The first title to be put forward by the international sales agency helmed by Vincenzo Mosca TVCO at the Cannes Film Festival’s Marché du Film is Time for Love [+lee también:
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Death of Nintendo, meanwhile, is set in Manila in the 1990s and takes us to the colourful pop culture world of four teenage friends, at a time when videogames were still a novelty. The title is directed by Filipino filmmaker Raya Martin and produced by Indieflip and Black Sheep.

Mario Piredda’s The Lamb [+lee también:
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Similarly Italian in origin is Opera Mundi [+lee también:
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For its part, El silencio del cazador by Argentina’s Martín Desalvo (a Doménica Films production) tells the tale of Guzmán, a ranger who tirelessly patrols a nature reserve in pursuit of poachers, pitted against Orlando Venneck, a farm-owning settler of European origin who’s also a hunter. Behind the touristic image of the nature reserve, there lies a hidden world besieged by tensions between the different cultures fighting for control.

In terms of documentaries, there are two such works gracing the TVCO slate. Starring Maya Sansa, Franco Berrino and Giuseppe Cederna, A riveder le stelle [+lee también:
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Sisterhood by Domiziana De Fulvio (Alfa Multimedia), meanwhile, offers an up-close snapshot of three all-female street basketball teams in Lebanon, Italy and New York City. These women live totally different lives but share a deep and genuine passion for basketball, which has always been considered a sport for men alone; communities of women who, aside for this shared passion, all differ greatly in terms of ethnic origins, culture, religion, social class, age, gender identity and sexual orientation.

Next, in post-production, we find The Pit [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by the Riga-born director Dace Pūce, which was adapted from a successful novel by Latvian writer Jana Egle and which stars Russian newcomer Damirs Onackis in the lead role. The film is a co-production between Marana Productions SIA (Latvia) and Inland Film Company OU (Finland).

And last but not least, in development, the TVCO line-up boasts the next film by Stefano Incerti, I Want to Watch, a thriller revolving around a sixteen-year-old girl, written in league with Diego De Silva and produced by Rain Dogs, alongside TVCO themselves.