20/05/2008

Andrea Molaioli’s The Girl by the Lake [+see also:
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Molaioli’s surprise hit in Italy has sold to Japan and is in negotiations with France, according to Jef Nuyts, director of sales. The film was snapped up for Japan just after its presentation at the Italian Film Festival in Tokyo in early May, where Intramovies also sold Ermanno Olmi’s One Hundred Nails [+see also:
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The four Cattleya titles screening at the market are Sergio Rubini’s At a Glance [+see also:
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Nuyts, who stresses that one in three of Intramovies’ titles are foreign pick-ups, has had major interest from buyers (including the US) in the award-winning Turkish film Bliss by Abdullah Oguz.

Another non-Italian title was added to Intra Movies’ slate during Cannes: Jan Prušinovsky’s Czech film The Womanizer, produced by Evolution Films. “The film has a wonderful touch of surreal humour, typical to Czech cinema,” said Nuyts, who hopes to present it at an upcoming festival such as Locarno. The release in the Czech Republic is set for June 5.

The Italian documentary Biutiful Cauntri, the very topical subject of waste poisoning around Naples, will be released in France this summer through Chrysalis Film.