The Match Factory Acquires Alice Rohrwacher, JR’s ‘An Urban Allegory’ Ahead of Venice Premiere
Segun Akanni, Toronto, Canada 
The Match Factory will be handling international sales for An Urban Allegory, the new short film by Alice Rohrwacher and JR, ahead of its world premiere at Venice Film Festival, Out of Competition.
An Urban Allegory marks the second collaboration between acclaimed Italian filmmaker Alice Rohrwacher (La Chimera, Happy as Lazzaro, The Wonders) and French artist and director JR (Faces Places, Women Are Heroes, Paper and Glue, Tehachapi), after premiering Omelia Contadina at Venice Film Festival in 2020. The film stars César winner for Most Promising Actress Lyna Khoudri (The French Dispatch, Papicha, The Blessed), Palme D’Or winner director Leos Carax (Annette, Holy Motors, Les Amants du Pont-Neuf) and Naïm El Kaldaoui in his first role.
Synopsis: In the Allegory of the Cave, Plato ponders: what would happen if one of the prisoners managed to free themselves from their chains and escape from the cave? What if that prisoner were Jay, a little 7-year-old boy?
The Match Factory has been in charge of international sales for Alice Rohrwacher’s complete feature filmography with directorial debut Corpo Celeste (2011), The Wonders (2014), Happy as Lazzaro (2018), Futura (2021) and last year’s critically acclaimed box office success La Chimera, including the short films Four Roads (2020) and Omelia Contadina (2020).
An Urban Allegory is produced by Ad Vitam Films, in co-production with Social Animals.
