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by Daphné Hérétakis
Greece (2012, 5')
TFFDOC/DOCUMENTI

  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 24, ore 22:15 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 27, ore 22:30 Buy ticket


All media, including cinema, are hugely responsible for a crisis that goes beyond politics and money. In Greece it is hard to distinguish between the proverbial feces and the media ventilator that spreads the stench. There will always be shit, this is a search for a different ventilator.


11.25 JIKETSU NO HI, MISHIMA YUKIO TO WAKAMONOTACHI
11.25 THE DAY MISHIMA CHOSE HIS OWN FATE

by Koji Wakamatsu
Japan (2012, 120')
TORINO XXX

  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 23, ore 17:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 1, November 24, ore 17:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 1, November 27, ore 21:45 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 2, November 30, ore 22:15 Buy ticket


A faithful and articulated reconstruction of the events which led to the ritualistic and “political” suicide of the author Yukio Mishima in 1970. The second-to-the-last film by the great Koji Wakamatsu, a profound and detached dissection of Japan’s history, the other face of United Red Army and the second chapter of an ideal diptych. Essential and complex, suave and cutting. In its own way, enigmatic.


28 HOTEL ROOMS

by Matt Ross
USA (2012, 82')
FESTA MOBILE

  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 1, November 24, ore 14:15 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 1, November 27, ore 20:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 1, November 29, ore 12:00 Buy ticket


They meet in a hotel and spend the night together: the first of 28 adulterous and secret rendezvous, in a crescendo of complications, mounting jealousies, and complex relationships. The impossibility of sex without involvement and the hypocrisies of emotions, told in a flow of words that are both light-hearted and intense, in a series of frigid non-places. The debut film by actor Matt Ross.


31
31 MEANS TROUBLE

by Miguel Gomes
Portugal (2001, 27')
ONDE/MIGUEL GOMES

  • Cinema Lux - Sala 1, November 24, ore 21:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 28, ore 14:00 Buy ticket


April 1974: a boy and a girl play tennis; on the other side of the fence, they discover a world that is new to them. The Carnation Revolution according to Miguel Gomes, in a semi-serious political film, part slapstick, part home movie and with a focus on newsreels of the time.


4 BÂTIMENTS, FACE À LA MER
4 BUILDINGS, FACING THE SEA

by Philippe Rouy
France (2012, 47')
TFFDOC/INTERNAZIONALE.DOC

  • Cinema Lux - Sala 2, November 24, ore 11:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 2, November 27, ore 17:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 2, November 30, ore 14:30 Buy ticket


In June 2011, as a sign of transparency, TEPCO installed a live webcam at the Fukushima nuclear reactor and it revealed the extent of the disaster: a window onto the spectral landscape of an apocalyptical future, populated by creatures straight out of the imagery of Honda Ishirō. But the unexpected gesture of a workman, facing the camera, reminds us where we are and what our responsibilities are.


A CARA QUE MERECES
THE FACE YOU DESERVE

by Miguel Gomes
Portugal (2004, 108')
ONDE/MIGUEL GOMES

  • Cinema Lux - Sala 1, November 25, ore 22:15 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 29, ore 14:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 1, November 30, ore 21:45 Buy ticket


“Until you’re thirty, you have the face God gave you; after that, you have the face you deserve.” This is what they all tell Francisco on the day he turns thirty. In the meantime, he wanders around the party dressed like a cowboy, as though he were one of the children he teaches but can’t stand. Adulthood, between mystery and adventure, in search of a story to interpret, among the many which were learned as children. Including love.


A CHILD WENT FORTH

by Joseph Losey
USA (1941, 18')
JOSEPH LOSEY

  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 5, November 26, ore 17:15 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 5, November 27, ore 11:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 5, December 01, ore 12:00 Buy ticket


Three of Losey’s first films: made for the World’s Fair in 1939, the story of a drop of oil which wants to prove to the world how indispensable it is; a documentary about a summer camp which brings together children of all races and nationalities; and an episode from a detective series which tells the cautionary story of a corrupt policeman.


A DOLL'S HOUSE

by Joseph Losey
UK (1973, 106')
JOSEPH LOSEY

  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 5, November 27, ore 17:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 5, November 28, ore 09:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 5, November 29, ore 11:30 Buy ticket


Nora did something illegal in the past to help her husband. Many years later, she continues to be the “doll” of the house. But the past returns and Nora changes. Based on Ibsen, with a screenplay by David Mercer, a film which has echoes of feminism and the social commitment of its star, Jane Fonda. “To me, Nora is a woman who does what she wants in a man’s world; Jane struck me as the ideal actress.”


A GUN IN HIS HAND

by Joseph Losey
USA (1945, 19')
JOSEPH LOSEY

  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 5, November 26, ore 17:15 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 5, November 27, ore 11:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 5, December 01, ore 12:00 Buy ticket


Three of Losey’s first films: made for the World’s Fair in 1939, the story of a drop of oil which wants to prove to the world how indispensable it is; a documentary about a summer camp which brings together children of all races and nationalities; and an episode from a detective series which tells the cautionary story of a corrupt policeman.


A LIAR'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY - THE UNTRUE STORY OF MONTY PYTHON'S GRAHAM CHAPMAN 3D

by Bill Jones, Jeff Simpson, Ben TImlett
UK (2012, 85')
FESTA MOBILE

  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 2, November 29, ore 18:30
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 1, November 30, ore 17:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 1, December 01, ore 10:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 1, December 01, ore 20:30 Buy ticket


Based on the fake autobiography of the Python Graham Chapman (who died in 1989), here is the delirious story of his life, reconstructed through the efforts of fifteen different groups of animators into a surreal and irresistible collage: from medical school, to his coming out, to his kidnapping by aliens. With Cleese, Gilliam, Jones and Palin, playing themselves and many other characters.


A MAN ON THE BEACH

by Joseph Losey
UK (1955, 29')
JOSEPH LOSEY

  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 5, November 26, ore 17:15 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 5, November 27, ore 11:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 5, December 01, ore 12:00 Buy ticket


Two shorts from Losey’s English period: the first, produced by Hammer Films, is about a robbery and a robber’s getaway; the second is a promotional documentary for the Ford Motor Company.


A ÚLTIMA VEZ QUE VI MACAU
THE LAST TIME I SAW MACAO

by João Pedro Rodrigues, João Rui Guerra da Mata
Portugal (2012, 85')
TFFDOC/INTERNAZIONALE.DOC

  • Cinema Lux - Sala 2, November 29, ore 12:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 2, November 30, ore 19:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 2, December 01, ore 15:00 Buy ticket


“Thirty years later, I’m on my way to Macao, where I haven’t been since I was a child. I received an e-mail from Candy, a friend I hadn’t heard from in a long time. She told me she was mixed up with the wrong people again. She was in danger and she was asking me to join her.” Beyond the confines of a documentary, in search of the perfect Film Noir, made of places, gazes and secrets, where memory is a mysterious island you might never return from.


ABIGAIL HARM

by Lee Isaac Chung
USA (2012, 80')
ONDE

  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 23, ore 19:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 24, ore 17:15 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 25, ore 10:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 2, November 30, ore 22:00


Abigail (Amanda Plummer) is getting on in years; she warms her solitude by wearing the cloak of the good Samaritan, taking care of her father and the blind (Burt Young). Love – the real thing – arrives like an “angel,” a gift from a down-and-out fellow (Will Patton). A tender apologue about dependence and freedom, soul searching and communion with the world, which the Asian-American Lee Isaac Chung (whose film Lucky Life is also in Waves) has based on a Korean legend.


ACCIDENT

by Joseph Losey
UK (1967, 105')
JOSEPH LOSEY

  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 5, November 24, ore 17:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 5, November 25, ore 14:45 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 4, November 27, ore 19:45 Buy ticket


One night, two young men are in a car wreck near the house of one of their professors, who reconstructs their life over the last few weeks. Even more agonizing than The Servant, a merciless portrait of the grudges, jealousies and subtle desperation hidden below the peaceful surface of Oxford life. Pinter’s screenplay is right on target, the friends-rivals Bogarde and Baker are very sharp, the “prey” Jaqueline Sassard is impenetrable.


AFRIKKA
AFRICA

by Matti Harju
Finland (2012, 9')
ONDE

  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 25, ore 22:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 30, ore 22:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, December 01, ore 17:30 Buy ticket


Something has snapped inside of Glenn: the confusion of sounds, voices and thoughts he hears frightens him and his only friend, who doesn’t know how to help him… A reflection on psychosis, lucid and appalling, an empathetic disconnection from the perception of reality.


AFTER THE END OF THE NIGHT

by Michel Balague
Greece (2011, 3')
TFFDOC/DOCUMENTI

  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 24, ore 22:15 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 27, ore 22:30 Buy ticket


All media, including cinema, are hugely responsible for a crisis that goes beyond politics and money. In Greece it is hard to distinguish between the proverbial feces and the media ventilator that spreads the stench. There will always be shit, this is a search for a different ventilator.


AGE IS...

by Stephen Dwoskin
UK (2012, 72')
ONDE

  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 24, ore 20:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 25, ore 12:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 28, ore 12:00 Buy ticket


The slow movements, the half-awake condition of memory: the feeble resistance of time in an elegy to old age. The film testament of Stephen Dwoskin (who died on June 28th, 2012) is a legacy of tenderness to a world which is hanging on to the margins of existence. Beyond the pain and the memories, in the persistence of the present. Filmed (in part) by filmmakers who were close to him and with music by Alexander Balanescu.


AM HIMMEL DER TAG
BREAKING HORIZON

by Pola Beck
Germany (2012, 86')
TORINO 30

  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 2, November 25, ore 11:00
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 3, November 26, ore 17:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 3, November 27, ore 11:15 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 3, November 28, ore 22:30 Buy ticket


26-year-old Lara is restless and dissatisfied; she spends her nights roaming clubs with her friend Nora. One day, she realizes she is pregnant after having had  some occasional sex and has to decide whether or not to keep the baby. An all-female drama, with dry and measured tones, a story of solitude, maturity and maternity, without sidestepping doubt, pain and tenderness.


AMLETO²
HAMLET²

by Felice Cappa
Italy (2012, 90')
FESTA MOBILE

  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 2, November 26, ore 15:45
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 1, November 27, ore 19:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 1, November 28, ore 09:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 1, November 29, ore 17:00 Buy ticket


Mocking and histrionic, Hamlet sits on the throne, dressed like a woman. With him are a boy and a girl, who the prince touches and caresses, abandoning himself to an overwhelming flow of verbosity. A monologue or not a monologue? Oof! Shakespeare and Petrolini, blood on the stage, the queen with legs akimbo, Ophelia and Lucio Battisti. In 3D, the cult show written and performed by Filippo Timi.


ANIJA

by Roland Sejko
Italy (2012, 80')
TFFDOC/PROIEZIONE SPECIALE

  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 2, November 25, ore 14:45 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 2, November 26, ore 11:15 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 1, November 27, ore 11:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 2, December 01, ore 10:00


In early March 1991, a number of ships laden with men, women and children appeared off the Adriatic coast of southern Italy. It was the beginning of the so-called “Exodus of the Albanians.” Never before in the post-war period had a mass emigration of such proportions taken place. Who were they? What were they running away from? And where are they today, 20 years later?


ANITA

by Luca Magi
Italy (2012, 55')
TFFDOC/ITALIANA.DOC

  • Cinema Lux - Sala 3, November 24, ore 17:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 2, November 28, ore 17:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 2, November 29, ore 09:45 Buy ticket


Anita is a film of encounters and timeless characters, met during the course of the imaginary journey of Guido and Anita, the lovers and protagonists of the unpublished screenplay by Fellini, Viaggio con Anita. A hypnotic trip back  to the childhood of a secret Italy, the subconscious of a country, safeguarded in old super8 movies that had been forgotten in the attic.


ANNA KARENINA

by Joe Wright
UK (2012, 130')
FESTA MOBILE

  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 2, November 29, ore 21:00
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 3, November 30, ore 22:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 1, December 01, ore 11:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 1, December 01, ore 21:00 Buy ticket


Sumptuous, crazy, supremely kitsch, the literary adaptation you wouldn’t expect: the tragic story of Tolstoy’s heroine, encapsulated on a stage that expands and deforms itself until it envelopes the streets of Moscow and balls at the Imperial palace. Somewhere between Baz Luhrmann and Kenn Russell, a pop piece directed by Joe Wright and written by Tom Stoppard (Shakespeare in Love), starring Keira Knightley, Jude Law and Aaron Johnson.


AQUELE QUERIDO MÊS DE AGOSTO
OUR BELOVED MONTH OF AUGUST

by Miguel Gomes
Portugal (2008, 150')
ONDE/MIGUEL GOMES

  • Cinema Lux - Sala 1, November 26, ore 16:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 30, ore 14:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 1, December 01, ore 10:00 Buy ticket


Village celebrations, karaoke, fireworks, wild boar hunting, diving off the bridge, the loves which are consummated in the one month of the year when Portugal’s inland regions are repopulated. Part anthropologist and part storyteller, Gomes captures the soul of his country, transforming a small innocent world into a universe of faces, places and stories to be told.


ARIANNA

by Alessandro Scippa
Italy (2012, 61')
ONDE

  • Cinema Lux - Sala 3, November 27, ore 17:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 3, November 28, ore 09:15 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 3, November 30, ore 19:15 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 2, December 01, ore 15:00


Arianna uses thread to sew clothes. Her boyfriend, Adolfo, keeps bees which fly away. He loves her deeply but he feels a growing need to go away. She waits for his presence to become an absence, holding within the breath of love. A film about the nostalgia that already inhabits a house that will soon be left, written with patient yet taut gestures, reminiscent of Garrel, with break-ups and embraces that give no respite to love.


ARRABAL

by Humberto Lopez Y Guerra
Sweden (1979, 61')
FESTA MOBILE/CLASSICS

  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 2, November 28, ore 20:30 Buy ticket


The debut film by the co-founder of “panic cinema” is a delirium of Francoism and Oedipus (only for the strong of stomach, and not recommended to animal activists); it depicts a childhood between imagination and reality, surrealism and scatology, against every type of dictatorship. The drawings of the opening credits are by Roland Topor. The film is paired with the rare documentary portrait from 1979 that Humberto López y Guerra dedicated to the artist.


ARTHUR NEWMAN

by Dante Ariola
USA (2012, 101')
TORINO 30

  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 2, November 24, ore 09:00
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 3, November 24, ore 22:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 3, November 25, ore 14:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 3, November 26, ore 19:00 Buy ticket


Dissatisfied, divorced, with an adolescent son who doesn’t even want to see him, a man abruptly decides to change his life. He buys a false identity and disappears. On his way, he meets a girl with a lot of problems. Colin Firth and Emily Blunt in the bitter, moving and sometimes funny story of an existential adventure that has tempted us all. By debut director Dante Ariola.


AUSTERITY MEASURES

by Guillaume Cailleau, Ben Russell
Greece (2011, 8')
TFFDOC/DOCUMENTI

  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 24, ore 22:15 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 27, ore 22:30 Buy ticket


All media, including cinema, are hugely responsible for a crisis that goes beyond politics and money. In Greece it is hard to distinguish between the proverbial feces and the media ventilator that spreads the stench. There will always be shit, this is a search for a different ventilator.


AZ DO MESTA AS
MADE IN ASH

by Iveta Grófová
Czech Republic (2012, 84')
TORINO 30

  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 2, November 26, ore 09:00
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 3, November 27, ore 17:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 3, November 28, ore 12:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 3, November 29, ore 22:15 Buy ticket


Dorota lives in a village in Slovakia with her family and makes plans with her boyfriend. The local unemployment situation forces her to look for a job in the Czech Republic, where she works shifts in a textile factory and renounces all her dreams. Suspended between her stubborn refusal to give in, resignation and a glimmer of hope, the first movie by documentary filmmaker Iveta Grófová deals head-on with a theme of vital relevance.  


BAAD EL MAWKEAA
AFTER THE BATTLE

by Yousry Nasrallah
Egypt (2012, 122')
TORINO XXX

  • Cinema Lux - Sala 1, November 24, ore 11:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 2, November 27, ore 19:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 1, November 28, ore 17:00 Buy ticket


After the clashes in Tahir Square on 2/2/2011, a wealthy and modern-thinking revolutionary woman and a poor and manipulated man develop a strong relationship. Yousry Nasrallah (at the 2004 TFF with La porte du soleil) depicts the Arab spring in a nervous and direct style, influenced by documentary filmmaking and Rossellini’s neorealism, and with a strictly “insider’s” viewpoint.


BABY BIRD, UNBORN

by Katrin Olafsdottir
Iceland (2012, 10')
ONDE

  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 25, ore 22:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 30, ore 22:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, December 01, ore 17:30 Buy ticket


The dreams, memories amd projections of a man and a boy bring to life a free-wheeling kaleidoscope of images and fragments in super8, reflections on the impossibility of completely opening up to reality. Or, on the contrary, on the possibility of taking flight and disappearing.


BADLANDS

by Terrence Malick
USA (1973, 95')
FIGLI E AMANTI

  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 29, ore 16:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 4, November 30, ore 14:30 Buy ticket


After a young couple kills the girl’s father, the two make a bloody getaway into the badlands, the savage deserts of South Dakota. Terrence Malick’s first movie recounts with scathing lucidity the false rebelliousness and the recklessness of a generation, unique in its visionary, ironical and detached view. A gem of American cinema, starring Martin Sheen and Sissy Spacek.


BEOM-JOE-WA-EUI-JEON-JAENG
NAMELESS GANGSTER: RULES OF THE TIME

by Jong-Bin Yoon
Korea (2012, 133')
FESTA MOBILE

  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 1, November 25, ore 10:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 1, November 26, ore 19:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 1, November 28, ore 14:00 Buy ticket


An unrelenting tempo for a gangster story with a grand, uncommon role for the Korean actor Choi Min-sik (in a star turn) as a corrupt customs officer in the underworld of the 1980s. By the director of The Unforgiven, a huge success at home, where the film was compared to gangster movies by Martin Scorsese (above all, Goodfellas). And rightly so.


BLANCANIEVES

by Pablo Berger
Spain (2012, 104')
FESTA MOBILE

  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 2, November 25, ore 22:00
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 1, November 26, ore 19:45 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 1, November 27, ore 14:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 1, November 28, ore 22:15 Buy ticket


Spain, the 1920s. Carmen is the daughter of a former bullfighter who has gotten remarried to ambitious Encarna. To escape her stepmother’s tyranny, Carmen runs away with a group of dwarf bullfighters. The story of Snow White, transformed into a spectacular, silent melodrama in black and white by Pablo Berger, who had been nursing the project for many years but was only able to make it after the success of The Artist.


BLANKETS FOR INDIANS

by Ken Jacobs
USA (2012, 57')
TFFDOC/DOCUMENTI

  • Cinema Lux - Sala 2, November 26, ore 14:45 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 2, November 27, ore 11:45 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 2, November 27, ore 20:00
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 2, November 28, ore 15:00 Buy ticket


Ken Jacobs, a master of the American avant-garde, recounts Zuccotti Park and Occupy Wall Street. An attempt to make an abstract film about City Hall’s fountain becomes an ironic and mocking letter to Mayor Bloomberg and his “army” of policemen. All this, by bending the highest expression of Hollywood spectacles - 3D - to the reasons of art and direct action.


BLIND DATE

by Joseph Losey
UK (1958, 95')
JOSEPH LOSEY

  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 5, November 24, ore 20:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 5, November 25, ore 12:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 4, November 26, ore 19:45 Buy ticket


A young, penniless, Dutch painter goes to the apartment where he usually meets his lover; instead, the police show up and accuse him of having killed the woman. A merciless noir about non-involvement, the relations between the classes and bourgeois cynicism; a claustrophobic voyage back in time and into the tricks of memory and perception. Losey’s first film with Stanley Baker.


BOBBY YEAH

by Robert Morgan
UK (2011, 23')
RAPPORTO CONFIDENZIALE

  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 1, November 24, ore 17:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 1, November 30, ore 19:15 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 1, December 01, ore 14:15 Buy ticket


It’s as if Svankmajer had helped Lynch direct an episode of Wallace & Gromit: a fantastically disgusting short, a surrealistic nightmare with stop-motion puppets. Seeing is believing! 


BOOM!

by Joseph Losey
UK (1968, 113')
JOSEPH LOSEY

  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 5, November 26, ore 22:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 5, November 27, ore 09:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 4, November 29, ore 11:15 Buy ticket


A rich serial divorcée who lives in a small fort on an island is visited by a mysterious poet-playboy. A screen adaptation of Tennessee Williams’ play The Milk Train Doesn’t Stop Here Anymore, a pompous drama which John Waters loved, with a bejeweled Liz Taylor and Richard Burton in a black kaftan (their marriage was going through a stormy period). Consider it a delirium of camp and you’ll have a great time.


CALL GIRL
CALL GIRL

by Mikael Marcimain
Sweden (2012, 140')
TORINO 30

  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 2, November 26, ore 11:00
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 3, November 27, ore 19:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 3, November 28, ore 14:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 3, November 29, ore 10:00 Buy ticket


Stockholm, 1976: two fourteen-year-old inmates at a detention center for minors are recruited by a prostitution ring frequented by politicians and diplomats. Based on a true scandal, the film is both a personal drama and a political thriller, with overtones of the vintage aesthetics of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy and the moral rectitude of All the President’s Men. With an unbridled Pernilla August in the role of the Madam.


CÂNTICO DAS CRIATURAS
CANTICLE OF ALL CREATURES

by Miguel Gomes
Portugal (2006, 24')
ONDE/MIGUEL GOMES

  • Cinema Lux - Sala 1, November 24, ore 21:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 28, ore 14:00 Buy ticket


2005: a street singer in Assisi sings the Canticle like a ballad. 1212: Francesco, who has lost his memory, is cared for by Chiara. Using frames from old documentaries, creatures of every species sing the praises of the saint… The universe, according to Gomes, in transit between life and its representation. But always with lots of irony.


CASA DOLCE CASA
HOME SWEET HOME

by Tonino De Bernardi
Italy (2012, 123')
TORINO XXX

  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 1, November 25, ore 17:15 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 1, November 26, ore 11:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 1, November 28, ore 09:15 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 2, December 01, ore 12:00


In Paris, a pusher (Lou Castel) reads Marx and moves “junk” at the global level, while a restless and ominous woman in black (Joana Preiss) wanders through streets and apartments, and a broken-hearted pusher (Catherine Libert) torments herself… Tonino De Bernardi, a long-standing, underground presence at the TFF, in a noir that is cavernous and en plein air, full of shadows and quiet fury. With Ghezzi “Mr.Hyde” and Abel Ferrara in tandem.


CHAINED

by Jennifer Lynch
USA (2012, 98')
RAPPORTO CONFIDENZIALE

  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 1, November 23, ore 17:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 1, November 24, ore 14:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 1, November 25, ore 17:15 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 2, December 01, ore 17:30


A woman and her son get in a taxi to go home. But they have chosen the wrong cab: the man knocks them out and takes them to his isolated house, which they will never leave again. The years pass and the boy grows up, in chains. Vincent D’Onofrio, Eamon Farren and Julia Ormond star in the new nightmare by Jennifer Lynch (David’s daughter), who has matured greatly since Boxing Helena.


CHRISTMAS WITH THE DEAD

by Terrill Lee Lankford
USA (2012, 88')
RAPPORTO CONFIDENZIALE

  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 2, November 24, ore 16:15
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 1, November 25, ore 20:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 1, November 26, ore 14:15 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 1, November 27, ore 10:00 Buy ticket


Calvin is celebrating Christmas with his wife and daughter when, from amongst the decorations and the lights, deathly pale faces and stumbling figures appear. Christmas at the Lansdales: based on a short story by Joe Lansdale (who is also the producer), a zombie story scripted by his son Keith and directed by T. L. Lankford. Shot near home (in Nacogdoches, Texas), on a low budget, an eccentric prank which recalls The Drive-In.


CIRCLING THE SQUARE

by Alexandros Kontos
Greece (2011, 4')
TFFDOC/DOCUMENTI

  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 24, ore 22:15 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 27, ore 22:30 Buy ticket


All media, including cinema, are hugely responsible for a crisis that goes beyond politics and money. In Greece it is hard to distinguish between the proverbial feces and the media ventilator that spreads the stench. There will always be shit, this is a search for a different ventilator.


CITADEL

by Ciaran Foy
Ireland (2012, 84')
RAPPORTO CONFIDENZIALE

  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 1, November 24, ore 19:45 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 1, November 27, ore 22:15 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 2, November 28, ore 14:45 Buy ticket


After three youths assault and kill his wife, a young man develops a severe case of paranoid agoraphobia. It’s bad news when the three hooded figures return to threaten him and his daughter. An anxiety-ridden horror movie from Ireland, with a sick and squalid atmosphere; a metaphorical paean to overcoming metropolitan and existential fears. Which doesn’t forget to pay its dues to the genre and winks at Silent Hill fans.


CITTÀ BIANCA

by Francesco Pasinetti
Italy (1942, 15')
FESTA MOBILE/CLASSICS

  • Cinema Lux - Sala 3, November 28, ore 11:30 Buy ticket


A tribute to Francesco Pasinetti, the first Italian critic to consider cinema an art form. Active in Italy between the two wars, he also directed sophisticated documentaries primarily about his hometown, Venice. Like the urban elegies Città Bianca, Lumiei and Latte per la città, dedicated to  the professions in the Venice lagoon, and Il canale degli angeli, which inventively overlaps two images of Venice, a real one and a fantasy. 


COME OUT AND PLAY

by Makinov .
Mexico (2012, 95')
RAPPORTO CONFIDENZIALE

  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 2, November 23, ore 22:00
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 1, November 24, ore 22:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 1, November 25, ore 09:45 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 1, November 26, ore 19:45 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 1, December 01, ore 22:30 Buy ticket


Two American tourists – a couple expecting a baby – are on a romantic get-away on a small island off the coast of Mexico: a paradise of sun, sea, and light, with lots of children and no adults. Directed by Makinov, the anonymous Russian director, a remake of the Spanish cult movie from 1976, Island of the Damned by Narciso Ibanez Serrador. The obsession of the Other, personified by childhood.


COMO ESTRELLAS FUGACES

by Anna di Francisca
Italy (2012, 98')
FESTA MOBILE

  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 2, November 28, ore 15:45
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 1, November 29, ore 19:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 2, November 30, ore 09:15 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 2, December 01, ore 11:45 Buy ticket


A composer, who is tired of accepting jobs he is ashamed of, goes to visit a friend in a village in Spain, hoping to find serenity and have an excuse to encounter  his daughter, whom he rarely sees. But he can’t avoid accepting a request to direct an amateur choir. A bittersweet comedy starring Miki Manojlovic, Maribel Verdù and Neri Marcorè as a Spanish barber.


COMPLIANCE

by Craig Zobel
USA (2012, 90')
RAPPORTO CONFIDENZIALE

  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 2, November 23, ore 20:00
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 1, November 24, ore 17:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 1, November 25, ore 20:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 1, November 26, ore 11:30 Buy ticket


A phone call from a self-styled policeman accuses a young waitress at a fast food restaurant of theft. The imposter convinces the manager and the employees to become the prison guards and then the torturers of the girl. A disturbing and incisive reflection on idiocy and the herd instinct, on blind faith in the face of “authority,” and on the ease with which we renounce our rights. The horror of “I was only following orders.”


CONCERTO PER ATTORE SOLO

by Ferruccio Marotti
Italy (1984, 80')
TFFDOC/DOCUMENTI

  • Cinema Lux - Sala 3, November 24, ore 11:15 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 2, November 25, ore 14:45 Buy ticket


Along with Le tecniche dell’assenza, Concerto per attore solo is the only existing video showing Carmelo Bene rehearsing onstage. Exceptional real time video recordings of 32 days spent rehearsing Macbeth show the basic elements of his poetics: the techniques of absence, un-thinking, the flow of conscience, the phoné (the voice), the thespian machine, the suspension of the tragic, incommunicability, unrepresentability.  


COULEUR DE PEAU: MIEL
APPROVED FOR ADOPTION

by Jung Henin, Laurent Boileau
France (2012, 75')
FESTA MOBILE

  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 2, November 28, ore 22:00
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 2, November 29, ore 17:00 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 1, November 30, ore 14:45 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 2, December 01, ore 22:00 Buy ticket


A six-year-old Korean, Jung, is adopted by a Belgian couple who already have four children. After life in the orphanage, the boy starts a new life of contradictions and rebellion, until he learns to accept himself. The true story of one of the two directors becomes an animated film, with live action inserts and clips of family movies in super8. Audience Award at the 2012 Annecy Film Festival.


CRAZY & THIEF

by Cory McAbee
USA (2012, 56')
ONDE

  • Cinema Lux - Sala 3, November 25, ore 19:45 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 28, ore 22:15 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, December 01, ore 22:00 Buy ticket


Two children wander around the streets of Brooklyn, guided by the drawings of stars they find along their way. With the help of a Cyclops and a giant, they end up in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. McAbee, a former leader of the New York band The Billy Nayer Show, sets the movie camera at child level and, like a Peanuts comic strip, tells the moving and very serious fairytale of two innocents out to discover the world. 


CYCLOPEAN 3D: LIFE WITH A BEAUTIFUL WOMAN

by Ken Jacobs
USA (2012, 45')
ONDE

  • Cinema Lux - Sala 2, November 27, ore 19:30 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 2, November 29, ore 19:15 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Lux - Sala 2, November 30, ore 11:30 Buy ticket


His children, his friends and, above all, his wife, Flo: Ken Jacobs creates an act of love about the audacity of life, starting with his family album, with photos and home movies. 3D exceeds the optical performance and restores the depth of vital details to the images. With the participation of the playwright Richard Foreman, the critic Jim Hoberman, Mike Snow.


DAPHNE (NO WATER IN YOUR EYES)

by Danaé Papaioannou
Greece (2011, 5')
TFFDOC/DOCUMENTI

  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 24, ore 22:15 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Massimo - Sala 3, November 27, ore 22:30 Buy ticket



All media, including cinema, are hugely responsible for a crisis that goes beyond politics and money. In Greece it is hard to distinguish between the proverbial feces and the media ventilator that spreads the stench. There will always be shit, this is a search for a different ventilator.


DE GARE

by Lorenzo Farò
Italy (2011, 10')
SPAZIO TORINO

  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 2, November 24, ore 19:15 Buy ticket
  • Cinema Reposi - Sala 2, November 25, ore 11:15 Buy ticket