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May 03, 2019
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Minerva Pictures Line Up in Cannes

Minerva Pictures will be attending from the 14th to the 23rd of May and will be located at  Riviera A10 - C1.

 

 

N E W    A C Q U I S I T I O N S 

 

  Dogman"), Sergio Rubini ( The Passion of the Christ / Nirvana),  Fabrizio Gifuni (Sweet Dreams/Human Capital)

 

 

Hammamet

By Gianni Amelio

 

A completely transformed Pierfrancesco Favino plays the role inspired by the controversial Italian political leader Bettino Craxi. Gianni Amelio recounts the fall of the man, through the  emotions  and through his  relationship with fictictious and real life characters.

Status: Shooting

Italy | Drama, Biography  

CAST: Pierfrancesco Favino (The Traitor / Rush / Angels & Demons / Miracle at St. Anna)  Claudia Gerini (Love and Bullets / Don’t Move)

 

       

 

Market Premiere 

It's a Mad World

(Rock & Roll Robot)

By Marco Bocci

 

Mauro is born among the tenements of Tor Bella Monaca, a difficult area in Rome; all his life he has tried to play by the rules and waited for the right opportunity and dreamt of a real job. When his friends Domenico and Fabio decide to rob the Chinese mafia, he can’t help to get involved. But playing the bad guy is no small thing. 

Status: Completed

Italy/Spain | 2019 | Drama | 97’



Cast: Libero De Rienzo  (I can quit whenever I want / Santa Maradona) | Andrea Sartoretti  (ACAB / Mission Impossible III)) | Antonia Liskova  (Shelter Me)  

 

 

Market Premiere 

The Finch Thief 

By Carlo Luglio

 

In the Campania countryside, Pasquale Cardinale, an elder ranger, spends his days between alcohol and video poker. To settle the debts he organizes a scam of 200 white pure goldfinches, replacing them with common ones, but it will not end as expected.

Status: Completed

Italy | Black Comedy | 95'

CAST: Nando Paone, Ernesto Mahieux, Gigi de Luca, Viviana Cangiano 

 

C O M P L E T E D    F I L M S

 

 

Laughing

By Valerio Mastandrea

 

 

A woman and her ten-year-old son deal, in their own way, with the death of the husband/father, who died at the factory where he worked, while all around them the anticipation and concentration grow as everyone awaits the day of the funeral. The surprising first film directed by Valerio Mastandrea, a spaced-out and original drama, recounted like a comedy, which changes focus and register and toys with naturalism and surrealism. Laughter and emotion, no tricks or facile shortcuts.

Italy | 2018 | Drama | 90’



Cast : Chiara Martegiani | Stefano Dionisi (Farinelli / Antonio Vivaldi, un prince a Venise) | Renato Carpentieri (Tenderness)  | Milena Vukotic  (The discrete charms of the Bourgeoisie/ Letters to Juliet / A Good Woman) | Arturo Marchetti 

 

 

Copperman 

By Eros Puglielli 

 

The adventure of a man, Anselmo, who lives his childhood dream  and  becomes Copperman despite being "special".

Forrest Gump meets Amelie in a touching fairy tale for everyone.

Italy | 2019 | Adventure, Drama | 99’



Cast: Luca Argentero  (Eat, Pray, Love / Saturn in Opposition) | Gianuca Gobbi (Dogman) | Antonia Truppo (They call me Jeeg)  | Galatea Ranzi   (The Great Beauty) 

 

 

Blood Fest

By Owen Egerton

 

 

 

Fans flock to a festival celebrating the most iconic horror movies, only to discover that the charismatic showman behind the event has a diabolical agenda. As festival attendees start dying off, three teenagers - more schooled in horror-film clichés than practical knowledge about neutralizing psycho killers - must band together and battle through various madmen and monstrosities to survive.

USA | 2018 | Horror | 90’



Cast : Zachary Levi (Shazam!/The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel) | Robbie Kay (Once Upon a Time/Pirates of the Caribbean) | Seychelle Gabrielle (Falling Skies/Sleepy Hollow) | Tate Donovan (Argo/ 24/ The OC) | Jacob Batalon (Spiderman: Homecoming / Avengers: Infinity War)

 

 



Happy Go Lucky

By Stefano Anselmi

 

Two friends seeking for redemption by opening a vegetarian restaurant until the moment when, to please a culinary critic, they are faced with the need to transform their restaurant in a steakhouse. But Nunzio and Paolo will have no intention to cook animals. Can veggie steaks being peddled for real meat? This will be the start of a spiral of hilarious events.

Italy | 2018 | Comedy | 103’



Cast : Nunzio Fabrizio Rotondo | Paolo Vita | Maurizio Mattioli | Loredana Cannata

 

 

 



Friends will be Friends 

By Antonello Grimaldi

 

It's the story of a journey where the real find is the value of friendship. Three former classmates, one great friendship, and a strange death that takes them on an adventure full of twists, that will change their lives forever. 

Will their friendship be enough for the hit of their lives? The stakes are three million...

Italy | 2018 | Comedy | 80’



Cast : Michele Riondino (The Young Montalbano / Worldly Girl) | Alessandro Roja | Sveva Alviti  (Dalida) | Violante Placido (Ghost Rider / The American) 

 

 

Nervermind

By Eros Puglielli

 

 

Nevermind is an episodic comedy film. In each episode, we see common characters forced to suffer extremely weird, disturbing and paradoxical situations. These situations sometimes seem incredible but yet ... can happen.

Italy | 2018 | Comedy | 110’ 



CAST: Andrea Sartoretti (ACAB / Mission 

Impossible III) | Giulia Michelini (The Girl by the Lake) | Paolo Sassanelli 

 

 

Killer Mosquitos

By Riccardo Paoletti

 

 

A group of friends, spending the weekend in an isolated country house, are attacked by a swarm of killer mosquitos that feast on human flesh like piranhas. They soon find out that the only deterrent against these insects is THC, the main active ingredient in Cannabis. Their only hope to survive is to confront them when stoned. With all the possible consequences.             

Italy | 2018 | Creature Horror | 90’

 

Cast: Alessio Lapice (Romolus & Remus - The First King) | Stefano Chiodaroli (The Other Man) | Andrea Scarduzio (Walking Paris / Genius) | Maria Grazia Giannetta (Don Matteo)

 

 

Bad Investigate

By Luis Ismael

 

When Romeu, a corrupt policeman, forces the two guys he has by the balls, Alex and Cid, to deceive FBI agent Sam Folkes, the international bomb is set to explode. Folkes's mission to chase Xavier, a dangerous drug dealer who is seeking revenge for his brother's death, has all it takes to go really wrong.

Portugal | 2018 | Action | 90’

 

Cast: Enrique Arce (La casa de papel) |Luis Ismael | Francisco Menezes | Robson Nunes (Carandiru)

 

 

 

 

 

C A T A L O G U E   H I G H L I G H T S

 

 

 

 

Italian Masters 

Rediscover some of the masterpieces of the Italian directors from the XX century who made a huge impact on worldwide film making, and are still relevant today

 

THE CLOWNS - Federico Fellini (1971) (HD)

THE CONFORMIST - Bernardo Bertolucci (1970) - (4k)

THE VANQUISHED - Michelangelo Antonioni (1953) - (4k)

GENERAL DALLA ROVERE (1959)  (HD) -  YEAR ONE (1974) - Roberto Rossellini

CONVERSATION PIECE (1974) - Luchino Visconti (4k) 

 

 

 

 

French Showcase



A selection of the best French talents in cinema.

 

LE CHEMIN DES ÉCOLIERS (HD) with Alain Delon

LA CARROSSE D'OR (HD) by Jean Renoir 

THE CONFORMIST  (4K) with Jean Louis Trintignant 

MANON 70  (HD) - with Catherine Deneuve

ADUA AND FRIENDS (4K) - with Simone Signoret 

 

 

 

 

The Italian Masters of Horror



Join the Italian Fright Club with some of the cult titles that define the genre.

 

NIGHTMARE CITY  (1980) – Umberto Lenzi (HD)

BODY PUZZLE (1982) – Lamberto Bava 

TOUCH OF DEATH (1988) –  Luciano Fulci (HD)

THE LONG HAIR OF DEATH (1965) – Antonio Margheriti  (HD)

THE PERFUME OF THE LADY IN BLACK (1974) – Francesco Barilli  (HD)

SACRIFICE / MAN FROM DEEP RIVER (1972) – Umberto Lenzi  (HD)

COLD BLOODED BEAST  (1971) – Fernando Di Leo (HD)

FOUR TIMES THAT NIGHT  (1971) – Mario Bava 

NIGHTMARE CONCERT  (1990) – Lucio Fulci (HD)

 

 



We have a catalogue of over 600 titles, to find out which ones, please book a meeting with us. 

 

 

 

 

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