Session information

This Hot Properties session shines a light on three upcoming dramas expected to have an impact on the international market over the next 18 months. We hear how the projects were created, developed, packaged and sold from those closest to the project.
This session features: Ride Out, La Storia and Les Affluents.

Ride Out
Ride Out is an epic sports drama and a tragic love story, based on the real events of an amateur underdog challenging an unbeatable champion on the international MOTO GP motorbike racing circuit during its golden years in the 1970s. Supported by his girlfriend Soili, and camping out at each race to cut costs, Jarno Saarinen rides to free himself from a career working in his family’s struggling funeral home. But to succeed he must risk his life every month, in a harsh competition with his fellow riders and brothers in arms on the track.
Speakers: Timo Vierimaa and Jarmo Lampela.

La Storia
Ida Ramundo is the widowed mother of 15-year old teenager Nino in Rome during WWII. She has a secret: Ida is of Jewish descent. But when she is assaulted by a German army soldier, things turn from bad to worse. In pain, dismay, and ashamed, Ida discovers she is pregnant, and, nine months later, secretly gives birth to another boy, who will be lovingly nicknamed Useppe. The family is further shaken by the events of the war: Nino decides to leave to the front line to fight the Fascists, leaving his mother and little Useppe in an apartment in Rome's San Lorenzo neighborhood to cope with the Nazi occupation and roundups. In the July 1943 bombing, Ida loses everything and is forced to leave. From then on, every day becomes a struggle for her own survival and that of her child.
Speakers: Francesca Archibugi, Roberto Sessa and Maria Pia Ammirati.

Les Affluents (Tributaries)
Sarah Deléan, a young and ambitious lawyer, wakes up one morning in a panic. Her discreet neighbour who lived in the apartment above her has been murdered. Sarah decides to conduct her own investigation and uncovers controversial mining activities in British Columbia, in Quebec's Côte-Nord and in Mexico's Oaxaca Valley. The young woman then steps into an interconnected world of alliances and betrayals, in which the intimidating force of the powerful is matched only by the hope of resistance. Caught in a dilemma, torn between loyalty to her professional family- which includes her fiancé - and the urgent help needed by a group of citizens, it's up to Sarah to discover her true nature.
Speakers: Nicola Merola and Sophie Deraspe.