The 34th Torino Film Festival on November 18 – 26

The 34th Torino Film Festival on November 18 - 26

The 34th edition of the Turin Film Festival will start on Friday 18th November.  Rich program for this festival, which has been consolidating over the years as one of the major events of the cinema.

Festa mobile

It opens with Between Us, an intense dramatic comedy from America. The film is directed by Rafael Palcio Illingworth and stars Olivia Thirlby (Juno) and Ben Feldman (Mad Men). It ends with Free Fire. Directed by Ben Wheatley, one of Britain’s top young filmmakers of the moment, it stars Cillian Murphy and Brie Larson (2016 Oscar for Room). Festa Mobile also presents the most awaited movies of the year and the ones never screened before in Italy. Among the most awaited there is Sully, directed by Clint Eastwood and starring Tom Hanks and Aaron Eckhart.

Torino 34

The main competitive section of the festival is reserved for authors at their first, second or third film.

As always focused on "young" cinema, the competition primarily wants to research and discover new talents and trends of the international independent cinema. Over the years, acclaimed authors at the beginning of their career have won the main Award, such as Tsai Ming-liang, David Gordon Green, Chen Kaige, Lisandro Alonso, Pietro Marcello, Debra Granik. Cinema "of the future", representative of genres, languages and trends.

The jury is chaired by Ed Lachman, director of photography and director. He has worked with many great directors: Werner Herzog, Sofia Coppola, Robert Altman, Todd Haynes.

The other jurors are Don McKellar (Canada), Mariette Rissenbeek (Germany), Adrian Sitaru (Romania) and Hadas Yaron (Israel).

Cinque pezzi facili

Gabriele Salvatores presents Five Easy Pieces “Everything was ready. My room, the desk, even the brass plaque with my name on the door of my father’s law office. But back then, there were those movies going around… and that music in the soundtracks which captured you! I have these five films to thank, these “Five Easy Pieces” (easy but not simple), because they are some of the ones which kept me from becoming a lawyer”.

After Hours

The festival’s eccentric section brings together, every year, a series of movies that range from horror flicks to mockumentaries, from the bizarre to the erotic, from sophisticated metaphors to screwball comedies.

TFF doc

Love is the driving force behind everything and this year it has inspired the focus of TFFdoc, which, for the occasion, becomes TFFdoc/love.

Through six films, from Monday to Friday, the theme of love will be declined in all variants. The protagonists are the directors of the films that will be presented and philosophers, authors, journalists, researchers, militants who will accompany us in this tunnel of love.

Italiana. Corti

The competition is reserved for unscreened Italian short films, characterized by their research and the originality of their language. 13 films, divided into 3 programs “baptized” by the Rolling Stones. (Shine a Light, Time is on My Side, Wild Horses).

Onde

Instinctively following the nouvelle vague’s destiny in contemporary filmmaking trends, Onde once again interprets the unfinished dialogue between the finiteness of narration and the infinity of language. Eighteen films of varying length and each one, in its own way, is a search for a clearly expressive link between Histories, with their events, and Stories, with their experiences.

Things to come. The earth seen by the cinema

Second year of the retrospective Things to Come, on the dystonic-catastrophic-apocalyptic vision of our future by the cinema, often mediated by literature.

TorinoFilmLab

TorinoFilmLab (TFL) is an international creative community supporting young filmmakers from all over the world through training, development, funding and distribution activities. It has completed 68 films, presented in the major internatinal film festivals and distributed worldwide.

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