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Today marked the second day of the Italian-German conference at Rome’s Horti Sallustiani, entitled “Due cinematografie allo specchio”. The meeting on the Italian distribution of German films was introduced by Giovanni Spagnoletti, one of Italy’s leading experts on German cinema, after an opening welcome by the German Ambassador. Participants included, among others: Matthias Keuthen (Schwarz-Weiss Filmverleih), Antonio Exacoustos (German Films), Sebastian Kiesmûller (Bavaria Film International), Valerio de Paolis (BIM) and Luciano Sovena (Istituto Luce). The subjects discussions were film promotion and marketing strategies, co-production experiences between Italy and Germany and future collaborations between the two countries’ public and private institutions.…

“We have the possibility to have a new market here in Rome,” was Riccardo Tozzi’s (Cattleya production company) first comment to Cinecittà News. “There was a lot of interest from operators, even if it is difficult to close deals in just three days. We at Cattleya have had a good experience”, continued Tozzi.The initial feedback on the first edition of The Business Street is thus positive from producers, distributors and industry professionals in general. The opinion of Alessandro Usai (of Mikado) was also a favourable one and, according to him, “Business Street worked even though it could be longer. It…

Efter Bryllupet – After the Wedding, one of the most successful films of Danish cinema and the country’s contender for the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar shortlist, was presented out of competition in the Cinema 2006 section by the director, Susanne Bier, and producer Sisse Graum Jørgensen. The film is Bier’s ninth feature and third collaboration with Anders Thomas Jensen (director of Adam’s Apples). Bier is considered the most popular Scandinavian director and her previous film, Brothers, was the most seen non-US film in the States last years. It comes as no surprise, then, that her next project, Things We…

Born and Bred (Nacido y criado) is the latest offering on one of the most repeated themes of the films in the Cinema 2006 section: the traumatic relationships between parents and children, a subject already broached in Fu Zi – After This Our Exile, L´aria salata and Armenia. Young Argentinean director Pablo Trapero (born in 1971) presented his fourth feature today, in competition at the RomeFilmFest. The press conference was also attended by actors Federico Esquerro and Martina Gusman, Argentinean producer Rocio Freire-Bernat and Italian producer Rosanna Seregni. Shot between Buenos Aires and Patagonia, the film tells the story of…