Italy’s True Colours has taken sales on two new titles that it will introduce to international buyers at Rome’s Mia Market: “Prophets,” an Isis-themed drama by Alessio Cremonini (“On My Skin”) and “A Breath of Life,” a doc about a 97-year-old Italian transsexual woman named Lucy, who is among the few survivors of the Dachau Nazi concentration camp.
Both films are in post and will be presented as works-in-progress at Mia, the first in the “What’s Next Italy” section, the latter during Mia’s “Italian Doc it Better” session.
“Prophets” toplines Italian A-lister Jasmine Trinca (“Fortunata”) as Sara, an Italian journalist kidnapped in Syria by Isis while working on a wartime news report in 2015. She is held in captivity in the midst of a training camp by Nur, a young fighter, wife to a soldier of the Caliphate. Nur’s strong will to proselytize along with the...
Both films are in post and will be presented as works-in-progress at Mia, the first in the “What’s Next Italy” section, the latter during Mia’s “Italian Doc it Better” session.
“Prophets” toplines Italian A-lister Jasmine Trinca (“Fortunata”) as Sara, an Italian journalist kidnapped in Syria by Isis while working on a wartime news report in 2015. She is held in captivity in the midst of a training camp by Nur, a young fighter, wife to a soldier of the Caliphate. Nur’s strong will to proselytize along with the...
- 10/13/2021
- by Nick Vivarelli
- Variety Film + TV
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