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The 69th BFI London Film Festival has added four additional titles to its program, including U.K. premieres of Paolo Sorrentino’s “La Grazia,” Claire Denis’ “The Fence” and Gastón Solnicki’s “The Souffleur,” plus the world premiere of Samuel Abrahams’ “Lady.”

“Lady” marks the directorial debut of Samuel Abrahams, featuring Sian Clifford from “Fleabag” in what festival programmers describe as a “larger-than-life performance” as a narcissistic aristocrat who hires a struggling filmmaker to document her every move for an eccentric mockumentary.

Lady Isabella longs for the spotlight and sees local talent show “Stately Stars” as her long-desired break. Despite reveling in the camera’s presence on her grand estate, pressures mount and things take a surreal turn when she begins losing her sense of self. The U.K. production also stars Laurie Kynaston and Juliet Cowan.

“Lady” will have its world premiere as part of the Dare strand. MetFilm Studio is behind the production.

The London Film Festival has added a number of titles to this year’s line-up, including Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grazia.

La Grazia will arrive in London following a debut bow in Venice. The film follows Mariano De Santis, a fictional President of the Italian Republic. A widower and a Catholic, he has a daughter, Dorotea, a legal scholar like himself. As his term draws to a close, amid uneventful days, two final duties arise: deciding on two delicate petitions for a presidential pardon. True moral dilemmas, which become tangled in ways that seem impossible to unravel, with his private life. Driven by doubt, he will have to decide. And, with a deep sense of responsibility, that is exactly what this remarkable Italian President will do.

The pic stars Toni Servillo and Anna Ferzetti. The movie is produced by Fremantle’s The Apartment in association with Numero 10 and PiperFilm.

Movies starring Willem Dafoe, Matt Dillon, and Mia McKenna-Bruce have joined the lineup of the 69th edition of the BFI London Film Festival.

Organizers said Thursday that they have added the world premiere of Samuel Abrahams’ Lady, the U.K. premiere of Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grazia, the U.K. premiere of Claire Denis’ The Fence and the U.K. premiere of Gastón Solnicki’s The Souffleur to the 2025 program.

The 2025 BFI London Film Festival runs Oct. 8-19 in partnership with American Express. Below is a closer look at the latest additions to the festival’s lineup.

La Grazia

Director-screenwriter Paolo Sorrentino. With Toni Servillo, Anna Ferzetti, Orlando Cinque, Massimo Venturiello, Milvia Marigliano. Italy 2025. 131 min. Courtesy of Mubi. Language Italian. With English subtitles.

Oscar-winning director Paolo Sorrentino is reunited with The Great Beauty actor Toni Servillo, who plays a fictional president reaching the end of their final term in office.

Fresh from its Venice world premiere and Telluride screening, Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grazia will open via Mubi in the US and Canada on December 5.

Mubi said it will announce theatrical dates for remaining territories “at a later time”.

Sorrentino regular Toni Servillo stars as Mariano De Santis, the fictitious president of the Italian Republic wrestling with two delicate petitions for presidential pardon as his term nears the end. Anna Ferzetti also stars.

La Grazia: review

La Grazia is produced by Fremantle’s The Apartment in association with Numero 10 and PiperFilm. Producers are Annamaria Morelli and Sorrentino, alongside Andrea Scrosati for Fremantle,...

Mubi has set a Dec. 5 U.S. and Canada theatrical release for Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grazia. The news comes in the wake of the pic receiving a 6 1/2 minute standing ovation on the first night of the Venice Film Festival.

In the movie, Mariano De Santis is the President of the Italian Republic. No connection to any real-life presidents; he is entirely a product of the author’s imagination. A widower and a Catholic, he has a daughter, Dorotea, a legal scholar like himself. As his term draws to a close, amid uneventful days, two final duties arise: deciding on two delicate petitions for a presidential pardon. True moral dilemmas, which become tangled, in ways that seem impossible to unravel, with his private life. Driven by doubt, he will have to decide. And, with a deep sense of responsibility, that is exactly what this remarkable Italian President will do. The...

American and Canadian cinephiles can thank Mubi for brining “La Grazia” across the pond after its premiere at the Venice Film Festival last week. Paolo Sorrentino’s latest movie is set to hit theaters on Dec. 5.

The film stars Toni Servillo opposite Anna Ferzetti as a fictional Italian president who spends the waning months of his term contemplating life, his late wife and the ethics of euthanasia.

“Mariano De Santis is the President of the Italian Republic. No connection to any real-life presidents; he is entirely a product of the author’s imagination. A widower and a Catholic, he has a daughter, Dorotea, a legal scholar like himself. As his term draws to a close,...

In the final season of his power, President Mariano De Santis is less a man than a principle solidified. He haunts the vast, echoing halls of the Quirinale Palace, a figure of stoic integrity nicknamed “Reinforced Concrete” by those who observe his measured existence. A former judge, he has built a life upon the foundations of law and reason.

Now, in the twilight of his term, the architecture of that life shows its cracks. Before him lie dossiers demanding a verdict: a bill on euthanasia that questions the very definition of mercy, and two pardon requests for acts of love and desperation. Yet these public duties are but shadows of a deeper,...

Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino returned to the Venice Film Festival on Wednesday evening, opening the 82nd edition with his latest feature La Grazia. The in-competition drama about the final days of a fictional Italian presidency was greeted with an ovation that lasted 6 minutes and 20 seconds.

La Grazia stars Toni Servillo and Anna Ferzetti. Sorrentino directed the film from his own screenplay in his first film on the Lido since his 2021 Grand Jury Prize winner The Hand of God.

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After tonight’s screening, which had been preceded by a ceremony honoring Werrner Herzog with a Lifetime Achievement Golden Lion, the applause started as soon as the credits began, and paused briefly for a mid-credit scene. After the scene, the crowd, which included attendees Tilda Swinton and Cate Blanchett, was more enthusiastic.

Paolo Sorrentino’s ‘La Grazia’ receives a 6 1/2-minute...

Among historic piazzas and winding canals, the 82nd Venice Film Festival kicks off tonight on the Lido di Venezia with the Opening Ceremony and the world premiere of Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grazia.

The film’s red carpet event was a star-studded affair, with attendees including the film’s stars Anna Ferzetti and Toni Servillo, director Paolo Sorrentino, and guests such as Francis Ford Coppola, Cate Blanchett, and Tilda Swinton.

Plot details for the film are being kept under wraps, but it has been described as a love story set in Italy. The film stars Sorrentino’s frequent collaborator Toni Servillo, and the cast also includes Anna Ferzetti and Massimo Venturiello. La Grazia marks Sorrentino’s return to the Venice Film Festival after his film, The Hand of God, won the Grand Jury Prize in 2021.

This year, the festival will bestow its prestigious Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement upon two...

Paolo Sorrentino’s latest feature, La Grazia, is opening the Venice Film Festival this evening.

Toni Servillo and Anna Ferzetti star in the drama about an Italian president in the final six months of his last term who faces some deep moral decisions including two potential pardons and the question of signing a bill legalizing euthanasia.

La Grazia, written and directed by Sorrentino, reteams him with longtime muse Servillo, who also starred in the filmmaker’s Oscar winner The Great Beauty.

So far, there’s largely high praise for La Grazia, which is running in competition. Here are some early reactions:

In his review, Deadline’s Pete Hammond wrote, “Clearly the current political winds in both Italy and America have got this masterful filmmaker again thinking about the government and what it means to be a moral leader.”

Praising star Servillo, Hammond pointed out that the actor never has been nominated for an Oscar,...

Paolo Sorrentino is, and I apologize if I’m blowing your mind right now, Italian. Like, very Italian. My last name is “Bibbiani” and I will never be one-tenth as Italian as Paolo Sorrentino. His films are often love letters to his country, and “La grazia” is no exception. It literally begins with three jets soaring across the sky, spraying the Italian flag like a canopy over the world in vast plumes of green, white and red. If any American director did this we’d all roll our eyes — but to be fair, the jets would also transform into $100 million action figures, so it would probably strike a different tone.

The first thing to be said about Paolo Sorrentino’s captivating portrait of an esteemed political leader in the waning days of his term is that Toni Servillo really is some kind of marvel. The great theater actor who transitioned into film with instant command has been a talismanic presence in the director’s work since his 2001 debut. Sorrentino hands him a jewel of a role in Mariano De Santis, a fictional president of the Italian Republic who describes himself as “a gray, boring man, a man of the law,” instead revealed to be a wellspring of deep feeling, humanity and — to his own surprise — doubt.

Sorrentino depicted disgraced real-life Italian politician Giulio Andreotti, again played by Servillo, in 2009’s Il Divo. The right-leaning seven-time prime minister allegedly linked to countless political assassinations, faked suicides and kickbacks that fed his Christian Democratic party’s decades-long stranglehold on government received operatic treatment,...

The movies of Paolo Sorrentino, like “The Great Beauty” and “The Hand of God,” have always been bursting with color and movement and emotional energy, with torn-up romantic and family passion, all rooted in a baroque flamboyance that can be compelling but also messy and overstated — which is why I blow hot and cold on him, and am usually in the middle. The most recent Sorrentino film, “Parthenope,” was, I thought, a disaster of florid loose ends that never came together.

But in “La Grazia,” the new Sorrentino movie that opened the Venice Film Festival tonight, this director who has long suggested (at least to me) a kind of made-for-tv version of Fellini in the ’70s pulls himself together in a surprising and ironically fastidious way.

The film’s central character is the president of Italy, Mariano De Santis — a fictional character played, in a performance of meticulous and weirdly domineering passivity,...

To appreciate the power and hope of Paolo Sorrentino’s latest film La Grazia, which opened the 2025 Venice Film Festival in competition, it is important to have some context of some of the past collaborations of the Oscar-winning director and his frequent star Toni Servillo.

In 2008, both gained international fame with Il Divo, in which Servillo gave an award-winning performance as Giulio Andreotti, the seven-time Italian Prime Minister and leader of the Christian-Democratic Party. This was a ruthless power player who dominated Italy’s political scene with an iron fist for the second half of the 20th century. Ten years later Sorrentino would cast Servillo in the flamboyant Loro as the Machiavellian Italian President Silvio Berlusconi, a businessman to whom corruption was not a stranger (sound like anyone we know?). In between, they made the wondrous The Great Beauty, which took the Foreign Language Film Oscar. More recently, Sorrentino has...

“Bureaucracy is meant to be slow,” the President of Italy (Tony Servillo) explains to a member of his inner circle. “That’s the point: to give people time to reflect.” But how much time is too much, and what good is reflection for a lame duck politician with six months left in his final term and a seemingly clinical inability to make any difficult choices before he leaves office?

So far as we can tell at the start of Paolo Sorrentino’s uncharacteristically sedate and sexless “La Grazia,” which feels like forced Catholic penance for the Neapolitan flesh parade of last year’s poorly received “Parthenope,” reflection is just about the only thing the unnamed President has done for most of the last seven years. A widowed jurist whose even-keeled — or completely dormant — personality convinced the people of Italy that he was the right man to rescue them from an economic crisis of some kind,...

Paolo Sorrentino shared a brief tribute to the veteran Italian actor and producer Claudio Vecchio, who died earlier this month in Rome, during this afternoon’s presser for his Venice competition title La Grazia.

Vecchio starred in Sorrentino’s 2013 feature The Great Beauty and has a brief role in La Grazia.

“Claudio was a friend of many of us. He was one of the most intelligent people I’ve ever met, in addition to being a dear friend,” Sorrentino said of Vecchio.

“He had a small role in La Grande Bellezza (The Great Beauty) that made me very proud, because he was one of the best Italian actors. But he always turned down a lot of parts. Other people wanted him to be an actor, but he turned down all those roles. He was a producer.”

Sorrentino added: “He was the most difficult actor to conquer in the history of...

Academy Award-winning director Paolo Sorrentino (“The Great Beauty”) is readying the world premiere of his latest film, “La Grazia,” which will compete for the Golden Lion at this month’s Venice Film Festival.

But as for future plans, the Italian auteur was non-committal during a masterclass Sunday at the Sarajevo Film Festival — although he braced the audience to expect the worst.

“I don’t like to have objectives. I don’t love the idea that I have to do new things,” the director said. “I stay at home without doing anything, and then suddenly something comes up in my mind that becomes an obsession, and I say, ‘Ok, let’s do a movie about this obsession.’”

About where those obsessions might lead next, Sorrentino stayed mum. But his advice to moviegoers was simple: Don’t get your hopes up.

“Probably I am going to do worse, like many directors,” he said,...

Alberto Barbera presided over a lengthy press conference Tuesday morning, when he announced the stacked lineup for this year’s Venice Film Festival, which runs August 27-September 6.

The lineup is expansive, with big names and arthouse darlings sprinkled across the festival’s strands, even including the shorts program.

High-profile titles include Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt, starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg and Chloë Sevigny. Roberts leads the cast as a college professor who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star student (Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Garfield), and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come into the light. The film will screen Out of Competition on Guadagnino and Amazon MGM Studios’ request, Barbera explained during the presser.

Elsewhere, in Competition we have Jay Kelly, the latest film Noah Baumbach has made for Netflix. The...

Oscar season starts here.

With its 2025 line-up, announced Tuesday, the Venice Film Festival has (again) taken the award season pole position, with a program packed with a frankly absurd number of must-see movies.

Among the hot awards titles heading to the Lido are Benny Safdie’s The Smashing Machine, from A24, featuring Dwayne Johnson as two‑time UFC heavyweight champion Mark Kerr and Emily Blunt as his wife Dawn; Luca Guadagnino’s #MeToo–inspired thriller After the Hunt, for Amazon MGM Studios, starring Julia Roberts, Andrew Garfield and Ayo Edebiri, will premiere out of competition; and Guillermo del Toro’s dark reimagining of Frankenstein, featuring Jacob Elordi, Oscar Isaac and Mia Goth, a Netflix production.

This will mark the Venice festival debut for both Roberts and Johnson.

Netflix, which sat out Vence last year, is back in force for 2025. Alongside Frankenstein, the streamer has Noah Baumbach’s comedy‑drama Jay Kelly,...

Iranian filmmaker Mohammad Rasoulof and Brazilian actress Fernanda Torres are among the competition jurors for the 82nd Venice International Film Festival (August 27-September 6).

Also alongside previously announced jury chair Alexander Payne are filmmakers Stephane Brize from France, Maura Delpero from Italy and Cristian Mungiu from Romania, as well as Chinese actress Zhao Tao.

The seven-strong jury will award prizes including the Golden Lion for best film; the Silver Lion grand jury prize; and awards for best director, actress, actor and screenplay.

French filmmaker Julia Ducournau will chair the Horizons jury, alongside Italian filmmaker Yuri Ancarani, Australian director Shannon Murphy, US...

One of the first major dominoes of the autumn festival season has fallen, as the Venice International Film Festival has announced Paolo Sorrentino’s new film “La Grazia” as its opening night selection.

Plot details have been kept under wraps, but the film stars Toni Servillo and Anna Ferzetti and is written and directed by Sorrentino.

Sorrentino has been a Venice regular for years, debuting projects like the 2021 film “The Hand of God” and TV shows “The Young Pope” and “The New Pope” at the festival. He won the festival’s grand jury prize for “The Hand of God.”

“I am very happy that the 82nd Venice International Film Festival will open with the new and highly anticipated film by Paolo Sorrentino,” festival director Alberto Barbera said in a statement. “Paolo Sorrentino’s return in competition comes with a film destined to leave its mark for its great originality and...

First still released from Paolo Sorrentino's La Grazia, which will open Venice Film Festival and play in competition Photo: Andrea Pirrello/Mubi Paolo Sorrentino's La Grazia has been announced as the opening film of the 82nd Venice Film Festival.

Paulo Sorrentino, who has a long association with Venice, since his feature debut One Man Up played there in 2001 Photo: Michael Avedon The latest film from the Oscar-winning writer/director - the plot of which has not yet been released - sees Sorrentino reteam with The Great Beauty and The Hand Of God star Toni Servillo, who will appear alongside Anna Ferzetti (Diamonds).

Venice's artistic director Alberto Barbera said: "I am very happy that the 82nd Venice International Film Festival will open with the new and highly anticipated film by Paolo Sorrentino. I like to recall that one of the most important and internationally acclaimed Italian auteurs made his debut...

The world premiere of Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grazia starring Toni Servillo and Anna Ferzetti will open the 2025 edition of Venice Film Festival.

The filmwill screen in the Sala Grande at the Palazzo del Cinema (Lido di Venezia) on Wednesday, August 27. The festival runs until September 6.

La Grazia is written and directed by Paolo Sorrentino, and produced by Fremantle-owned The Apartment, Numero 10 and PiperFilm, which will distribute the film in Italy.

Mubi owns worldwide rights excluding Italy, with the Match Factory handling international sales.

Sorrentino was last in Venice four years ago withTheHand Of God,which won the Silver Lion grand jury prize.

La Grazia, the latest feature from Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino, will open the Venice Film Festival.

The film stars Toni Servillo and Anna Ferzetti will have its world premiere screening on Wednesday, 27 August in the Sala Grande.

La Grazia, written and directed by Sorrentino. Very little about the film’s plot is known, but sources close to the film have told Deadline that the film follows the final days of a fictional Italian Presidency.

The feature is a Fremantle film produced by The Apartment, Numero 10, and PiperFilm, which will distribute in Italy. Mubi owns worldwide rights, excluding Italy. The Match Factory is handling international sales.

“I am very happy that the 82nd Venice International Film Festival will open with the new and highly anticipated film by Paolo Sorrentino,” Venice head Alberto Barbera said in a statement, adding that Sorrentino’s career began at Venice in 2001 with first feature One Man Up.

Paolo Sorrentino’s “La Grazia,” a love story that re-teams the Oscar-winning director with “The Great Beauty” actor Toni Servillo, has been set as opening film of the upcoming Venice Film Festival.

“La Grazia” – the title can be translated in English as “Grace” – will be launching from the Lido in competition.

Servillo stars in “La Grazia” opposite Italian actor Anna Ferzetti, who recently appeared in Ferzan Ozpetek’s smash hit “Diamonds.” Plot details of Sorrentino’s new film are being kept under wraps besides the fact that it is a love story set somewhere in Italy.

“La Grazia” will mark Servillo’s seventh collaboration with Sorrentino who has shot 10 feature films to date. They first teamed up in Sorrentino’s dazzling 2001 debut, “One Man Up” in which Servillo played an ageing cocaine-addicted crooner. Servillo is best known to international audiences for his memorable turn as Roman writer and socialite Jep...

Ferzan Özpetek, the director of Diamonds (Diamanti):”There are certain costume designers I was thinking of, Milena Canonero, yes. Piero Tosi who was a good friend …”

Ferzan Özpetek’s sparkling Diamonds almost entirely takes place in a Roman film and theater costume atelier in the 1970s, owned by Alberta Canova (Luisa Ranieri) and her sister Gabriella (Jasmine Trinca), who after a personal loss seems more and more out of sorts to handle all the detailed requirements requested by demanding costume designers, movie directors, and stars.

Ferzan Özpetek with Anne-Katrin Titze about his encounter with Monica Vitti: ”She turned around and came back to me and said, you are going to make a lot of beautiful films!”

The fabulous ensemble cast sheds light on the various concerns of women in the garment business and their personal relationships through humorous and sometimes almost tragic vignettes.

The...

Paola Randi’s coming-of-age drama “The Story of Frank and Nina,” which has its world premiere in Venice Film Festival’s Horizons Extra program, has debuted a first clip (below). International distribution is being handled by Fandango Sales.

The synopsis runs as follows: “It’s up to Gollum to tell us ‘La storia del Frank e della Nina’ — only, he doesn’t speak, and has to write it on the wall. He’s the guardian of those words, the ones that can’t come out of his mouth, the ones he writes on buildings as if the city was a big amplifier.

“Frank has stopped existing a couple years back, but to make a living he sells homework outside of school. He’s waiting till he turns 18 to take the train and clear out. Frank’s version of reality is so compelling that we all believe him.

“Until he meets Nina.

A highlight of the first weekend of the 80th Venice International Film Festival was seeing Giorgio Armani appear on the catwalk, visibly excited, moved, smiling and proudly satisfied with his work. He then advanced graceful and happy, in his impeccable blue tuxedo holding hands with the model Agnese Zogla.

The moment was experienced by the more than 500 guests at Armani’s One Night Only event, where the world of cinema flocked to pay homage to King Giorgio, with guests including Sophia Loren, who has always been his beloved friend, accompanied by her son Edoardo Ponti, actor Benicio Del Toro, actress Jessica Chastain, and directors Ang Lee, Gabriele Salvatores and Giuseppe Tornatore.

The standing ovation lasted several minutes from an audience composed of numerous couples from the Italian film star system: from Sergio Castellitto and Margaret Mazzantini and Pierfrancesco Favino and Anna Ferzetti to Raul Bova and Rocio Munoz Morales to Kasia Smutniak and Domenico Procacci.

The Italian premieres of Cannes Film Festival opener Jeanne du Barry starring Johnny Depp and Indiana Jones And The Dial Of Destiny will be among the international highlights of the 69th Taormina Film Festival which gave a taster of its line-up at a press conference in Rome on Tuesday.

Principal cast for James Mangold’s Indiana Jones reboot including Harrison Ford, Phoebe Waller-Bridge, Antonio Banderas, John Rhys-Davies and Mads Mikkelsen are expected to be in attendance for the screening.

The event, unfolding June 23 to July 1 in Sicily, is under the new co-artistic directorship of Barrett Wissman this year.

There will also be Italian premieres for Lisa Cortes’s Little Richard: I Am Everything, a documentary about the life and career of the legendary musician, and A.V. Rockwell’s A Thousand and One, starring Teyana Taylor.

Italian highlights include the world premiere of the comedy The Worst Days by Edoardo Leo,...

Sky has unveiled its Italian “Call My Agent” adaptation set in Rome featuring high-caliber Italian guest stars such as Paolo Sorrentino – in a side-splitting turn – and actor Matilda De Angelis.

The six-episode season is produced by Palomar, the Italian company controlled by France’s Mediawan which originated the hit show set at a Parisian talent agency.

In episode two Oscar-winner Sorrentino waltzes into the Rome agency called CMA with a “brilliant” new idea for a third instalment to his “The Young Pope” TV series.”

It’s “The Lady Pope” for whom the God-like director wants 1980s Italian disco queen Ivana Spagna to be cast in the titular role. And also Denzel Washington as the female pope’s chamberlain, and Madonna as her mother.

The gag was thought of by Sorrentino who spoofs himself with biting irony.

In real life De Angelis recently scored the lead role on the upcoming Italian...

Disney+ has put Italian true crime drama This is Not Hollywood — Avetrana into production in Puglia.

The four-part series (original title Avetrana – Qui non è Hollywood) is based on the true story of the death Sarah Scazzi and the massive media response. Each 80-minute episode takes point of view of one of the story’s main protagonists — Sarah, Sabrina, Michele and Cosima, who are played by Federica Pala, Giulia Perulli, Paolo De Vita and Vanessa Scalera, respectively.

Imma Villa, Anna Ferzetti and Giancarlo Commare have also been cast for key roles in the show, which is based on Carmine Gazzanni and Flavia Piccinni’s book ‘Sarah: La Ragazza di Avetrana.’

The series’ synopsis reads: “On August 26, 2010, in Avetrana, a small town on the edge of the holiday destination Salento, a young girl leaves home never to return. Her name is Sarah Scazzi, she is 15. The whole town is in turmoil,...

Bindu de Stoppani, the India-born but Switzerland-raised multi-hyphenate who directed Swiss films “Jump” and “Finding Camille,” is set to direct her third feature, a female-driven dramedy titled “40 & Climbing” set in an Alpine valley and featuring a strong Italian cast.

Italy’ s Anna Ferzetti, who recently scooped multiple local prizes for her role in dramedy “Domani è un altro giorno” – is set to star in “40” along with Elena Di Cioccio (“Squadra mobile”) and Eurice Axen (“Loro”).

The plan is for cameras to start rolling Aug. 10 on this Italian-language film in the Blenio Valley, in Switzerland’s Italian-speaking Canton of Ticino, amid Alpine peaks and routes that have been used for centuries.

Pic is about three middle-aged female friends who meet up in the mountains to scatter a dead friend’s ashes and then embark on adventures in the Alpine wilderness that make them “rediscover a past they’ve turned their back on,...

Barcelona’s Filmax is handling international sales rights to “Tomorrow’s A New Day,” the Italian remake of Cesc Gay’s acclaimed friendship dramedy “Truman.”

Iván Díaz, head of international sales at Filmax, is introducing the film to buyers at the European Film Market in Berlin.

A production by Rome-based Baires Produzioni in collaboration with Medusa Film, the remake is directed by Simone Spada (“Hotel Gagarin”), boasting a heavyweight local cast led by Valerio Mastandrea (“Perfect Strangers”), Marco Giallini (“A Flat For Three”) and Anna Ferzetti (“Emma”).

The film opens on Feb. 28 in Italy, distributed by Medusa, under the original title “Domani è un altro giorno.”

It tells the story of two, lifelong friends, Giuliano and Tommaso, who come together for four unforgettable days in Rome.

Giuliano, a vivacious, seductive actor, who loves life, has been diagnosed with a terminal illness. After a year-long fight, he’s decided to forgo his treatment.