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Torino Film Festival Chief Teases World Premiere of Billy Zane’s Marlon Brando Biopic: ‘He Is Possessed’ by the Late Actor
Giulio Base, artistic director of Torino Film Festival, is making festgoers an offer they can’t refuse: the world premiere of 'Waltzing With Brando.'
Base, who is an Italian actor-director, is celebrating the centennial of Brando’s birth with a 24-title retrospective of films featuring the two-time Oscar winner known for his naturalistic acting style and rebellious streak. Male and female directors are equally represented in the main feature competition and the documentary sections, and 13 of the 24 entries in the shorts sidebar are directed by women. The competition features Ukrainian drama “Dissident” by Stanislàv Hurenko and Andriyh Alfiorov; Mara Tamkovich’s “Under the Grey Sky,”about a Belarusian journalist who is arrested after covertly livestreaming brutal government crackdowns on peaceful demonstrators after rigged elections; and “Higher than Acid Clouds,” the new work by Iranian auteur Ali Asgari (“Terrestrial Verses”), a black and white autobiographical essay about how censorship drains life and color from his home of Tehran that will open the documentary competition.
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