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Exclusive: Curzon has acquired Damiano Michieletto’s Primaverafor UK-Ireland release ahead of its world premiere as part of Toronto’s Special Presentations strand.

The film, sold by France’s Paradise City Films, is the directorial debut of acclaimed Italian opera director Michieletto and stars Tecla Insolia, Michele Riondino, Andrea Pennacchi, Fabrizia Sacchi, Valentina Bellè and Stefano Accorsi.

It unfurls in early 18th-century Venice. The Pietà orphanage is renowned for its exceptional music programme, and home to Cecilia, an 18-year-old violin virtuoso. Despite her extraordinary talent, Cecilia remains confined within the orphanage, with marriage looking like her only escape. Her life...

In the aftermath of Europe’s 2008 economic collapse, director Francesco Sossai paints a landscape of fading prosperity and stubborn hope. Against the sun-bleached fields and silent villas of Veneto, we meet Carlobianchi and Doriano, two fifty-somethings for whom every drink is “the last one”—until the next. Their goal is simple: unearth a buried stash of cash, celebrate with one final round, and perhaps reclaim a shred of bygone grandeur.

Into this twilight world stumbles Giulio, a reticent architecture student whose shyness mirrors Italy’s own tension between tradition and reinvention. As the trio barrel through bars, brothels and dusty backroads, the film’s humor and elegiac moods swirl together like prosecco and bitters. Debuting in Cannes’s Un Certain Regard, The Last One for the Road signals Sossai’s ambition to fuse road-movie tropes with a distinctly Italian sensibility—one that resonates far beyond national borders.

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Cattleya, the Italian company behind hit series “Gomorrah” and Amazon’s upcoming “ZeroZeroZero,” is making its first foray into the detective genre with “Petra,” featuring a hard-boiled female inspector played by actress Paola Cortellesi.

The four-part Italian-language series is being produced as an original for Sky Italia.

Production has kicked off in Genoa with Italy’s Maria Sole Tognazzi (“A Five Star Life”) directing the adaptation of prominent Spanish writer Alicia Giménez-Bartlett’s book “Death Rites,” a bestseller in Italy and Spain which has also been published in the U.S.

Cattleya and Sky’s TV adaptation of “Petra” transposes the setting to Italy. It sees titular character Petra Delicado, a twice-divorced sleuth chained to a tiresome desk job among sexist colleagues, suddenly thrust onto the front line to solve violent crimes with newly assigned partner Antonio Monte, an old-school cop close to retirement. Her sidekick is played by Andrea Pennacchi,...

Escort In Love and Do You See Me? star Paola Cortellesi is to front Sky’s latest Italian original Petra, based on Alicia Giménez-Bartlett’s novels.

The European pay giant has commissioned the series from ITV-owned Gomorrah producer Cattleya and it will be directed by Maria Sole Tognazzi.

The series, which is produced in association with Bartlebyfilm, has started shooting in Genoa, Italy. It features four episodes about the famous woman detective.

Petra, played by Cortellesi, is a twice-divorced detective working a desk job for Genoa’s prestigious criminal investigatory squad when she is suddenly thrust into the frontlines, charged with solving violent crimes and murders. Her newly assigned partner is Antonio Monte – an old-fashioned policeman close to retirement, with years of experience, wisdom and insight. Monte, will be played by Andrea Pennacchi.

Cortellesi said, “Petra is a highly skilled yet imperfect woman, who has the courage to free herself from female clichés,...