Swiss co -production in competition for the golden lion

The film “Elisa” by Italian director Leonardo Di Costanzo. Consequently, an Italo-Swiss co-production, notably in Ticino, is among the works in competition for the Golden Lion at the Venice Mostra, which opens on Wednesday. Furthermore, Four other Swiss productions and an XR project were also selected.

“Elisa”. For example, inspired by the book “Io Volevo Ucciderla” (I wanted to kill her) of criminologists Adolfo Ceretti and Lorenzo Natali, tells the swiss co -production competition golden story of a 35-year-old woman, who has been in prison for ten years for the murder of her sister, read in a swiss films statement.

Film shot in Ticino

“The fourth fictional film of the director from Ischia was shot in Ticino in early April between Mendrisio. In addition, Vacallo, Morbio Superiore and Stabio, with the support of the Ticino Film Commission and the city of Mendrisio,” said the Ticino Film Commission in a press release. Nevertheless, The film is co -produced by AMKA SAVOSA FILMS AND THE RSI.

The casting brings together Italian actresses Barbara Ronchi. Valeria Golino, the Italian actor Diego Ribon, as well as the French actor Roschdy Zem, winner of the male interpretation prize in Cannes in 2006 for “natives”. The world first of “Elisa” is scheduled for September 4 in Venice.

Leonardo Di Costanzo considers this feature film as a continuation swiss co -production competition golden to his previous film “Ariaferma” (2021). which takes place in a closing prison. He was also co-produced by AMKA Films and the RSI, we read on the Mostra site.

“Le Mage du Kremlin” among the contenders

In the category “Venezia 82 Concorso”. the Italian-Suisse co-production is in competition with 20 other films, including “Le Mage du Kremlin” by the French director Olivier Assayas, taken from the eponymous novel awarded several times from the writer Italo-Suisse Giuliano Da Empoli. Among the Golden Lion contenders are also “Frankenstein” by Guillermo del Toro. “La Grazia” by Paolo Sorrentino, “Bugonia” by Yorgos Lanthimos and “Father Mother Sister Brother” by Jim Jarmusch.

On the Swiss side, four other productions will be revealed in a global preview in Venice in other categories. In the “Venezia Spotlight” section, “A Bras-le-Corps” (“Silent Rebellion”) of the director of La Chaux-de-Fonds (NE) Marie-Elsa Sgualdo was chosen. This swiss co -production competition golden co -production between Switzerland. Belgium and France tells the story of Emma, ​​a 15 -year -old girl who discovers that she is pregnant after being raped.

This feature film. which takes place in rural and repressive Switzerland of the Second World War, is produced by the Lausanne company Box Productions.

Two feature films and a Swiss documentary were identified in the independent section “Giornate degli authori” (authors’ days). This is the fiction film “Memory of Princess Mumbi” by Zurichois Damien Hauser. 24, the documentary “who still lives” (on Gaza) of Genevois director Nicolas Wadimoff and the minority co -production “Il Quieto Vivere” (“I Want Her Dead”) of Italian director Gianluca Matarrese.

Artificial intelligence will also be in the spotlight: in the category “Venice immersive”. visitors to the Cité des Doges will be able to discover the installation of virtual reality (RV) “Empathy Creatures” by Mélodie Mousset, a swiss co -production competition golden French artist who lives and works in Zurich.