Ellipsis Media International in Cannes

ELLIPSIS CANNES MARKET LINE-UP

Ellipsis is glad to announce its Cannes line-up:

Italian Pavilion – Hotel Majestic – Salon Marta - May 14th  / 23rd 

KIDNAP ME 

KIDNAP ME,  by Giovanni Luca Gargano , feature film – 90’ – Black Comedy, Adventure, Italy/Portugal 2019  2K color -  language: Italian/Portuguese, with English Subtitles.

After they get themselves into big trouble and make enemies of the entire town, four unemployed people from Calabria (South Italy) make a run for it into the woods. Forced to find a way to repair the damage they have done, one of them is convinced he has had a fantastic idea – one that he thinks will turn their lives around. The hand of fate unfurls its fingers, and the four youngsters find themselves caught up in an incredible story with tragicomic and utterly unforeseen consequences.

Aldo, Giovanni & Giacomo – Collection

RECENT MOVIES LIBRARY

SHANDA’S RIVER,  by Marco Rosson , feature film – 90’ – Horror, Italy   2018  HD color -  language: English.

A professor (Emma) goes to Voghera, a small town in Northern Italy. To study the story of the witch Shanda killed in the early 1800's, on the river bank from which it is named. The professor will be enslaved to a magic spell and will be forced to repeat the same day over and over. Every time she will be killed and every time she will start the day again. Emma will try to get rid of this curse and break this loop.

Independent Italian horror Movie. Inspired by the classic Italian horror movies of the 70s and 80s.

AWARDS: 27 Awards and 7 Nomination during 2017/2018

OH MY GOD,  by Giorgio Amato , feature film – 100’ – Comedy/Drama, Religion, Gospel, Jesus Christ; Mokumentary. Italy   2018  HD color -  language: Italian with English subtitles.

What would happen today if Jesus Christ really came back as announced in the Gospels? Who would take him seriously? And what difficulties would Jesus encounter today to be recognized?

I’LL COME TOO  by Corrado Nuzzo , feature film – 90’ – Comedy, Italy   2018  HD color -  language: Italian (Eng. Sub).

This is the story of an aspiring suicide, a former prisoner, a boy with Asperger's syndrome and a young Salentine athlete. Besieged by life, and tired of getting involved because now accustomed to defeat, for a strange twist of fate will be forced to undertake a journey together that will lead them to confront their own past, to fight with their demons and get out of their loneliness.A trivial amateur rowing race will make them a cohesive group, eager for a ransom at all costs. To win they will cheat and lose badly, but it will not be a real defeat, because in the meantime they will discover that they have become a family that is able to turn the sum of their individual defeats into success. A unique, eccentric, but enviable family that we would all like to have as neighbors.

DOCUMENTARY

A LOOK AT THE EARTH  by Peter Marcias, Documentary film – 100’ –  Italy   2018  HD color – cast:  Vincenzo Marra, Jose Luis Guerin, Claire Simon, Tomer Heymann, Sahraa Karimi, Mehrdad Oskouei, Brillante Ma Mendoza, Wang Bing, Piera Detassis, Manlio Brigaglia. . language: Italian, English, Spanish, Chinese, Portuguese (English Subtitles)

Sardinia 2017. The starting point for the film is one of the most loved lands in the mediterranean, using it to enter into the world of cinema. Ten international masters of cinema explain Fiorenzo Serra's images, one of the greatest post-war Italian documentary makers. Is masterpiece, "The last punch of Earth", will be analysed and debated, a film which examined italian change and European reflection.

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