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5757 articles available in total starting from 17/05/2002. Last article published on 21/08/2025.

Ciro De Caro • Director of Taxi Monamour

Interview: Ciro De Caro • Director of Taxi Monamour

"The encounter between these two people is like a taxi, which takes you from one place to another, and then down each of their individual paths"

VENICE 2024: The Italian director has won the Audience Award with his story of two women belonging to two different worlds but who share the same thirst for freedom  

09/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Pupi Avati • Director of American Backyard

Interview: Pupi Avati • Director of American Backyard

“My movie is the cheapest of all the Italian films at the festival”

VENICE 2024: Well into his seventh decade as a filmmaker, the Italian cinema adventurer’s career choice has brought both pain and joy  

09/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Review: American Backyard

Review: American Backyard

VENICE 2024: The latest feature by Pupi Avati is a truly over-the-top noir gothic thriller, unsettling and ridiculous  

09/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Review: Basileia

Review: Basileia

VENICE 2024: In her feature debut, Italy’s Isabella Torre creates an eerie, if somewhat unpolished, supernatural eco-thriller  

09/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Aïcha

Review: Aïcha

VENICE 2024: Tunisian director Mehdi Barsaoui’s thriller follows a young woman who bravely seeks a new identity after surviving a bus crash  

09/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Orizzonti

The Golden Lion goes to Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door

The Golden Lion goes to Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door

VENICE 2024: The jury chaired by Isabelle Huppert also rewarded Vermiglio, the Mountain Bride, The Brutalist, April, and actors Vincent Lindon and Nicole Kidman  

07/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Awards

Francesca Comencini • Director of The Time It Takes

Interview: Francesca Comencini • Director of The Time It Takes

“Paying public but also private homage to my father involved walking through fire”

VENICE 2024: The Italian director talked to us about the courage that was necessary to evoke her relationship with her father, filmmaker Luigi Comencini, and the importance of resilience  

07/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Out of Competition

Manas triumphs in Venice's Giornate degli Autori

Manas triumphs in Venice's Giornate degli Autori

VENICE 2024: The feature by Brazilian filmmaker Marianna Brennand won the GdA Director’s Award, Alpha. received the Europa Cinemas Label and Taxi Monamour grabbed the Audience Award  

07/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Giornate degli Autori/Awards

Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza • Directors of Sicilian Letters

Interview: Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza • Directors of Sicilian Letters

“This is a dark comedy about the narcissism and the vanity of a real fugitive boss”

VENICE 2024: We talked with the duo of Italian directors about the creation of their singular grotesque comedy  

07/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Competition

Venice announces the winners of its parallel awards

Venice announces the winners of its parallel awards

VENICE 2024: Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist and Bogdan Mureșanu’s The New Year that Never Came scooped the two FIPRESCI Prizes, whilst Mónica Taboada-Tapia’s Alma del desierto snagged the Queer Lion  

07/09/2024 | Venice 2024 | Awards

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