26th Torino Film Festival

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

Films in competition

 * 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

Out of competition

 * 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)

The State of Things

 * 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)

La Zona

 * 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)

Awards

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