Traveling by definition is both coming closer and moving away. (…)
I wonder if the meaning of travel is not ultimately in returning, having taken one’s distance to see better, or simply to be able to see.
Wim Wenders, from “The Act of Seeing”
Today, there is no simple or predictable answer to the…
THE AWARDS
Composer Giorgio Battistelli, one of the most renowned names in Italy and abroad, is the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement in Music “for his work in experimental musical theatre and his intense operatic production, staged by the most important European institutions”; whereas the Ars Ludi ensemble, consisting of three exceptional percussionists – Antonio Caggiano, Rodolfo Rossi and Gianluca…
Poster and Opening Sequence for Venice International Film Festival 2022 Designed by Lorenzo Mattotti
A Lioness with classical grace to celebrate the 90th anniversary of the Biennale Cinema.
Italian illustrator and artist Lorenzo Mattotti is, for the fifth consecutive year, the author of the image for the official poster, and for the fourth year, of the opening sequence for the Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia.
The image chosen for the poster this year depicts “a Lioness…
WORLD PREMIERE
Piazza Grande
Last Dance
Directed by Delphine Lehericey
Cast: François Berléand, Kacey Mottet Kein, La Ribot, Déborah Lukumuena,
Astrid Whettnall, Jean-Benoît Ugeux, Sabine Timoteo, Anna Pieri,
Dominique Reymond, Lisa Harder, Luc Bruchez
2022 – Switzerland / Belgium – 84' - v.o. French
Synopsis
Germain, an introspective retiree, abruptly becomes a widower at 75. He barely has the time…
JULY 28 SPECIAL EVENT #1: LAUNCH EVENT WORLD’S BEST “DIE HARD” SCREENING EVER… (PROBABLY!) 7:30 PM - 11:00 PM - The Royal Geographical Society
Copyright: Die Hard © 1988 Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation. All rights reserved.
A Die Hard Screening like no other! Including a Q&A with iconic director John McTiernan who promises to settle the…
The International Juries have been selected for the Venezia 79 Competition, for Orizzonti and for the “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film of the 79th Venice International Film Festival (August 31 – September 10, 2022) of La Biennale di Venezia, directed by Alberto Barbera.
Venezia 79
Julianne Moore – president (USA). Academy Award…
Director, screenwriter and actor Giulio Base (Crack, Il banchiere anarchico, A Starry Sky Above the Roman Ghetto) will chair the Jury of Film Students which will award the VENICE CLASSICS prizes for the respective competitions for BEST RESTORED FILM and for the BEST DOCUMENTARY ABOUT CINEMA. The following is the complete line-up of the restorations…
This year the director and screenwriter Céline Sciamma will serve as president of the Giornate degli Autori jury. It’s a homecoming of sorts for the director of Portrait of a Lady on Fire (awarded Best Screenplay at Cannes), ever since she was shortlisted for the 2014 LUX Prize at 27 Times Cinema, the initiative organized…
Over 200 composers from 42 countries entered the 10th International Film Music Competition. The jury, headed by the English Academy Award-winning film score composer Rachel Portman, has chosen three compositions to enter the final on September 29. The finalists' compositions will be world premiered during the Zurich Film Festival at the Tonhalle Zurich by the…
The International Federation of Film Critics Jury awards two FIPRESCI Prizes to films from the Crystal Globe Competition and from the Proxima Competition that best promote film art and encourages new and young cinema.
Fipresci Jury
Nada Azhari Gillon, France
Britt Sørensen, Norway
Adam Kruk, Poland
Gulnara Abikeyeva, Kazakhstan
Rasha Hosny, Egypt
Marek Čermák, Czech Republic
The FIPRESCI award for the…