EXCLUSIVE: Rome-based sales outfit True Colours has added two additional titles to its autumn festivals slate, picking up Farnoosh Samadi’s Toron
EXCLUSIVE: Rome-based sales outfit True Colours has added two additional titles to its autumn festivals slate, picking up Farnoosh Samadi’s Toronto selection Between Dreams And Hope and Virgilio Villoresi’s Venice out-of-competition title Orfeo.
Iranian director Samadi’s Between Dreams And Hope will premiere in Toronto’s Platform section, and marks her second feature film after 2020’s 180 Degree Rule premiered in Toronto’s Discovery programme.
The queer love story is about Azad, a trans man, and Nora, two adolescent lovers fighting between tradition and modernity in their society and family. Both travel to a remote Iranian village to face Azad’s estranged father and obtain documents that would permit them to live authentically.
Orfeo is the debut feature of Italian filmmaker and visual artist Villoresi. It centres on Orfeo, a pianist who since childhood has imagined fantastic stories around an abandoned villa across from his home –a place shrouded in unresolved legends. He falls in love with Eura, following her through a compact door in front of the abandoned villa which leads him to an imaginative and unsettling afterline – and where only one door can lead him back.
The two films join the True Colours slate, which also includes Franco Maresco’s Venice competition title Bravo Bene!, Antonio Capuano’s Venice out-of-competition family drama Andrea’s Island, Valentina Zanella’s Giornate Degli Autori documentary Manara, and Massimiliano Camaiti’s Biennale College Cinema documentary Agnus Dei.
True Colours is headed by managing director Elliot Gustin-Hollman, with Fabio Tucci recently promoted to head of acquisitions and Francesca Tiberi promoted to head of sales.
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