The 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival, 16th under his direction, 12th consecutive, 74 years and still going strong. In short, with Alberto Barbera, now the true “Doge” of Venetian cinema, the numbers are anything but trivial. By now, talking about the “Barbera era” sounds far from rhetorical or emphatic. It’s simply a fact. As we do every year, we met him on the eve of the Festival to hear about an edition that truly embraces cinema in all its expressive languages, crossing generations, genres, and geographies. Needless to say, the deafening absence of a not-so-insignificant guest last year – Hollywood – now making a grand return to the Lido’s red carpet, adds to the exciting anticipation.
Enjoy your journey into the heart of the festival!
The BAG – Biennale Arte Guide
Foreigners Everywhere review | National Participations: Belgio, Danimarca, Grecia, Irlanda, Turchia, Libano, Cile, Georgia | Collateral Events: The Spirits of Maritime Crossing, Yuan Goang-Ming, Josèfa Ntjam| The Venice Glass Week | Daniel Pešta | ULYSSES | Kiran Nadar Museum of Art | Last Call | Armando Testa | Il capolavoro veneziano di Giorgio Vasari | Marina Apollonio | Andrey Esionov | Kimiko Yoshida | Julian Lennon | Loris Cecchini | Henri Beaufour | Matisse | Intervista Paolo della Corte | Galleries
Not only Biennale
Homo Faber 2024 | Universal Everything. Chameleon | Cinema Galleggiante | Yuri Ancarani | Your Ghosts Are Mine | Nebula: Basir Mahmood, Saodat Ismailova | Burtynsky. Extraction / Abstraction | Pierre Huyghe | Stranieri Ovunque/Foreigners Everywhere artists: Fred Kudjo Kuwornu, Maria Taniguchi, Nedda Guidi, Evelyn Taocheng Wang, Ana Segovia, Joshua Serafin, Disobedience Archive
Biennale Musica Festival Guide
Interview Lucia Ronchetti | Polyphonies | Rebecca Saunders, Leone d’Oro | Intervista Ensemble Modern, Leone d’Argento | Assolo | Listening-Hearing | Intervista Christina Kubisch | Sound Structures | Absolute Jazz | Intervista Georg Vogel | Counter Points | Solo Electronics | Intervista Zsolt So˝ rés | Pure Voices | Musica Reservata | Ricercare | Intervista Luca Mosca
Not only Biennale
Venezia Jazz Festival – Fall Edition | Diodato | Giovanni Allevi | Robert Plant | Boosta, Gallerie Sonore | Palazzetto Bru Zane – Passione violoncello | Turandot | Dittico Nono e Schönberg | Musikàmera | Il Settembre dell’Accademia
Willem Dafoe – Biennale Teatro | Gli occhiali di Šostakóvic | Titizè. A Venetian Dream | Venere in Teatro | Il Milione | Alice in Wonderland Reloaded | 77. Ciclo di Spettacoli Classici
81. Mostra del Cinema di Venezia – Intervista Alberto Barbera | Leoni: Sigourney Weaver, Peter Weir | Claude Lelouch | Le giurie | Concorso – Venezia 81 | Fuori Concorso | Orizzonti | Orizzonti Extra | Classici | Venice Immersive | SIC | GdA | Notti Veneziane | Isola Edipo | Lights! Camera! Impact!
Regata Storica
Events and exhibitions in Venice (September-October)
