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

Gianfranco Rosi • Director of In viaggio

Interview: Gianfranco Rosi • Director of In viaggio

“The Pope 'in viaggio' is a different Pope to the Pope in the Vatican”

VENICE 2022: Examining 37 visits over nine years, Gianfranco Rosi depicts an increasingly progressive Pope Francis, facing up to the world and its troubles  

08/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Out of Competition

Emanuele Crialese • Director of L’immensità

Interview: Emanuele Crialese • Director of L’immensità

“I told the story that was in my heart”

VENICE 2022: We chatted with the Italian director about his film based on his own adolescence, before transitioning  

07/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Vincenzo Pirrotta • Director of The Bone Breakers

Interview: Vincenzo Pirrotta • Director of The Bone Breakers

"It's a journey of misery and desperation that often plays out right in front of us without us realising"

VENICE 2022: Using a horrifying news story as his starting point, the actor-director ponders how much of ourselves we are willing to mangle in order to get what we want  

07/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Greta De Lazzaris and Jacopo Quadri  • Directors of We're Here to Try

Interview: Greta De Lazzaris and Jacopo Quadri • Directors of We're Here to Try

"As an artistic pairing, we see Daria and Antonio quarrelling the same way as a real-life couple would"

VENICE 2022: The filmmaking duo document the development of the new theatre project of the Italy's Daria Deflorian and Antonio Tagliarini  

07/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Cristina Grosan • Director of Ordinary Failures

Interview: Cristina Grosan • Director of Ordinary Failures

"It was interesting for us to see things change and evolve, and our script become more and more alive around this"

VENICE 2022: Hungarian-Romanian director and visual artist talks about her film, which brings together three women whose day is turned upside down by a strange natural phenomenon  

07/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

Venice begins unspooling its healthy batch of short films

Venice begins unspooling its healthy batch of short films

VENICE 2022: As the festival gets ready to screen its shorts for audiences within the Orizzonti competition, we preview some of the European titles on offer this year  

07/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Orizzonti

Review: Lord of the Ants

Review: Lord of the Ants

VENICE 2022: An overly classical directorial style weakens Gianni Amelio’s biopic about a scandalous “duress” lawsuit in Italy in 1968  

07/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Competition

Antonello Matarazzo • Director of Pablo from Neanderthal

Interview: Antonello Matarazzo • Director of Pablo from Neanderthal

"I wanted to maintain a childlike approach while imagining the story of our origins"

VENICE 2022: The painter and director meets artist Pablo Echaurren, and together, they wonder about what would have happened if the Neanderthal man had prevailed over Homo Sapiens  

06/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

In Venice, the Roma Lazio Film Commission aims to support the growth of the sector and the territory

In Venice, the Roma Lazio Film Commission aims to support the growth of the sector and the territory

This year, the film commission, which supported four titles, two of which were in competition, organised and participated in various networking and promotional activities  

06/09/2022 | Venice 2022

Review: Ordinary Failures

Review: Ordinary Failures

VENICE 2022: Cristina Grosan brings together three women whose day-to-day lives are upended by a strange natural phenomenon, in an apocalyptic tale calling for human solidarity  

06/09/2022 | Venice 2022 | Giornate degli Autori

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