Tuesday September 1st, Sala Darsena (Palazzo del Cinema) at Lido di Venezia - Pre-Opening of the 72nd Venice Film Festival entirely dedicated to Orson Welles, for the centennial of his birth, and to two of his “Venetian” masterpieces inspired by Shakespeare and remarkably found and restored – The Merchant of Venice (1969, a film that was thought to have been lost) and Otello (1951)
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OFFICIAL SELECTION
Venezia 72
International competition of feature films, presented as world premieres
Out of Competition
Important works by directors already established in previous editions of the Festival
Orizzonti
An international competition dedicated to films that represent the latest aesthetic and expressive trends in international cinema
Venice Classics
A selection of restored classic films and documentaries on cinema
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VENEZIA 72
Alfonso Cuarón (President)
Elizabeth Banks
Emmanuel Carrère
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
Hou Hsiao-hsien
Diane Kruger
Francesco Munzi
Pawel Pawlikowski
Lynne Ramsay
ORIZZONTI
Jonathan Demme (President)
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Wednesday September 2nd
- 100 autori, the Cinetelevisiva Association, in collaboration with Giornate degli Autori – Venice Days – the autonomous section dedicated to the auteur and independent cinema – inaugurates at the Villa degli Autori (Lungomare Marconi 56) the exhibition with free admission, Il disegno del cinema, with boards of the cartoonist and storyborder Davide De Cubellis and it will be open throughou...
Some statistics on the 72nd Venice International Film Festival
55 new feature films in the Official Selection
divided as follows:
· 21 in Venezia 72 (Competition)
· 16 Out of Competition (9 of ...
FRANCOFONIA by Alexander Sokurov tonight premiered at the Venice Film Festival.
The Louvre Under NAZI Occupatio N
The goals of State and Art seldom coincide
In view of the threat of war triggered by Germany’s invasion of the Sudetenland, the Louvre’s art collections were packed
up on September 27 and 28, 1938 on the orders of its director, Jacques Jaujard, and transported by lorry to the Château
de Chambord in the Loire Valley, according to a ...
FREE IN DEED, a film by Jake Mahaffy with David Harewood, Edwina Findley
Produced by Mike S. Ryan, Michael Bowes, Brent Stiefel
USA/New Zealand 2015, 98 mins
Press Screenings: Thursday, September 10th, 19:45, Sala Pasinetti / 22:30, Sala Volpi
Official Screening: Friday, September 11th, 17:30, Sala Darsena
Repeat Screening: Saturday, September 12th, 15:30, Palabiennale
Set...
official competition
The Clan
Pablo Trapero
The new film from Argentine auteur Pablo Trapero (Crane World, White Elephant) recounts the astonishing true story of a seemingly normal middle-class family that trafficked in the kidnapping, ransoming and murder of the wealthy.
6 sep
09:00 hs
Sala grande
6 sep
11:30 hs
Sala Darsena
6 sep
20:15 hs
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MA will premiere at the 2015 Venice Film Festival on Saturday, September 5th at 10:00pm
Synopsis:
In this modern-day vision of Mother Mary’s pilgrimage, a woman crosses the scorched landscape of the American Southwest. Reinvented and told entirely through movement, the film playfully deconstructs the role of this woman, who encounters a world full of bold characters that are alternately terrifying and sublime. MA is a journey into the visceral and the surreal, ...
A FLICKERING TRUTH
A Film By Pietra Brettkelly
Synopsis:
Film preservation is a challenge all over the world, but on this scale of crisis Afghanistan ranks near the very top. The miniboom in film production that followed the establishment of the state Afghan Film organization in 1965 came to an end with the ascension of the Taliban, which viewed cinema as Western culture that needed to be expunged. The country's film history might well have have been lost forever, if not f...
The Venice Film Market is pleased to present the 2nd edition of the European Gap-Financing Market, which will take place on September 4 and 5, 2015. The European Gap-Financing Market is a new platform intended to support the European producers to secure the final financing of their projects through one-to-one meetings with potential and appropriate international professionals. The main criteria to participate in this original event is to...
The third edition of the FINAL CUT IN VENICE workshop will take place from September 7th to September 8th, 2015 during the Venice Film Market of the 72nd Venice International Film Festival (Venice Lido, 2nd – 12th September 2015).
The Festival’s purpose is to provide concrete assistance in the completion of films from Africa and from Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria; and to offer producers and directors an opportunity to present films still...
Recreation Media’s newest acquisition, FIRST LIGHT - La Prima Luce, premiering at the 2015 Venice Film Festival in the Venice Days/Giornate Degli Autori’s Official Selection section.
Directed by Vincenzo Marra (Bridges of Sarajevo, The Trial Begins, Sailing Home), FIRST LIGHT stars Riccardo Scamarcio (My Brother is and Only Child, Pasolini, Burnt). It is produced by Paco Cinematografica, in collaboration with Rai Cinema, and will be released theat...
BEHIND THE WHITE GLASSES A Portait of LINA WERTMULLER, an Official Selection of the Venice Film Festival in competition in the Venice Classic section with Harvey Keitel, Martin Scorsese, Giancarlo Giannini, Nastassja Kinski, Rutger Hauer and Sophia Loren among many others.
A highly entertaining and intimate portrait of a witty, colorful, larger than life personality.
Lina Wertmüller is an iconic image of Italian and world cinema: s...
by Carlos SAURA
With the participation of: Soledad Pastorutti, Chaqueño Palavecino, Dino Saluzzi, Roxana Amed
Live performance – Argentina / Spain / France – 2015 – Spanish
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Alex Deleon, Venice
Alice Vikander and Eddie Redmayne on Danish Girl poster
[10:45] THE DANISH GIRL: Class!
Both Redmayne and wife in the film, Alicia Vikander, are superb. Classy pastel shaded photography provides perfect support for period feeling. Exquisite sets and decor. The central subject aside from the obvious gender transformation is the search for self and marital fidelity in the face if an impossible marital situation. Great psychodrama, great everything ~~ ...
Everest, telling and retelling a story that's true, a tremendous responsibility.
The objective to draw from nature, with intimacy, the metaphor for Mountain.
Emily Watson as the emotional conduit, the bystander playing a real character, a lovely place to be.
(Hawkes, Josh Brolin, Jake Gyllenhaal, Kormakur, Clarke and Emily Watson)
Check Nesta's sketches from Venice (and Cannes).
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Frederick Wiseman's latest documentary 'In Jackson Heights' explores one of the Most Diverse Neighborhoods in the United States ... at extremely great length.
Frederick Wiseman, 85, the dean of American documentarians, received a Golden Lion for Life Achievement here last year
Frederick Wiseman's 40th documentary since his famous insane asylum study, Titicut Follies" of 1967, titled "In Jackson Heights", is about a racially and ethnically mi...
By Alex Deleon <filmfestivals.com
Fourth year Festival director Alberto Barbera has announced in "La Stampa" that in order to stimulate recently declining public interest there will be a recharged emphasis on big name stars on the red carpet at the 2015 festival. A list of A-listers as long as your sleeve expected to tread the carpetry includes the likes of: Johnny Depp, Eddie Redmayne, Jake Gyllenhaal, Diane Kruger, Tilda Sw...
Christopher Plummer is a 90 year old Holocaust Avenger in Atom Egoyan's "Remember"
"Remember" Atom Egoyan (Canada, Germany).
A new film from Canadian-Armenian Atom Egoyan is always an event and the current entry takes up a most peculiar subject: a 90 year old Jewish Holocaust survivor out to get revenge on a former Nazi Camp guard who murdered his family some seventy years ago and is living in the States under a...
The award will be given on September 9th in the Palazzo del Cinema
the documentary De Palma by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow to screen out of competition
The Biennale di Venezia and Jaeger-LeCoultre are pleased to announce that the great American directorBrian De Palma wi...
MAD Solutions has announced a new award to be granted under its name at the Venice International Film Festival, through the 3rd Final Cut in Venice workshop that will be held at the festival's next round (2 - 12 September 2015). The award comprises promotional and distribution services in the Arab world offered to one of the contending film projects in the workshop.
On the new partnership, Alaa Karkouti, CEO at MAD Solutions, stated, "We are constantly looking for unconventiona...
The first edition met with considerable success and some of the titles presented last year have already had their world premiere at prestigious festivals. These positive results clearly indicate that the policy of the Venice Film Market and European Gap-Financing Market to help the completion of films, is evidently filling a void in the European film industry. As soon as a project shows a real potential for an audience, the increasing involvement of alternative international financing sources, s...
