TFI Torino Film Industry: the 8th edition returns from November 20 to 25, 2025
14 Novembre 2025
TFI Torino Film Industry: the 8th edition returns from November 20 to 25, 2025, in conjunction and collaboration with the 43rd edition of the Torino Film Festival.
The network of partners is growing, Industry Screenings are back, and the new TFI Immersive section is opening.
Officina, Market, Meetings for development, international co-production, promotion of new talent and new trends in contemporary cinema and audiovisual media, TFI Torino Film Industry takes place as always during and in collaboration with the Torino Film Festival of Museo Nazionale del Cinema, presenting itself as the work & business soul of the city's historic film event.
Created in 2018 with the aim of promoting the potential of the Torino-Piemonte cinema system, TFI Torino Film Industry has consolidated and evolved year after year, reaching its 8th edition with an open structure that aims to offer national and international professionals a cross-cutting program of events dedicated to the entire audiovisual industry.
Promoted by Regione Piemonte and Città di Torino and organized with the support of the Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo and Camera di Commercio di Torino, TFI Torino Film Industry kicks off on Thursday, November 20, 2025, and continues until Tuesday, November 25, with pitching sessions, panels, workshops, and one-to-one meetings taking place at the historic headquarters of the Circolo dei lettori e delle lettrici di Torino.
The partners behind the TFI8 program are Film Commission Torino Piemonte, which has coordinated the event since its inception and is responsible for the Production Days program, the Centro Nazionale del Cortometraggio, which is offering a new edition of ShorTO Film Market, the Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo, which is responsible for the onLive Campus events, and, starting this year, AGIS Piemonte e Valle D'Aosta, which is strengthening its presence after participating in previous editions.
Once again, the collaboration with the Museo Nazionale del Cinema is confirmed as a content partner, through the presence at TFI8 of the Cinemambiente Festival, Lovers Film Festival, and TorinoFilmLab. The collaboration with Contemporanea Film Festival, Glocal Film Festival, Sotto18 Film Festival is also expanding, with Seeyousound joining this edition.
Professions on set, training and education for young professionals, the culture of accessibility, environmental responsibility and sustainability, project development and international co-production, the short film market, LGBTQIA+ cinema and audiovisual media, the relationship between live entertainment and new technologies, and the impact of artificial intelligence and new digital technologies on the production of moving images are just some of the topics and insights at the heart of the 8th edition, which is increasingly structured, comprehensive, and capable of meeting the needs of a vast and diverse target audience of professionals.
Taking place halfway through Torino’s long month of cinema, the eighth edition of TFI is effectively with an “extended” dimension, offering additional events before and after the official dates, combining its know-how with three additional events organized by Film Commission Torino Piemonte: on November 8 - as part of the Contemporanea Festival, with the panel “Professioniste dell’audiovisivo: un’istantanea Contemporanea”, aiming to analyze gender balance and inclusion in the audiovisual sector; on November 15, as part of the Glocal Film Festival, with " Piemonte a tutto cinema: un’istantanea Glocal", an opportunity to explore the consolidated and identity-defining link between the audiovisual sector and Piedmont, through the voices of those who contribute to consolidating it through their work; and finally, during the Sottodiciotto Film Festival, with a focus on the 18 years of the Piemonte Doc Film Fund, the first fund in Italy to support cinema verité.
TFI 8 – PARTNER
Film Commission Torino Piemonte - Production Days
Film Commission Torino Piemonte – which has coordinated TFI since its first edition – again is organizing and promoting the Production Days for this 8th edition, a co-production meeting that welcomes decision makers and international audiovisual professionals with the aim of placing Piedmontese workers and companies at the center of the production ecosystem and, at the same time, involving beginners in the sector who have just approached the world of cinema and its industry through targeted workshops.
A program of 13 panels, 3 pitch sessions, 9 workshops, as well as a day of structured one-to-one meetings aimed at strengthening a recognized independent cinema ecosystem, capable of highlighting the richness and vitality of the local sector, the institutions that comprise it, and the professionals who represent it.
“In keeping with tradition, the 2025 edition of Production Days returns as a showcase and key moment for presenting FCTP's flagship projects—such as the opening day dedicated to the cinema and the pitch session for projects from the Development Call for Proposals, created with the support of Fondazione Compagnia di San Paolo—while also offering numerous new features, confirming the program's distinctive role as a workshop and laboratory for experimentation. Paolo Manera, Director of Film Commission Torino Piemonte, comments: “Starting with the brand new Clinic, which will be held behind closed doors the day before the opening, through to the presentation of the new Match Piemonte Award together with the Piedmont Region and Circolo dei lettori, and the new TFI Immersive section dedicated to audiovisual practices that are expanding languages and aesthetics beyond the boundaries of the cinema screen.”
Centro Nazionale del Cortometraggio - ShorTO Film Market
ShorTO Film Market (November 23-25) celebrates its tenth anniversary at TFI Torino Film Industry 8, consolidating its position as a national and international market for short films and digital audiovisual content. At the heart of the Market are the pitching sessions, divided into several categories: the Sonego Award for comedies, Think Outside the Keyframe for animation and Extended Reality, Road to Euro Connection/Italy for projects by young Italian talents, and You Only Pitch Twice for international projects. Once again, SFM offers visibility to new productions in the sector, reserving specific spaces for XR with the Content Market Showcase and for Italian short films with an online video library. This year's Focus Country is Lithuania, represented by a delegation that will take part in panels, networking meetings, and screenings. Organized in collaboration with Lithuanian Shorts and the Lithuanian Film Center, Focus is part of the two-year program Lithuanian Culture in Italy 2025–2026, created by the Lithuanian Culture Institute and Ambasciata della Repubblica di Lituania nella Repubblica Italiana.The program of public screenings at Cinema Lux presents 18 short films, divided into three screenings. SFM will also be an opportunity to launch the Italian Short Film Atlas, a research project carried out in collaboration with Università di Bologna, Concorto Film Festival e Centro Nazionale del Cortometraggio.
“More interconnected than ever with the activities of the National Short Film Center, a reference point for the short film sector in Italy, ShorTO Film Market finds once again this year at TFI8 the pivotal event and the culmination of an activity that is becoming more intense and continuous every year”, says Elena Ciofalo, director of the Centro Nazionale del Cotrometraggio.
Piemonte dal Vivo - onLive Campus
Following the publication of the White Paper on live digital entertainment in Italy, Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo's onLive Campus presents a series of panels at TFI dedicated to pressing current issues: on November 20, we enter Verse, a city of arts in the Metaverse, developed together with eight partners in culture and entertainment through a project funded by the European Union as part of NextGenerationEU. On November 22, cinematic language and artistic experimentation come together in so-called art films: but how are they made and what are the most effective production and distribution channels for these hybrid products today? Also on the 22nd: how is technology transforming the artistic experience in an accessible and sustainable way? Finally, on November 24, in collaboration with Itaca Digitale and DigiTo Cultura, the theme of the use of artificial intelligence, a new player on the contemporary creative and cognitive scene, will be addressed.
Director Matteo Negrin states: “By bringing together the arts sector, institutions, policy makers, businesses, and academia, the Fondazione Piemonte dal Vivo's onLive project chooses to tackle the challenges posed by the performing arts of tomorrow through the use of new technologies.”
The program and all updates are available on the dedicated website onlive.piemontedalvivo.it.
Unione Interregionale A.G.I.S. of Piemonte and Valle d'Aosta
Thanks to ANEC and ACEC, AGIS constitutes the largest cinema circuit in the Piedmont region, with over 200 screens. It shines a light on innovative management models through the recounting of particularly significant experiences at the national level, such as the Il Regno del Cinema circuit, Beltrade in Milan, IMG Cinema in Mestre and empowerment and networking projects such as LED – Leader Esercenti Donne.
“It is extremely significant for us - says Marta Valsania, Secretary General of Agis Piemonte Valle d'Aosta - that the opening of the eighth edition of TFI, an event that aims to promote the cinematic potential of our region, has a focus on movie theaters. This focus demonstrates, once again, how this is a fundamental link in the audiovisual chain. It is thanks to events such as TFI that we are reminded of the role that cinemas have played and continue to play, both as businesses and as places of culture, socialization, gathering, and sharing."
TFI 8 – CONTENT PARTNER
Festival CinemAmbiente
For the second consecutive year, CinemAmbiente is participating in Torino Film Industry with two EcoTalks, events that explore different aspects of the relationship between cinema and sustainability.
In the first meeting, expert strategist Ben Kempas will analyze the requirements and essential elements for building effective impact campaigns in the documentary film sector.
In the second, Filmare la scienza, professionals from Turin with different experiences and skills will discuss the role and potential of documentary cinema as a tool for disseminating and informing the public about the results of research and innovation, also focusing on the technical aspects of the production of audiovisual products in the sector.
“We are delighted to renew our collaboration with Torino Film Industry, which offers us a valuable space for discussion and in-depth analysis. This year's edition aims to promote concrete dialogue between the environment and society by promoting documentaries as a tool for change, scientific knowledge, and the formation of an informed and aware public opinion”, says Lia Furxhi, Festival CinemAmbiente.
Lovers Film Festival
The historic Italian festival that explores LGBTQI+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and intersex) themes - directed by Vladimir Luxuria and founded by Giovanni Minerba and Ottavio Mai - reconfirms its presence at TFI8 with a debate on Sunday, May 23, at 4:15 p.m. on the link between festivals and the distribution of themed films, analyzing the impact of programming, the visibility achieved and commercial success, as well as the still complex interaction between national and international distributors and possible resolution strategies.
Angelo Acerbi, Deputy Director and Head of Programming at the Lovers Film Festival, points out that “in the year in which the Lovers Film Festival celebrated its 40th anniversary, we are delighted to be able to enrich the opportunities for debate by participating once again in TFI, an opportunity to strengthen the festival's role in the region while enhancing its natural international dimension.”
TorinoFilmLab
TorinoFilmLab brings the best of its pragmatic and international approach to Torino Film Industry, with which it has been supporting and developing film and TV series projects for 18 years. Two moments in the TFI program fully reflect this vision.
On Friday 21 at 4 p.m., the panel “Venture Capital: sviluppare un modello europeo” will bring together Blake Levin (US producer engaged in seeking private investors for European projects), Joe Plummer (Emmy and Tony Award-winning producer, President and Executive Producer of Wavelength), Jennifer Westin (producer and President of Artists Equity, the studio co-founded by Ben Affleck and Matt Damon that rethinks the relationship between talent, studios, and distributors), and Aleksandra Zakharchenko (Head of Industry Programs at the Marché du Film - Festival de Cannes) to discuss a possible model for attracting private capital that is compatible with the specificities of the European audiovisual sector.
“In the current context, it is essential to explore new approaches and tools capable of complementing private investment with public resources,” says Mercedes Fernandez, Managing Director of TorinoFilmLab “The panel on venture capital aims to be a moment of strategic reflection on how to expand and diversify sources of funding and stimulate more sustainable and competitive production models.”
On Saturday 22 at 4pm, during the intensive workshop “Story Editing per i progetti seriali”, screenwriter, story editor, writing tutor and head of the TFL SeriesLab programme Eszter Angyalosy will explore the role of the Story Editor, a key figure in the development of TV series.
Contemporanea Film Festival
For the 2025 edition (November 4-9), the festival directed by Giulia Magno and Fulvio Paganin and organized by Distretto Cinema offered the public five days of meetings, screenings, masterclasses, and an international competition dedicated to emerging female directors, with Laura Luchetti as jury president. The festival kicked off a long month of cinema in Turin, hosting the first of the TFI Extended events, with the panel “Professioniste dell'audiovisivo: un’istantanea Contemporanea”.
"We are very pleased to have organized a day of debate dedicated to the condition of women professionals throughout the film and audiovisual industry, which was able to showcase—through the voices of numerous prestigious figures, from Film Commission Torino Piemonte to Rete Cinema Piemonte APS, from Women in Film, Television & Media Italia to Mujeres nel Cinema and DiversityLab - the changes that are taking place and those that are still needed," commented the two directors Giulia Magno and Fulvio Paganin.
Glocal Film Festival
The event dedicated to Piemontese cinema organized by Piemonte Movie—which is celebrating its 25th anniversary—has changed its schedule this year, positioning itself among the highlights of Torino's long month of cinema. With a program that presents 51 projects, including feature films, documentaries, and short films, from November 11 to 15, the Glocal Film Festival is organizing the second TFI Extended event, “Piemonte a tutto cinema: un’istantanea Glocal”, on its closing day.
According to Piemonte Movie President Alessandro Gaido “The collaboration with FCTP—which develops throughout the year through activities and projects linked to the Foundation's regional network—finds a new point of contact and debate thanks to the event on Saturday, November 15, which will offer a focus on investigating and promoting local talent, professionalism, and institutions in a discussion on the consolidated and identity-defining link between the audiovisual sector and Piemonte”
Seeyousound International Film Festival
Created in 2015, the Seeyousound International Music Film Festival brings the most daring and innovative cinema on the international scene to Turin every winter, focusing on the relationship between cinema and music. The event boasts the distinction of being the first festival of its kind in Italy.
According to Artistic Director Carlo Griseri “For the first time, Seeyousound is present at TFI8, inaugurating a collaboration that on Friday, November 21, will shine the spotlight on music video production, exploring its creative and operational universe, thus finding a new important opportunity to enhance the audiovisual heritage interconnected with music and also an excellent opportunity to strengthen ties with local organizations and institutions.”
Sotto18 Film Festival
Sottodiciotto Film Festival is participating in TFI - Torino Film Industry for the fifth consecutive year, dedicating a specific space to cinema made for young people. This year, the focus is on an extremely topical phenomenon with the panel Artificial Intelligence and Animation: Prospects, Risks, and Opportunities. Towards a new balance between human creativity and technology. Producers, authors, and policy makers will take stock of the new scenarios opened up in the sector by the introduction of emerging technologies, examining their positive and negative aspects, with the aim of identifying possible strategies to promote growth, employment, and sustainability.
“The idea for the panel stems from a desire to understand how the animation industry is reacting to the radical changes—almost a revolution—that AI has triggered in the creative and production process, and what new professional opportunities there are for those entering the market in the coming years,” says Daniele Segre, producer and curator of the Industry section of the Sottodiciotto Film Festival.
The press kit for the presentation of TFI Torino Film Industry 2025 is available at this link.
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