Another fest has signed the 5050×2020 charter for gender parity and inclusion. Italy’s Turin Film Festival, also known as Torino Film Festival, is following in the footsteps of Cannes, Venice, and Toronto, among many other fests, The Hollywood Reporter confirms.

Introduced at Cannes earlier this year, the Pledge is a way to hold fests accountable as they work towards full gender parity. By signing the document, festival signatories promise to gather stats according to the filmmakers’ gender, identify the fest members who select films to screen, and develop a schedule to achieve equality on the festival board. The Pledge was created by 5050×2020, an offshoot of Le Deuxième Regard.

“At this year’s ongoing Torino Film Festival, 27 movies are directed by women. Four of them are in the international feature film competition, out of a total of 15 films, representing almost 40 percent,” said Emanuela Martini, the fest’s director. “This is an excellent average, compared to the overall number of women directors. To me, these numbers are more significant than any declaration of intent.”

“We would like to thank the Turin Film Festival, represented by Emanuela Martini, and the National Cinema Museum, represented by Sergio Toffetti, because they immediately demonstrated their willingness and interest,” added Kissy Dugan and Margherita Chiti, Women in Film, Television & Media Italia president and vp, respectively. They emphasized that the Northern Italy fest’s adoption of the pledge shows that it “supports people’s rights and the transparency of data.”

The 2018 edition of the fest, its 36th, ran from November 23-December 1. The program’s women-directed films included Ewa Bukowska’s “53 Wars,” a drama about a woman who develops post-traumatic stress syndrome after her husband, a war correspondent, dies, and Shireen Seno’s “Nervous Translation,” a coming-of-age story centering around an eight-year-old girl who spends her days alone at home.