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I Hate Berlin (Hi Film Productions) by Valentin Hotea is one of the projects for the MIA | Cinema Co-Production Market and Pitching Forum

9 Oct 2017

Ducu, a Romanian film director, is shaken by the news that his wife Andra wants a divorce. His pride bruised, he leaves for Berlin on a two-month scriptwriting scholarship to start afresh. There, he encounters his first love Giulia who is now a widow living with her...

Koza Nostra (FILM.UA Group) created by Anastasia Lodkina and Kateryna Vyshnevska, one of the projects at MIA|TV Drama Series Pitching Forum

9 Oct 2017

Meet Vlada Koza*, a feisty Ukrainian woman in her late thirties. Out of job, out of money, out of luck, she travels to Italy and lands a job as a housekeeper in a wealthy Italian home. She finds herself in the very heart of an influential mafia family in...

Never Whistle Alone (Candy Glass): whistleblowers’ stories at MIA | DOC Pitching Forum

9 Oct 2017

What would you do if your boss asked you to turn a blind eye on his illiegal activities? In this documentary employees, public officers, judges, lawyers, talk about the corruption cases they have experienced first-hand. All stories that despite being different present...

Farewell to Jean Rochefort

9 Oct 2017

Jean Rochefort, born in 1930, passed away at age 87 in Paris, after a long-term hospitalisation. When he was 19, he attended the Centre Dramatique de la rue Blanche and then he attended the Conservatoire national supérieur d’art dramatique. After his service in...

Emil (D.N.A. Production) by Peter Bebjak, the story of an employee of a crematory. One of the projects at MIA|Cinema Co-Production Market & Pitching Forum

9 Oct 2017

Emil tells the story of an employee of a crematory, middle-aged bachelor man, living with his immobilized mother and secretly being in love with his female colleague. Emil is a grumpy character caught in between his work and his lonely private life after he had...

The healing power of food: Cornucopia (SagaFilm) created by Dogg Mosesdottir, one of the projects at MIA|TV Drama Series Pitching Forum

8 Oct 2017

Styrgerður is an Icelandic cook who returns home broke after having travelled the world for seven years. Her plan issimple: visit her mother and sister who own a farm, get some moneyand return to Bali, where she wants to open a restaurant.Onceat the farm, she...

Emanuela Orlandi, thirty years later. My Missing Sister (B&B Film, Film Production) by Alessandra Bruno, projects of the MIA|DOC Pitching Forum

8 Oct 2017

The Summer of 1983 is infamous in the Italian chronicle because during the June of that year Emanuela Orlandi, a fifteen years old girl who lived inside the Vatican walls with her family, vanished into thin air. The Orlandi case became one of the most famous unsolved...

Durendal (Partner Media Investment) by Egidio Eronico: a story between two eras at MIA |Cinema Co-Production Market & Pitching Forum

8 Oct 2017

June 1967: nine Israeli soldiers fighting in the Six Days War are crossing the Sinai desert with their tanks when, unexplicably, time starts to flow backwards and the soldiers find themselves back in 1942, in the middle of World War II, after the El Alamein battle...

Seven castaways, one terrible secret: Survivors (Rodeo Drive) at MIA|TV Drama Series Pitching Forum

7 Oct 2017

The Arianna ship, sailed from Genoa with fifteen people on board, disappears into thin air two weeks into its journey. One year later, off the coast of Africa, the relic is discovered with only sever passengers who survived. On the mainland, the families welcome the...

The women, the war, the revolution: I am the Revolution (Possible Film, Les Films d’Ici) by Benedetta Argentieri at MIA|DOC Pitching Forum

7 Oct 2017

Iraq, Syria and Afghanistan, ravaged by perennial conflicts, are the countries in the world with the worst living conditions for women, according to international studies. I am the Revolution, a documentary by Benedetta Argentieri, follows the stories of the...

The Brothers Nobel, a period drama set during the fall of the Russian Empire, at MIA | TV Drama Series Pitching Forum

6 Oct 2017

The Brothers Nobel follows the untold stories of Albert Nobel’s brothers and their rise to power as the “Russian Rockfellers”, between corruption and class wars. The story follows the parable of the Nobel family, from the management of the small family-run factory...

Dúo by Meritxel Colell Aparicio at MIA|Cinema Co-Production Market & Pitching Forum

6 Oct 2017

Twenty years ago Mónica and Nico Colate, both choreographers, created a double act that expressed all the love they felt for each other. Now, they decided to go back to that show, a symbol of the beginning of their love story, and to stage it again on a tour that...