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15 Gennaio 2026
Academy Award-winning director Paolo Sorrentino will be in Torino on Sunday January 18, 2026 to present to audiences "La Grazia", his latest feature film made in Torino and Piemonte with the support of Film Commission Torino Piemonte.
"La Grazia", written and directed by Academy Award winner Paolo Sorrentino — the opening film of the 82nd Venice Film Festival, which earned the Coppa Volpi for lead actor Toni Servillo — will be presented on Sunday January 18, 2026 at the Cinema Nazionale in Torino (Via Giuseppe Pomba 7) in a special event evening organised by Film Commission Torino Piemonte in collaboration with the film's production and distribution teams, with the director in attendance.
Paolo Sorrentino will greet the audience at the end of the 6:00 PM screening (for programming information see HERE) and will then introduce the 9:00 PM invitation-only screening organised by FCTP — bringing together the crew, local cast and extras, representatives of the locations that hosted the shoot, and local institutions.
Torino and Piemonte play a prominent role in "La Grazia": the film — set in Rome — filmed almost all of its interior scenes of political buildings in the city, specifically the various rooms of the Palazzo del Quirinale where the protagonist resides.
The shoot engaged the region for 27 days, from March 7 to April 9, 2025, involving the Accademia delle Scienze, the Bocciofila La Tesoriera, the Casa Circondariale Lorusso e Cutugno, the Castello del Valentino and the Castello di Moncalieri — with the collaboration of the Regional Network of Film Commission Torino Piemonte — along with Palazzo Chiablese and the Musei Reali Torino, in particular Palazzo Reale.
Several local actors and extras worked on set alongside numerous Piemontese professionals, including Linda Messerklinger in the role of Isa Rocca, Giulio Prosperi as the bodyguard of Dorotea (played by Anna Ferzetti), Cesare Scova as the President of Portugal, and Roberto Zibetti as Domenico Samaritano, Secretary to President Mariano De Santis.
A significant number of professionals were also involved across various crew departments, including Maria Cristina Barberis as Production Coordinator, Ivano Coia as Production Supervisor, Federico Fusco as Location Manager, Michele Borrè as Second Assistant Director, and Chiara Moretti for the Torino casting.
On the occasion of the film's release, and with the aim of paying tribute to the filming of "La Grazia" and promoting the various locations involved, Film Commission Torino Piemonte curated — in collaboration with Fremantle, The Apartment, Numero 10 and PiperFilm — a photography exhibition by on-set photographer Andrea Pirrello.
The inauguration of the exhibition, installed at Palazzo Chiablese, will take place on the morning of Monday January 19.
Written and directed by Academy Award-winning director Paolo Sorrentino and starring Toni Servillo and Anna Ferzetti, "La Grazia" is a Fremantle film, produced by The Apartment, a Fremantle group company, in association with Numero 10 and PiperFilm, filmed in part in Piemonte with the support of Film Commission Torino Piemonte. PiperFilm distributes in Italy, while MUBI holds worldwide rights excluding Italy; The Match Factory manages international sales.
SYNOPSIS: Mariano De Santis is the President of the Republic. No reference to existing presidents — entirely a product of the author's imagination. A widower and a Catholic, he has a daughter, Dorotea, a jurist like himself.
As his term draws to a close, amid uneventful days, a final set of duties emerges: ruling on two delicate requests for clemency. True moral dilemmas. Which become entangled, in an apparently inextricable way, with his private life. Driven by doubt, he will have to decide. And, with a profound sense of responsibility, that is exactly what this great President of the Italian Republic will do.
