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Lack of gender equality at 75th Venice Film Festival

Lack of gender equality at 75th Venice Film Festival

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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.

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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

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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.

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"Loving Escobar" screens at Venice

The film is based on journalist Virginia Vallejo's book about her love affair with the Colombian drug lord.

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"Mother!" & Michael Caine make Venice headlines

"Mother!" gets whistled at Venice Film Festival premiere, and Sir Michael Caine presents "My Generation".

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Woody Harrelson and Thriller make splash in Venice

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Mirren and Dench in spotlight at Venice Film Festival

21 films are in competition for the top Golden Lion award, to be announced on September 9

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George Clooney kicks off 74th Venice Film Festival

Clooney's new satire tackles racial prejudice which the actor and director said on Saturday continues to erupt in today's angry society

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Venice Film Festival honours Jane Fonda and Robert Redford

Jane Fonda and Robert Redford were honoured with lifetime achievement awards at the Venice Film Festival

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Stars gather at Venice Film Festival kicking-off Oscar race

The Academy Awards may be months away, but speculation has already started as a host of star-studded films are premiered at the Venice Film Festival

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"Things are changing" - Annette Bening addresses sexism as 74th Venice Film Festival kicks off

There may not be as many women represented at this year's Venice Film Festival as she would like, but jury president Annette Bening believes "things are changing."

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First Filipino win at Venice Film Festival

Filipino director Lav Diaz picks up the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival for 'The Woman Who Left', while the runner-up Silver Lion is split between Andrei Konchalovsky for Holocaust drama 'Rai'

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'The Woman Who Left' wins Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival

Lav Diaz’s ‘The Woman Who Left’ (‘Ang Babaeng Humayo’) has won the Golden Lion award for Best Film at the 73rd Venice Film Festival.

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Natalie Portman is Jackie Kennedy in Venice

Natalie Portman’s latest movie ‘Jackie’ is among 20 competing for the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival.

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Portman premieres 'Jackie' at Venice Film Festival

There’s very little that’s not been said, read or written about the Kennedy’s but director Pablo Larrain’s Jackie aims to tell a different tale.

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Jude Law stars as an American pope in new HBO series

British actor Jude Law stars as the Pope in HBO's new miniseries 'The Young Pope' by Italian director Paolo Sorrentino.

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'The War Show': a video diary of the Syrian conflict

Screened at the Venice Film Festival, 'The War Show' is a documentary about the Syrian conflict told from the point of view of a former radio DJ and her friends.

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'La La Land' the Venice Film Festival rolls out the red carpet

The 73rd Venice Film Festival is up and running with the world premiere of the musical 'La La Land', directed by Damien Chazelle and starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling.

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Venice Film Festival - launch pad for award season

There is much excitement in the air ahead of this year’s Venice Film Festival which is once again being seen as the launch pad for the industry’s award season.