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1 In Cannes please contact: Paola Corvino - CEO mobile: paola.corvino@intramovies.com Jef Nuyts - Director Int'l Sales mobile: jef.nuyts@intramovies.com Federica Mei - Int'l Sales Manager mobile: federica.mei@intramovies.com Marco Valerio Fusco - Int'l Sales Executive mobile: marco.fusco@intramovies.com Riviera G20 Market Premiere Original title: Posti in piedi in paradiso English title: A flat for three Directed by: Carlo Verdone Cast: Pierfrancesco Favino, Carlo Verdone, Marco Giallini, Micaela Ramazzotti Produced by: Aurelio De Laurentiis and Luigi De Laurentiis for Filmauro Genre: Comedy Length: 119' Divorce has plunged Domenico, Ulisse and Fulvio into serious economic problems. The three men meet for the first time when - looking for a place to stay - they converge on a flat that none of them can afford on a single budget. The instant proposal of sharing space and expenses brings them together under the same roof. But under the same roof land also every possible problem each of them has with ex wives, young or grown-up children and capricious new partners.

2 Instead of solving the housing aspect, they end up by multiplying by three all of their contentious interactions involving alimony, child support and relationships with old and new companions. This tragicomic and unusual 'menage à trois' will have a disastrous if amusing outcome. Screenings: May 18th - 11:45 - Riviera 3 May 20th - 17:30 - Riviera 4 World premiere Original title: Breve storia di lunghi tradimenti English title: The lithium conspiracy Directed by: Davide Marengo Cast: Guido Caprino, Carolina Crescentini, Maya Sansa, Flora Martinez, Philippe Leroy, Salvo Basile Production Companies: Emme, Rai Cinema supported by MIBAC, Film Commission Torino-Piemonte and Regione Lazio Produced by: Sandro Silvestri, Maura Vespini Genre(s): Thriller, Drama Length: 104' Nowadays you don't conquer a country.you buy it. Giulio, torn between a wife who's labeled him a workaholic and a job that seems to have no future after a banking merge, is being practically pushed on a plane to a place called Queimada in South America. He's given no information on what he should be doing with the criptic statement "the less you know, the better..." Screenings: Saturday May 19th - 21:30 - Star 4 Monday May 21st - 15:30 - Arcades 3

3 Market premiere Original title: Com è bello far l amore English title: Love is in the air Directed by: Fausto Brizzi Cast: Fabio De Luigi, Claudia Gerini, Filippo Timi Production companies: Wildside in collaboration with Medusa Film Produced by: Mario Gianani, Lorenzo Mieli Genre(s): Comedy Length: 97' How long can a marriage hold in absence of a satisfying sex component? Andrea and Giulia - an outward successful couple with a teenage son - are in fact on the brink of a crisis when Giulia s childhood friend Max steps into their lives like a tornado. Now a successful porno star, Max will offer advice based on his own erotic experience, sparkling up the entire household out of its lethargic humdrum routine. The First Comedy in 3D Screening: Friday May 18th - 20:30 - Arcades 3 Original title: La leggenda di Kaspar Hauser English title: The legend of Kaspar Hauser Directed by: Davide Manuli Cast: Vincent Gallo (in a double role), Claudia Gerini, Elisa Sednaoui, Silvia Calderoni, Fabrizio Gifuni Production companies: Blue Film and Shooting Hope Productions with the contribution of MiBAC and Regione Autonoma della Sardegna In association with: FourLab, Produzione Straordinaria Produced by: Bruno Tribbioli, Alessandro Bonifazi and Davide Manuli Length: 95'

4 Music by: VITALIC Reaching a deserted Mediterranean beach, in an uncertain time and place, Kaspar Hauser must measure himself against the evil of a Grand Duchess who feels her power over the community is threatened. To get free of the blond intruder, she seeks help from Pusher, a criminal with whom she has a relationship, and who knows how to free her of the enemy. Too bad he hasn t taken into account the Sheriff, a deejay who considers Kaspar to be the new Messiah. International Film Festival Rotterdam Istanbul International Independent Film Festival CPH PIX Copenhagen International Film Festival Screening: Sunday May 20th - 20:30 - Arcades 3 Original title: I primi della lista English title: The first on the list Directed by: Roan Johnson Cast: Claudio Santamaria, Francesco Turbanti, Paolo Cioni Production companies: Palomar, Urania Pictures with Rai Cinema with the support of MiBAC Direzione Generale Cinema In association with: FIP Film Investimenti Piemonte with the support of Film Commission Torino Piemonte In coproduction with: Rectangle Productions Produced by: Carlo degli Esposti, Nora Barbieri, Conchita Airoldi, Patrizia Massa Genre(s): Dramatic Comedy Length: 85' If anything happens we ll be the first to go It s the seventies. Italy is rolled by terrorism and among the students grows the idea that a military coup may be imminent. It all starts innocently when Renzo and Fabio go to Pino s house for an audition. Pino is a sort of a transgressive ballad composer. His songs are all politics and rebellion to the establishment, and Renzo and Fabio dream of being accepted into the band. A muffled phone call and a swirling paranoia descends on the trio. Pino persuades the two would- be musicians that they have to escape dragging them along in the only means of transport at hand: Renzo s father s old FIAT. But where to? They don t really know. Finally the three feckless lefties decide to fly across the Austrian border escaping from a danger that - in fact - resides only in their imagination. Any little detail on the road, (a policeman having a coffee in a bar, a couple of militaries waiting at the train cross), is interpreted by the trio as a signal of the impending government power change. Rome International Film Festival Made in Italy - London Izmir International Film Festival Screening: Saturday May 19th - 14:00 - Riviera 3

5 Original title: Il comandante e la cicogna English title: The commander and the stork Directed by: Silvio Soldini Cast: Valerio Mastandrea, Alba Rohrwacher, Giuseppe Battiston, Claudia Gerini, Luca Zingaretti Production companies: Lumière & Co., Ventura Film with the support of MiBAC Direzione Generale Cinema, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera italiana, with the support of Film Commission Torino Piemonte and Valle d'aosta Produced by: Lionello Cerri, Andres Pfaeffli, Elda Guidinetti Genre(s): Comedy Leo is a widowed working-class father who struggles to raise his two motherless children: Elia (who is skipping school absorbed in secretly raising a stork), and his teenager sister who, unbeknownst to herself, has been tagged as a porn star in the internet. To help his daughter out of her unpleasant plight, Leo ends up in the office of a shady lawyer, where he meets Diana a budding artist that s decorating the place. The coming and goings of Leo, his children, Diana and a fresco of friends and passers- by, are followed with a critical and highbrowed eye by the statues in the square, in a dreamy atmosphere of a misty Turin. Soldini at his best, back to the sophisticated comedies that made history (Bread and Tulips, Agata and the Wind). Original title: L'isola dell'angelo caduto English title: The island of the fallen angel Directed by: Carlo Lucarelli Cast: Giampaolo Morelli, Gaetano Bruno, Rolando Ravello, Giuseppe Cederna Production companies: Kaos Cinematografica, Stemal Entertainment with the support of MiBAC Direzione Generale Cinema Genre(s): Thriller 1925, in an unnamed island - prison to human outcasts - a young policeman tries to find a clue to a series of unexplained brutal homicides.

6 Original title: Sette Opere di Misericordia English title: Seven acts of mercy Directed by: Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio Cast: Roberto Herlitzka, Olimpia Melinte, Ignazio Oliva, Stefano Cassetti, Cosmin Corniciuc Producers: La Sarraz Pictures, Elefant Films with the support of THE MINISTRY FOR CULTURAL AFFAIRS In collaboration with Rai Cinema In association with FIP (Film Investimenti Piemonte) With the support of Film Commission Torino Piemonte With the support of Eurimages Genre: Drama Length: 103' Luminita, a young illegal immigrant living on the edge of a shanty town, has hatched a plan to get herself out of her predicament. To carry it through she bumps into Antonio, a sick and mysterious old man. The clash between the two of them is unavoidable and harsh, and leads to unforeseeable consequences Locarno Film Festival International competition - Junior Jury Award and Don Quijote Prize of the FICC / IFFS Annecy Cinéma Italien - Grand Prix Rencontres du CinémaItalien à Grenoble - Grand Prix Prix du Jury Jeune Marrakech International Film Festival - Jury Prize for best director Festival du Film Italien de VILLERUPT - Prize of the Jury Warsaw Film Festival Busan international Film Festival BFI London Film Festival 2011 Rio de Janeiro Film Festival Istanbul International Independent Film Festival CPH PIX Copenhagen International Film Festival

7 Original Title: Ayadin Khachina English title: Rough Hands Directed by: Mohamed Asli Cast: Mohamed Bastaoui, Houda Rihani, Abdessamad Miftahakhair, Amina Rachid Producer: Dagham Film Produced by: Mohamed Asli Genre: Drama Length: 97' Mustapha is a fortyyear-old barber in Casablanca. His clients are retired high-ranking government officials and power brokers in Morocco. On the side, Mustapha has an underground business "facilitating" paperwork, using his privileged access to these retired bigwigs to grease the wheels of bureaucracy. While his operation thrives, Mustapha keeps a shameful secret: he is illiterate, and has hired Said to assist him with managing appointments and tracking transactions. Zakia, Mustapha's next door neighbour, is a thirty-year-old schoolteacher whose fiancé, Driss, has immigrated to Spain. Zakia longs to join Driss, but a visa seems impossible to secure. She learns that strawberry-picking season in Spain is imminent and a company is hiring Moroccan women to do the harvesting, granting them temporary work visas. The women have to be married with children and, most importantly, they must have rough hands. She asks Mustapha to forge her papers and gets her mother to concoct a special cream that will make her hands coarse. The papers are processed, but Zakia's hands fail the test.rough Hands, Mohamed Asli's follow-up to his critically acclaimed debut in Casablanca Angels Don't Fly, is a bold indictment of the kind of society produced by a corrupt police state, and a sharp study of how abuse can pervade both a system and everyday life. Asli's protagonists are neither thugs with a heart nor innocent victims; they are at once guilty and compelling, poor folk who bend the system in the pursuit of mundane aspirations, such as the simple need to secure a living. Toronto Film Festival Abu Dhabi Film Festival Goteborg International Film Festival Cleveland International Film Festival Original Title: Maternity Blues English title: Maternity Blues Directed by: Fabrizio Cattani Cast: Andrea Osvárt, Monica Barladeanu, Daniele Pecci, Eldie Treccani, Chiara Martegiani, Marina Pennafina Producers: Ipotesi Cinema, Faso Film, The Coproducers

8 Genre: Drama Country: Italy Length: 93' Four different women, linked by a common crime: infanticide. Inside a prison psychiatric hospital, they spend their time serving their sentence which is mainly internal: that feeling of guilt for an action that has wiped out their lives. From this forced cohabitation, which in turns generates suffering from seeing one's guilt reflected in others, friendships are born, fragmented confessions emerge and some form of partial comfort arises, which never fully consoles but which makes these women look like guilty innocents. Clara, torn by accepting the forgiveness of her husband, who has rebuilt his life in Tuscany, bears the effects of a seemingly normal existence. The passionate and straight talking Eloisa keeps having confrontations with the others but her cynicism is only skin deep. Rina, a teenage mother, drowned her baby girl in the bath in some sort of euthanasia. Vincenza, despite her religious faith, will be the only one to commit a final act against herself. She has two other children, on the outside, and for them she fills pages of letters which will never be sent. Venice Film Festival Annecy Cinema Italien Festival du Film Italien de Villerupt INTRAMOVIES OFFICE: Via E. Manfredi 15, Rome Italy - T: F: