Deckert Boards ‘Pure Unknown,’ ‘My Father’s Prison’ Ahead of Premieres at Visions du Reel (EXCLUSIVE)
variety.comLise Pedersen Sales company Deckert Distribution has boarded “Pure Unknown,” by Italy’s Mattia Colombo (“Il Posto”) and Valentina Cicogna, and Venezuelan filmmaker Iván Simonovis Pertíñez’s debut feature “My Father’s Prison,” both selected in the main International Competition at Swiss international documentary film festival Visions du Réel. “Pure Unknown” follows the story of Italian forensic pathologist Cristina Cattaneo in her battle to put a name to each nameless body that lands in her autopsy room.
She calls them the Pure Unknown. Many belong to the fringes of society: they are homeless, sex workers or runaway teenagers.
More recently, they have been mostly migrants drowned at sea trying to reach Europe’s shores. The film marks Cicogna’s directorial debut.
An established scriptwriter and editor, she first met Cattaneo in 2015 while researching an autopsy scene for a thriller she was writing, she tells Variety.
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