Tff, it starts on Friday among the stars at Reggia di Venaria – Cinema
A festival full of meetings with directors, actors and musicians, but above all with the mission of discovering new talents and the cinema of the past. This is how the 41st edition of the Turin Film Festival – the last directed by Steve Della Casa, ready to hand over the helm to base Giulio – begins on Friday with the inauguration at the Reggia di Venaria. The godmother of the opening ceremony is actress and former model Catrinel Marlon, protagonist of one of the great masters of Italian cinema, Pupi Avati, director, producer and screenwriter, and Micaela Ramazzotti, Lodo Guenzi and Neri Marcorè will also be on stage. Radio Rai Tre will broadcast the Hollywood Party live. TFF’s special guest will be Oliver Stone with his documentary Nuclear Now: the director, screenwriter, producer, winner of 3 Oscars and 5 Golden Globes will hold a masterclass on Saturday, December 2. Paolo Conte, Gifuni, Morante, Martone, Gassman, Drusilla Foer, Mario Martone, Barbara Ronchi, Thomas Cailley, Roberto Faenza and Monica Guerritore are also expected. 181 films will be presented in the official selection – of which 128 feature-length, 13 medium-length. – feature films, 40 short films, 59 world premieres, 10 international, 3 European and 68 Italian – after a selection of more than 4,000 reviewed works. “It’s a release that fascinated me when we presented it and it fascinates me today as I scroll through the program: a retrospective of the western to which Nespol’s poster is dedicated, films by very attractive directors, films out of competition, documentaries,” underlines the president of the Cinema Museum, Enzo Ghigo, who quotes the film about Marcello Lippi, the coach who led Italy to victory in the 2006 World Cup, and the first full retrospective dedicated to Sergio Citti, a film about the wonders of the Egyptian Museum. “It will be a really nice festival. I hope that cinematography is really recovering and that this edition of the festival will contribute to strengthening the emotional connection between the audience and the theater that has been somewhat lost.” The director of the Museum of Cinema, Domenico De Gaetano, also recalls Davide Ferrari’s film ‘After Midnight’, shot in 2004 inside Krtica, which revealed to the world a new image of the city: it is coming back to life digitally and will be shown. in the public of Tff in the column ‘Back to life’ on Monday, November 27 at 7 p.m.
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