Ron Howard’s ‘Eden’ Set to Open Italy’s Torino Film Festival With Director in Tow for International Launch

Ron Howard 's survival thriller " Eden ," starring Jude Law, Ana de Armas, Vanessa Kirby and Sydney Sweeney, has been set as the opening film of Italy's Torino Film Festival with the director in tow.

"Eden," which follows a pair of high-minded Europeans, played by Law and Kirby, who are seeking a new life on a previously uninhabited island in the Galápagos, will be having its international premiere in Torino after world premiering at the Toronto Film Festival in September.

Landing the international launch of the survival thriller, with Howard on hand, marks a nice coup for the fest's new artistic director, Italian actor/director Giulio Base. Torino's upcoming 42nd edition will run Nov. 22-30.

Torino is Italy's preeminent event for young directors and indie cinema, and is where Matteo Garrone and Paolo Sorrentino screened their first works. The festival's lineup will be announced on Nov. 7.

Base is putting his stamp on the fest with a previously-announced 24-title Marlon Brando retro celebrating the birth centennial of the two-time Oscar winner, known for his naturalistic acting style and rebellious streak.

The Brando retro, which will be the fest's backbone, includes Fred Zinneman's 1950 drama "The Men," the movie in which Brando made his big-screen debut playing a paraplegic war veteran, after having made a splash on on Broadway playing the Stanley Kowalski character in Tennessee Williams' "A Streetcar Named Desire."

The Torino Film Festival is run by Italy's National Film Museum in Turin, a cinematic shrine housed in the iconic Mole Antonelliana domed tower, which is the Northern city's main landmark.