EXCLUSIVE: Gravitas Ventures has acquired North American rights to Giants Being Lonely, the coming-of-age drama that had its world premiere at the 2019 Venice Film Festival. The pic, which marked the feature debut for mixed media artist Grear Patterson, will now bow April 6 day-and-day in theaters and on demand.
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The Venice Film Festival has moved to permanently replace its Sconfini program, which first launched in 2018 to highlight arthouse and genre films in and out of competition capacity.
The segment did not run last year as the fest scaled down its program for its pandemic-impacted 2020 edition, and it will now not…
The Venice Film Festival (September 1- 11) has appointed Parasite director Bong Joon Ho as 2021 jury president.
Festival chief Alberto Barbera said of the decision: "The first, good news item regarding the 78th Venice Film Festival is that Bong Joon Ho has enthusiastically agreed to preside over the jury. Today, this…
Italy is putting forward Gianfranco Rosi's latest documentary Notturno as its candidate for the 2021 International Oscar race.
ANICA, the country's national film body, oversaw the selection process with the jury consisting of Nicola Borrelli, Simone Gattoni, Paolo Genovese, Carlo Poggioli, Cristina Priarone, Gloria…
The Venice Film Festival has renewed the contract of current artistic director Alberto Barbera.
The Biennale di Venezia announced today that the Board of Directors has re-upped Barbera, whose official title is Director Of The Cinema Department.
While the Biennale has today changed its head of the music, dance and…
Jasmila Zbanic's Quo Vadis, Aida?, which debuted at Venice this year, is Bosnia's entry for the 2021 International Oscar race.
The movie follows the titular Aida, a translator for the UN in a small town in Srebrenica. When the Serbian army takes over the town, her family is among the thousands of citizens looking for…
EXCLUSIVE: Here's the first trailer for well-received Venice Film Festival western drama The Furnace.
Australian writer Roderick MacKay's debut feature stars Ahmed Malek (Clash), Jay Ryan (It: Chapter 2) and David Wenham (Lion) in a story set in the 1890s gold rush of Western Australia. The feature illuminates the…
EXCLUSIVE: Here’s the fun first English-language trailer for dark-comedy The Predators (I Predatori), which won the Best Screenplay prize in Venice’s Horizons section last month.
The off-beat Italian film follows two very different Roman families who collide following a seemingly banal incident. Actor Pietro…
UPDATE, writethru: Following a successful two weeks that marked the first major international industry event in the pandemic era, the Venice Film Festival drew to a close tonight as Cate Blanchett's jury handed out its awards. Despite a lack of major Hollywood fare, there was no shortage of well-received movies — one…
The Venice Film Festival wraps today after putting on a show against the odds. Despite lacking in studio fare, there was no shortage of well-received movies. Was there a Sundance-style bounce, with critics giddy just to be on the Lido after months of lockdown? Perhaps. But this was also a solid roster of independent…
Director Chloe Zhao’s third feature, Nomadland, landed on the Lido this morning as one of the final movies to screen in competition at the Venice Film Festival. Reviews are embargoed for another several hours on the exploration of modern-day, van-dwelling life on the road, but what I can say is that there was…
