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Minerva Pictures arrives at the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival!

6 November 2024

Once again this year, Minerva Pictures is participating in the Trieste Science+Fiction Festival, the most important sci-fi genre festival in Italy and among the most prestigious in Europe, presenting three unmissable films! It all starts on Thursday, October 31st at midnight with Monster on a Plane (2024) by Ezra Tsegaye, a horror comedy that nods to Critters and Airplane!, but with an extra dose of madness. From the exotic Mermaid Lagoon, flight 123 is headed to Hamburg, carrying Professor Singh and a mysterious creature hidden in the cargo hold. When this fierce and mysterious furball escapes and grows uncontrollably, spreading hallucinogenic gases, the entire flight descends into chaos. It will be up to the arrogant Captain James Pillow and the intrepid flight attendant Natalie to maintain calm amid screams and laughter, in a race against time wilder than Snakes on a Plane.

On Friday, November 1st, at 10 p.m., it’s the turn of Year 10 (2024), the powerful post-apocalyptic tale by Ben Goodger. In a world covered by a perpetually dark sky and toxic rains, a father and his son struggle to survive among the remnants of civilization. But their fragile existence is upended when a group of violent cannibals steals the antibiotics that keep the son’s girlfriend alive. Thus begins a dramatic and dangerous journey, between the last glimmers of humanity and the triumph of hostile nature. Coming soon exclusively on Full Action, the channel of The Film Club, Prime Video, and TIMVISION!

That same evening at midnight, Tetsuo (1989) by Shin’ya Tsukamoto closes the night, presented in the Sci-Fi Classix section. An authentic cornerstone of cyberpunk cinema; a dark and disturbing vision that redefined the boundaries of the genre, echoing the visual violence of Cronenberg and the visceral nature of Japanese manga.

We look forward to seeing you in Trieste for a weekend of cinema beyond the boundaries of imagination!

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“BENE! Vita di Carmelo, la macchina attoriale” in Premiere at the Festival dei Popoli

15 November 2023

Iconoclastic, brilliant, provocateur. Carmelo Bene was many things: an actor, a philosopher, a playwright, a director, a writer, a poet, among the founders of the new Italian theater.

Produced by Minerva Pictures and Echivisivi, the new documentary film by Samuele Rossi, BENE! Vita di Carmelo, la macchina attoriale, tells the most significant milestones in the life and career of Carmelo Bene, played by the extraordinary Filippo Timi. A journey into the life and artistic legacy of one of the greatest cultural figures of the 20th century in the Italian and European theater scene.

BENE! Vita di Carmelo, la macchina attoriale had its premiere on November 11th at the Festival dei Popoli in Florence, the most important International Documentary Film Festival in Italy and the oldest in Europe.

In attendance at the screening were the director and producer Samuele Rossi, the musician and producer Giuseppe Cassaro, the journalist Pietrangelo Buttafuoco (freshly appointed to the Presidency of the Venice Biennale), and the Director of the Teatro della Toscana Foundation, Marco Giorgetti.

BENE! Vita di Carmelo, la macchina attoriale will soon be broadcast on Sky Arte!