The Torino Film Festival has published the full programme for its 44th edition, running from Tuesday 24 November to Wednesday 2 December 2026 under artistic director Giulio Base. The official programme book lists 120 titles across three competitions and three non-competitive sections. Roland Joffé’s November 1963 opens the festival at the Teatro Regio, with a Marilyn Monroe retrospective marking the centenary of her birth. The slate sits beside this month’s Cairo and Mar del Plata line-ups as a mid-size European A-list stop after AFM week.
Key facts
- Edition: 44th Torino Film Festival, 24 November–2 December 2026; organised by the Museo Nazionale del Cinema
- Scale: 120 titles (Base: about 5,000 screened); three competitions of 16 films each; Fuori Concorso, Zibaldone and Marilyn Monroe retrospective
- Opening: November 1963 (Roland Joffé) at Teatro Regio, 24 November, 17:00; awards ceremony 2 December, 18:00, Cinema Massimo Sala 1
- Guests: twelve Stelle della Mole, from John Travolta and Isabelle Huppert to Pamela Anderson and Josh Safdie
- Tickets: €8 full / €6 reduced; 5-ticket carnet €30; 10-ticket carnet €60; season pass €120
Base keeps the festival deliberately lean. In his programme note he says the selection committee of young programmers sifted roughly five thousand titles and settled on a slate that a determined viewer can still follow in full. The festival will again skip television series, a choice he frames as a defence of theatrical cinema. Cinematografo published a matching section-by-section rundown on 5 November.
Official selection
Feature competition (16)
Francesca Archibugi chairs the feature jury with Alessandro Amato, Chiara Caselli, Vanja Kaludjercic and Kirill Serebrennikov. Base notes that ten of the sixteen features are directed by women.
- Butterfly, Itonje Søimer Guttormsen (Norway/UK/Germany/Sweden)
- Clarissa, Arie and Chuko Esiri (USA/Egypt/Nigeria)
- Les Clochettes de Kaboul, Chabname Zariab (France/Belgium/Germany), with Golshifteh Farahani
- L’espèce explosive, Sarah Arnold (France)
- The Fertilizer Home, Jeong Hyo-jung (South Korea)
- Girl in the Night, Luka Marčetić (Slovenia)
- Krux, Tony Vahl (Germany/Poland)
- The Last Day, Rachel Rose (USA), with Alicia Vikander
- Los nadadores, Sol Iglesias (Argentina/Mexico/USA)
- L’ora più bella, Ernesto Maria Censori (Italy)
- Paradise, Jérémy Comte (Canada/France/Ghana)
- Il primo giorno di vita di Leonardo Revelli, figlio unico, Stefano Grasso (Italy)
- Sugar, Amira Duynhouwer (Belgium/Netherlands)
- Thirteen in Gaza, Hosam Abu Dan (Palestine)
- Truly Naked, Muriel d’Ansembourg (Netherlands/Belgium/France)
- The World Before, Yoon Dan-bi (South Korea)
Documentary competition (16)
Stefania Casini chairs the documentary jury with Julien Camy and Alessandro Stellino.
- Amoosed: A Moose Odyssey, Hana Nováková (Czech Republic/Slovakia)
- Ancora è presto, Antonio Valerio Spera (Italy)
- Le Angelesse, Roberta Torre (Italy)
- La Berma, Agustín Domínguez Cordero (Spain)
- Car la lune, Éric Baudelaire (France)
- Le case spezzate, Tony Saccucci and Robert Tomić Zuber (Italy)
- Dream of Another Summer, Irene Bartolomé (Lebanon/Spain)
- Heat, Jacqueline Zünd (Switzerland)
- If Luck Will Come, Camille Bildsøe (Denmark/Iceland/Norway)
- If Pigeons Turned to Gold, Pepa Lubojacki (Czech Republic/Slovakia)
- La ilusión de un verano sin fin, Alessandra Sanguinetti (Argentina/USA)
- Mariinka, Pieter-Jan De Pue (Belgium/Germany/Netherlands/Sweden)
- Seize moments de ma vie, Albert Serra (Spain/France)
- Somalia, Giuseppe Carrieri and Mohamoud Hassan (Italy)
- Les Survivants du Che, Christophe Dimitri Réveille (France)
- La U di svanire, Augusto Contento (Italy/France)
Short competition (16)
Chiara Francini chairs the shorts jury with Ira Fronten and Pier Luigi Manieri. A separate FIPRESCI jury is led by Fiaba Di Martino with Andoni Iturbe Tolosa and Mohamed Nabil.
- (0,∞), Mar Sudac (USA)
- Blu oltremare, bianco perla e un pizzico di giallo miele, Francesco Gheghi (Italy)
- Cosa può un fantasma, Giacomo Raffaelli (Italy)
- Fiction, Ambroise Rateau (France)
- Hamerkop, André Guiomar (Mozambique)
- It Means Hope, Shadi Karamroudi (Iran)
- La Paris, Diletta Di Nicolantonio (Moldova)
- Madre mía, Mónica González Carter (Mexico)
- Monochrome, Justice Rutikara (Canada)
- Para mí, ya no es cualquier baño, Micaela Moreno Barril (Chile)
- Pies al revés, Elodie Arpa (Switzerland)
- Qué tú hace, Sara?, Carolina Meza Torres (Cuba)
- A Room with a Sea View, Yue Zhang (China/USA)
- V+M, Gaia Longobardi (Italy)
- VHS I Love You, Hashem Jahromi (Iran)
- Why I Am an Anarchist, Sara Crow (USA)
Fuori Concorso (24)
- Back in Black, Ron Murphy (Canada)
- Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo, Takashi Miike (USA/Japan)
- Black Church Bay, Rhys Marc Jones (UK)
- The Blood Countess, Ulrike Ottinger (Austria/Luxembourg/Germany), with Isabelle Huppert
- Diamond, Andy Garcia (USA)
- The End of It, Maria Martinez Bayona (Norway/UK/Spain)
- Heil Jupiter!, Carlos Reygadas (Mexico/Poland/Norway/Portugal/Sweden/Switzerland/USA)
- Heysel 85, Teodora Ana Mihai (Belgium/Netherlands/Germany)
- Instinct de famille, Maurice Hermet (France)
- Jim Queen, Nicolas Athane and Marco Nguyen (France/Belgium)
- The Liberation, Guy Nattiv (USA)
- La libertad doble, Lisandro Alonso (Argentina/Chile/Luxembourg/Germany/UK)
- A Long Winter, Andrew Haigh (Canada/UK)
- Moscas, Fernando Eimbcke (Mexico)
- La muerte no tiene dueño, Jorge Thielen Armand (Venezuela/Italy/Canada/Luxembourg)
- La notte delle fragole, Alessandro Genovesi (Italy)
- November 1963, Roland Joffé (Germany/Canada/USA); opening film
- Propeller: One-Way Night Coach, John Travolta (USA)
- Les rayons et les ombres, Xavier Giannoli (France)
- Strong Son, Ian Bawa (Canada)
- That One Beautiful Day, Melora Walters (USA)
- Villeneuve: The Rise of a Legend, Yan Lanouette Turgeon (Canada)
- Wishful Thinking, Graham Parkes (USA)
- You Can See Everything, Nathan Fielder and Lance Oppenheim (USA)
Zibaldone (24)
- 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen (UK/USA, 2013)
- Aquí, Tiago Guedes (Portugal)
- Audrey La Mer, Levi Riso (Italy)
- Die bleierne Zeit, Margarethe von Trotta (West Germany, 1981)
- Caro Nanni, Pablo Maqueda (Spain)
- Costanera, Mauro Díez Concari (Italy)
- Dirty Pretty Things, Stephen Frears (UK, 2002)
- Dogman, Luc Besson (France, 2023)
- Donnie Brasco, Mike Newell (USA, 1997)
- Ela Olhava Sem Nada Ver, Fanny Ardant (Portugal)
- Good People, Milcho Manchevski (North Macedonia)
- The Last Showgirl, Gia Coppola (USA, 2024)
- Millennium Mambo, Hou Hsiao-hsien (Taiwan/France, 2001)
- Il mio nemico immaginario, Antonia Liskova (Italy)
- Il paradiso è un posto bellissimo, David Ambrosini (Italy)
- Piccolo mondo antico, Mario Soldati (Italy, 1941)
- Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino (USA, 1994)
- Rondolino docet, Mimmo Calopresti (Italy)
- Sguardi, Marco Ponti (Italy)
- Soy Mario, Sharon Kleinberg (Mexico)
- L’ultimo salto, Umberto Carteni (Italy)
- Uncut Gems, Benny and Josh Safdie (USA, 2019)
- Under the Rain, Fabrizio Maria Cortese (Italy)
- Viva, Aina Clotet (Spain)
Repertory titles sit beside new Italian and international work, often tied to Stella della Mole guests.
Marilyn Monroe retrospective (24)
- Ladies of the Chorus, Phil Karlson (USA, 1948)
- The Asphalt Jungle, John Huston (USA, 1950)
- All About Eve, Joseph L. Mankiewicz (USA, 1950)
- Love Nest, Joseph M. Newman (USA, 1951)
- Monkey Business, Howard Hawks (USA, 1952)
- Don’t Bother to Knock, Roy Ward Baker (USA, 1952)
- Clash by Night, Fritz Lang (USA, 1952)
- Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Howard Hawks (USA, 1953)
- Niagara, Henry Hathaway (USA, 1953)
- How to Marry a Millionaire, Jean Negulesco (USA, 1953)
- River of No Return, Otto Preminger (USA, 1954)
- There’s No Business Like Show Business, Walter Lang (USA, 1954)
- The Seven Year Itch, Billy Wilder (USA, 1955)
- Bus Stop, Joshua Logan (USA, 1956)
- The Prince and the Showgirl, Laurence Olivier (USA, 1957)
- Some Like It Hot, Billy Wilder (USA, 1959)
- Let’s Make Love, George Cukor (USA, 1960)
- The Misfits, John Huston (USA, 1961)
- La rabbia, Pier Paolo Pasolini and Giovanni Guareschi (Italy, 1963)
- Insignificance, Nicolas Roeg (UK, 1985)
- Norma Jean & Marilyn, Tim Fywell (UK/USA, 1996)
- My Week with Marilyn, Simon Curtis (UK/USA, 2011)
- Love, Marilyn, Liz Garbus (USA/France, 2012)
- Blonde, Andrew Dominik (USA, 2022)
A free Intesa Sanpaolo event on 27 November screens The Asphalt Jungle with a talk by Base.
Guests, tickets and venues
Twelve Stella della Mole honours go to Pamela Anderson, Fanny Ardant, Luc Besson, Maria de Medeiros, Stephen Frears, Andy Garcia, Isabelle Huppert, Mike Newell, Josh Safdie, Mira Sorvino, John Travolta and Margarethe von Trotta. Italian guests named by Cinematografo include Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Valerio Mastandrea, Asia Argento and Ficarra & Picone.
Single tickets are €8 (€6 reduced). Five- and ten-ticket carnets cost €30 and €60; a season pass is €120. Online sales add a €0.50 transaction fee. Physical advance sales run 17–24 November at Cinema Massimo and Cinema Romano. Screenings also use Cinema Centrale Arthouse; press screenings are reserved there. The awards night on 2 December is at Cinema Massimo Sala 1.
Our reading
The slate lands in the same November window as the Cairo International Film Festival and follows Mar del Plata’s opening earlier this week. For buyers and festival programmers the practical read is a complete competition slate already published, a heavy guest list, and a retrospective that doubles as centenary programming between AFM week and the winter awards calendar.
The title-by-title list above follows the official programme book and Cinematografo’s section rundown; any later additions or withdrawals will show on the festival site.
Sources
- Torino Film Festival, official programme PDF (TFF_2026_web.pdf; dates, tariffs, juries, full title list, opening November 1963)
- Cinematografo programme report (5 November 2026; section-by-section list and Stelle della Mole)
- Sky TG24, Torino Film Festival 2026: programma, film e ospiti (5 November 2026)
- Torino Film Festival official site