Italian pubcaster’s distributor Rai Com unveils the new titles that are being presented during the 2021 edition of MIPCOM in Cannes, including touching real stories, real life fairy tales, medical dramas with unconventional twists, new seasons of popular TV shows, innovative films and documentaries.
Sisters Forever is a TV movie based on a true story set at early of the 2000s, the first day of school for two five-year-old girls Marinella and Costanza. After school, the teacher accompanies Costanza to her «wrong» mother, deceived by her resemblance to her other two daughters. The error is immediately repaired, but the course of truth from that moment on will be unstoppable. The movie, which premiered on September 16th on Rai 1, was at the top of primetime ratings with 24.42% of share.
Also, the worldwide acclaimed ballerina Carla Fracci, who recently deceased at age 84, the biopic TV movie Carla. Freely inspired by her own autobiographic book “Step after step”, this intimate portrait unfolds the personality of a talented woman who through talent, obstinance and hard work became the most famous ballerina in the world. The role of the ballerina is played by Alessandra Mastronardi, who gained international fame in the past years featuring in Woody Allen’s To Rome with Love, playing Aziz Ansari’s on-screen love interest in Netflix Original’s Master of None, and in the historical drama Medici.
Medical Drama genre catalog, Rai presentsHearts. The show, set in the mid XXth century, mixes the medical environment with the classic costume drama setting and some shades of old-time romance. The series is set in Turin in 1967, where Cesare, Head of the Surgery Department at the “Le Molinette” hospital, has the dream to perform the first heart transplant in history.
Until the last heartbeat is a medical drama with shades of crime, brought to the screen by one of the few female directors leading the TV scene in Italy – Cinzia TH Torrini. Diego is a heart surgeon who is struggling with his son’s heart disease. To be able to save his son’s life he becomes the personal doctor of a Mafia Boss. The series tells in an original way the desperate and thrilling battle of a man who is struggling between good and evil to save his family.
Also, successful period romance The Ladies’ Paradise is coming back with a new season of daily episodes. The series follows a revolutionary store in Milan, where beauty and luxury are within everyone’s grasp. Thanks to the intuition of Pietro Mori, the store grows during the economic boom of the ‘50s. Teresa, a store assistant, has the courage to speak up and change her destiny. Day after day, she faces and is challenged by her environment which to her seems both fascinating and hostile.
Forty-five-year-old ImmaTataranni is not just a strong, impulsive and unconventional woman. She is also the Deputy Attorney in the charming and remote city of Matera, in Southern Italy. In the male-dominated environment of the Prosecutor’s Office it’s quite impossible not to notice her. With her intelligence, stubbornness and talent she investigates a series of crimes in this two seasons TV show.
After the success of They Call Me Jeeg (2015), Gabriele Mainetti comes back to the big screen with another innovative movie, Freaks Out, presented In Competition at the 78th Venice Film Festival. Set in bombarded Rome in 1943, the movie tells the story of Matilde, Cencio, Fulvio, and Mario, who live like siblings in a circus managed by Israel, their boss, but most of all a father figure to them.
Closing movie of the 78th edition of the Venice Film Festival, The Hidden Child is the story of Ciro, a young boy, who finds shelter in the apartment of an elderly man, Gabriele, a quiet and educated piano teacher. The local criminal organization is targeting Ciro because he is responsible for pickpocketing the main criminal boss’ mother.
And presented in Competition at the 74 Locarno Film Festival,Yaya & Lennie The Walking Liberty is an animated tale set in a post-apocalyptic world with a stunningly unique visual style. The protagonists of the story, Yaya and Lennie, the free spirits of the jungle, are striving to find their place in the world. Yaya is an intelligent 15-year-old girl of mixed ethnicity with an uncouth character who takes care of Lennie, a big and tall man in his twenties with a mental disability. While International acclaimed actress Valeria Golino is the protagonist of Blue Eyes, a thriller movie shot in a nocturnal and evocative Rome. She’s an ordinary woman and a mysterious robber beyond suspicion. A police officer who is on her trail asks for the help of a Parisian friend known as “The Frenchman”, notorious for having solved apparently impossible cases. The chase becomes a challenging game with unforeseeable consequences.
