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5816 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 08/09/2025.

David Wagner's Eismayer wins the Grand Prize of the International Critics' Week

David Wagner's Eismayer wins the Grand Prize of the International Critics' Week

VENICE 2022: This year's two other great winners are Anhell69 by Theo Montoya and Margins by Niccolò Falsetti, the only Italian title in competition  

09/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | International Film Critics' Week/Awards

Wolf and Dog wins the GdA Directors’ Award

Wolf and Dog wins the GdA Directors’ Award

VENICE 2022: The film by Portuguese filmmaker Cláudia Varejão crowned by 27 young European cinephiles, the Europa Cinemas Label went to Dirty Difficult Dangerous, Blue Jean is the audience favourite  

09/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori/Awards

Final Cut announces this year’s winners

Final Cut announces this year’s winners

VENICE 2022: The aim of the initiative, which has just wrapped its 10th edition, is to support films in post-production hailing from Africa, Jordan, Iraq, Lebanon, Palestine and Syria  

09/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Venice Production Bridge

Benedetta Argentieri • Director of The Matchmaker

Interview: Benedetta Argentieri • Director of The Matchmaker

“It took a long time for us to strike the right balance, in order to show Tooba exactly how I saw her”

VENICE 2022: We spoke to the Italian journalist and director about her intriguing documentary portraying a female jihadist  

09/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Out of Competition

Salvatore Mereu • Director of Bentu

Interview: Salvatore Mereu • Director of Bentu

"This farmer, whose way of life is so distant from our own, reminds us that we don't have the right relationship with nature"

VENICE 2022: The director follows the day-to-day life of an elderly farmer as he waits for the wind to blow in a moral parable about man defying nature  

09/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Ghost Night

Review: Ghost Night

VENICE 2022: Fulvio Risuleo makes an excellent dramedy and buddy movie with a sparkling rhythm, supported by the performances of the two leads, Edoardo Pesce and newcomer Yothin Clavenzani  

08/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti Extra

Review: Bentu

Review: Bentu

VENICE 2022: Salvatore Mereu presents a story of a deep friendship but also a portrait of the last vestiges of an archaic peasant world  

08/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Pippo Mezzapesa • Director of Burning Hearts

Interview: Pippo Mezzapesa • Director of Burning Hearts

“I used black and white in order to make this passion- and vendetta-themed story universal”

VENICE 2022: We chatted with the Italian director about his choice of black and white for the film, and singer Elodie’s acting debut  

08/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti

At Venice, the International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk pledges its support for directors in danger

At Venice, the International Coalition for Filmmakers at Risk pledges its support for directors in danger

VENICE 2022: It’s time to take action and expand the organisation’s operations, all of the panellists agreed  

08/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Venice Production Bridge

Gianni Amelio • Director of Lord of the Ants

Interview: Gianni Amelio • Director of Lord of the Ants

“There are echoes of the present-day in my film about a homosexual poet’s trial in 1968”

VENICE 2022: In the Italian director’s eyes, the trial of Aldo Braibanti fifty years ago a is an opportunity to denounce homophobia past and present  

08/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

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