In Italy today, drama documentaries are experiencing a real boom at cinemas. And documentaries were the main subject today at MIA, the International Audiovisual Market. In the Cinetel documentary classification distributed in theaters in 2018 (from January 1st to October 7th) made known to MIA, “Caravaggio – The Soul and the Blood” leads the top ten with 1,463,548 euros, followed by “Van Gogh- Between the Wheat and the Sky”and “Hitler versus Picasso and the Others “(all three distributed by Nexo).
In the fourth place “Earth: One Extraordinary Day,” the fifth “Maria by Callas,” the sixth “Salvador Dali – In Search of Immortality,” the eighth “Pope Francis: A Man of His Word,” at the ninth “Visages Villages” and the tenth “Cezanne: Portraits of a Life.” “The final documentary profits for 2018 will certainly be higher than 2017 – explains Marco Spagnoli, director of the MIA Doc category – that closed at 5.1 million euros. 2018 has already reached 4.9 million at the box-office and many important titles, starting from ‘Imagine’ released a few days ago, are programmed in theaters by now and December 31st.”