CITRULLO INTERNATIONAL
ITALY
Contact
GERARDO PANICHI
Producer
CARLO HINTERMANN
Producer
Company Profile
Citrullo International is an Italian production company based in Rome. Active since 2001, it develops and produces films, documentaries, and television series for the international market.
Its focus is on supporting talented authors who are able to express their personal vision of the world and stories with a strong creative component. Citrullo International's productions have been presented at the most prestigious Italian (Venice, Turin, Rome) and international (Cannes, Toronto, BFILondon, The Contenders MoMA NYC) festivals and distributed worldwide.
Among the authors with whom Citrullo International has collaborated are Terrence Malick,
Amos Gitai, Giuseppe Tornatore, Amir Naderi, Carlo S. Hintermann, and Giovanni Cioni.
He has new projects in development among which FOUR SEASONS by Volker Schlöndorff, a feature film on a special period of Vivaldi’s life, and WHAT REMAINS, a roadmovie of a poetress in Turkey by Yesim Ustaoglu. He is also managing a high profile arthouse catalogue including famous Classics from world acclaimed directors such as Antonioni, Borowczyk, Bresson, Duras, Fellini, Ferreri, Godard, Laloux, Marker, Oshima, Resnais, Tarkovski, Schlöndorff, and Wenders.
Gerardo Panichi
Carlo Hintermann
Company Highlights
THE BOOK OF VISION 2020
Genre: Drama/ Fantasy
Director: Carlo S. Hintermann
Screenplay: Carlo S. Hintermann / Marco Saura
Cast: Lotte Verbeek, Charles Dance, Sverrir Gudnasson, Filippo Nigro, Isolda Dychauk
Eva is thirty years old, has a brilliant medical career in front of her, a companion from whom she is expecting a child and a serious illness. Johan Anmuth is a Prussian doctor of the 18th Century who suffers the tensions of a time of change. Suddenly their existences cross inextricably in a path of hope.
Venice’s Critics Week 2020 / Official Selection–Opening film
Sitges Film Festival 2020 / Official Selection
Montreal New Cinema 2020 / Official Selection
Warsaw Film Festival 2020 / Official Selection–Opening film
Istanbul Film Festival 2020 / Official Selection
Pingyao Film Festival 2020 / Official Selection – In Competition
Riga Film Festival 2020 / Official Selection
Thessaloniki Film Festival 2020 / Official Selection
David di Donatello / Nominated for Best VFX
Silver Ribbons / Nominated for Best First Time Director, Best Editing, Best Costumes
MONTE 2016
Genre: Drama
Director: Amir Naderi
Screenplay: Amir Naderi / Donatello Fumarola
Cast: Andrea Sartoretti, Claudia Potenza
Late Middle Ages. Agostino lives in poverty with his wife Nina and his son Giovanni outside a small village at the foot of the mountains. An immense mountain rises like a wall, stopping the sun’s rays and thus reducing their farmland to stones and twigs. Despite all suggestions to move away for a better life, Agostino insists his family’s fate lies there between the peaks. He firmly believes that a man’s roots cannot betray him. Agostino struggles in vain to find a solution to better provide for his starving family. But their lives do not improve, and Agostino decides to challenge the ancient mountain’s immensity and power.
Venice Film Festival 2016 / Official Selection – Out of Competition
Pusan Film Festival 2016 / Official Selection
Tokyo Film Festival 2016 / Official Selection
Munich Film Festival 2017 / Official Selection
Karlovy Vary International Film Festival 2017 / Official Selection
Venice Film Festival / Jaeger – LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award
Silver Ribbons / Special Prize for the acting performance to Andrea Sartoretti and Claudia Potenza
TSILI 2013
Genre: Drama
Director: Amos Gitai
Screenplay: Aharon Appelfeld, Amos Gitai, Marie-Jose Sanselme
Cast: Sarah Adler, Meshi Olinski, Leah Koenig
World War II. Tsili, a young Jewish woman, is hiding in the forest South of Czernowicz. Her entire family was deported to the camps.
Inspired by the novel by Aharon Appelfeld, the film tells the story of the wandering of its heroine submerged in the nightmare of the war. Tsili gathers all the forces of intuition and vitality to survive in this desperate universe.
Venice Film Festival 2014 / Official Selection - Out of Competition