Intramovies will introduce three world premieres at the upcoming Venice Film Festival:
The Ark of DISPERATA - Official Selection, ORIZZONTI Competition
The Testament - Official Selection, ORIZZONTI Competition
Equilibrium - VENICE DAYS Competition

 

The Ark of DISPERATA
La vita in Comune

Directed by Edoardo Winspeare
Cast: Gustavo Caputo, Claudio Giangreco, Antonio Carluccio, Celeste Casciaro
Produced by: Saietta Film
Italy 2017 | 110 min. | Language: Italian | Comedy

In a small godforsaken town in southern Italy called Disperata, Filippo, the melancholic mayor feels terribly inadequate in fulfilling his duties. The only glimpse of light in the overall gloom is his love for poetry and teaching literature to prison inmates. That is where he meets Pati, a low-level criminal; both Pati and his brother Angiolino share the dream of becoming Mafia bosses. Their encounter with art, however, changes everyone, and an unusual friendship among the three, leads them to make courageous decisions. The life of shy Filippo has been turned upside-down for good and he dives in headfirst, at last surrounded by a calm silence and not by fears. This unusual relationship heralds a rebirth of the small community of Disperata.

The Testament
Ha'Edut

Directed by Amichai Greenberg
Cast: Ori Pfeffer, Rivka Gur, Hagit Dasberg, Ori Yaniv
Produced by: GUM FILM in co-production with FREINBEUTERFILM
Israel, Austria 2017 | 90 min. | Language: Hebrew, German, English | Drama
 

Yoel, an international expert in Holocaust research, has spent over fifteen years diligently studying the Nazi's methods of annihilating Jews in Austria and Hungary. In the course of his research he discovers, almost by chance, classified documents which hint to the fact that his mother is living under an assumed identity. The further he plunges into his research the more he doubts his mother's Jewish identity. A mystery about a man who is willing to risk everything to discover the truth.

Equilibrium
L'Equilibrio

Directed by Vincenzo Marra
Cast: Mimmo Borrelli, Astrid Meloni, Paolo Sassanelli
Produced by: CinemaUndici and Lama Film
Italy  2017 | 83 min. | Language: Italian | Drama
 

Giuseppe, a forty-year-old priest from Campania, is back from serving time as a missionary in Africa. He asks the bishop to be sent to a small town near Naples to replace Don Antonio, who has been called to Rome on his own merits. Don Antonio has been fighting a battle against pollution of the town, due to the illegal dumping of industrial waste in the infamous “Terra dei fuochi” (Land of fires), where the local Mafia dumps and burns waste in the open countryside. Giuseppe will step in his shoes, proving himself a worthy successor to Don Antonio. But trying to help the small community, and fighting against all kind of injustice is a difficult and at times hopeless task.