The Torino Film Festival was established in 1982 as the International Youth Film Festival, presenting itself from the start as a metropolitan festival that is linked on one hand to critical thinking, and on the other to the evolution of film language. It was founded by Gianni Rondolino and Ansano Giannarelli, who together run the first edition of the festival.
Particular attention was given to retrospectives, which were always of high level and ac-companied by important amounts of in-depth study, and to creativity, with a section dedi-cated to technologically avantgarde independent cinema. With an unprecedented audience in Italy, the festival’s backbone was the liveliness of film classes at University (where Rondolino owned a professorship), combined with the relationship with the public produced by cinematic associationism (AIACE, the Movie Club), from which Rondolino’s most trusted collaborators came from.
TIMELINE: November 21-29, 2025
SUBMISSON DEADLINES: From 6 March to 5 September 2025
Website: www.torinofilmfest.org