26th Torino Film Festival

The 26th Torino Film Festival was held 21 – 29 November 2008 in Turin, Italy, directed by Nanni Moretti.^[1]

• Bitter & Twisted – Christopher Weekes
• Burn the Bridges (Quemar las Naves) – Francisco Franco-Alba
• Give Me Your Hand – Pascal-Alex Vincent
• Helen – Joe Lawlor, Christine Mollowy
• Momma's Man – Azazel Jacobs
• My Friend from Faro (Mein Freund aus Faro) – Nana Neul
• The New Year Parade – Tom Quinn
• Noise (Entre os Dedos) – Tiago Guedes, Frederico Serra
• Prince of Broadway – Sean Baker
• The Shaft (Dixia De Tiankong) – Zhang Chi
• Tomorrow (Demain) – Maxime Giroux
• Tony Manero – Pablo Larraín
• Unspoken – Fien Troch
• The Wave – Dennis Gansel
• We've Never Been to Venice – Blaz Kutin

• 24 City — Jia Zhangke (China)
• Days of the Turquoise Sky (Kurus) — Woo Ming Jin (Malaysia)
• Dream — Kim Ki-duk (South Korea/Japan)
• The Edge of Love — John Maybury (UK)
• The Escapist — Rupert Wyatt (Ireland/UK)
• Filth and Wisdom — Madonna (UK)
• Gigantic — Matt Aselton (US)
• Highway World: Living, Changing, Growing — Martin Hans Schmitt (Germany)
• Katyń — Andrzej Wajda (Poland)
• Lake Tahoe — Fernando Eimbcke (Mexico)
• Lemon Tree — Eran Riklis (Israel/Germany/France)
• Let the Right One In — Tomas Alfredson (Sweden)
• Mateo Falcone — Éric Vuillard (France)
• New Orleans, Mon Amour — Michael Almereyda (US)
• Night and Day — Hong Sang-soo (South Korea)
• Of Time and the City — Terence Davies (UK)
• Real Time — Randall Cole (Canada)
• Rumba — Dominique Abel, Fiona Gordon (France)
• Shiva (7 Days) — Ronit Elkabetz, Shlomi Elkabetz (France/Israel)
• Somers Town — Shane Meadows (UK)
• W. — Oliver Stone (US)
• Wendy and Lucy — Kelly Reichardt (US)

• Armando e la politica — Chiara Malta (Italy)
• The Baby Formula — Alison Reid (Canada)
• Le Chant des mariées — Karin Albou (France)
• La conquista della vita — Silvano Agosti (Italy)
• Crips and Bloods: Made in America — Stacy Peralta (US)
• Di madre in figlia — Andrea Zambelli (Italy)
• The Exiles — Kent Mackenzie (US)
• The Fire, the Blood, the Stars (Le Feu, le sang, les etoiles) — Caroline Deruas Garrel (France)
• Hunger — Steve McQueen (UK/Ireland)
• Mai 68, La Belle ouvrage — Jean-Luc and Loic Magneron (France)
• The Sun Street Boys — Gyorgy Szomjas (Hungary)
• No Son Invisibles: Maya Women and Microfinance, Featuring Muhammad Yunus — Melissa Eidson (Mexico/US)
• Religulous — Larry Charles (US)
• Sidney Poitier: Un outsider à Hollywood — Catherine Arnaud (France)
• United Red Army — Kōji Wakamatsu (Japan)

• Birdsong (El cant dels ocells) — Albert Serra (Spain)
• Extraordinary Stories (Historias extraordinarias) — Mariano Llinas (Argentina)
• Now Showing — Raya Martin (Philippines)
• Nucingen House — Raúl Ruiz (France/Chile)
• Pane/Piazza delle Camelie — Tonino De Bernardi (Italy)
• Parade — Brandon Cahoon (US)
• Still Walking — Hirokazu Kore-Eda (Japan)
• Trilogia: il Pensiero, lo Sguardo, la Parola — Luciano Emmer (Italy)
• Wings of a Butterfly (Le Battement d'ailes d'un papillon) — Aleksandr Balagura (France/Ukraine)
• A Zona — Sandro Aguilar (Portugal)

• Jury Special Prize:
  • Prince of Broadway - Sean Baker
• Cipputi Award for Best Film:
  • Noise (Entre os Dedos) — Tiago Guedes, Frederico Serra

• Official website
• 2008 Torino Film Festival at the Internet Movie Database