Five titles on The Match Factory film slate will be presented at this year’s International Audiovisual Market - MIA - the sixth edition of which will unspool in Rome from 14 – 18 October - with four of these works having also made an appearance at the Venice Film Festival back in September.

The German firm headed up by Michael Weber is mainly staking its bets on Never Gonna Snow Again [+lee también:
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Another work to have enjoyed its world premiere in Venice is Notturno [+lee también:
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Meanwhile, screened Out of Competition in Venice 2020, Assandira [+lee también:
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The fourth title to hail from Venice is a short film, Omelia Contadina, by JR and Alice Rohrwacher (The Wonders [+lee también:
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The fifth and final film offered up by The Match Factory to the MIA is the comedy Rosas’s Wedding [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]). At almost 45 years of age, Rosa (Candela Peña) realises she has spent her entire life trying to please other people and decides to push the big red button, shake things up and seize control of her life. “Reaching a compromise between Rosa’s desires and those of her family will prove a huge challenge, even when it’s a case of organising her own wedding”, the Spanish director explains. “There are lots of Rosas hiding among us in our everyday lives, and we all have a part of Rosa inside of us”.  A Spanish-French co-production by Tandem Films, Turanga Films, Setembro Cine, La boda de Rosa la película AIE and Halley Productions, the film was selected for the San Sebastián International Film Festival back in September.