Film Commission Torino Piemonte will be present at the 78th Locarno Film Festival with two projects: “Le bambine” by Valentina and Nicole Bertani – which will be presented in Competition as a world premiere – and “Testa o Croce?” by Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis which, after the Cannes Film Festival, will be presented in Piazza Grande.
The program of the 78th Locarno Film Festival (6-16 August 2025) has been announced.
14 films, including 4 world premieres and 2 international premieres, will be presented in Piazza Grande, in the International Competition 17 films from all over the world in world premiere compete for the Golden Leopard.
Two projects supported by Film Commission Torino Piemonte will be screened in different sections:
- “Le bambine”, a feature film directed by Valentina and Nicole Bertani, made in Piemonte in 2024 with the contribution of the PR Fesr Piemonte 2021 – 2027 “Piemonte Film Tv Fund” Call and with the support of Film Commission Torino Piemonte, is competing at the 78th Locarno Film Festival and will have its world premiere.
“Le bambine” is also nominated for the collateral prize of the Swatch First Feature Awards.
Produced by Emma Film in collaboration with Rai Cinema, Adler Entertainment and 360 Degrees, RSI Radiotelevisione svizzera in Co-Production with Cinédokké, Manny Films, Mathematic, “Le bambine” is an Italy-France-Switzerland co-production, which stars Mia Ferricelli, Agnese Scazza and Petra Scheggia, Clara Tramontano, Milutin Dapčević, Jessica Piccolo Valerani, Marianna Folli, Evanghelina Zhurkina, Alessandro Gautiero, Tonni Pandolfo, Benjamin Israel, Tatiana Lepore, Joshua Israel, with the participation of Cristina Donadio and with Matteo Martari.
The film crew was in Piedmont for 7 weeks of preparation and filmed for 3 weeks in July 2024, touching different areas of the city of Torino, mainly indoors. Among the locations chosen: the Condominio Monte Bianco in Via Servais, a private home in the foothills, the Pinna Pintor Clinic and the Ex Hotel “La Serra”. Some filming was also done in Ivrea.
Among the many Piedmontese professionals employed on the set between the technical cast and the artistic cast, we point out some department heads within the crew such as the general organizer Rossella Tarantino, the set designer Luisa Iemma, the group leader Elena Aime, the location manager Cristina Vecchio.
Among the Piedmontese actors in the cast are Tatiana Lepore, Jacopo Demetrio, Mia Massara and Artemisia Meinero Ferricelli.
1997 Linda is 8 years old, has few teeth, a very rich grandmother and a beautiful, dangerous and disruptive mother. It will be the meeting with two peers, the sisters Azzurra and Marta, that will teach her to become a child. In a bourgeois street where everything is there for all to see, between spying neighbors, mosquito bites and dog poop that hides secrets, a coming-of-age story in reverse about the right to remain small for as long as we are entitled to. A comedy with grazed knees and bruises on the heart.
- “Testa o Croce?” by Alessio Rigo de Righi and Matteo Zoppis, a feature film made with the support of Film Commission Torino Piemonte - Piemonte Film Tv Development Fund will be screened in Piazza Grande on Sunday 10 August as a preview for Switzerland and will compete for the audience award.
Presented at the 78th Cannes Film Festival, selected in competition for “Un certain regard”, the film made with the support of Film Commission Torino Piemonte - Piemonte Film Tv Development Fund, is a Ring Film and Cinema Inutile production with Rai Cinema; in association with Andromeda Film and Cinemaundici; in collaboration with Volos Films Italia.
The project has also received support from the Lazio Region - Lazio Cinema International 2023 2nd edition; support from the Ministry of Culture - selective development and pre-production contributions; the Tuscany Region - Call for the granting of non-repayable grants, for the production of cinematographic and audiovisual works, year 2023; CineMArt / Eurimages Co-production Development Award.
Piedmont will also be represented by “Il vangelo di Giuda”, the latest film by the Piedmontese director and current Director of the Torino Film Festival Giulio Base.
The film will be presented in the out-of-competition section, a non-competitive section that acts as a laboratory for contamination between all imaginable genres and different forms of narration. The section includes 14 films, including 12 world premieres and one international premiere.
We also point out, in the Histoire(s) du Cinéma section, the screening of Mario Bava's cult film “Reazione a catena”, which sees Torino-born Gianfranco Barberi among the screenwriters.
For information and the complete program see here.
