42nd Torino Film Festival

Italy, November 22 - November 30 2024

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The jury

Marco Lombardi (Italy), Massimo Arciresi (Italy), Giuseppe Di Salvatore (Italy)

Awarded films

Vena by Chiara Fleischhacker
(Germany, 2024, 116 min.)

Reports

Vena, the Birth That Heals Us (and the Cinema) by Marco Lombardi
Searching For Youth in Turin – and Finding Queerness by Giuseppe Di Salvatore

Motivation: “for its ability to transform the intense story of a pregnancy into a plausible pathway of salvation from addiction, thanks to a very compassionate performance, a story with strong emotional impact, and an editing that expertly marks the tempo of the narration, comprehensive signs of a directorial maturity that is uncommon in a first film”.