Locarno: Summertime Picks Up ‘Love Me Tender’ (Exclusive)

Rome-based Summertime Intl.

has acquired international sales rights to Klaudia Reynicke’s “Love Me Tender.”The second feature from Peru-born and Switzerland-based filmmaker will receive its world premiere at the Locarno Festival in its Filmmakers of the Present competition, which focuses on first and second features.Summertime Intl.

is the world sales agent, excluding and Lichtenstein and Switzerland.

The film, also written by Reynicke, will be distributed in Switzerland by First Hand Films.“Love Me Tender” is produced by Tiziana Soudani, Muchela Pini and Gabriella De Gara at the Ticino-based Amka Films, founded by Soudani in 1988.

Its credits include Alice Rohrwacher’s 2018 Cannes Festival best screenplay winner “Happy as Lazzaro” and 2014’s “The Wonders” which took a Cannes Grand Jury Prize, as well as Silvio Soldini’s “Bread and Tulips,” a big box office hit which swept nine David di Donatello awards.Italian-language Swiss public broadcaster Rsi Radiotelevisione Svizzera co-produces.

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