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.
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