Festival Data:

• Established: 1982
• Genre: General
• Attendance: 90000
• Media Attendance: 600
• Total Number of Films Screened: 360
• Total Screenings: 360
• # of Shorts Screened: 220
• # of Features Screened: 140
• Accreditations: AMPAS, ECFF, FIAPF, FIPRESCI

• Competitive
• Has Panels

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Festival Description:

FEATURE FILM COMPETITION:It is particularly committed to valorizing and comparing independent cinema from every latitude and country, of every genre and language (therefore, it is also open to documentaries, which in recent years have represented a strong point of international festivals like Cannes).

ITALIANA.DOC:Dedicated to Italian documentaries in film or video, this section has followed the process of renewal and rebirth of a “genre” that has traditionally been neglected in Italy, overlooked by theater distribution and television programming. And yet an increasing number of famous fiction directors are trying their hand at documentaries. In recent years, the Festival has helped spotlight a new wave of filmmakers who pay careful attention to the world around them, thus stimulating debate and historical recognition of Italian documentaries (that has begun to appear once again in magazines and involve the more attentive public) in order to bring Italian productions closer to the standards that other countries have already achieved.

ITALIANA.SHORTS:This is why the Festival has decided to reserve a specific competition to them, during which the best examples of recent, unreleased Italian productions will be selected. In this way, the Festival hopes to help acquaint the public with an expressive form that has often been neglected.

REGIONAL COMPETITION: Dedicated to the best short films made by filmmakers and video makers who were born or reside in Piemonte.

OUT OF COMPETITION AND TRIBUTES: Balanced between research and entertainment, authorial influence and trends, fiction and documentary, this part of the program is a synthesis of the year’s most significant film output. Here, genre films and unique examples of authorial production, fashions and upcoming trends, provocations and tributes all follow upon each other, without barring either “mainstream” cinema or solemn rigor, and paying constant and special attention to the most recent works of directors who have been important in the history of the Festival. Aware of the increasing interaction between the imageries of various countries, between cinema and other forms of communication, between past, present and future, this section can include tributes to filmmakers of the past or present

THE ZONE: This new section explores today’s most advanced and experimental productions, with special interest in works and products that, because of their length, technique or language, aren’t generally given much space in normal film distribution for theaters or in prime-time television programming. The section is distinguished by its “out of format” characteristics - extra-short and extra-long - but also by its use of a “mixed” film base and the combination of forms and languages that range from research of video art to video music, oddities that are produced and diffused on the Web, the most innovative television experiences and the most experimental cinema.

The 2007 Festival will feature the complete retrospectives of two directors who were of fundamental importance in independent cinema: John Cassavetes and Wim Wenders.

Film Submissions:

• Call for Entry: http:/ / www.torinofilmfest.org/ ?action=article&id=124&menu=3

Curent Film Previews:

• Bon Appetit!: Parents Choice