28-08-2014

FNE at Venice IFF 2014: Watch Venice Festival Films Online

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    The President by Mohsen Makhmalbaf The President by Mohsen Makhmalbaf

    VENICE: This year Venice Film Festival is offering 11 films from its official programme to the public to watch online worldwide during the festival. Venice Biennale’s Sala Web allows audiences worldwide to screen these selections of the Venice International Film Festival. Sala Web is offering their exclusive limited window online screenings for the third consecutive year.

    For details see Link Web Sala http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/news/18-08.html?back=true

    Tickets cost 4 EUR. The films are available for only five days from the date of their world premier with a total of only 800 tickets for sale for each film.

    Eight feature films in the Orizzonti section, dedicated to showcasing new trends in world cinema, and 3 feature films from the Biennale College – Cinema, the Biennale’s own laboratory for the development and production of micro-budget films are included.

    The titles available for online screenings will include the opening film of the Orizzonti section, THE PRESIDENT by renowned Iranian director Mohsen Makhmalbaf (KANDAHAR, GABBEH, THE SILENCE), along with ten other title by directors hailing from around the world. (Italy, USA, UK, Argentina, Azerbaijan, Croatia, Georgia, and India.)

    Sala Web will make these titles available to stream worldwide, for an exclusive five-day window beginning on the date of their official presentation by the 71st Venice International Film Festival, which runs from August 27th to September 6th on the Venice Lido.

    The audience for each Sala Web screening is strictly capped at 800 admissions per screening, with each ticket granting users access a one time only viewing of their chosen film. Sala Web’s online screenings will be operated on a secure site by Festival Scope, the online platform for film industry professionals, on behalf of the Venice Film Festival (boxoffice.festivalscope.com).

    Digital tickets for the Sala Web screenings are all priced at € 4 and will go on sale beginning Monday August 18th through a dedicated online box office: boxoffice.festivalscope.com.

    Sala Web titles will be available to screen in their original versions, with English subtitles for all non-English language titles, for a period of 5 days beginning at 9 pm (Italian time) on the day of each film’s official presentation on the Lido

    2014 WEB THEATRE PROGRAMME

    Orizzonti

    · Wednesday 27 August

    THE PRESIDENT by Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Georgia, France, Great Britain, Germany, 115’, language: Georgian, English/Italian subtitles) with Misha Gomiashvili, Dachi Orvelashvili
     

    · Thursday 28 August

    LA VITA OSCENA by Renato De Maria (Italy, 85’, language: Italian, English subtitles) with Isabella Ferrari, Clément Métayer, Roberto De Francesco
     

    · Friday 29 August

    TAKVA SU PRAVILA (THESE ARE THE RULES) by Ognjen Svilicic (Croatia, France, Serbia, Macedonia, 78', language: Croatian, English/Italian subtitles) with Emir Hadžihafizbegovic, Jasna Žalica, Hrvoje Vladisavljevic

    · Tuesday 2 September

    BYPASS by Duane Hopkins (Great Britain, 103’, language: English, Italian subtitles) with George MacKay, Benjamin Dilloway, Charlotte Spencer

    · Thursday 4 September

    COURT by Chaitanya Tamhane (India, 116’, language: Marathi/Hindi/English/Gujarati, English/Italian subtitles) with Vira Sathidar, Vivek Gomber, Geetanjali Kulkarni
     

    IO STO CON LA SPOSA by Antonio Augugliaro, Gabriele Del Grande, Khaled Soliman Al Nassiry (Italy, Palestine, 92’, language: Italian/Arabic, English/Italian subtitles) with Tasneem Fared, Abdallah Sallam, MC Manar, Alaa Bjermi, Ahmed Abed, Mona Al Ghabr

    · Friday 5 September

    KREDITIS LIMITI (LINE OF CREDIT) by Salomé Alexi (Georgia, Germany, France, 85’, language: Georgian, English/Italian subtitles) with Nino Kasradze

    NABAT by Elchin Musaoglu (Azerbaijan, 105’, language: Azerbaijani, English/Italian subtitles) with Fatemeh Motamed Arya, Vidadi Aliyev, Sabir Mamadov, Farhad Israfilov

    Biennale College – Cinema

    · Thursday 28 August

    H. by Rania Attieh, Daniel Garcia (USA, Argentina, 93’, language: English, Italian subtitles) cast: Robin Bartlett, Rebecca Dayan, Will Janowitz, Julian Gamble

    · Friday 29 August

    BLOOD CELLS by Joseph Bull, Luke Seomore (Great Britain, Italy, 86’, language: English, Italian subtitles) cast: Barry Ward, Hayley Squires, Francis Magee, Jimmy Akingbola, Keith McErlean, Chloe Pirrie, Silas Carson, Hannah Hornsby, Lauren Goodwin

    · Saturday 30 August

    SHORT SKIN by Duccio Chiarini (Italy, ’83, language: Italian, English subtitles) cast:  Matteo Creatini, Francesca Agostini, Nicola Nocchi, Miriana Raschillà, Bianca Ceravolo, Michele Crestacci, Bianca Nappi, Crisula Stafida, Francesco Acquaroli, Lisa Granuzza di Vita