New beginnings

Mehdi Barsaoui's new film, a reflection on identity through the emancipation of a woman
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Signs from the future

Meeting with Gianni Canova President of the jury for the Debut Film
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Rebel voices

Director Nader Saeivar tackles the challenges of today's Iran in a female-voiced story
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The thin thread

Gaia Furrer, the Venice Days between resilience and resistance
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thursday 5 september 2024

Reality barges in in a million different shapes. Let’s start with an out of competition feature, an ‘unauthorized’ documentary by Russian-Canadian filmmaker Anastasia Trofimova. Her Russians at War about the current war in Ukraine seeks to steer clear of propaganda on either side, focusing instead on Russian soldiers’ bewilderment and disillusionment. From neighbouring Georgia comes filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili, who participates in the main Competition with her film April, the story of an abortionist midwife who defies law for humanitarian reasons. Iddu by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza, starring an unrecognizable Elio Germano...
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Joker: Folie à deux_Todd Phillips discovers musicarello, the coming-of-age musical genre popular in Italian cinema in the 1950s. His film is all about music. He really goes all-in, with a musical film (no dance) that makes musical moments the essential elements and turning points of the plot...
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I would like the public to understand the importance of the presence of twelve debuting directors in the Competition section out of twenty-one titles. It is important to see Siew Hua Yeo alongside Guadagnino, Dea Kulumbegashvili in the same section as Almodóvar...

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New beginnings
Mehdi Barsaoui's new film, a reflection on identity through the emancipation of a woman
Rebel voices
Director Nader Saeivar tackles the challenges of today's Iran in a female-voiced story
The thin thread
Gaia Furrer, the Venice Days between resilience and resistance
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11.30 RUSSIANS AT WAR (Out of Competition)
12.10 APRIL (Venezia 81)
12.50 M - IL FIGLIO DEL SECOLO 1- 4 (Out of Competition – Series)
13.30 IDDU (SICILIAN LETTERS) (Venezia 81)
14.10 STRANGER EYES (Venezia 81)

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movies

11:00

Sala Corinto

  • Venice Classics

Yasuzô Masamura

(90')

11:15

Sala Perla

  • Venice Days

Mónica Taboada-Tapia

(87')

13:45

Sala Perla

  • Film Critics’ Week

Muhammed Hamdy

(110')

13:45

Sala Corinto

  • Venice Classics

Peter Brook

(173')

13:45

Sala Grande

  • Out of Competition

Anastasia Trofimova

(129')

14:30

Sala Darsena

  • Orizzonti

Jason Jacobs, Devon Delmar

(89')

15:00

Sala Casinò

  • Out of Competition

Joe Wright

(212')

16:30

Sala Grande

  • Concorso Venezia 81

Dea Kulumbegashvili

(134')

17:00

Sala Perla

  • Venice Days

Johanné Gómez Terrero

(91')

17:00

Sala Darsena

  • Orizzonti

Mehdi Barsaoui

(123')

17:30

Sala Corinto

  • Venice Classics Doc

Claudio Zulian

(91')

19:15

Sala Grande

  • Concorso Venezia 81

Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza

(122')

21:00

Sala Giardino

  • Orizzonti Extra

Nader Saeivar

(100')

21:00

Sala Laguna

  • Notti Veneziane

Luciana Fina

(107')

22:00

Sala Grande

  • Concorso Venezia 81

Siew Hua Yeo

(125')

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