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Marina Vlady pays tribute to Marcello Mastroianni at the Institut Lumière in Lyon and introduces the screening of Splendor, the third film they shot together.

International sales company True Colours registered good results in 2021 with a slate of over 20 new titles, including The King of Laughter by Mario Martone and Freaks Out by Gabriele Mainetti (in collaboration with Rai com), both presented at the Venice Film Festival.

From January 26th, 2022, French movie-goers will be able to admire the new 4k restorations of two masterpieces by Michelangelo Antonioni: Story of a Love Affair (1950), restored by Cineteca di Bologna, and Red Desert (Venice Golden Lion 1964), restored by CSC-Cineteca Nazionale.

Running until December 31st, the Made in Italy Association and the Italian Institute of Culture in St. Petersburg pays homage to the work of Marco Tullio Giordana. 

The selection has been made of the four projects, from Azerbaijan, Finland, Kazakhstan, Iran, Italy, USA, that will move on to the production phases of the films of the 10th edition (2021 – 2022) of Biennale College – Cinema. 

New York-based distribution company Grasshopper Film and Gratitude Films have jointly acquired the US rights for Michelangelo Frammartino’s Il buco, winner of the Special Jury Prize in Venice about a group of speleologists who discovered the deepest cave in Europe in 1961. The companies are planning to release the film in US cinemas in 2022.

Following the North-American sale to Oscilloscope and the world premiere in Cannes, Beijing-based Hugoeast Media will release Tale of the King Crab by Alessio Rigo De Righi and Matteo Zoppis in China.

Cinecittà warmly welcomes the opening, on September 30th, 2021, of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures, the first museum in Los Angeles dedicated to the film art and science.

To celebrate the Olympic and Paralympic Games to be held in Tokyo this summer, in collaboration with Istituto Luce Cinecittà, the Italian Institute of Culture in Tokyo presents a number of precious archival clips from the Luce Archive.

Dario Argento is an actor in Gaspar Noé’s new film Vortex, telling the last days of a couple of old lovers.