The 43rd Turin Film Festival kicks off Friday with a star-studded lineup of glamorous and auteur cinema.
The event, under the artistic direction of Giulio Base for the second year, is scheduled for November 21st to 29th and will bring some of the biggest names in world cinema to Turin.
The red carpet at the Teatro Regio on the opening night will feature Jacqueline Bisset, Daniel Brühl, Spike Lee, Antonio Banderas, Claude Lelouch, Stefania Sandrelli, Aleksandr Sokurov, and Sergio Castellitto.
Each of them will receive the Star of the Mole, the prestigious award that the National Cinema Museum bestows on guests whose careers have marked the history of the seventh art.
In the following days, it will be the turn of Vanessa Redgrave, Juliette Binoche, Terry Gilliam, and Vincent Lindon, who are also expected in Turin to receive the Star.
The festival will also welcome Dominique Sanda, Dolph Lundgren, and Hanna Schygulla, who will round out the lineup of guests.
Laura Chiatti, along with Giulio Base, will host the opening night.
Also expected to attend are Lucia Bergonzoni, Undersecretary of Culture, Federico Mollicone, President of the Chamber of Deputies' Culture Commission, the Governor of Piedmont Alberto Cirio, and Mayor Stefano Lo Russo.
The red carpet will begin at 5:30 pm and last one hour.
A new feature is the rush line: if there are empty seats in the hall at 6:30 pm, the first in line will be admitted free of charge.
The evening will open with the Teatro Regio Torino Children's Choir, conducted by Maestro Claudio Fenoglio, performing an a cappella performance of the famous song "Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head" by Burt Bacharach and Hal David, from the film Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, as a musical tribute to Paul Newman.
The opening film is Eternity, presented as an Italian premiere by director David Freyne.
Like last year, the program will feature 120 films (104 feature films and 16 short films) divided into three competition sections (feature films, documentaries, and short films) and three non-competitive sections (Out of Competition, Zibaldone, and the Paul Newman Retrospective with 24 films).
Each film will be presented or introduced by directors or actors, firsthand accounts, or representatives of film culture and critics.
There are 42 Italian premieres and 23 world premieres.
Four Palestinian productions are on the program, including documentaries, feature films, short films, and out of competition films.
No TV series will be presented, a first.
The collaboration with the Piedmont Foundation for Cancer Research in Candiolo has been confirmed: all proceeds from the screening of Angelo Bozzolini's film "Juventus - The Golden Decade," premiering on November 26th at 9:00 PM at the Reposi Cinema in the Zibaldone section, will be donated to the Foundation.
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