The Turin Film Festival (TFF) will open the 34th edition of the Festival 18 – 26 November 2016 and the jury of the competition will be chaired by the award-winning cinematographer Edward Lachman who has collaborated with directors such as Steven Soderbergh, Robert Altman, Sofia Coppola, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Volker Schlöndorff and Jean-Luc Godard, among others; a Canadian author, actor and director Don McKellar, ; the General Manager of German Films Service, Mariette Rissenbeek; a Romanian director, Adrian Sitaru; and an Israeli actress, Hadas Yaron.

A portrait of David Bowie dancing on stage, a scene from Absolute Beginners, the cult movie directed by Julien Temple in 1986. This image has inspired the poster of the 34th edition of the Torino Film Festival, elaborated by the creative agency Independent Ideas. With this image the Festival pays homage to one of the most eclectic personalities of contemporary culture who passed away last January, at the age of sixty-nine years old.