John Travolta, Isabelle Huppert, Pamela Anderson and Josh Safdie will be among the honorees at the 44th Torino Film Festival, running Nov. 24 – Dec. 2 in the Piedmontese capital.
\n\nTributes will also go to Luc Besson, Fanny Ardant, Margarethe von Trotta, Stephen Frears, Mike Newell, Maria de Medeiros, Andy Garcia and Mira Sorvino. Special guests include Chiwetel Ejiofor, Abel Ferrara, Asia Argento, Albert Serra and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, each presenting new or classic work.
\n\nAs per tradition, 12 career achievement awards will be presented, all shaped like the Stella della Mole, the 12-point sculpture atop Turin’s Museo Nazionale del Cinema and an emblem of both the city and the event. Travolta, among the first honorees announced, will join director Roland Joffé to open the 44th edition with the international premiere of the JFK assassination drama “November 1963.”
\n\n“John Travolta is one of cinema’s great legends,” says artistic director Giulio Base. “For half a century, he has moved effortlessly through film history with class and elegance, but he’s never seemed distant. People feel he is part of their family, their history, their lives. Few actors can claim to have altered the very culture, but the way he walked the streets…
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