The 26th Torino Film Festival was held 21 – 29 November 2008 in Turin, Italy, directed by Nanni Moretti.Camillo De Marco, "Turin FF: Moretti promises “earnest and cheerful” event". Cineuropa, November 8, 2008.
Films in competition Bitter & Twisted – Christopher Weekes Burn the Bridges (Quemar las Naves) – Francisco Franco-Alba Give Me Your Hand – Pascal-Alex Vincent Helen – Joe Lawlor, Christine Mollowy Momma's Man – Azazel Jacobs My Friend from Faro (Mein Freund aus Faro) – Nana Neul The New Year Parade – Tom Quinn Noise (Entre os Dedos) – Tiago Guedes, Frederico Serra Prince of Broadway – Sean Baker The Shaft (Dixia De Tiankong) – Zhang Chi Tomorrow (Demain) – Maxime Giroux Tony Manero – Pablo Larraín Unspoken – Fien Troch The Wave – Dennis Gansel We've Never Been to Venice – Blaz Kutin
Out of competition 24 City — Jia Zhangke (China) Days of the Turquoise Sky (Kurus) — Woo Ming Jin (Malaysia) Dream — Kim Ki-duk (South Korea/Japan) The Edge of Love — John Maybury (UK) The Escapist — Rupert Wyatt (Ireland/UK) Filth and Wisdom — Madonna (UK) Gigantic — Matt Aselton (US) Highway World: Living, Changing, Growing — Martin Hans Schmitt (Germany) Katyń — Andrzej Wajda (Poland) Lake Tahoe — Fernando Eimbcke (Mexico) Lemon Tree — Eran Riklis (Israel/Germany/France) Let the Right One In — Tomas Alfredson (Sweden) Mateo Falcone — Éric Vuillard (France) New Orleans, Mon Amour — Michael Almereyda (US) Night and Day — Hong Sang-soo (South Korea) Of Time and the City — Terence Davies (UK) Real Time — Randall Cole (Canada) Rumba — Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon (France) Shiva (7 Days) — Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz (France/Israel) Somers Town — Shane Meadows (UK) W. — Oliver Stone (US) Wendy and Lucy — Kelly Reichardt (US)
The State of Things Armando e la politica — Chiara Malta (Italy) The Baby Formula — Alison Reid (Canada) Le Chant des mariées — Karin Albou (France) La conquista della vita — Silvano Agosti (Italy) Crips and Bloods: Made in America — Stacy Peralta (US) Di madre in figlia — Andrea Zambelli (Italy) The Exiles — Kent Mackenzie (US) The Fire, the Blood, the Stars (Le Feu, le sang, les etoiles) — Caroline Deruas Garrel (France) Hunger — Steve McQueen (UK/Ireland) Mai 68, La Belle ouvrage — Jean-Luc and Loic Magneron (France) The Sun Street Boys — Gyorgy Szomjas (Hungary) No Son Invisibles: Maya Women and Microfinance, Featuring Muhammad Yunus — Melissa Eidson (Mexico/US) Religulous — Larry Charles (US) Sidney Poitier: Un outsider à Hollywood — Catherine Arnaud (France) United Red Army — Kōji Wakamatsu (Japan)
La Zona Birdsong (El cant dels ocells) — Albert Serra (Spain) Extraordinary Stories (Historias extraordinarias) — Mariano Llinas (Argentina) Now Showing — Raya Martin (Philippines) Nucingen House — Raúl Ruiz (France/Chile) Pane/Piazza delle Camelie — Tonino De Bernardi (Italy) Parade — Brandon Cahoon (US) Still Walking — Hirokazu Kore-Eda (Japan) Trilogia: il Pensiero, lo Sguardo, la Parola — Luciano Emmer (Italy) Wings of a Butterfly (Le Battement d'ailes d'un papillon) — Aleksandr Balagura (France/Ukraine) A Zona — Sandro Aguilar (Portugal)
Awards Jury Special Prize: Prince of Broadway - Sean Baker Cipputi Award for Best Film: Noise (Entre os Dedos) — Tiago Guedes, Frederico Serra
References
External links
2008 Torino Film Festival at the Internet Movie Database