Innocence of Memories at Giornate degli Autori - Venice Days

“Innocence of Memories,” a new documentary feature [1]about Turkish Nobel laureate  Orhan Pamuk's Museum of Innocence[2], will have its world premiere at this year's Venice International Film Festival, the İstanbul-based museum announced in a press release.

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“Innocence of Memories” will be shown as part of Giornate degli Autori - Venice Days, an independent event that is similar to Cannes Film Festival's “Directors' Fortnight,” which runs on the sidelines of the main program.

“I was personally involved in the making of ‘Innocence of Memories.' I wrote a 30-minute original text for the film, which is [as much] about İstanbul as it is about the museum,” Pamuk was quoted as saying in the press release about the 90-minute documentary, which he billed as “both a documentary and an art-house film.”

“The new text I wrote revisits the love story recounted in the book from the point of view of a secondary protagonist in the story. I cannot tell right now who that secondary protagonist is; I'll reveal that in Venice,” Pamuk said, noting that he will be in attendance at the documentary's world premiere.

The Venice Film Festival will mark its 72nd year from Sept. 2-12.

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[1] Janine Marmot’s Hot Property Films [*] is readying Grant Gee-directed Innocence Of Memories and is set to unveil the film at an autumn festival. The Match Factory is handling sales of the feature, based on Orhan Pamuk’s acclaimed book, The Museum Of Innocence. Gee is best known for directing music videos for the likes of Radiohead and Blur.

Marmot confirmed that Italian distribution rights have now gone to the film’s co-producers, In Between Art Film and Vivo Film. Producing alongside Marmot is Keith Griffiths of Illuminations Films. British filmmaker Grant Gee -- who also directed 2007's “Joy Division,” about the influential 1970s English rock band, and the 1998 “rockumentary” “Meeting People Is Easy,” about Radiohead – based on a screenplay he has penned together with Pamuk.

Nobel Prize winner Pamuk has provided original narration for the film, which is in the final stages of completion. Pamuk also appears on screen. The film was shot entirely in Istanbul.

[*] Hot Property Films | 7 Saint Charles Square, London W10 6EN | Tel: +44 (0)20 8969 7997

[2] Inaugurated in 2012 in İstanbul's Çukurcuma quarter, the Museum of Innocence is based in its entirety on a work of fiction, Pamuk's 2008 novel of the same name, making it the first of its kind around the world. The museum, which took Pamuk around a decade to build, displays hundreds of objects and ephemera related to the characters and events recounted in the book. Set in the second half of the 20th century in İstanbul, the novel tells of a well-to-do man named Kemal and his unrequited love for a poor distant female cousin named Füsun.