02/10/2024 - Offering up a selection of the most recent British and Irish productions acclaimed by audiences and critics alike, the event is unspooling 18 - 20 October

“A little smaller than a festival but far more than a celebration”- that’s the British Irish Film Fest (BIFF) in a nutshell, an event celebrating Anglo-Saxon culture through film and other mediums, which is returning to Turin this year between 18 and 20 October in the Cineteatro Baretti, to celebrate a special edition dedicated to its founder and former artistic director Daniele Manini, who passed away prematurely back in December.

Founded in 2015, unspooling until 2019 and then returning in reduced form, following the difficulties of the pandemic, in 2022, the festival now directed by Alessandro Battaglini (who’s also vice-director of Turin’s Seeyousound Festival) will unfurl across three days, jam-packed with exclusive screenings of films in their original language with subtitles, chosen from among the most recent British and Irish productions acclaimed by audiences and critics alike.

Titles on the agenda include the biopic Baltimore [+see also:
interview: Christine Molloy, Joe Lawlor
film profile] by Christine Molloy (who’ll be attending the screening in person) and Joe Lawlor, which tells the story of Rose Dugdale who gave up her life as a privileged heiress in the early ‘70s to become a member of the IRA; the dystopic drama The End We Start From [+see also:
film review
film profile] by Mahalia Belo, starring Jodie Comer as a young mother who’s trying to survive a flood, alongside Benedict Cumberbatch; the biographical comedy Kneecap [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Red Carpet @ European Film …
film profile] by Rich Peppiatt, which follows the ups and downs of the titular Irish rap group, known for their provocative style and use of the Gaelic language, and the documentary The Skids Revolution, directed by Colin Graham and Laura Graham, which explores the cultural impact of the historic Scottish punk band The Skids.

Audiences in Turin will also get to feast their eyes upon Eaten by Lions [+see also:
trailer
film profile], a touching comedy directed by Jason Wingard, dating back to 2019, never released in northern Italy and revolving around about two half-brothers who are looking for their biological father; another comedy entitled The Young Offenders [+see also:
trailer
film profile] (2016), by Peter Foott, revolving around the adventures of two teens who set off in search of a cocaine shipment lost along the Irish coast; and the restored 4K version of Ratcatcher (1999), the debut film by the multi-award-winning Scottish director Lynne Ramsay, telling the story of a boy growing up in an impoverished and desperate neighbourhood in 1970s Glasgow.

Last but not least, live concerts, encounters with international guests, performances, and a tour in an open-top bus of Turin’s lively and diverse San Salvario neighbourhood, are all set to round off the BIFF line-up.

(Translated from Italian)