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.
Venice International Film Festival
The Venice International Film Festival is organized by La Biennale di Venezia. The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness and promote international cinema in all its forms as art, entertainment and as an industry, in a spirit of freedom and dialogue. The Festival also organizes retrospectives and tributes to major figures as a contribution towards a better understanding of the history of cinema.
Venice International Film Festival started in 1932 and takes place in Venice, Italy
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Production Designer Paola Comencini To Receive Campari Passion for Film Award at Venice Fest
Paola Comencini (courtesy Venice Film Festival)
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Claude Lelouch to Receive Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award at Venice Film Festival
Claude Lelouch (courtesy Venice Film Festival) 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.
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Tilda Swinton Narrates ‘Impulse: Playing With Reality’ Mixed Reality Experience Documentary Premiering at Venice Fest
Tilda Swinton, Impulse: Playing With Reality (Credits LtoR: Anagram, Tilda Swinton by Brigitte Lacombe) 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.
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Kevin Costner’s ‘Horizon: An American Saga-Chapter Two’ World Premieres at Venice Film Festival
Kevin Costner in Horizon: An American Saga -Chapter Two 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.
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Films Starring Nicole Kidman, Tilda Swinton, Daniel Craig Among 81st Venice Film Festival Lineup
The Room Next Door (El Deseo | Iglesias Mas) Venice Film Festival unleashed a star studded lineup filled with films featuring Jude Law, Jurnee Smollett, Tye Sheridan, Nicole Kidman, Antonio Banderas, Sophie Wilde, and Caleb Landry Jones.
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‘Nonostante’ and ‘September, 5’ Set as Opening Films of Orizzonti Sections of 81st Venice Film Festival
Nonostante (Matteo Graia) 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.
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Venice Film Festival Unveils Projects in 2024 Venice Immersive, XR – Extended Reality Program
In the Realm of Ripley 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.
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81st Venice Film Festival Confirms Selections in Orizzonti Short Films International Competition
Neredeyse Kesi̇nli̇kle Yanliş (Almost Certainly False) 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.
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Agnieszka Holland, Andrew Haigh, Zhang Ziyi Among 81st Venice Film Festival International Jury
Agnieszka Holland (courtesy Venice Film Festival) 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.
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Restored Masterpieces by Antonioni, Refn, Wiseman Among Classics Program of 81st Venice Film Festival
La Notte (The Night) by Michelangelo Antonioni (Archivio Fotografico CSC – Cineteca Nazionale) 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.
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World Premiere of Tim Burton’s ‘Beetlejuice Beetlejuice’ to Open Venice Film Festival
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (Warner Bros. Pictures) 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.
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Sigourney Weaver to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award at Venice Film Festival
Sigourney Weaver (Andrew H. Walker, Variety, REX, Shutterstock) 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.