EXCLUSIVE: Italy’s Minerva Pictures has struck a number of deals on its Cannes slate, including pre-sale on World War 2 drama Elena’s War.
Directed by Stefano Casertano, Elena’s War has pre-sold to Moving Story for Australia and New Zealand. Based on a true story, it is set in Rome during the Nazi occupation and is the story of an unconventional woman who unsuccessfully tried to warn that the Nazis would sweep the city’s ghetto of Jews.
Meanwhile, Minerva has sold Stefano Sardo’s erotic thriller Close To Me to Aya Pro for Japan, Doki Entertainment for South Korea and Encripta for Latin America. Close To Me is the second film by Stefano Sardo and centres on betrayal as a mysterious woman enters a couple’s lives, played by Riccardo Scamarcio and Mariela Garriga.
Family drama Forever With You, about a boy searching for his missing dog, directed by Fabrizio Cattani, has pre-sold sold to Pioner Film Distribution for CIS & Baltics.
Minerva has also sold Alessandro Tonda’s Iraq war drama The Negotiator, based on true events, to Vapet for Czech Republic and Slovakia and to Encripta for Latin America.
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