Fandango Takes Sales on Venice and Toronto Title ‘Anywhere Anytime’ With a ‘Bicycle Thieves’ Vibe – Watch Trailer (EXCLUSIVE)

Fandango Film Sales has taken all rights to Italy-based Iranian director Milad Tangshir’s debut feature film “Anywhere Anytime” ahead of its launch from the Venice Critics’ Week and TIFF’s Centrepiece section.

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The film riffs off Vittorio De Sica’s neorealist classic “Bicycle Thieves,” albeit in a contemporary setting, telling the tale of Issa, a young Senegalese illegal immigrant living in Turin who – after being fired by an employer for fear of being fined by the police – starts working as a food-delivery rider, a gig that gives him a sense of security and freedom until his bike gets stolen. “Issa then embarks on a desperate odyssey through the streets of the city to find his bike,” according to the provided synopsis.

Tangshir, who has born in 1983 in Tehran, released three albums with the Iranian rock band
Ahoora, before moving to Italy in 2011. Since then, he has produced and directed several short fiction films and docs, including the virtual reality doc “VR Free” that went to Venice and Sundance.

In his directors’ statement Tangshir said “Anywhere Anytime” “explores the sense of fear and constant anxiety of those who, like the protagonist of the film, live on the margins, in the cracks of society: an invisible life, one of the many we cross paths with every day on a sidewalk or a street corner.”

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It’s “a condition of extreme vulnerability, where even a simple bicycle can make the difference between surviving or not making it,” he added.

“Anywhere Anytime” is produced by Marta Donzelli and Gregorio Paonessa’s Vivo Film and Roberto De Paolis and Carla Altieri’s Young Films with RAI Cinema.

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