Rome-based True Colours is bringing five new features to Cannes, including films by Italian directors Paolo Civati and Levi Riso.
Civati has completed documentary Masters, centring on nine top directors who reveal insights about themselves and their journeys through life and cinema, including Jane Campion, Tim Burton, Martin Scorsese and Damien Chazelle. The feature doc has a market screening at Cannes.
Riso is in post on period drama Audrey La Mer, set in occupied Rome where two survivors - a young man who feels trapped in a male body and a young Jewish boy who miraculously escaped the raid of the Ghetto - hide together and dream of liberation. Audrey La Mer stars newcomer Dario Guidi and Sara Serraiocco (Vermiglio), and is produced by Indiana Production, Tramp Limited, and Maze Pictures. Riso’s drag queen drama Darker Than Midnight sold widely after its Cannes Critics Week premiere in 2014, and was followed by 2017 Venice competition title A Family.
Also on True Colours’ slate is Armony, the latest from Dario Albertini (Manuel, Anima Bella), produced by The Apartment and HBO Max in Italy, starring There’s Still Tomorrow’s Valerio Mastandrea and Asia Argento. Mastandrea plays Armony, a solitary man forced to take care of his six-year-old niece, Carlotta, when her mother disappears. Alongside his transgender friend and his young pregnant neighbour, they must build a new family from scratch. Billed as a feel-good dramedy, Armony is in post.
True Colours’ slate also includes two debut features in post. Deep Blue, directed by Ernesto Maria Censori and produced by Alcor, stars Andrea Arcangeli and Filippo Timi, and explores themes of toxic masculinity and the legacy of violence in the underworld.
The Craft, directed by Beppe Tufarulo and produced by Mad Entertainment, stars Luigi Lo Cascio as a man with the special talent of “fixing” the dead to scam social security in the deep south of Italy, who defends a young kid bullied by the son of a notorious boss and has to fight for his life.
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