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Spike Lee to Receive Honor at Torino Film Festival

10/27/2025

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Spike Lee, an Academy Award winner and pioneering African-American director, will receive the Stella della Mole at the 43rd Torino Film Festival.
The festival runs November 21–29 in Turin.
Lee will present his film Highest 2 Lowest, a reimagining of Kurosawa's High and Low, starring Denzel Washington.
The film premiered at Cannes and explores moral dilemmas faced by a music mogul.

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Spike Lee, an Academy Award winner and pioneering African-American director, will receive the Stella della Mole at the 43rd Torino Film Festival.
The festival runs November 21–29 in Turin.
Lee will present his film Highest 2 Lowest, a reimagining of Kurosawa's High and Low, starring Denzel Washington.
The film premiered at Cannes and explores moral dilemmas faced by a music mogul.