VENICE: The rights to the Serbian/Swedish documentary Possibility of Paradise by Mladen Kovačević are handled by the London-based sales agent Taskovski Films. Possibility of Paradise is screening in the Special Events programme of the sidebar section Giornate degli Autori, taking place during the 81st Venice Film Festival.

VENICE: The Venice Film Festival sidebar Venice Days has suspended the screenings of the second film of Georgian filmmaker Rusudan Glurjidze The Antikvari / The Antique pending the final outcome of a dispute over the copyright to the screenplay by the coproducers of the film.

VENICE: The French/Italian/Georgian coproduction April directed by Dea Kulumbegashvili will have its world premiere on 5 September 2024 within the Competition of the 81st Venice Film Festival (28 August – 7 September 2024). Paris-based Goodfellas is handling the sales.

FNE asked Agnieszka Holland how it felt to be back in Venice after her Special Jury Prize win in Venice for Green Border in 2023.

VENICE: The 81st Venice Film Festival got off to a glittering start with a star studded opening ceremony on Wednesday evening 28 August. After the actors and writers strike of 2023 left the festival mostly without any American star talent, the return of Hollywood stars to the Lido was all the more impressive.

FNE asked Pascal Diot how the Venice Production Bridge has evolved since it started nine years ago.

CANNES: Russian film and theatre director Kirill Serebrennikov’s Limonov-The Ballad screens in competition at this year’s Cannes Festival.

CANNES: American director and screenwriter Paul Schrader’s Oh Canada screens in competition in Cannes. The story is based on the novel Foregone, the next to the last book by author Russell Banks.

CANNES: Legendary American director Francis Ford Coppola arrives in Cannes for the competition screening of his long awaited film epic Megalopolis.

CANNES: Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos hot from his 11 Oscar nominations for Poor Things is in competition with Kinds of Kindness, a three part fable. The director has teamed up again with leading actress and muse Emma Stone, who won the Oscar for Best Actress for Poor Things. His 2018 black comedy The Favourite, starring Emma Stone alongside Olivia Colman and Rachel Weisz, won the Grand Jury Prize at the 75th Venice International Film Festival.