All Venice articles
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Reviews‘Bugonia’ review: Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons are dynamite in explosive Yorgos Lanthimos thriller
The director’s Venice competition title is a gloriously gonzo, sharply satirical chamber piece
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NewsYorgos Lanthimos says it is getting “more and more difficult” to make independent films
“It’s a very complicated landscape. I wouldn’t rush to separate everything to categories.”
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Reviews‘Megadoc’ review: Filmmaker Mike Figgis goes behind the scenes of Francis Ford Coppola’s ‘Megalopolis’
This eye-opening look at the making of Coppola’s passion project screens in Venice Classics
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NewsLaszlo Nemes says “losing cinema” is connected to “conflict in civilisation”
“If we stop telling big stories, we condemn ourselves to downfall as a civilisation.”
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FeaturesHow mk2 is connecting auteurs and audiences, and expanding its slate of English-language arthouse films
”A decade ago, we stopped distributing films and everyone said, ‘You’re crazy.’ But we had a strategic vision, and it is working.”
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Reviews‘The Kidnapping Of Arabella’ review: Chris Pine and Benedetta Porcaroli star in quirky Italian road movie
The actor takes on his first Italian-language role for sophomore director Carolina Cavalli
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NewsTunisia selects Venice premiere ‘The Voice Of Hind Rajab’ as Oscar submission
Kaouther Ben Hania’s drama is set to world premiere at Venice.
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Reviews‘Orphan’ review: László Nemes sets his striking coming-of-age drama in 1950s Budapest
Accomplished Venice competition title follows a teenage boy struggling to navigate a changing world
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Reviews‘Ghost Elephants’ review: Werner Herzog tracks the legendary beast through the Angolan highlands
Herzog joins South African conservationist Steve Boyes on an expedition to find the giant creatures
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Features“You have to carry on pushing”: Good Chaos founder Mike Goodridge reflects on life in the international producer fast lane
The UK producer has ‘Orphan’ and ‘Ballad Of A Small Player’ set for launch at the fall festivals and a first-look deal with Searchlight.
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NewsVenice opens with Francis Ford Coppola tribute to “encyclopaedia” Werner Herzog
Ceremony host Emanuela Fanelli landed a joke about Venice and Cannes.
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FeaturesTereza Nvotová on her Venice premiere ‘Father’: “My first instinct was this is too tragic”
Slovakia-born filmmaker’s latest is about a father who forgets his child in a car during a heatwave.
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Reviews‘La Grazia’ review: An impressive Toni Servillo anchors Paolo Sorrentino’s austere Venice opener
The actor plays a fictional Italian president facing the end of his tenure in Sorrentino’s serious-minded follow-up to ‘Parthenope’
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Features“We will support talent in all genres,” says Fremantle’s Andrea Scrosati on eve of bumper Venice
Production and distribution group has six titles in Venice’s official selection, including Paolo Sorrentino’s opening film La Grazia and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia.
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Reviews‘Memory’ review: Ukrainian filmmaker Vladlena Sandu explores her troubled past in lyrical docudrama
Sandu’s exploration of a childhood spent in Crimea and Chechnya opens Venice’s Giornate degli Autori
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NewsVenice head Alberto Barbera says festival won’t disinvite guests for political views
“We’ve been asked to turn down invitations to artists – we will not do that, if they want to be here they will be here.”
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Reviews‘Mother’ review: Noomi Rapace stars as Mother Teresa in one-dimensional biopic
Macedonian filmmaker Teona Strugar Mitevska’s punk rock take on the religious figure opens Venice Horizons
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FeaturesMy Screen Life: Emily Mortimer on needing noise to write, what she learned from Noah Baumbach and her love of sausages
The co-writer of Jay Kelly reveals why opening a greasy spoon would be her ideal alternative career.
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NewsGaza protests begin at Venice Film Festival red carpet
Political and grassroots organisations gathered on the festival’s first day.
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NewsTotem teams with Studiocanal for Venice Critics’ Week title ‘Cotton Queen’
EXCLUSIVE: Two companies will collaborate on international sales.