Culture news 'We’re still furious': Oleg Sentsov premieres 'Rhino' in Venice “Twenty-five years ago, the growth of the criminal world was huge, after the fall of the USSR. President Yanukovych was the same kind of ‘Rhino’ from this world, he was our President who did terrible things," says Sentsov. 10/09/2021
Culture news Jamie Lee Curtis snaps up Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement Venice Film Festival welcomed the cast of Russian film “Captain Volkonogov Escaped” on the red carpet this Wednesday and Jamie Lee Curtis won the Golden Lion Award for Lifetime Achievement. 09/09/2021
Italy Venice Film Festival: Penelope Cruz, Antonio Banderas bring star power The two Spanish actors are in Venice for the premiere of their comedy, "Competencia Oficial". 05/09/2021
Italy Chilean Director Pablo Larraín's new take on Diana premieres at Venice "Spencer" is part comedy, part tragedy and even part gothic horror but what it isn't is historically strictly accurate. 04/09/2021
Italy Benigni wins lifetime achievement award at Venice Film Festival The festival's artistic director Alberto Barbera praised Benigni saying few artists have his talent, comic timing, satire and huge acting ability. 02/09/2021
Italy Bataclan: Film based on surviving terror attack surprise hit of Venice Ismaël El Iraki's first feature film deals with the themes of trauma, survival and healing. 22/09/2020
Italy Venice film festival: Italy's movie showcase ready to go ahead British actress Tilda Swinton and American actor Matt Dillon are amongst a handful of high-profile names that are expected to walk a (socially distanced) red carpet. 31/08/2020
world news Film in 2019: The Joker gets the last laugh We take a look at which movies made their mark at the international film festivals in 2019. 31/12/2019
Italy Climate change protesters occupy the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival They got the support of aging rocker Mick Jagger and veteran actor Donald Sutherland who were due to walk the red carpet later to present their thriller "The Burnt Orange Heresy". 07/09/2019
Cult Johnny Depp promotes "Waiting for the Barbarians" at Venice Film Festival In it Depp plays a cold and cruel officer which his director says may be set in a faraway desert outpost but is relevant to today's world. 07/09/2019
world news First-ever movie in Slavic Esperanto premieres at Venice festival Director Vaclav Marhoul said he specifically chose an invented language for the villagers' dialect. "I didn't want the villagers (speaking) Ukrainian or Polish or Russian or something like that because those people are really bad people," he said. 06/09/2019
no comment Almodovar gets lifetime achievement award at Venice Film Festival Pedro Almodovar greeted his fans in Venice before receiving Golden Lion award 29/08/2019
Cinema Cronenberg awarded Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival The 75 year old Canadian director was recognised for a lifetime of achivement. 06/09/2018
Cinema Orson Welles' unfinished movie presented at Venice Film Festival Orson Welles shot "The Other Side of the Wind" in the early 1970s but gave up on it, leaving behind 100 hours of footage when he died in 1985. 04/09/2018
Cinema Uruguay's humble president featured at Venice Film Festival As the president of Uruguay Jose Mujica gave most of his salary to charity and lived an austere lifestyle whilst in office. 04/09/2018
Italy Biopic looks at Van Gogh's creative process Biopic looks at Van Gogh's creative process 04/09/2018
world news Who plays Dr. Klemperer? A remake of the cult classic "Suspiria" stars Tilda Swinton - twice 01/09/2018
world news Controversy as only one woman director included in Venice Film Festival Only one film from twenty having a female director at this year's Venice Film Festival has brought strong criticism from inside and outisde the industry. Alessia Sonaglioni, the group's director, has said that she was shocked by this and the festival director's comments. 30/08/2018
Cult "First Man" opens 75th Venice Film Festival "First Man" opens 75th Venice Film Festival 29/08/2018
Cult Lack of gender equality at 75th Venice Film Festival Lack of gender equality at 75th Venice Film Festival 29/08/2018
Italy Netflix has six films in this year's Venice Film Festival Netflix, which snubbed Cannes due to French rules that ban simultaneous streaming of films shown in cinemas, brings six films to Venice, some of them frontrunners for prizes. 28/08/2018
Cinema Ryan Gosling in 'First Man' opens this years Venice Film Festival Damien Chazelle is the Director of the biopic of the pioneering astronaut Neil Armstrong. "First Man" follows Armstrong from 1961 to 1969 as NASA worked to land a man on the moon 20/07/2018
Italy Del Toro wins Golden Lion at Venice for "The Shape of Water" Guillermo del Toro's 'The Shape of Water' has won the Golden Lion award for best film at this year's Venice Film Festival. 09/09/2017
Cinema "Loving Escobar" screens at Venice The film is based on journalist Virginia Vallejo's book about her love affair with the Colombian drug lord. 07/09/2017
Cinema "Mother!" & Michael Caine make Venice headlines "Mother!" gets whistled at Venice Film Festival premiere, and Sir Michael Caine presents "My Generation". 06/09/2017
