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Did you know that in Turin there was shot "Cabiria" by G. Pastrone with sub-titles by Gabriele D'Annunzio - the first film that was internationally distributed? And that in Turin there was founded the first essay cinema, the largest cineclub and the first cinema consisting of different halls?
You will of course remember some great films of the past such as the epic film "War and peace" with Audrey Hepburn and Vittorio Gassman and "Deep red" directed by Dario Argento. Among recent films there are "After Midnight" by Davide Ferrario and "The best of youth" by Marco Tullio Giordana. Those films and many others of course, have been shot in the streets, on the various squares and near the monuments of Turin. Not only that the seventh art has been developed in Turin, the capital of Piedmont is still the most popular location with Italian directors right after Rome. This is however also due to the work of the Film Commission Turin Piedmont whose aim is to invite the film, television and advertisement industries to the Piedmont region and the city of Turin in order to discover their splendid sites.
During the last five years there have been shot more than 150 productions, such as films, TV soap operas, fiction and music videos (Turin is home of Italian’s most important band: the Subsonica).

HOLLYWOOD REVIVAL IN TURIN!

The National Museum of Cinema has been designed by François Confino and is one of them most famous museums of Europe.

Due the amazing National Museum of Cinema situated in the interior of the Mole Antonelliana, a building designed by Alesandro Antonelli in the second half of the 19th century, Turin has renewed its passion for the seventh art. The museum is located in the historic town centre and is 167m high. The 5-storey building has 3,200sqm of exhibition area on which the history of cinema can be explored through stage productions, spectacular light and shadow effects, projections, drawings, sketches and photographs. The cinema features 7,000 film titles in the film library, 9,000 art objects, paintings, antique prints and equipment for viewing and playing films, 125,000 photographic documents, 200,000 posters, more than 200 magic lanterns and more than 20,000 books and 3,000 periodicals.
Special feast for the eyes... the waistcoat, the shoes and the jewellery used by Marilyn Monroe and some unpublished photos of her.

ONE FESTIVAL FOLLOWED BY ANOTHER

If you are fascinated by the world of cinema, you don't have to miss the numerous festivals of Turin!

The deep passion for cinema lasting at least for one century is expressed by the cinematographic events.
Among the most significant events is the Torino Film Festival, which has been founded in 1982 as a springboard for up-coming talents. Today it is frequented by cinema lovers coming from all over the world.
Furthermore there are the annually held International Women's Film Festival representing a journey around the globe with the most beautiful pictures and stories shown and told by international women directors, the International Film Festival based on Homosexual Themes, which is the most important of its kind, the Under Eighteen Film Festival based on themes of adolescence and youth, the CinemAmbiente festival and the Virtuality, an avant-garde festival dedicated to virtual reality.