#TFF 42ma ed. : the news

#TFF 42ma ed. 22-30 November from 2024 diretto da #GiulioBase “Il Torino Film Festival è sempre stato e resta un festival cinefilo e autoriale, a free-spirited film exhibition and competition, original, fresco, independent, scratchy”. This is how the new Artistic Director began, son of migrants born in Turin to whom he owes everything, according to him. This edition of the #TFF - directed by Giulio Base - it is in continuity with the past and at the same time keeps an eye on the new generations, capable of living, interpret and share that strong and powerful soul

Special 35th #TFF Turin Film Festival - OFFICIAL AWARDS AND SIDE

TORINO35 La Giuria di Torino 35 - International Feature Competition, presieduta da Pablo Larraín (Chile) ecomposta da Gillies MacKinnon (UK), Petros Markaris (Greece), Santiago Miter (Argentina), Isabella Ragonese (Italy) awards the prizes: Best Film Award (€ 15.000) a: AL TISHKECHI OTI / DO NOT FORGET ME in Ram Nehari (Israel, France, Germany, 2017) Prize Rebaudengo (€ 7.000) a: FACTORY NOTHING Pedro di Pine (Portugal, 2017) Award for Best Actress in a tie: EMILY BEECHAM per il film DAPHNE di Peter Mackie Burns (UK, 2017) and SHAVIT MOON for the film

Special 35th #TFF Turin Film Festival - The Marina reviews #10 Firstborn (After Hours) - Latvia a disappointing horror

Premiered at the 35th Torino Film Festival, within the After Hours section, Firstborn is the latest feature film by Latvian film director Aik Karapetian, who as early as 2014 he had presented, again in Turin, il suo The Man with the Orange Jacket. The development history of the scene is that of Francis and Katrina, young married couple expecting their firstborn. The drama, just, It begins when the woman is snatched under the eyes of her husband helpless, who, unable to forgive himself and accept his weaknesses, will end up chasing the

Special 35th #TFF Turin Film Festival - The Marina reviews #9 THE LODGERS (After Hours) - Irish-style horror and success is assured

First presented at the 35th Torino Film Festival in After Hours section, The Lodgers is an interesting horror directed by Ireland's Brian O'Malley. The story of Rachel and Edward, twins just come of age, that, orphaned several years before, They are living alone in the big house that belongs to their family for decades. Their parents, as well as their grandparents, their great-grandparents and so on,They were also twins and, through incestuous relationships, They gave birth in turn to new generations, only to die suicide, drowning in the pond in the garden of the house.

Special 35th #TFF Turin Film Festival - The Marina reviews #8 THE SCOPE OF SEPARATION (Competition) - the young Chinese cieneasta Yue Chen disappoint for as little courage to find his own style

Presented in competition at the 35th edition of the Turin Film Festival, The scope of separation is the latest film directed by the young Chinese director Chen Yue. We are located in Taipei. He is a young orphan who Shidong, thanks to the money inherited from parents, It can afford a comfortable life. The boy used to spend his evenings in a pub playing cards or billiards. After a series of reports no later, however, the young man begins to question what his role in the world and, slowly, also undertake its own growth path. We agree,

Special 35th #TFF Turin Film Festival - The Marina reviews #7 WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS (At where) - an intense theatrical piece

Presented within the section Waves at 35 ° Torino Film Festival, En attendant les Barbares is the latest feature film by French director Eugène Green, the result of a workshop that took place in Toulouse in spring 2017. It's night. On the street it's cold. It exudes a strange tension in the air, the point of not even allow people to sleep. At the gates of a castle knocking six quirky characters, each of different origin and social class: the bourgeois couple, the homeless, l'artista, the anarchist and the young student. Terrified by the imminent invasion of the barbarians, the six men ask

Special 35th #TFF Turin Film Festival - The Marina reviews #6 KISS AND CRY (Competition) - a doc focuses not just on sport but also on the human being

Presented in competition at the 35th edition of the Turin Film Festival, Kiss and cry is the last feature film directed by young French directors Chloé Mahieu and Lila Pinell, set in the world of skating on the ice and from a previous medium-length documentary directed by the same authors. In front of a camera that, while telling fictional stories, It does not deviate too much from reality and documentary form, take off, therefore, Sarah's stories, Carla, Amanda and many other teenagers who every day are divided between the school, hard workouts, friendships

Special 35th #TFF Turin Film Festival - The Marina reviews #5 The disaster artist (After Hours) - apt tribute to James Franco to Tommy Wiseau

Premiered at the 35th edition of the Turin Film Festival, The disaster is the latest artist feature actor and director James Franco, centered on the figure of Tommy Wiseau, author of the feature film and trash, in his own way, cult The Room. The biopic follows step by step the adventures of our Wiseau, the birth of the artistic partnership with Greg Sestero, until the evening of the first of The Room. Given the scope of the topic, of course one wonders if an author as prolific James Franco - commendable as an interpreter, but that, despite being a undoubtedly valid filmmaker, not always

Special 35th #TFF Turin Film Festival - The Marina reviews #3 MOTHER, SON AND GRANDMOTHER (Competition) - The inexorable passage of time is the protagonist in the essentiality of the film.

Presented at the 35th edition of the Turin Film festival, Mother, el hijo y la abuela is the latest film directed by the young Chilean director Benjamin Brunet. And the story, this, Young Cristobal, photographer and independent filmmaker, after finding out that he was adopted, returns to his village, in order to make a documentary about his origins and find out more details about his past. Here the boy encounters Ana, middle-aged woman who lives with his elderly mother Maria, sick stomach. The woman, feeling the lack of his son Gonzalo

Special 35th #TFF Turin Film Festival - The Marina reviews #2 MOST BEATIFUL ISLAND (After Hours) - First on the shoulders of the protagonist

Presented at the 35th edition of the Turin Film Festival in After Hours section, Most Beautiful Island is the first work of the director and Spanish actress Ana Asensio. Luciana is a comely Spanish girl with a difficult past behind, which, in order to start a new life, He has decided to move away from his country of origin. The economic crisis and, mostly, the fact of finding themselves alone in a foreign country, prevent her from finding its own stability. The woman, forced to be divided among multiple jobs, He will end up accepting a mysterious assignment, very well paid, at one

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