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FeaturesVenice 2025 preview: Screen’s guide to the Out Of Competition titles
Venice 2025 Out Of Competition titles include films from Luca Guadagnino, Sofia Coppola, Gus Van Sant, Werner Herzog and Laura Poitras.
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FeaturesVenice head Alberto Barbera talks monsters, managing protests and the one that got away
Screen spoke to Barbera about his approach to selecting films, his future at the festival, and whether he is concerned about political protests this year.
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FeaturesEight talking points from the Venice 2025 line-up
Long films, up to 305 minutes; starry nights, with Julia Roberts, George Clooney set to attend; political topics.
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FeaturesWhy the role of festival manager has become more significant for a successful film launch
Competition for festival slots is becoming fiercer than ever as filmmakers look to secure distribution.
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Features75 films to tempt festival directors in 2025
Expect films from Chloe Zhao, Carla Simon, Julia Ducournau, Annemarie Jacir, Kathryn Bigelow, Lynne Ramsay and (possibly) Lucrecia Martel.
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FeaturesNew Talent: ‘Vittoria’ filmmakers Alessandro Cassigoli and Casey Kauffman enjoy weaving fact with fiction
Venice Horizon’s title ‘Vittoria’ has proved the perfect calling card for what the Italy-US directing duo want to do.
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FeaturesPedro Almodovar on ‘The Room Next Door’: “I feel naked with the reality of mortality”
Pedro Almodovar confronts issues of mortality in his first English-language feature ‘The Room Next Door’.
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FeaturesScreen critics’ stand-out titles from Venice 2024
We have selected 11 stand-out titles from the Lido, plus five that are bubbling under.
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FeaturesTilda Swinton, Marvel and jellyfish tents: what goes on at the Venice Immersive island?
Projects include ‘Impulse: Playing With Reality’ and Marvel work ‘What If…?’
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FeaturesToronto, Venice, Telluride: which has the edge as an awards-season launchpad?
This is serious business, and a lucrative one for the consultants who guide the studios, streamers, other distributors and talent.
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FeaturesAlexander Rodnyansky on financing October 7 drama ‘Of Dogs And Men’
The drama is directed by Dani Rosenberg and premieres in Venice’s Horizons strand.
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Features‘Paul & Paulette Take A Bath’ director on crafting his Venice Critics’ Week debut “outside of the system”
The dark comedy is the first feature from UK born, Paris-based commericals and music video producer Jethro Massey.
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Features“Measuring ovations is deeply silly”: what’s behind the rise of the ‘standing ovation’ story?
One exec said he’s seen publicists with “giant stopwatches with glowing screens” independently timing ovations at film premieres.
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FeaturesFabrice du Welz’s ‘Maldoror’, about Belgian serial killer Marc Dutroux, is first in planned trilogy about “my very strange country”
The film premieres out of competition at Venice on September 2.
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Features“Calm on set”: How Venice title ‘My Everything’ has helped to pioneer accessibility practices while filming
’My Everything’ and box office smash ’A Little Bit Of Everything’ both boasted the first ’accessibility coordination manager’ role.
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Features‘There was no budget’: The Quay Brothers on their epic 19 -year journey to make ‘Sanatorium Under The Sign Of The Hourglass’
Acclaimed UK-based animators have spent 19 years creating their latest feature-length film, a mixture of stop-motion and live action.
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FeaturesHow a new documentary sheds light on Jerry Lewis’s notorious lost film ‘The Day The Clown Cried’
Directors Michael Lurie and Eric Friedler have unearthed lost footage from ’The Day The Clown Cried’.
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FeaturesThe lowdown on all the Venice Film Festival 2024 titles
Screen profiles all the films in the Venice Film Festival’s official selection and parallel sections.
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FeaturesVenice 2024 preview: Screen’s guide to the Competition titles
Includes films from Luca Guadagnino, Todd Phillips, Dea Kulumbegashvili, Pablo Larrain and Wang Bing.
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FeaturesVenice 2024 preview: Screen’s guide to the Out of Competition titles
Includes new films from Errol Morris, Tim Burton, Kevin Macdonald, Petra Costa, Asif Kapadia and Harmony Korine.