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By Nesta Morgan
Iphoto by Alex Deleon
Mastercard, official sponsor of the Venice International Film Festival for the third year in a row, is pleased to unveil an exclusive event to ignite a unique discussion among four of the most influential and inspirational figures in contemporary cinema.
The talents attending the 2019 Mastercard masterclass have significant and noteworthy backgrounds: from movie direction to acting, from screenwriting to movie production, and a wide variety of cinemat...
“According to some reports after today’s press conference, I believe my words were deeply misunderstood.
Since I don't separate the work from the author and I have recognized a lot of humanity in Polanski’s previous films, I am not opposed to the presence of the film in competition.
I don't have any prejudice towards it and of course I will watch the film like any other in the competition.
If I had any prejudice, I would have resigned my duty as the president of th...
by Anna Reeves
Venice VR Section - Third Year - Running August 28th - September 3rd
It is only the third edition of the Venice VR section and yet already it is establishing itself as unmissable. What makes the selection so world class is that is all about great storytelling and not simply displaying the latest tech. You can become so immerse in an alternate universe that you marvel like a child.
“It’s like making a film for people who’ve never seen a moving i...
Press Conference - AD ASTRA - Actor Brad Pitt (Credits La Biennale di Venezia - foto ASAC)
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Award Ceremony: Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to Pedro Almodóvar 29 agosto/August 2019
"Pedro Almodóvar isn’t only the most influential Spanish director since Buñuel, he is a filmmaker who has offered us the most multifaceted and provocative portraits of post-Franco Spain." quoted the festival
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I started loving Costa Gavras films very early, then I distributed for Sony "Music Box" which won in Berlin and met the director working closely with him and his wife (the producer of all his films).
Such a smart creative mind, I cannot wait to see his last film!
Bruno Chatelin
Costa-Gavras (Z, Missing, Music Box) will receive the Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker 2019 award of the 76th Venice International Film Festival ...
If you miss the screenings in Venice you may have to wait till October 2 and 6 for a two nights stand screening schedule worldwide..
Roger Waters, co-founder, creative force and songwriter behind Pink Floyd, presents his highly anticipated film, Us + Them, featuring state-of- the-art visual production and breath-taking sound in this unmissable cinema event.
Filmed in Amsterdam on the European leg of his 2017 – 2018 Us + Them tour which saw Waters perform to over two million people worldw...
THE PERFECT CANDIDATE
Director Haifaa Al Mansour
Main Cast Mila Alzahrani, Dhay, Nourah Al Awad, Khalid Abdulrhim / Saudi Arabia, Germany / 101’
OM DET OÄNDLIGA (ABOUT ENDLESSNESS)
Director Roy Andersson&...
LINE-UP OF THE 76TH VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
VENEZIA 76 COMPETITION
An international competition comprising a maximum of 20 feature-length films, presented as world premieres.
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The Venice Production Bridge welcomes the 6 selected teams and their projects to the 7th edition of Final Cut In Venice, the project that has been providing since 2013 concrete assistance in the completion of films from all African countries and from Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria.
Final Cut in Venice is one of the projects launched by the Venice Production Bridge of the Venice International Film Festival, directed by Alberto Barbera and organized by La Bienn...
The 6th edition of the Venice Gap-Financing Market (August 30 - September 1, 2019), organised as part of the Venice Production Bridge, will take place during the forthcoming 76th Venice International Film Festival and will offer selected European and international projects the opportunity to close their international financing, through one-to-one meetings with potential and pertinent international professionals. All the invited professionals are decision-makers.
The 3-day Venice Gap...
August 30, 2019, 2:30 pm
Sala Stucchi, Hotel Excelsior, Venice Lido
A CONVERSATION WITH
Brian De Palma, Rossy De Palma, Valeria Golino and Nadine Labaki
A unique opportunity to meet four of the most talented personalities in contemporary cinema
at the 76th Venice International Film Festival
Mastercard, official sponsor of the Venice International Film Festival for the third year in a row, is pleased to unveil an exclusive event to ignite a uniq...
Animation l 2019 l UK, India, France, Qatar I Language: Hindi I 93 minutes
An animated romance hanging precariously between living on the streets and loving on the screen, Bollywood style.
Synopsis: Escaping from child marriage, a young club dancer living in the streets of Bombay, must choose between fending for her family and finding love with a boy orphaned by the militancy. Painted frame by frame and woven delicately through music, a ...
President Paolo Baratta and Director Alberto Barbera (Credits La Biennale di Venezia - foto ASAC)
Orizzonti Jury and Director Alberto Barbera (Credits La Biennale di Venezia - foto ASAC)
The 76th Venice Film festival is officially open.
La vérité (The Truth) by Kore-eda Hirokazu with Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke
World premiere screening as the opening film of the festival
LA VÉRITÉ - Actress Juliette Binoche (C...
Lucrecia Martel_© Eugenio Fernández Abril3
Director Lucrecia Martel (Zama, La mujer sin cabeza) will be the president of the International Jury of the Competition at the 76th Venice International Film Festival (August 28 - September 7, 2019), which will assign the Golden Lion for Best Film, as well as other official awards.
The decision was made by the Board of Directors of the Biennale di Venezia chaired by Paolo Baratta, who confirmed the recommendation ...
Screening in Sala Darsena on the Lido of the film-scandal of the 1934 Venice Film Festival – Extase (Ecstasy) by Gustav Machatý, with Hedy Kiesler (Hedy Lamarr), in the world premiere of a new restored 4K digital copy
The film-scandal of the 2nd Venice International Film Festival in 1934, Extase (Ecstasy, 1932) written and directed by Gustav Machatý, with Hedy Kiesler (later known as Hedy Lamarr in Hollywood), is the film selected for the Pre-opening event on ...
The 76th Venice International Film Festival will include the following sections:
Venezia 76
An international competition comprising a maximum of 20 feature-length films, presented as world premieres.
Out of Competition
Some of the most important works of the year will be presented in the non-competing section, for a maximum of 18 films. They may include the works of established authors who have participated in Competition in previous editions of the Venice Film Festival, ...
The film stars Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke, and kicks off the Venezia 76 Competition.
SHARE THIS PAGE ONLa vérité (The Truth), directed by Kore-eda Hirokazu (Shoplifters; The Third Murder; Like Father, Like Son) and starring Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke, is the opening film, in Competition, of the 76th Venice International Film...
CAMPARI PASSION FOR FILM
La Biennale di Venezia and Campari are pleased to announce that cinematographer Luca Bigazzi (The Great Beauty, The Way We Laughed, Bread and Tulips) is the recipient of the Campari Passion for Film Award of the 76th Venice International Film Festival. The award, instituted last year at the 75th Venice Film Festival, seeks to highligh...
Director and screenwriter Costanza Quatriglio (Sembra mio figlio, Terramatta, Con il fiato sospeso) will chair the Jury of Film Students which – for the eighth year in a row – will award the VENICE CLASSICS prizes for the respective competitions for BEST RESTORED FILM and for the BEST DOCUMENTARY ABOUT CINEMA.
VENICE CLASSICS
The 76th Venice International Film Festival will ...
The VPB continues, as it has done over previous editions, to focus in particular on the presentation and exchange of original projects for films and works in progress, so as to foster their development and production.
The VPB comprises the Venice Gap - Financing Market, the workshop Final Cut in Venice, the Book Adaptation Rights Market, the European Film Forum, Networking Sessions and Panels, as well as an Exhibition Area,...
The Venice Production Bridge welcomes the 6 selected teams and their projects to the 7th edition of Final Cut In Venice, the project that has been providing since 2013 concrete assistance in the completion of films from all African countries and from Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine, and Syria.
Final Cut in Venice is one of the projects launched by the Venice Production Bridge of the Venice International Film Festival, directed by Alberto Barbera and organized by L...
The awards ceremony took place under the eyes of an Eiffel Tower draped with mist and clothes of light in the mythical places of Trocadero which hosted, not so long ago, the cinematheque dear to Henri Langlois: tuesday January 22 at the City of Architecture and Heritage the profession was reunited to honor the cinema and the memory of Henri Langlois in the presence of his son and his niece.
I was very happy to see that the great work of ...
Marie Jourdren
VR VIRGIN- !A SERIES OF THOUGHT-PIECES ABOUT MY PERSONAL JOURNEY ! INTO AN EMERGING ART FORM !
BY ANNA REEVES! !
Venice 2018 had 40 projects, 13 in competition and 10 others. ! 6 in the Best Of section and 4 from the Biennale College.! !
2. HOW TO JUDGE?! !
The VR section at Venice was incredibly diverse and for such a nascent technology it is certainly beginning to find its feet. Yes, there are similarities to filmmaking but beyond the obvious lie irreconcilable diffe...
By Alex Deleon
Alfonso Cuarón. bestows a kiss on his Best Picture Golden Lion
The 2018 Venice Film Festival. competition awards ran mostly true to form with top festival prizes going to established favorites and front runners with a few surprises on the outside track.
Willem Defoe's finely honed Portrayal of troubled painter Vincent van Gogh in the final years of his life was nearly a foregone conclusion for Best Actor in spite of the fact that critical reaction to &nb...
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