Screen can exclusively reveal the first trailer for Pippo Mezzapesa’s Italian romance Burning Hearts which will premiere in the Horizon’s strand of Venice’s 79th International Film Festival (August 31 - September 10).

Rome-based sales outfit True Colours has picked up worldwide rights on Mezzapesa’s adaptation of the book Ti Mangio Il Cuore (I Eat Your Heart) by Carlo Bonni and Giuliano Fosch.

Centring around the forbidden love of a rich heir and a Mafia wife, it stars Italian singer Elodie in her acting debut alongside Francesco Patanè, Lidia Vitale and Fracesco Di Leva. 

Burning Hearts is produced by Indigo Film, which were also behind Paolo Sorrentino’s The Great Beauty, and Rai Cinema. 

Mezzapesa was last at Venice in 2018 with the comedy My Own Good screening at Venice’s Giornate degli Autori which runs parallel to the main festival. 

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