The curtain rises on the Turin Film Festival 2021: the billboard of the 39th edition of the Piedmontese festival, scheduled from 26 November to 4 December, has been unveiled.
The opening will be «Sing 2», the sequel to the successful animated film which will hit our theaters on December 23rd.
In the international competition space for 12 first and second works, with the usual attention to those new directors who could stand out in the future: among these, also the famous French actress Sandrine Kiberlain, who has chosen to try her hand behind the camera with his debut “Une jeune fille qui va bien”, set in Paris in 1942. Within the main competition there is also an Italian film, “Il muto di Gallura” by Matteo Fresi, presented as a sort of western set in the mountains and the woods of Gallura where, between 1849 and 1856, a ferocious feud between different families took place which caused dozens of deaths. Among the architects was Bastiano Tansu, known as the Mute, who became the protagonist of a legend still today, in part, shrouded in mystery.
Out of competition
Far from the spotlight of the competition immediately stands out the presence of the new, highly anticipated feature film by Clint Eastwood, “Cry Macho”: the great American actor and director will also be honored by the documentary “Clint Eastwood – A Cinematic Legacy”, a film in nine chapters dedicated to beloved author of masterpieces such as “Unforgiven” and “Million Dollar Baby”.
Among the numerous Italian directors we mention Mario Sesti with “Other fathers”, Davide Ferrario with “Blood on the Crown”, Ivan Cotroneo with “Fourteen days” and the couple Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis with the surprising “Re Granchio”, seen at the last Cannes Film Festival. Still from the Croisette come other titles included in the Out of Competition – Surprise section: from “Tromperie” by Arnaud Desplechin to “Bergman Island” by Mia Hansen-Løve, passing through “Les intranquilles” by Joachim Lafosse and “A mother, a daughter” by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun, there are numerous highly appealing feature films in this group.
Special Eduardo De Filippo
Great curiosity also for the Eduardo De Filippo Special: after the success of the television film “Natale in casa Cupiello”, the director Edoardo De Angelis returns to frequent Eduardo’s texts composing a sort of ideal trilogy, with Sergio Castellitto always the protagonist. The two titles that will be presented are “I don’t pay you” and “Saturday, Sunday and Monday”.