With a total of 173 films – of which 135 feature films, 81 world premieres and 10 international premiers - new sections including a competitive line-up dedicated to horror and another to cult westerns, awards for Malcolm McDowell and the long-time collaborator of Kubrick and Altman Mike Kaplan, and masterclasses courtesy of Paolo Sorrentino, Mario Martone and Toni Servillo, among other offerings - the 40th Torino Film Festival, unspooling between 25 November and 3 December under the direction of film critic and director Steve Della Casa (who’s taking back the festival reins after a twenty-year hiatus), is taking up the challenge to lure audiences back into cinemas, multiplying the number of screens available, creating a new meeting place for professionals and film lovers (Casa Festival, which is open to all) and offering up a rich programme of Italian and international films, whether popular choices or unusual offerings.

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“A cultured yet popular, experimental yet enjoyable festival” is how Della Casa’s TFF is being presented. And this as early on as from its opening event in Turin’s Teatro Regio, set to be broadcast live on RAI Radio for the first time ever, which will explore the relationship between The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and film, through interviews and rare footage which audiences will get to see in cinemas and listen to via radio, and which will also involve Malcolm McDowell, among other names. The iconic English actor from A Clockwork Orange will also be this year’s guest of honour in Turin, receiving the Stella della Mole Prize and delivering a masterclass.

The international feature film competition, for its part, will consist of twelve films (first, second and third works), including Jailbird [+lee también:
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entrevista: Nikola Spasic
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entrevista: Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk
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entrevista: Ştefan Constantinescu
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entrevista: Lola Quivoron y Julie Ledru
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The Out of Competition line-up is equally rich, offering up a map of the main trends in contemporary cinema. We’ll see the return of some great authors and friends of the festival (Werner Herzog with The Fire Within: A Requiem For Katia And Maurice Krafft [+lee también:
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entrevista: Elliott Crosset Hove
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entrevista: Chie Hayakawa
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ficha de la película] by Sam Mendes and She Said by Maria Schrader, which explores the Weinstein affair. Italian series will also be present at the festival via Giancarlo Fontana’s Bad Guy and Lucio Pellegrini’s Il nostro generale.

A retrospective is also on the agenda for Spanish director Carlos Vermut, who will see four of his films screened, including his new work Mantícore [+lee también:
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ficha de la película], while the festival’s numerous new sections include the Bad Tales line-up, which will present new ominous stories, including Alberto Mascia’s Hypersleep [+lee también:
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