Becoming what we are

friday, 8 september 2023

Becoming what we are

Kobieta Z… (Woman of) by Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert is truly courageous precisely because it revolves around Poland. However, it is not a militant or declaratory film; it is more like a melodrama that prioritizes the feelings, frustrations, desires...

LEGGI

thursday, 7 september 2023

Let me say it…

There is a strong sense of pride in being the first in the world to have created an event that did not exist before, and in continuing throughout our history to introduce innovations and structural changes that have been imitated by others. Venice has always set the pace in terms of research, a living laboratory...

LEGGI

wednesday, 6 september 2023

Well Made

There are six Italian films in the main competition. There had not been this many since 1982. It happened because something changed in the Italian movie industry, and the change was mostly driven by investments. We were used of thinking of Italian production as needing a budget around €8-9m...

LEGGI

tuesday, 5 september 2023

Classics on Screen

The section Venice Classics has grown into a way for classic cinema to reach younger audiences, who are today the majority of the VFF’s attendees and who never had the chance to see these films properly. They probably watched some degraded version on YouTube—we can barely call that ‘watching a movie’. We want these younger generations to understand the importance and the beauty...

LEGGI

monday, 4 september 2023

Goodbye, Mr Friedkin!

I was on the set of The Caine Mutiny: Court-Martial in February. Friedkin was shooting in a wheelchair due to circulatory...

LEGGI

monday, 4 september 2023

Natural Balance

No one knew that Hamaguchi was making a new film. He submitted it to the festival without informing us; we discovered it by chance...

LEGGI

sunday, 3 september 2023

On Strike!

There are many different reasons behind this strike. The first one is obviously a demand for higher pay– not for the great movie stars, but for all workers who keep cinema alive as an industry...

LEGGI

saturday, 2 september 2023

My First Time

There are truly many anecdotes and significant moments that fill my memory, first as a passionate attendee of the festival and then as its director. It’s so hard to pick just one! The one experience that changed me the most took place during my first year in Venice. Up to that point, I had been working on a smaller indie cinema festival...

LEGGI

friday, 1 september 2023

Infinite Horizons

As for the Orizzonti section, we are in the territories of experimentation, traversed by authors with undeniable talent, directors who are clearly aware of what they are doing, what they truly want, and what they are genuinely seeking...

LEGGI

thursday, 31 august 2023

High concentration

In the Competition, there is an exceptional concentration of great auteurs: Wes Anderson, Harmony Korine, Sofia Coppola, David Fincher, Michel Franco, Lanthimos, Larraín, Michael Mann, and Luc Besson...

LEGGI

wednesday, 30 august 2023

It could have been worse

We worked on our programme back when the strike wasn’t a thing. In fact, we finished our work two weeks ahead of schedule. We started viewing films in November 2022 and we never stopped...

LEGGI

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