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Venice Film Festival Now in its 10th Edition the Venice in Seoul Film Series

La Biennale di Venezia / Now in its 10th edition the Venice in Seoul film series / 9 Italian films from the Venice Film Festival 2021 in Seoul (Korea) from 6 to 17 April 2022 /   The Venice in Seoul film series has reached the significant milestone of its 10th edition: for ten years it has presented in Korea a qualified selection of Italian films from the Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia. There will be nine Italian films in the line-up this year, including...

Venice Film Festival : Biennale College Cinema Virtual Reality calling for VR projects

La Biennale di Venezia / Launching the 7th Biennale College Cinema – Virtual Reality the Italian call opens today March 22nd (through May 19th 2022) on the website www.labiennale.org   The 6th edition now closes with the selection of the project Manus (Holland/Turkey) to be presented at the 79th Venice International Film Festival in the Venice Immersive section, that will be held in Lazzaretto Vecchio   La Biennale di Venezia announces the 7th edition (2022-2023) ...

Call for Projects - Venice Gap-Financing Market 2022

  The application deadline for the Venice Gap-Financing Market will be on May 7 (at 23:59 CEST). Don't miss out on the opportunity to present your project to potential co-producers, investors, funders, distributors and other carefully selected and specially invited professionals attending the ninth edition of the Venice Gap-Financing Market, which will take place from September 2nd to 4th, 2022, during the 79th Venice International Film Festival&n...

Final Cut in Venice: the call for the 10th edition opens today

Final Cut in Venice: the call for the 10th edition opens today on www.labiennale.org / Announcing the workshop breeding talents and awards at international festivals that supports films from Africa and the Middle East   Launching today 15 March on the website of La Biennale di Venezia www.labiennale.org, is the call for the 10th edition of the Final Cut in Venice workshop, which will take place from September 3rd to 5th 2022 as part of the Venice Production Bridge of the 79th Venice...

Venice Film Festival 2021 shows solidarity to Ukrainians showing Reflection a film set during the war in Donbass in 2014

The Ukrainian film Reflection (Vidblysk) by Valentyn Vasyanovych, set during the war in Donbass in 2014 and in competition at the 78th Venice Film Festival 2021, will be screened in Rome at the Cinema Troisi (7 March) in Milan at the Anteo Palazzo del Cinema (9 March) and in Venice at the Cinema Rossini (10 March) as a sign of solidarity with Ukraine   As a sign of solidarity with the filmmakers and the people of Ukraine, the Venice International Film Festiva...

4 final projects selected for the 10th Biennale College – Cinema 2021-22

4 final projects selected for the 10th Biennale College – Cinema 2021-22 from Azerbaijan, Finland, Kazakhstan, Iran, Italy, USA / Today Friday December 3rd through Monday December 6th 2021 they will participate in the first of two workshops / In 10 years the Biennale College – Cinema has produced 30 feature films   The selection has been made of the four projects, from Azerbaijan, Finland, Kazakhstan, Iran, Italy, USA, that will move on to the production phases o...

VIDEO: The Awards Ceremony of the 78th Venice International Film Festival.

The Venezia 78 Jury, chaired by Bong Joon Ho and comprised of Saverio Costanzo, Virginie Efira, Cynthia Erivo, Sarah Gadon, Alexander Nanau and Chloé Zhao, having viewed all 21 films in competition, has decided as follows: GOLDEN LION for Best Film to: L’ÉVÉNEMENT (HAPPENING) by Audrey Diwan (France) SILVER LION – GRAND JURY PRIZE to: È STATA LA MANO DI DIO (THE HAN...

Awards for Final Cut in Venice

For the fifth year, La Biennale di Venezia will give a cash award of € 5,000 to support the best film in post-production. The Jury of La Biennale di Venezia Prize, composed of Edouard Waintrop (Red Sea Film Festival), Beatrice Gulino (Teodora Film) and Manola Novelli (Pluto Film) has awarded the film: HANGING GARDENS, by Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji (Iraq, Palestine, United Kingdom) Producer: May Odeh 2021 “We were impressed by the quality of the selection an...

Venice Production Bridge (VPB) Wrapped, with significant increase in professional attendance

Venice Production Bridge (VPB) - the market for selected projects - held from September 2nd to 7th, 2021, during the 78. Venice International Film Festival, has successfully wrapped. Above all we wish to express our thanks to all of the 2.001 Industry delegates who made the trip to Venice (or joined online). This is an increase of 52,16% compared to last years' edition. The Venice Production Bridge gave space to the film ...

FOCUS ON RUSSIA at the 78th Venice International Film Festival

Russia and Italy relaunch the dialogue on cooperation From 4 to 6 September, a series of events FOCUS ON RUSSIA took place as a part of the business program of the 78th Venice International Film Festival – Venice Production Bridge –with the support of the Ministry of Culture of the Russian Federation, the Ministry of Culture of Italy, ROSKINO, ANICA SERVIZI and Istituto Luce Cinecittà. For the first time the festival became a platform of professional Russian-Italian ...

Toni Servillo : a possible winner?

By Maria Rosaria D'amico  Toni servillo is in Venice with 3 amazing Italian movies. Toni Servillo is for Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino what Marcello Mastroianni was for Federico Fellini. They have worked together since the beginning of their career. Sorrentino came to Venice 20 years ago with Toni Servillo presenting “Un uomo in più” and now they are back with “E’ stata la mano di Dio”, an autobiographical and very moving picture about Sorrentino...

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Maria Rosaria D'amico Kristen Stewart and timothee chalamet. Oscar winning Sorrentino was a real success the hand of God. ...

The World in Shots by Cecilia Mangini and Paolo Pisanelli at Venice Film Festival

  Il Mondo a scatti - The World in Shots Cecilia Mangini, Paolo Pisanelli, Documentario - Italia, 2021, 89'   Cecilia Mangini has been filming and photographing nearly her entire life and was the first female documentary filmmaker in Italy. In the documentary presented at Venice. In The World in Shots she collaborates with Paola Pisanelli , artistic director of the "Festa di Cinema del reale (Cinema de Reale)" in Lecce Italy who provides movement to her st...

Kristen Stewart portrays Lady Diana Spencer in Pablo Larrain's artistic biopic.

©Photo: La Biennale di Venezia   Chilean director Pablo Larrain and Kristen Stewart at debut of Spencer at Venice. Larrain calling Stewart a "miracle" made her wince. The film operates around the "mystery" of Diana Spencer and the projections those who didn't know her made. Pablo Larrain's vision was to "make a film his mother would like", a film that took three days to make, a visual choreography set to Jonny Greenwood though when filmed, the ...

VIDEO: Masterclass in Venice with Roberto Benigni, Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement 2021

Masterclass with Roberto Benigni, Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement 2021. Moderator: Gianni Canova. ...

Catalan Films in Venice

CATALAN FILMS AT LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA 2021 September, 1 - 11 | Venice, Italy VENEZIA 78 COMPETITION OFFICIAL COMPETITION Mariano Cohn, Gastón Duprat ...

Russia at the 78th Venice International Film Festival

  The industrial platform of the Venice International Film Festival Venice Production Bridge will focus on Russia for the first time in history. A series of events will gather leading Russian and Italian industry professionals as part of the festival’s business program. Besides that, Russia is widely presented in competition and parallel programs of the festival itself. Evgenia Markova, ROSKINO CEO: «Significant Russian presence at festivals started at the Cannes Film F...

The ICFF, Italian Contemporary Film Festival flies to Venice to celebrate its 10 years

Cinema: Canada and Italy meet in the Lagoon.   A press conference and a series of meetings are planned for the Canadian delegation at the 78th Venice International Film Festival   Toronto, Ontario - The ICFF, Italian Contemporary Film Festival, presented by Lavazza, is proud to announce that on September 6, 2021, at 12.30 an extraordinary Press Conference will be held at the Hotel Excelsior in Venice, Italy. The participat...

The 78. Venice International Film Festival and VPB Programme are now underway

The 78. Venice International Film Festival is now underway . We are happy to share the full programme for the upcoming Venice Production Bridge (VPB), organised by La Biennale di Venezia. In the VPB Programme you will find all the events, panels and conferences that will take place in the Spazio Incontri at the Excelsior Hotel on the Venice Lido. Many of these panels will also be streamed through the VPB Live Channel or can be viewed on demand afterwards. Moreover,...

VR Accreditation for online access to Venice VR Expanded

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Now available the special VR Accreditation for online access to Venice VR Expanded (1 – 19 September 2021) the Virtual Reality section of the Venice Film Festival   Following the success in 2020, this year worldwide audiences may again have online access, from September 1st to 19th, to Venice VR Expanded, the Virtual Reality section of the Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia.   The Venice Film Festival was one of the first major film festivals to de...

International panel on Afghanistan and the situation of Afghan filmmakers and artists

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La Biennale di Venezia / 78th Venice International Film Festival International panel on Afghanistan and the situation of Afghan filmmakers and artists / Participants include Afghan filmmaker Sahraa Karimi / Saturday September 4th, 3 pm, Palazzo del Casinò The 78th Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia announces a panel discussion about the crisis now underway in Afghanistan with special attention to the situation of filmmakers and Afghan artists in gene...

VR Treats in Venice

La Biennale di Venezia /78th Venice International Film Festival /   Glimpse, from Academy Award-winner Benjamin Cleary and Michael O’Connor, the story of a panda voiced by Taron Egerton (Elton John in Rocketman), completes the In-Competition line-up of the Venice VR Expanded section of the 78th VIFF   Glimpse (UK, France, Ireland; 22’), from Irish filmmakers Benjamin Cleary (Academy Award-winning director of the short film Stutterer, 2015) and Michael O’Connor, ...

The Sala Web Theatre returns for the 78th Venice Film Festival with 22 feature-length films and 14 short films online

LA RAGAZZA HA VOLATO - Luka Zunic and Alma Noce ARIAFERMA - Toni Servillo and Silvio Orlando (Credits Gianni Fiorito) The Sala Web Theatre returns for the 78th Venice Film Festival with 22 feature-length films and 14 short films online from around the world / In the line-up films by Leonardo Di Costanzo and Wilma Labate / www.labiennale.org   A remarkably rich selection of 22 feature-length films and 14 short films (the latter may be viewed free of charge) from around the world c...

Venice Film Festival_Three Special Screenings complete the Line-up of the 78th Venice Film Festival

Three Special Screenings complete the line-up of the 78th Venice Film Festival: Ricostruire insieme – Biennale Architettura 2021 by Graziano Conversano and Ges – 2 by Nastia Korkia (documentaries about Architecture) and Pietro il grande by Antonello Sarno, a tribute to photojournalist Pietro Coccia   Three Special Screenings are added to and complete the line-up of the 78th Venice International Film Festival (1 – 11 September 2021) of La Biennale di Venezia, ...

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