VENICE: Chilean director Pablo Larrain’s third film in his trilogy about famous women, Maria screens in competition at the 81 Venice Film Festival. The film stars Angelina Jolie as the famous opera diva Maria Callas in the final week of her life in Paris.

VENICE: Film critics notoriously do not like musicals but for this Todd Philips musical Joker: Folie A Deux, which screens in the main competition at Venice Film Festival, they just may have to make an exception.

VENICE: Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Tim Burton’s sequel to his much loved 1988 cult comedy classic Beetlejuice, was the opening film at the 89 Venice Film Festival, setting the scene for what was to be one of the most star studded Venice Festivals in recent history with Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Monica Bellucci, Jenna Ortega and Willem Dafoe on the red carpet for opening night.

VENICE: Director Halina Reijn’s Baby Girl starring Nicole Kidman and Antonio Banderas screens in the main competition at this year’s Venice Film Festival with its red carpet star power making it one of the most highly anticipated films in the official selection.

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VENICE: The Venezia 81 Jury, chaired by Isabelle Huppert, gave the Golden Lion for Best Film to The Room Next Door the first English language film by Pedro Almodóvar, while the Orizzonti Jury chaired by Debra Granik awarded the Romanian/Serbian coproduction The New Year That Never Came by Bogdan Mureșanu with the Award for Best Film.

VENICE: The parade of big stars on the Venice red carpet continued throughout the festival despite a furnace-like heat wave in the first days of the festival and a torrential rain storm that turned the red carpet gala into puddles on Thursday night.

VENICE: The Venice Film Festival sidebar Venice Days screened the film The Antique / Antikvariati by Georgian filmmaker Rusudan Glurjidze after an earlier decree of the Italian court over a dispute over the copyright to the screenplay by the coproducers of the film was overturned.

VENICE: Hungarian artists and technical craftsmanship is on full display this year in Venice with two films that have recently been shot in Hungary in the main competition, Maria directed by Pablo Larraín and The Brutalist directed by Brady Corbet.

VENICE: The first feature film by Romanian writer/director/producer Bogdan Mureșanu, The New Year That Never Came, which premiered in the Horizons competition of the 81st Venice FF on 1 September 2024, has been sold by Cercamon in France to Memento Distribution. The film is a Romanian/Serbian coproduction.