24/08/2022 - 18 feature films, including the posthumous film from Kim Ki-duk, Call of God, as well as 12 short films will be streaming from various sections of the festival

The Sala Web of the Venice Film Festival will this year present online 18 feature films and 12 short films from around the world. All are having their world premiere in the Official Selection of the 79th Venice Film Festival in the Out of Competition, Orizzonti, Orizzonti Extra ad Biennale College – Cinema sections. Standing out among them is the documentary Freedom on Fire: Ukraine’s Fight for Freedom by Evgeny Afineevsky, about the war in Ukraine which the director began filming immediately after 24 February, when the conflict began; and Call of God, the final, posthumous film from Golden Lion-winning director Kim Ki-duk, who passed away in December 2020.

Among the feature films available online are four Italian films: Gli ultimi giorni dell’umanità by Enrico Ghezzi and Alessandro Gagliardo, The Matchmaker [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Benedetta Argentieri
film profile] by Benedetta Argentieri (Out of Competition), Notte fantasma [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Fulvio Risuleo
film profile] by Fulvio Risuleo (Orizzonti Extra), and a film from the Biennale College Cinema section, Come le tartarughe [+see also:
trailer
film profile] by Monica Dugo.

The 18 feature films, accessible only in Italy and with limited capacity, will be visible here, on the Biennale Cinema streaming platform of MyMovies.it, simultaneously with the official screenings of the films on the Lido, and will be available for a further 5 days until the end of the streaming period.

The 12 short films, available for free worldwide, will be visible here, on the Festival Scope website. Among the titles are four Italian short films: Manuale di cinematografia per dilettanti – Vol. I by Federico Di Corato, TRIA - del sentimento del tradire by Giulia Grandinetti, both from the Orizzonti – Short Film section; In quanto a noi, with the voice of Wim Wenders, and A guerra finita, with the voice of Gino Strada, both by Simone Massi, Out of Competition.

The complete Sala Web programme:

Feature Films

Banu [+see also:
trailer
interview: Tahmina Rafaella
film profile] - Tahmina Rafaella (Azerbaijan/Italy/France/Iran) (from Thursday 1 September)
The Happiest Man in the World [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Teona Strugar Mitevska
film profile] - Teona Strugar Mitevska (North Macedonia/Bosnia and Herzegovina/Belgium/Croatia/Denmark/Slovenia) (from Friday 2 September)
Come le tartarughe [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Monica Dugo (Italy) (from Friday 2 September)
Autobiography - Makbul Mubarak (Indonesia/France/Germany/Poland/Singapore/Philippines/Qatar) (from Saturday 3 September)
Mountain Onion - Eldar Shibanov (Kazakhstan) (from Saturday 3 September)
Red Shoes [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Carlos Eichelmann Kaiser (Mexico/Italy) (from Sunday 4 September)
Palimpsest [+see also:
trailer
film profile] - Hanna Västinsalo (Finland) (from Sunday 4 September)
Call of God - Kim Ki-Duk (Estonia/Lithuania/Kyrgyzstan) (from Tuesday 6 September)
Music for Black Pigeons [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Jørgen Leth and Andreas Koe…
film profile] - Jørgen Leth, Andreas Koefoed (Denmark) (from Tuesday 6 September)
On the Fringe [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Juan Diego Botto
film profile] - Juan Diego Botto (Spain/UK) (from Tuesday 6 September)
Victim [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Michal Blaško
film profile] - Michal Blaško (Slovakia/Czech Republic/Germany) (from Tuesday 6 September)
Freedom on Fire: Ukraine's Fight for Freedom - Evgeny Afineevsky (Ukraine/UK/United States) (from Wednesday 7 September)
Gli ultimi giorni dell’umanità - enrico ghezzi, Alessandro Gagliardo (Italy) (from Wednesday 7 September)
Luxembourg, Luxembourg [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Antonio Lukich
film profile] - Antonio Lukich (Ukraine) (from Wednesday 7 September)
Notte fantasma [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Fulvio Risuleo
film profile] - Fulvio Risuleo (Italy) (from Wednesday 7 September)
The Matchmaker [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Benedetta Argentieri
film profile] - Benedetta Argentieri (Italy) (from Thursday 8 September)
Trenque Lauquen [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Laura Citarella
film profile] - Laura Citarella (Argentina/Germany) (from Thursday 8 September)
Hanging Gardens [+see also:
film review
trailer
interview: Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji
film profile] - Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji (Iraq/Palestine/Saudi Arabia/Egypt/UK) (from Friday 9 September)

Short Films

In quanto a noi - Simone Massi (Italy) (from Thursday 8 September)
A guerra finita - Simone Massi (Italy) (from Thursday 8 September)
Snow in September - Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir (France/Mongolia) (from Thursday 8 September)
Tria – Del sentimento del tradire - Giulia Grandinetti (Italy) (from Thursday 8 September, only in Italy)
III - Salomé Villeneuve (Canada) (from Thursday 8 September)
The Moisture - Turan Haste (Turkey) (from Thursday 8 September)
Nocomodo - Lola Halifa-Legrand (France) (from Thursday 8 September)
My Girlfriend - Kawthar Younis (Egypt) (from Friday 9 September)
Please Hold The Line - Tan Ce Ding (Malaysia) (from Friday 9 September)
Manuale di cinematografia per dilettanti – Vol. I - Federico Di Corato (Italy) (from Friday 9 September)
Christopher at Sea - Tom CJ Brown (France/United States) (from Friday 9 September)
Love Forever - Clare Young (Australia) (from Friday 9 September)

(Translated from Italian)