Two Italian films in competition for the Palme d'Or, a world premiere in Cannes Premiere: this is currently the Italian participation in the Cannes Film Festival (May 17-28) announced in Paris by the delegate Thierry Fremaux with the outgoing president Pierre Lescure.
The selection is not complete, as well as the jury which has not been announced at all and therefore the Italian team could expand.
In competition there are: Nostalgia by Mario Martone based on the novel of the same name by Ermanno Rea, shot in the Sanità district with Pierfrancesco Favino and Francesco Di Leva and Les Amandiers by Valeria Bruni Tedeschi about his 80s in Paris at the theater school of Patrick Chereau , this second film is a majority co-production of France (in addition to Barbagallo's Bibi and Fremaux at the conference, he defined it as a French film.
Marco Bellocchio's TV series on the Moro kidnapping will instead be presented in the non-competitive Premiere section.
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