Written and directed by Belgian filmmakers Felix van Groeningen and Charlotte Vandermeersch, The Eight Mountains [+lee también:
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entrevista: Felix Van Groeningen
entrevista: Felix Van Groeningen
entrevista: Felix van Groeningen
ficha de la película] and Beautiful Boy working in tandem with his partner, is a European co-production involving four countries: Italy, Belgium, France and the UK, via Wildside, Rufus, Menuetto, Pyramide Productions and Vision Distribution, in collaboration with Elastic and Sky. Luca Marinelli and Alessandro Borghi topline the film, joining forces once again following the success of Don’t Be Bad [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], and supported by Filippo Timi, Elena Lietti and Elisabetta Mazzullo. The film has already secured distributors in Italy (Vision Distribution), Belgium (Kinepolis Film Distribution), France (Pyramide Distribution), the Netherlands (Dutch Filmworks) and in Germany-Austria-Switzerland (DCM).

The rich film slate offered up by the firm overseen by Catia Rossi comprises films which have already been distributed in Italy and others still in post-production, some of which are eagerly awaited, namely Siccità [+lee también:
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entrevista: Paolo Virzì
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Q&A: Paolo Virzì
ficha de la película]), starring Monica Bellucci and produced by Wildside and Vision Distribution; the “metropolitan western” Brado [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], which Donato Carrisi has adapted from his own novel of the same name, following the global success of Into the Labyrinth [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]; Where Life Begins [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], which is the first feature film helmed by French actor Stéphane Freiss (The Confessions [+lee también:
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entrevista: Roberto Andò
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ficha de la película]) and starring Michele Placido, Angelica Kazankova and Fabrizio Rongione in a re-enactment of a modern fairy-tale; and, last but not least, Notte fantasma [+lee también:
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entrevista: Fulvio Risuleo
ficha de la película], the third feature film by Fulvio Risuleo (The Dog Snatch [+lee también:
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ficha de la película]) which is a thriller produced by Elsinore, Wildside and Vision.

The premieres offered up by Vision in Cannes include Giovanni Troilo’s documentary Power of Rome [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], in which actor and director Edoardo Leo explores Rome with fresh eyes, discovering the legacy of the city’s empire: the West. (IIF - Lucisano Media Group, Sky, Vision); the thriller Crystal Girl [+lee también:
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entrevista: Domenico Croce
ficha de la película] by newcomer Domenico Croce (Fidelio and Vison); the dramedy La Cena perfetta [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] by Davide Minnella, a successful, feelgood mix of haute cuisine and crime (IIF and Vision); and Alessio Maria Federici’s comedy (Im)perfetti criminali (Cinemaundici and Vision).

Riccardo Milani’s comedy Corro da te [+lee también:
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entrevista: Chiara Bellosi
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