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44th Torino Film Festival programming

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The 44th Torino Film Festival, scheduled for November 24 to December 2, 2026, has announced its lineup and key programming details. The edition will feature a 24-film retrospective dedicated to Marilyn Monroe to mark the centenary of her birth. The program includes 120 titles across three competition sections for feature films, documentaries, and short films, alongside three non-competitive categories. Artistic director Giulio Base emphasized that while the festival welcomes major stars, it maintains a focus on auteur cinema and discovery. The festival also highlights female presence, with ten of the sixteen directors in competition being women, and three women, Francesca Archibugi, Stefania Casini, and Chiara Francini, leading the competition juries. High-profile guests include Isabelle Huppert, Fanny Ardant, Andy Garcia, Pamela Anderson, Luc Besson, and Stephen Frears, who will be honored with the Stella della Mole award. Actor John Travolta will also receive the Stella della Mole to honor his five-decade career. He is set to present the Italian premiere of his directorial project, ‘Propeller One-Way Night Coach’, a film he wrote, directed, narrated, and produced. The festival will open at the Teatro Regio with the international premiere of ‘November 1963’, directed by Roland Joffé. The film examines the assassination of President John F. Kennedy through the lens of American organized crime and features Travolta as mobster Johnny Roselli. The opening event will feature both Joffé and Travolta. Following the festival, the film is scheduled for release in Italian cinemas on December 3, 2026, distributed by Eagle Pictures. Additional programming details include the competition premiere of ‘Il primo sguardo di vita di Leonardo Revelli, figlio unico’, the debut film by Stefano Grasso. Starring Valerio Mastandrea, Francesco Gheghi, and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, the film depicts the life of a young man raised by psychoanalysts.

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