FEATURE FILMS COMPETITION

Best Film: "GARAGE"
Directed By: Lenny Abrahamson
(Ireland, 2007, 35mm, 85’)

Special Jury Prize to: "THE ELEPHANT AND THE SEA" Directed By: Woo Ming Jin
(Malaysia-Netherlands, 2007, HD, 95’)

Best Actress Award to: JOAN CHEN for the film "THE HOME SONG STORIES"
Directed By: Tony Ayres
(Australia, 2007, 35mm, 103’)

Best Actor Award to: KIM KANG-WOO for the film "GYEONGUI SEON" (THE RAILROAD)
Directed By: Park Heung-sik
(South Korea, 2006, 35mm, 107’)

ITALIANA.DOC

Best Italian Documentary, in collaboration with Persol to:
"LA NACION MA PUCE"
Directed By: Fausta Quattrini (Switzerland/Italy/Argentina, 2007, DVcam, 96’)

Special Jury Prize to: "L’ESAME DI XHODI"
Directed By: Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio
(Italy, 2007, HD, 62’)

Special Mention to: "BIUTIFUL CAUNTRI"
Directed By: Esmeralda Calabria, Giuseppe Ruggiero and Andrea D’Ambrosio
(Italy, 2007, DVcam, 73’)

ITALIANA.CORTI

Best Italian Short-length Film, in collaboration with Lancia to: "GIGANTI"
Directed By: Fabio Mollo (Italy, 2007, Super16 mm, 24’)

Special Jury Prize –Kodak Award to: "PRIMOGENITO COMPLESSO"
Directed By: Lavinia Chianello and Tomas Creus (Italy-Brazil, 2007, anim., 11’)

Special Mention to: "IL RESTO DI UNA STORIA"
Directed By: Antonio Prata
(Italy-Switzerland, 2007, DVcam, 30’)

REGIONAL COMPETITION / SPAZIO TORINO

Best Short-length Film (euros 2.600 in laboratory services offered by Blue Gold, Milan; euros 5.000 in technical services offered by Unistudio, Torino) to: "IL LAVORO"
Directed By: Lorenzo De Nicola
(Italy, 2007, Digibeta, 16’)

CIPPUTI AWARD

Best Film About the Working World to: "IN FABBRICA"
Directed By: Francesca Comencini
(Italy, 2007, 35 mm, 73’)

FIPRESCI AWARD

Feature Films Competition: Best Film to: "GYEONGUI SEON" (THE RAILROAD)
Directed By: Park Heung-sik
(South Korea, 2007, 35mm, 107’)

Since January, Nanni Moretti, the Italian Director of “The Son’s Room” and “Dear Diary”, has become the new director of the Torino Film Festival, reinforcing the reputation that TFF has gained of being one of European most important cinematographic event. Its purpose is to constitute a meeting point for contemporary International cinema and to provide the opportunity for a discussion on all its perspectives and artistic trends. Particular attention is paid to emerging cinemas and filmmakers. Over the years, it has awarded the early efforts of directors like Hou Hsiao-hsien, Chen Kaige, Amos Gitai, Tsai Ming-liang, David Gordon Green and Lisandro Alonso.
In its competitive sections devoted to “International Feature Films”, “Italian Independent films” and “Italian documentaries”, its first goal is to promote awareness of new films and new directors whose work is characterised by strong formal and stylistic research.
“Out of competition” section and Tributes are a multiple and open expression of our critical point of view concerning the state of contemporary cinema, both fiction and documentaries. It brings what we believe are the richest and meaningful moments of the year’s production, its strong points – by filmmaker, trend, geography or genre.
The international reputation of Torino’s retrospectives has been long affirmed thanks to the thoroughness with which we present the entire opus of the featured directors, the quality of the copies we project and the books which accompany the tributes, not to mentions the encounters with the directors that take place during the Festival and allowed the audience to meet guests like John Landis, John Milius, William Friedkin, Isabella Rossellini, John Carpenter Aleksandr Sokurov, Manuel de Oliveira, Walter Hill, Dario Argento, Joe Dante. A few of the retrospectives presented have become classics (the ones focused on various Nouvelles Vagues of the 1960s in various countries). In 2006 the Festival dedicated retrospectives to Claude Chabrol, Joaquín Jordá and Robert Aldrich.
The selection process will be open at the end of March. You will find our rules and new entry form in our official website (www.torinofilmfest.org)