This Is Italy
Picl is a new streaming service for art house films, including Italian films. The concept is an initiative of 20 Dutch film houses and the Dutch Film Promotion Foundation. You can also watch films that are currently shown in the cinema via Picl at home on your own TV or laptop.
The films on Picl are offered by the collaborating cinemas themselves. After you choose a movie, you also choose the movie house of your preference, so that they share in the revenue of the digital movie ticket. So you don't have a subscription like with Netflix, but you buy individual films. For when you don't feel like or have the time to go to the cinema itself.
This makes the concept resemble a kind of Libris or Bookaroo for films. With this you support the local bookshops, with this you support the local movie houses.
Picl: €8,50 per film
New films cost €8,50, just like in the art house. For older films ('missed in the cinema') you pay € 4,99. You don't have to download anything, you do have to create an account once. After payment of a film you then have 48 hours to watch that film via Picl. On your TV, PC, laptop, smartphone or any other screen. You can also sleep, eat or do something else in between. The platform remembers where you left off.
For us Italy lovers Picl is of course especially interesting because of the Italian films, which you do not always want or can watch in the art cinema.
New Italian films that are screened in the art houses will also be on the platform. The following Italian films are currently on Picl:
Happy Lazarus
A magical contemporary fairy tale set in the Italian countryside. More about Happy Lazarus >
Magic Nights
An ode to the world of the Italian classics about an adventure that got out of hand, full of bacchanals, extravagant showgirls, cunning producers and greedy actors. More about Magic Nights >
La Terra dell'Abbastanza
The friends Mirko and Manolo live in Rome. When they accidentally hit someone, their lives are turned upside down and they become involved with the local mafia. More about La Terra dell'Abbastanza >
Also the documentary walking on water it states about the realization of the Floating Piers in the Italian Lake Iseo.
Want to test Picl yourself? Participate in the giveaway
We are giving away 3 films through this giveaway. You will receive a link with which you can access the film for 48 hours. This could be any of the above Italian movies, but of course any other movie currently on offer through Picl!
Would you like to test Picl yourself? Then send an email to contest [at sign] thisisitalia [point] nl. Also state your address, because the codes are provided on paper. Winners will be notified within a few days.
Knowing more? View on picl.nl.
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