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The Match Factory Boards Alice Rohrwacher & JR’s Venice Short ‘An Urban Allegory’
The work marks the second collaboration between Italian filmmaker Rohrwacher and French artist and director JR, after Omelia Contadina
The work marks the second collaboration between Italian filmmaker Rohrwacher ( La Chimera, Happy as Lazzaro, The Wonders) and French artist and director JR ( Faces Places, Women Are Heroes, Paper and Glue, Tehachapi), after Omelia Contadina which premiered at the Venice Film Festival in 2020. The film stars Lyna Khoudri ( The French Dispatch, Papicha, The Blessed), Palme d’Or winning director Leos Carax ( Annette, Holy Motors, Les Amants du Pont-Neuf) and Naïm El Kaldaoui in his first role. The Match Factory has a long history with Rohrwacher, having handled sales on her complete filmography, from directorial debut Corpo Celeste(2011) to The Wonders(2014), Happy as Lazzaro(2018), Futura(2021) and last year’s critically acclaimed box office success La Chimera, and also including the short films Four Roads(2020) and Omelia Contadina(2020).
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