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27 Gennaio 2026
The 44th TFF will take place in Torino from November 24 to December 2, 2026, and the opening ceremony at the Teatro Regio has been confirmed. The 24 films of the retrospective dedicated to Marilyn Monroe have been announced, along with the opening of the calls to participate in the 44th TFF.
From March 6, 2026, the call to participate in the festival is open, and applications will be accepted until September 6. All information will be available at www.torinofilmfest.org
The 24 titles of the tribute to Marilyn Monroe have also been announced: alongside the films she starred in, the retrospective includes other perspectives as well. On one hand, the most treasured documentary dedicated to her: Love, Marilyn, which reconstructs her inner voice through fragments; on the other, the elevated and unsettling tribute that Pier Paolo Pasolini pays her in La rabbia, where Marilyn becomes the ultimate symbol of a wounded modernity. These are joined by four films in which leading actresses — Oscar winners or nominees — have portrayed Marilyn more as a figure to be questioned than as an impossible superstar to replicate.
"The retrospective dedicated to Marilyn invites audiences to encounter one of the most recognisable, beloved and misunderstood myths in cinema history," says Giulio Base, artistic director of the Torino Film Festival. "A face that belongs to the collective imagination like no other, but one that is here restored in its essence: the cinematic substance of the great classics of her career — films that not only defined an era, but continue to speak to the present through their formal precision, modernity of vision and interpretive power. The selected titles," continues Base, "place the star's presence in dialogue with some of the greatest directors of all time: John Huston, Howard Hawks, Billy Wilder, Otto Preminger, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Fritz Lang, Henry Hathaway, George Cukor, Laurence Olivier. In this intense dialogue between direction and performance, a figure emerges that is anything but incidental: Marilyn as a site of tension between formal control and fragility, between legend and emotional truth, between actress and myth. Marilyn Monroe," concludes Base, "is not merely a star of the past: she is a presence that continues to reflect itself on screens and in our gaze. To see her again today means rediscovering why cinema, when it encounters a face like hers, ceases to be entertainment and becomes shared memory."
The Torino Film Festival is produced by the Museo Nazionale del Cinema di Torino and takes place with the support of the Ministero della Cultura — Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo, Regione Piemonte, Città di Torino, Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo and Fondazione CRT.
