
Italian production designer Paola Comencini (C’è ancora domani, La bestia nel cuore, Romanzo criminale) will receive the Campari Passion for Film Award at the 81st Venice International Film Festival taking place August 28th – September 7th, 2024.

Italian production designer Paola Comencini (C’è ancora domani, La bestia nel cuore, Romanzo criminale) will receive the Campari Passion for Film Award at the 81st Venice International Film Festival taking place August 28th – September 7th, 2024.

French director, writer and producer Claude Lelouch (A Man and a Woman, Happy New Year, The Beautiful Story) is the recipient of the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award of the 81st Venice International Film Festival. The award is dedicated to a personality who has made a particularly original contribution to the contemporary film industry.

Academy Award-winning Actor Tilda Swinton will narrate Impulse: Playing with Reality, the interactive mixed reality documentary and second installment in the Playing With Reality collection, Impulse.

Horizon: An American Saga-Chapter Two, directed by and starring the Academy Award-winning filmmaker Kevin Costner, and also starring Sienna Miller, Sam Worthington, Jena Malone and Danny Huston, will world premiere in the out-of-competition section at the 81st Venice International Film Festival taking place August 28th – September 7th 2024. Horizon: An American Saga-Chapter One will also be screened on the same day, Saturday 7 September, at the 81st VFF.

Nonostante, by and with Valerio Mastandrea, will be the opening film of the Orizzonti competition section, and September, 5 by Tim Fehlbaum, will be the opening film of the Orizzonti Extra competition section for the 81st Venice International Film Festival taking place August 28 – September 7, 2024.

Venice Immersive, the XR – Extended Reality section of the 81st Venice International Film Festival taking place August 28th – September 7th, 2024, will present 63 projects from 25 countries.

Venice International Film Festival finalized the line-up for the Orizzonti Short Films International Competition of the 81st edition taking place August 28 – September 7, 2024.

The 81st Venice International Film Festival taking place August 28 – September 7, 2024 today unveiled the jury of nine international film personalities, who will award the Golden Lion for Best Film in the Venezia 81 Competition and the other official awards.

The Venice Classics program of the 81st Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia will present the world premiere screenings of 18 film restorations of masterpieces completed over the past year from film libraries, cultural institution and productions around the world.

The world premiere of Tim Burton’s Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, the long-awaited sequel to his award-winning film Beetlejuice, is the Opening Film, Out of Competition, of the 81st Venice International Film Festival taking place August 28 to September 7, 2024.

Actress Sigourney Weaver (Alien, Gorillas in the Mist, Galaxy Quest) has been awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 81st Venice International Film Festival set to take place August 28 to September 7, 2024.