Alice Rohrwacher’s Corpo Celeste has won the Citta di Roma award for emerging cinema from Latin countries at Cannes.
The film is an Italy-France-Switzerland co-production sold by Rai Trade.
The story follows a working class teenage girl growing up in Southern Italy, preparing for her Catholic confirmation.
The award was created by Gillo Pontecorvo to support distribution.
Projects from countries including the UK, France, Italy and Spain are among the 16-strong line-up.
Ian de la Rosa’s accomplished film premiered in Berlin’s Panorama, where it won the Teddy award for Best Feature
Best director winner will become the first South Korean to preside over Cannes jury.
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment in association with Bulgari will premiere a restored version of the larger-than-life production in the Cannes Classics programme on May 21.
EXCLUSIVE: Cannes Un Certain Regard selection sold by The Match Factory.
World premiere of the first 8K narrative film, the comedic short film Beauties À La Carte [pictured], to be screened by Japanese public broadcaster NHK.
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