Turin FF, film city offers a programme for both cinephiles and wider public

10/11/2011

The 29th edition of the Turin Film Festival will from November 25 until December 3 offer up a tantalising selection of 217 titles, of which 32 world premieres and 20 international ones. A few excellent tips stick out from this iceberg, such as the pre-opening with Le Havre [+see also:
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The director Gianni Amelio, in his third experience as artistic director after the brief parenthesis of Nanni Moretti, claims that "the big show is also great culture" and the festival suggests giving greater opportunity to the public and a little less to the “niche” of cinephiles, bringing the Turin Festival closer to that of Berlin. In actual fact, Turin, with its budget of 2 Million, compared to the 12M allocated to the festival with a popular vocation par excellence, Rome, shows that one can make a wide, refined selection of films of high quality simply by touring the world on the lookout for beautiful films.

The competition, made up of first, second and extraordinarily third works sees 26 titles in the running, of which almost half are European: France’s 17 Filles [+see also:
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