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73rd Venice Film Festival - Les beaux jours d'Aranjuez by Wim Wenders

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Press conference and red carpet of “Les beaux jours d'Aranjuez” by Wim Wenders (Venezia 73) ...

Opening Ceremony of the 73rd Venice International Film Festival

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Highlights from the Opening Ceremony of the 73rd Venice International Film Festival and Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to Jerzy Skolimowski. 31 August 2016. ...

Press Conference for LA LA Land with Emma Stone and Damien Chazelle

Press conference and photocall of “La La Land” by Damien Chazelle (Venezia 73) ...

Amir Naderi received the Venice International Film Festival’s Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker 2016 Award

The Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker Award is the annual prize established by Jaeger-LeCoultre in association with the Venice International Film Festival to pay tribute to personalities who have contributed to creating and bringing life to the art of filmmaking. Jaeger-LeCoultre attaches great importance to honour a unique artistic vision. Yesterday, in the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema, Jaeger-LeCoultre Communication Executive Director Laurent Vinay presented Amir N...

The 73rd edition of the Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematigrafico off and running

By Alex Deleon The 73rd edition of the Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematigrafico, otherwise known as the Venice Film Festival, is off and running. With an overwhelming cornucopia  of films of all kinds to choose from --new Hollywood star vehicles, old restored classics, documentaries and feature films from around the globe, shorts, experimental films, etc.  one is faced with what the Italians call "l'imbarazzo della scelta"  -- Choice Overload  -- whi...

Films representing the best of Chilean industry at Venice

        We are proud to have one Chilean film representing the best of our industry at Venice, the much-awaited feature El Cristo ciego (The Blind Christ), by Christopher Murray. For us each and every achievement made by our filmmakers is of great importance, and w...

Michele Vannucci's debut feature film, ll più grande sogno

FIRST LOOK AT IL PIU GRANDE SOGNO (I WAS A DREAMER) BY MICHELE VANNUCCI Michele Vannucci's debut feature film, ll più grande sogno (I was a dreamer) is one of 18 films chosen for the Orizzonti section (Horizons) at the Venice Film Festival (31 August - September 10th). The film will have its world premiere on September 4th and is also competing for a Lion of the Future “Luigi De Laurentiis&rdqu...

"BOZZETTO NON TROPPO" a film by MARCO BONFANTI - a film about animation legend Bruno Bozzetto.

Zagora and Istituto Luce Cinecittà  in  collaboration with Sky Arte HD presents BOZZETTO NON TROPPO a film by Marco Bonfanti A production Zagora and Istituto Luce-Cinecittà in collaboration with Sky Arte HD Executive producer Anna Godano  with the participation of Studio Bozzetto & Co. and Bruno Bozzetto Distribution distributed in Italy by ISTITUTO LUCE CINECITTÀ    ...

After Golden Lion winner From Afar, Venezuela is back in Venice with La Soledad

Venezuelan director Jorge Thielen Armand went back into his memories to portrait his childhood old decrepit grandparents house that will soon be demolished. Based on a true story and played by the real inhabitants, La Soledad depicts how relationships and moral values are affected by the economic chaos. The old mansion not only reflects a family's dispersal but also today's Venezuela, forgotten in time. Filming in Venezuela includes technological and logistical constraints.&nbs...

Red Carpet on Mostra opening film

Official partner of the Film Festival for over a decade, Jaeger-LeCoultre reaffirmed its commitment to encouraging and celebrating filmmaking at the opening ceremony that took place at Palazzo del Cinema in Venice last night. Jaeger-LeCoultre, gathered close friends of the Brand to celebrate cinema. Throughout the evening guests were humbled and thoughtful about Italy's recent tragedy. The world premiere of Damien Chazelle's film La La Lan...

Emma Stone and Damiene Chazelle bring "La La land" to open the 73. International Film Festival

  Emma Stone and Damiene Chazelle, respectively the actress and the director of “La La land”, the opening film of the 73. International Film Festival, have been the first guests in our Lounge. Arrived on board of 2 Jaguar F-peace, the talent reached the indoor and outdoor spaces of the former greenhouses of C.I.G.A. hotels. There, the journalists, carrying out television and print interviews, got the plot of the film. Mia and Sebastian court the...

Austrian Documentary Cinema Futures in Venice Classics

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CINEMA FUTURES, is a new documentary by Michael Palm (Edgar G. Ulmer - The Man Off-screen / Low Definition Control)  on the future of analogue film, archives and cinema. It is screening in the Venice Classics section of the Venice Film Festival on September 2nd. It was initiated by the Austrian Film Museum on the occasion of its 50th anniversary in 2014.     Friday, September 2 - Venice Classics   CINEMA FUTURES A film by M...

New York Film Academy Student Showcase to Open the Market at the 73rd Venice Film Festival

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  The New York Film Academy (NYFA) is proud to announce a special student showcase as part of this year’s 73rd Venice Film Festival Market. Providing an unprecedented opportunity for exposure and networking to a selection of our talented students, NYFA's Venice Showcase will feature 5 short films spanning all three academic departments – fiction, documentary and animation. The NYFA event is set to open the brand-new Venice Production Bridge platform in the m...

Venice Festival Homage to Mr. Abbas Kiarostami- 76 Minutes & 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami

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The 73rd Venice International Film Festival has dedicated this edition of the Festival to Mr. Abbas Kiarostami and this Homage will include two short films by Mr. Kiarostami, "24 Frames" and "Take Me Home" as well as a very brand new documentary by Seifollah Samadian (documentary filmmaker and photographer of ABC Africa and Five), "76 Minutes & 15 Seconds with Abbas Kiarostami". This is a Portrait of an artist, whose exceptional approach to Art and Life, de...

Opening Gala dinner for the opening of Venice Festival cancelled in support to the communities struck by the earthquake

  < Back La Biennale di Venezia announces that it has cancelled the gala dinner and reception on the beach that have traditionally followed the opening ceremony of the 73rd Venice International Film Festival, scheduled for August 31st. La Biennale di Venezia shares in the bereavement, expresses its deepest sorrow for the victims, and its utmost solidarity and support to the communities struck by the earthquake. ...

Alice Lowe's PREVENGE premieres at Venice and TIFF ft. "breakout" performance from baby Della Moon

PREVENGE (Acquisition Title, ICM Partners and XYZ Films) World Premiere (Venice) / North American Premiere (TIFF) Written and Directed by Alice Lowe Starring Alice Lowe, Gemma Whelan, Katie Dickie, Joe Hartley   Featuring a "breakout" performance from baby Della Moon, a star both inside and outside the womb       Synopsis:  A pitch black, wryly British comedy from the mind of Alice Lowe (Sightseers, Hot Fuzz,  Paddington), Prevenge follows Rut...

Flanders line up for Toronto & Venice

     Orizzonti   Home Fien Troch Seventeen-year-old Kevin starts an apprenticeship at his aunt’s store and moves in with her and her family. He quickly adapts to his new home and gets along with his cousin Sammy. Through Sammy’s circle of friends he meets John. John lives in an unbearable situation with his mother and Kevin feels the urge to help his new friend. One evening fate intervenes and questions ...

Are we not cats? Venice FF Premiere!

Are you a fan of David Lynch? Alex Cox? Then meet Xander Robin.  His debut feature film ARE WE NOT CATS has been selected as the closing film for the Venice Film Festival's prestigious Critics' Week. The only US film featured in the section this year, it's a macabre arthouse indie, centered around a hairy love story.  The film has already captured imaginations at IndieWi...

40 projects selected for the 2016 Venice Gap-Financing Market.

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The Venice Production Bridge is pleased to present the line-up of the 40 projects selected for the 2016 Venice Gap-Financing Market.   The Venice Production Bridge will present 40 projects in the final stages of development and funding, divided as follows: 25 projects for feature-length fiction films and feature documentaries from around the world, 4 European projects for TV Series, 8 projects for films to be produced as Virtual Reality & Interactive experiences and 3 projects for Web...

The 73. Venice International Film Festival screening schedule revealed

55 new feature films in the Official Selection divided as follows: ·  20 in Venezia 73 (Competition) ·  18 Out of Competition (7 of which are documentaries) ·  19 in Orizzonti   16 new short films divided as follows: ·  16 in Orizzonti ·    14 in Orizzonti - Competition  ·      2 in ...

Venice Production Bridge Sept 1–5, 2016

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This year the Venice Production Bridge will be held during the 73rd Venice International Film Festival (31st August – 10th September 2016), an initiative to both continue and fine-tune the idea of the Venice Film Market of the past years. The Venice Production Bridge will take place from September 1 to 5 in the third floor of the Excelsior Hotel of the Lido di Venezia. It will join and reinforce the Industry Office, which will continue to work, as it has in past years, throughout the entir...

73rd Venice International Film Festival Out of Competition Films

Out of Competition Important works by directors already established in previous editions of the FestivalAll sections »   1 | 2 | BRUNO CHIARAVALLOTI, CLAUDIO JAMPAGLIA, BENEDETTA ARGENTIERI - OUR WAR Italy, USA, 68’ (documentary) KASPER COLLIN - I CALLED HIM MORGAN Sweden, USA, 91' (documentary) ANDREW DOMINIK - ONE MORE TIME WITH FEELING (3D) Great Britain, 112’ Nick Cave PHI...

Full line up announced for 73rd Mostra

The 73rd Venice International Film Festival, organized by La Biennale di Venezia, will run at Venice Lido from August 31st to September 10th, 2016, directed by Alberto Barbera.  The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness and promote the various aspects of international cinema in all its forms: as art, entertainment and as an industry, in a spirit of freedom and dialogue. The Festival also organises retrospectives and tributes to major figures as a con...

Johnny Depp in Black Mass at Venice Film Festival, Sketch by Nesta

Sketch by Nesta Morgan,Venice, 4th September 2015 "The evil and I are old friends. The people and the part he posed claims a tremendous responsinility for the truth to the person in painting a character you don't like, just shooting from the hip. Bad people do bad things well, it's a quest. Depp's heroes? John Barrymore and Marlon Brando. He plays a character, not a poster boy, there's a danger transformation To look like Jimmy Bulger? The blue eye contacts.&...

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Oldest festival in the world, MOSTRA is Non-specialised competitive event for features and shorts. Two competing sections and three Prizes: the Golden Lion, the Lion of the Year and the Lion of the Future to best director`s debut film.

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