The new documentary film Becoming Led Zeppelin featuring Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, John Bonham and Robert Plant, will feature in the out-of-competition section at the 78th Venice International Film Festival.
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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‘Becoming Led Zeppelin’ Documentary Premieres at Venice Film Festival
Becoming Led Zeppelin
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Venice Film Festival Announces VR Expanded Lineup of Virtual Reality Works
Bedlam by Mat Collishaw Venice International Film Festival announced the lineup of Virtual Reality works selected for the upcoming 78th edition, in the section titled Venice VR Expanded. Following the success of the 2020 edition, the Venice VR Expanded section will again be held online from September 1 – 19, 2021.
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DUNE Trailer. Venice Bound Sci-fi Film Stars Timothee Chalamet, Zendaya, Jason Momoa
Dune Starring Timothée Chalamet, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Zendaya Here is the new trailer for highly anticipated sci-fi film Dune directed by Denis Villeneuve and starring Timothee Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Zendaya, Jason Momoa, premiering at the 2021 Venice Film Festival. Dune will be available on October 22 in theaters and on HBO Max.
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Pedro Almodóvar’s ‘Parallel Mothers’ Starring Penélope Cruz will Open 78th Venice Film Festival
Parallel Mothers (Madres paralelas) Parallel Mothers (Madres paralelas) directed by Pedro Almodóvar, starring Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit, Israel Elejalde, Aitana Sánchez-Gijón, along with Julieta Serrano and Rossy De Palma is the Opening Film, in Competition, of the 78th Venice International Film Festival (September 1 – 11 2021).
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Jamie Lee Curtis to Receive Lifetime Achievement + Premiere ‘Halloween Kills’ at Venice Film Festival
Halloween Kills starring Jamie Lee Curtis. Actress Jamie Lee Curtis will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 78th Venice International Film Festival taking place September 1–11, 2021. The ceremony will take place before the out-of-competition screening of Halloween Kills, directed by David Gordon Green and starring Jamie Lee Curtis. Halloween Kills arrives in theaters on October 15.
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Denis Villeneuve’s Dune Starring Timothée Chalamet, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Zendaya to Premiere at Venice Film Festival
Dune starring Timothée Chalamet, Josh Brolin, Stellan Skarsgård, Dave Bautista, Zendaya Dune, the highly anticipated big-screen adaptation of Frank Herbert’s seminal science fiction bestseller of the same name, directed by Denis Villeneuve (Arrival, Blade Runner 2049), will have its out-of-competition world premiere at the 78th Venice International Film Festival (September 1—11, 2021).
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Roberto Benigni to Receive Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
Roberto Benigni as Leopoldo in To Rome with Love. Photo by Philippe Antonello (c) Gravier Productions, Inc., Courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics Director, actor, and screenwriter Roberto Benigni will be honored with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 78th Venice International Film Festival (September 1–11, 2021).
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Director Bong Joon Ho Named President of International Jury of 2021 Venice Film Festival
Bong Joon Ho Director Bong Joon Ho will preside over the International Jury of the Competition at the 78th Venice International Film Festival (September 1 – 11, 2021), which will assign the Golden Lion for Best Film, as well as other official awards.
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Venice Film Festival 2020 Winners – NOMADLAND Wins Golden Lion for Best Film
Frances McDormand in the film NOMADLAND. Photo Courtesy of Searchlight Pictures. © 2020 20th Century Studios All Rights Reserved Chloé Zhao’s Nomadland won the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 77th Venice International Film Festival. Zhao who was not able to travel to Europe for the festival, accepted remotely from Los Angeles. Zhao adapted Nomadland from journalist Jessica Bruder’s 2017 nonfiction book Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century and follows Fern (Frances McDormand), a woman who, after the economic collapse of her company town in rural Nevada, packs her van and sets off on the road to explore a life outside of conventional society as a modern-day nomad.
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Watch First Trailer for MANDIBLES, Quentin Dupieux’s Comedy Flick Starring Grégoire Ludig and David Marsais
Mandibles (Mandibules) Ahead of its world premiere out of competition at Venice Film Festival on Saturday, September 5, the first trailer debuted for Quentin Dupieux’s (Deerskin) comedy Mandibles (Mandibules).
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Watch First Trailer for Christos Nikou’s APPLES Premiering at Venice Film Festival
Christos Nikou’s APPLES (MILA) Ahead of the world premiere as the opening film of the Orizzonti (Horizons) section of the 77th Venice International Film Festival, the first trailer is released via Hollywood Reporter for Apples (Mila), the feature debut of Greek director Christos Nikou.
