The Berlinale is going on tour: Turin and the Piedmont Region are presenting a selection of this year’s festival programme from March 9 to 11. For three days, everything at the Cinema Massimo in Piedmont’s capital will revolve around the Berlin Bear. During the “Berlinale a Torino” a total of eight films from the 57th Berlin International Film Festival will be screened. “I am pleased that Turin, a city of great film-historical significance, will be our host again”, says Berlinale director Dieter Kosslick.
In cooperation with the organiser, Voir Trade srl, the Berlinale has put together a programme of films from the Competition, Berlinale Special and Panorama sections specifically for Turin. The “Berlinale a Torino” is supported by the Piedmont Region, the Film Commission Turin Piedmont, the National Museum of Cinema and the Goethe Institute.
The “Berlinale a Torino” will kick off with a screening of When A Man Falls In The Forest and the event will close on March 11 with a showing of Day On Fire.
“Berlinale a Torino” is presenting the following films:
Berlinale Competition:
When A Man Falls In The Forest by Ryan Eslinger with Sharon Stone, Timothy Hutton, Germany/Canada/USA
Ping guo (Lost In Beijing) by Li Yu with Tony Leung, Fan Bingbing, People´s Republic of China
Die Fälscher (The Counterfeiters) by Stefan Ruzowitzky with Karl Markovics, August Diehl, Devid Striesow, Germany/Austria
Berlinale Special:
La Masseria Delle Allodole (The Lark Farm) by Paolo and Vittorio Taviani with Paz Vega, Moritz Bleibtreu, Italy/Spain/France/Bulgaria
Day On Fire by Jay Anania with Carmen Chaplin, Martin Donovan, USA
Berlinale Panorama:
Fay Grim by Hal Hartley with Parker Posey, Jeff Goldblum, Jasmin Tabatabai, Germany/USA
Grandhotel by David Ondricek with Marek Taclík, Klara Issa, Czech Republic
BerlinSong by Uli M. Schueppel, Germany
Press Office,
March 6, 2007
