TORINO 28 - INTERNATIONAL FEATURE FILM COMPETITION

The main competitive section of the festival is reserved to directors making their first, second or third film and this year presents sixteen newly produced films that have not yet been presented in Italy. As always, 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, the festival 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 ‚Äúof the future‚ and represent a variety of genres, languages and trends. Thus, documentaries will not only participate in the competition that is reserved specifically to Italian documentaries but also in the main competition.
In 2009, La bocca del lupo by Pietro Marcello (Italy) was awarded the Best Film prize while Crackie by Sherry White (Canada) and Guy and Madeleine on a Park Bench by Damien Chazelle (USA) gained ex aequo the Special Jury Prize, Catalina Saavedra in La nana by Sebastiàn Silva (Chile) the Best Actress prize and Robert Duvall and Bill Murray in Get Low by Aaron Schneider (USA) the Best Actor prize.