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23 – 24 January 2025
DE ROME À PARIS
On January 23, Italian cinema will welcome 2025 with the GALA ITALIAN SCREENS on the Champs Elysées, featuring the French premiere screening of DIAMANTI, directed by Ferzan Özpetek. This special event, organized by Cinecittà for the Directorate for Cinema of the Italian Ministry of Culture, will precede the traditional professional meetings between Italian and French producers, sales, and distributors at De Rome à Paris, scheduled for Friday, January 24.
At 7:00 PM, at the Publicis Cinema, Ferzan Özpetek, accompanied by actresses Luisa Ranieri and Jasmine Trinca – two of the lead stars of the film’s impressive cast—will meet the audience in the Ville Lumière.
The Gala Italian Screens, partially open to the public (for tickets, visit https://www.publiciscinemas.com/films/1000006667-diamanti/), will also serve as an opportunity to promote the richness and originality of Italian cinema, as well as the tax incentives supporting distribution and co-productions.
SYNOPSIS
A director calls upon his favorite actresses, those with whom he has worked and those he has loved. He wants to make a film about women but reveals little: he observes, draws inspiration, and lets his imagination take flight, eventually transporting them to another era, a past where the sound of sewing machines fills a workplace run and populated by women, where men have small, marginal roles, and cinema can be told from another perspective: that of fashion. Amidst loneliness, passions, anxieties, heartbreaking absences, and unbreakable bonds, reality and fiction intertwine, as do the lives of the actresses with the lives of their characters, competition with sisterhood, and the visible with the invisible.
A production by Greenboo Production, Faros Film, and Vision Distribution, in collaboration with Sky.
International Sales: Vision Distribution
BUSINESS DAY
On the market side, on January 24, professional meetings will take place at the CNC (Centre national du cinéma et de l’image animée, 291 Boulevard Raspail), providing an opportunity to nurture and strengthen a partnership that reflects the long history of co-productions between Italy and France. This year’s program includes ten co-production projects and eight works in progress, organized in collaboration with CNC and Unifrance.
WORKS IN PROGRESS
- LA GIOIA by Nicolangelo Gelormini | GLI OCCHI DEGLI ALTRI by Andrea De Sica – Vision Distribution
- FOREST by Luca Della Grotta and Francesco Dafano – True Colours Glorious Films
- HEADS OR TAILS? by Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis | MADLY by Paolo Genovese – Rai Cinema International Distribution
- THE NEGOTIATOR di Alessandro Tonda |JUDA’S GOSPEL di Giulio Base – Minerva Pictures
- THE HOLY BOY di Paolo Strippoli – Fandango
CO-PRODUCTION PROJECTS
- APACHE 77 by Giovanni Aloi – tempesta
- BEYOND THE DESRT by Andrea Parena – Redibis Film
- L’INCIDENT by Andrea Romano – Piano B Produzioni
- L’ALTRA MADRE by Bruno Oliviero – Mad Entertainment
- ANGIOLINA AND THE CAPTAIN by Costanza Quatriglio – Indyca
- OSCEN ACTS IN A PRIVATE PLACE by Adriano Valerio – Indiana Production
- SONG FOR EUROPE by Cosimo Miorelli – Graffiti Film
- THE LEASH by Giovanni Toscano – Fandango
- BLACK HEART by Emanuele Crialese – Cattleya
- LADY BONAPARTE by Emiliano Galigani – 9 Muse
