If The Substance explored ageism through the transformation of the body, a film featured in the line-up of the 43rd edition of the Torino Film Festival uses the same means to discuss white ethnocentrism. Slanted follows Joan Huang (Shirley Chen), a Chinese-American teen, who moved with her family from China to the star-spangled country when…
The Closing Film of the 43rd edition of the Torino Film Festival Nuremberg brought to the silver screen a story that explores the familiarisation with the enemy. Film director James Vanderbilt portrays the Allied trials of the 1940s, following the fall of the Nazi regime. American psychiatrist Douglas Kelly (Rami Malek) is assigned to evaluate…
©Courtesy of Torino Film Festival The 43rd Torino Film Festival took place from November 21st to November 29th 2025, under the aegis of the National Museum of Cinema, presided by Enzo Ghigo and directed by Carlo Chatrian, with the artistic direction of Giulio Base. This was the second year that Giulio Base was at the…
The 43rd Torino Film Festival has been the stage to the new work of one of the few female filmmakers from the Kingdom of Bhutan. Dechen Roder started off making small documentaries and videos, through her production company Dakinny Productions, incepted in 2009. In 2015 she wrote and directed Lo Sum Choe Sum, which competed…
The Latin saying ‘gutta cavat lapidem’ (a drop of water digs through the rock) clearly reflects the spirit of the documentary directed by Sara Khaki & Mohammadreza Eyni. Cutting Through Rocks portrays the feminist fight of a woman in a patriarchal land. Sara Shahverdi is a former midwife, she is divorced, rides her motorcycle, dresses…
The film written and directed by Nia DaCosta reimagines the play by Henrik Ibsen, Hedda Gabler. Just like the Norwegian stage drama, the film portrays the experiences of the daughter of a general, who is trapped in a marriage and a house that she does not want. Hedda shows the titular character, played by Tessa…
The Netflix docu-series Victoria Beckham captures the professional growth of Victoria Adams, the Spice Girl, who became the WAG when marrying footballer David Beckham, who ultimately flourished into the fashion designer we know of today. If the world wanted her to be Posh Spice forever, or the trophy wife of an athlete, Victoria Beckham proved…
Richard Gere has left his mark on the silver screen with films such as An Officer and a Gentleman, Days of Heaven, American Gigolo, Breathless, Pretty Woman, First Knight, Primal Fear, Chicago, Unfaithful, Looking for Mr. Goodbar, Cotton Club, Shall We Dance? and Internal Affairs. But the list of his prestigious performances is long, featuring…
We are in Argentina in the year 1983, when targets of the military dictatorship are all those believed to be associated with activist groups. The story takes place in prison, where two inmates are forced to share a cramped cell: Molina (Tonatiuh), a window dresser convicted of public indecency and Marxist revolutionary Valentín (Diego Luna)….
The Academy Award-winning Mexican filmmaker Alejandro González Iñárritu has marked his third collaboration with Fondazione Prada. Sueño Perro: A Film Installation by Alejandro G. Iñárritu is a multi-sensory exhibition rooted in the intersection of cinema and visual art, where old film reel catapults those who live in the digital era to a time of unpixelated…
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