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New Life

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original title:

New Life

directed by:

Ivan Polidoro

cast:

Giorgia Fiori, Lorenzo Carcasci, Carolina Balucani, Nicholas Brenci, Lucrezia Lucchetti, Sofia Romano, Enzo Casertano, Giuseppe Cantore, Francesco Biscione, Silvestro Polidoro, Elisa Gabrielli, Sandro Calabrese

screenplay:

Ivan Polidoro

cinematography:

Andrès Arce Maldonado

set design:

Serena Arditi

costume design:

Francesca Parodi

producer:

Francesco Paolo Montini

production:

Movie Factory, with the cooperation of Regione Umbria, Umbria Film Commission

distribution:

Movie Factory [Italy]

country:

Italy

year:

2023

film run:

100'

format:

colour

release date:

19/06/2023

festivals & awards:

  • Los Angeles - Italia 2024: Look at
  • Ischia Global Film Festival 2023: Official Selection
  • BCT - Festival Nazionale del Cinema e della Televisione 2023: Concorso Greatest Indipendent
  • Outdoor Film Festival 2023
  • Portugal Indie Film Festival 2023: Best Feature
  • Cine Paris Film Festival 2023: Best Future
  • Ponza Film Awards 2023: Best Comedy
  • Stockholm City Film Festival: Finalist 2023
  • Monthly Future of Film Awards 2023: Best Comedy
  • Golden Lion International Film Festival: Best International Future
  • Athens International Monthly Art Film Festival: Honorable Mention
  • Villammare Festival Film&Friends 2023
  • Hurghada Youth Film Festival 2023
  • The Macoproject Film Festival: Semi-finalist 2023
  • Denver Monthly Film Awards: Finalist 2023
  • Festival del Cinema di Castel Volturno: Official Selection 2023
  • Emerald Coast Film Festival: Honorable Mention
  • vvfilmf - Kids and Teens International Film Festival: Official Selection
  • New West Film Fest 2023: Official Selection

On the death of his stepfather, Aldo, an anchorman in crisis, inherits the farmhouse in the countryside where he spent most of his childhood. Depressed and waiting for an answer for the resumption of his old TV show, sends his young assistant Susy to deal with the paperwork. Susy reluctantly accepts and once there he will have to deal with a reality very different from how he had imagined it. The farmhouse is now a Country House managed by two factors, Ugo and Amalia, and five "madmen" who work the fields, the vineyards, look after the cattle and keep what it is a small but well equipped company: Casa Matta. The arrival of Susy and the probable sale of the farmhouse, will put them in fibrillation. And they will do everything to prevent this from happening.