Turin Film Fest to have 100% audiences

(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 9 - This year's Turin Film Festival (TFF) is to have 100% audiences, the first such in-person full capacity since the pandemic started, organizers said Tuesday.
    The 39th TFF will run from November 26 to December 4 showing 181 films including 68 world premieres, 14 international and 53 Italian.
    "We have been working on this fest for a year," said the director of the northern city's cinema museum, Domenico De Gaetano, and its president, Enzo Ghigo.
    "We always hoped to have an in-person audience. Physicial encounters between the public and artists have always been at the centre of a festival born 39 years ago out of pure love for cinema, with an eye on the youth world, debut works and experimental cinema".
    The inaugural film, on November 26 at the UCI Cinema Lingotto, one of four festival sites including the Lux, the Massimo and the Greenwich Village, will be the world premier of the animation film Sing 2 starring Matthew McConaughey, Reese Witherspoon, Scarlett Johansson, Nick Kroll, and Taron Egerton.
    The closing film on December 4 will be Alice by Valerie Lemercier, on the teen years of Celine Dion.
    Monica Bellucci will received the Stella della Mole Prize for career achievement.
    The jury, chaired by Hungarian director Ildiko Enyedi, cwill include Alessandro Gassman.
    The festival will be hosted by Emanuela Fanelli. (ANSA).