Turin Film Festival – the selection of Streeen
17 feature films and 8 short filmsAn unmissable selection that explores the evolution of Turin's most important festival, exploring the cinematic languages and themes of Italian independent cinema.
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Lucus a lucendo
In May 1935, the person who changed the destiny of a remote land, far from the economic and cultural centers of a young country preparing for the Second World War, was sentenced to three years of confinement.
Uppercut Sonata
Experimental work that uses the photography of Marco Di Castri conceived for the theatrical performance Uppercut Sonata - Boxing Story of a Fight of which it is an integral part
Now I know Snow
Filmed in Turin from March 16 to 23, 1986, on the occasion of the retrospective dedicated to Canadian experimental director Michael Snow by the Turin Youth Cinema Festival, the film is divided into two parts.
Where Everything Is - A film by Lucio Lionello and Alessandro Tannoia
Time: its passage and the impossibility of stopping it. The "unconfined" world of a young man.
The "cool" of the regime
Giò Stajano's secret to facing life in the best way, or worst, depending on your point of view, was and is that of never taking himself too seriously.
I would do it again tomorrow
The history of the Resistance in Turin's Borgo Vittoria neighborhood through the memories of its protagonists, the daily lives and hopes of a generation.
Maximum respect
The discovery of images shot on Super 8 in the 60s. A poem, the pulse of a heartbeat... A memory that is crucial today.
Reflections on the big toe
The result of the deadly mix between the horrible 80s of the agonizing First Republic and the terrifying prolegomena to the cultural nothingness of the pounced Second.
Two or three things
An elderly Tibetan woman and Jean-Luc Godard talk about themselves and their experiences. A film about personal memory, images of an autobiographical past.
A past that is not dead, in fact it is not even past.
A memory of emotions seen through other memories of emotions.
Every story, every life, has a beginning, a middle, and an end, though not necessarily in that order."
Ceste Armando
Timeless
"The usual story. Who has the power, who doesn't. Now, as always, the clergy wins. Watch out!" Alessandro Tannoia and Lionello Lucio
I was making nugatine
The Venchi Unica factory in Turin, a historic confectionery company, suddenly went bankrupt and was finally demolished in 1997. Walter returns there twenty years after his dismissal.
Before Berlusconi - or the story of Italy's first private TV station
The early seventies, years of authentic ferment, chaotic projects and short-lived utopias, saw
the birth of private TV, what we now call “commercial TV”.
The fighter
A docu-fiction built on the intertwining of reality and self-representation, on the mutual influence between the narrative path and the characters' lives.
The World of Luigi Ghirri
"The documentary is developed with the way of looking that Ghirri He himself suggested and taught us with his photographs: to develop an environmental vision, which is an emotional way of looking at things." (Gianni Celati)
Erri De Luca after Genoa - ramshackle nursery rhymes
I was looking for a lofty language, different from the mass media coverage of newspapers and TV that had invaded our eyes, hearts, and brains in those post-Genoa days. Reading Erri De Luca's nursery rhymes, I was moved and recognized in a poetic language, certainly biased, but thought-provoking. Ceste Armando
Zone 18 Limon, Guatemala
A journey between Piedmont and Guatemala to reconnect the threads of a life, the story of an "inconvenient" priest.
Octavio Mario Mai
Life, art, political and entrepreneurial commitment merge in the figure of Ottavio Mario Mai, exactly as in the postmodern society whose potential and characteristics Mai seems to have intuited and exploited before others.
Requiem
In the aftermath of the death of lawyer Giovanni Agnelli, a multitude of Turin citizens, as in a sort of Stations of the Cross, marched through the Lingotto factory to reach the entrance hall of the art gallery named after Giovanni and Marella Agnelli.
Miss Effe
Turin, September 1980. Emma Martano, from a working-class family of southern Italian origins, has an excellent future ahead of her, already having a job in the IT sector of Fiat.
Rata neće biti (There will be no war)
Zoran, 28 years old, walks, retraces a childhood of war, the “bread line massacre”, the Yugoslav plan transformed into a “prison of the peoples”, he is a Sarajevo Serb, with a father who fought in the ranks of the Bosnian army against the besiegers.
We are not like James Bond
What do you do after a serious illness? A movie, for example. That incident plays a role, but only as a starting point.
Sanperè - May the lightning come
The time spent waiting for a residence permit—and learning their fate—for Diarrè, a young Ivorian, and his fellow refugees from Libya, in a small reception center in the Cuneo area.
Without Asking Permission - Memories of Workers at Mirafiori
A filmmaker uses his previously unseen super 8 footage to recount the workers' struggles at Fiat Mirafiori, Europe's largest factory in the 70s.
The body of the duce
On April 29, 1945, partisans and the people of Milan gathered in Piazzale Loreto to celebrate the death of the Duce. Hung by his feet, Mussolini's corpse appeared a symbol of the victorious Resistance.
Something About Us
A group of students from a writing school in Bologna, "Bottega Finzioni," and a forty-six-year-old woman who has been a prostitute for eleven years, meet in a village in the hills of Sasso Marconi, in a house that was once the scene of paid love encounters.
ANAPESON
Swiss Count Carlo Ulisse De Salis Marschlins was a naturalist who lived between the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, an expert in agriculture and botany. He traveled extensively, observing and studying the lands he visited.
Walking with Red Rhino
Alberto Signetto, who passed away in January 2014, was a rigorous intellectual, a free, energetic, and energetic man. He was known (and loved) by all as the Red Rhino. The affectionate portrait of a passionate artist, true to himself to the end, with courage, clarity, and irony.
Gipo, the gypsy of Barriera
One morning, Luca Morino, musician and singer of the Mau Mau band, found a box in front of the door of his music shop.
Inside the box there is some material on Gipo Farassino: vinyl records, photos, books and newspaper articles.
Synopsis
On the occasion of 42nd edition of the Turin Film Festival (November 22 – 30, 2024) directed by Julius Base, Streeen! is pleased to present a series dedicated to the most important and long-running film festival in the city of Turin.
Born in 1982 as International Youth Cinema Festival from the minds of Gianni Rondolino e Ansano Giannarelli, Torino Film Festival It has always presented itself as a metropolitan festival linked to the critical development of cinematic language, becoming over the years an important point of reference for national and international cinema.
Our catalog is full of works by authors who have appeared at various editions of the Turin festival. Streeen!, always close to the TFF – and al National Museum of Cinema in Turin, thanks to the common Turin foundations and the importance given to independent cinema, has therefore decided to celebrate the new edition of the festival through this selection, to give the opportunity to rediscover and celebrate the most representative Italian works present in our catalogue and to make them available and consultable from now on in a single dedicated section.
In this collection of works, presented here on the side in chronological order, we host works that have won, over the years, in different sections of the festival, such as We are not like James Bond by Mario Balsamo, or Rata Nece Biti by Daniele Gaglianone, together with works by well-known directors such as Wilma Labate, or directors who have been at the festival for a long time with one film per year, such as Armando Ceste together with others who have been here even just once, with the work that is often their most significant.
The selection hosts works of different nature, from experimental films such as the works of the couple Lionello – Tannoia, the legendary Now I know Snow by Gianfranco Barberi or Uppercut Sonata by Richi Ferrero (the most “dated” work of our selection: Festival Cinema Giovani 1983), to the biopics of known or unknown characters such as the important work on Octavio Mai di Gianni Minerba, the film about Gipo Farassino di Alessandro Castelletto or the documentary of Marilena Moretti su Alberto Signetto, up to collective films like Walls & Borders, 5 hours of screenings for over 70 short films, and much, much more.
An unmissable selection that, almost unintentionally, also recounts the historical evolution of the festival itself, as well as the cinematic languages and themes proposed by independent Italian cinema on display in Turin for over 40 years.

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