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Going down a very different route is the documentary Dark Corner [+see also:
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Among the latest films in production and post-production are An Almost Ordinary Summer [+see also:
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film profile] by Leonardo D’Agostini starring Stefano Accorsi (Groenlandia with RAI Cinema), Amazing Leonardo [+see also:
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(Translated from Italian)