Valerio Mastrandrea's 'Ride'
will be the only Italian film competing for an award at the 36th
edition of the Turin Film Festival opening on November 23
through December 1.
Overall, 15 feature films will be competing for a prize at
the festival in the north-western Italian city, which will close
with Nanni Moretti's documentary 'Santiago, Italia'.
This year's edition will be "varied and heterogeneous", said
its artistic director Emanuela Martini, presenting the event at
Rome's Casa del Cinema on Tuesday.
The festival is opening with Jason Reitman's The Front
Runner, with Hugh Jackman, Vera Farmiga, J.K. Simmons and Alfred
Molina, which will hit movie theaters on February 21.
A total of 133 feature films, 23 movies and 22 short films,
including 59 Italian premieres, will be screened for a budget of
1.9 million euros, slightly lower than last year, organizers
said.
Many Italian films will be presented in the section Festa
Mobile (mobile feast).
One is 'Bulli e Pupe' (bullies and dolls) by Steve Della Casa
and Chiara Rondini, a voyage through Italy's post-World War II
archives.
Another is 'Il gusto della libertà - Cinema e '68' (the taste
of freedom - cinema and 1968), by Giovanni Ventura, an insight
into how such a time affected the Venice and Cannes film
festivals.
Other highlights of this section are: 'Man who stole Bansky'
by Marco Proserpio, a voyage through the Palestinian occupied
territories through the eyes of a mysterious artist; 'I nomi del
signor Sulcic' (the names of Mr Sulcic) by Elisabetta Sgarbi;
'Ovunque proteggimi' (protect me everywhere) by Bonifacio
Augias; 'Ragazzi di stadio quarant'anni dopo' (guys at the
stadium 40 years later); 'Sexy story' by Cristina Comencini and
Roberto Moroni, on the evolution of the image of women from the
1950s until present times.
Also at Festa Mobile: 'Ash is purest white' with Zhao Tao, a
cult actress and wife of the jury's president this year in
Turin, Jia Zhangke; 'Colette', a biopic of the writer with Keira
Knightley; 'The white crow' with Ralph Fiennes and 'Pretenders'
by James Franco on two young friends who are in love with the
same woman for a decade.
Films competing for an award include 'Wildlife', Paul Dano's
first movie, with Jake Gyllenhaal and Carey Mulligan.
Italian filmmaker Pupi Avati will be the 'guest director' of
the section Unforgettables, which focuses on his passions -
music and cinema - with movies including 'The Glenn Millar
story' and 'Thirty short films about Glenn Gould'.
The festival will also pay homage to late director Ermanno
Olmi with 'Lunga vita a Ermanno Olmi (long life to Ermanno
Olmi), with an entire day dedicated to his films and
documentaries.
The section After Hour will include 'High life', the first
science fiction film by Claire Danes with Robert Pattinson and
Juliette Binoche and horror film 'Many' with Nicolas Cage.
The award Gran Premio Torino will be presented by French
actor Jean-Pierre Léaud.
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