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:

The Torino Film Festival was founded in 1982 by film critic and professor Gianni Rondolino as Festival Internazionale Cinema Giovani or the Festival of Young Cinema. In a 1998 name change FYC became TFF. The Festival's main sections include:

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM COMPETITION -The main competitive section of the festival is reserved to directors making their first, second or third film. The festival concentrates on young cinema and focuses primarily on searching out and discovering innovative talents that express the best contemporary trends of international independent cinema. Over the years, TFF has awarded prizes to the debut works of filmmakers like Tsai Ming-liang, David Gordon Green, Chen Kaige and Lisandro Alonso. These works belong to the cinema and represent a variety of genres, languages and trends. Documentaries not only participate in the competition that is reserved specifically to Italian documentaries but also in the main competition.

A MOVEABLE FEAST - A Moveable Feast is a voyage through the best films of the year, emerging trends, unusual premiere viewings, the most stimulating novelties. Basically, this is an overview of the most significant and innovative films of the year, never projected in Italy before, but which cannot participate in the feature films competition for various reasons (the fame of the director, participation in a major festival abroad, a lack of technical requisites, etc.). This section constantly combines entertainment and research, authors and trends, fiction and documentaries, provocations and anticipations. Thus, it is marked by two parallel paths: "Figures in a Landscape" that focuses on fiction films, and "Landscape with Figures" devoted to documentaries.

WAVES - Waves is the section in which the Torino Film Festival's tradition of research and renewal is pushed to the limit, into territories that are at the outer edge of genres, languages, standards and lengths. This is the section in which the consolidated poetics of the maestros encounter the extreme experimentation of young filmmakers or the most unexpected formulas of contemporary filmmaking. Here, images search for their future, filming rediscovers its infancy in the archives and in new standards, and cartooning reveals itself as a place of animation and innovation both before and after digital aspirations. The works' length can vary from the very short to the very long and they range from film emulsions to the high or low definition of digital technology.

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.

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.

Film Submissions:

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

Curent Film Previews:

• Bon Appetit!: Parents Choice