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Kenyan filmmaker Vincho Nchogu makes her feature directorial debut with the pastoral drama “One Woman One Bra,” a story of womanhood, community and the struggle to reshape African…
Continuing a great year for Arab cinema at major festivals — with films such as “Once Upon a Time in Gaza,” “The President’s Cake” and “The Little Sister” winning major awards in Cannes —…
Gastón Solnicki’s buzzy new film “The Souffleur,” starring Willem Dafoe and world premiering in Venice Horizons, has found a home in Italy. Magnify has sold the film to Revolver & Madison…
More than three years after Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, two films premiering in the Venice Days sidebar of the Venice Film Festival explore a different conflict…
Guillermo del Toro’s “Frankenstein” injected some life into Venice, earning a rapturous 13-minute standing ovation, the longest of the festival so far. Oscar Isaac, who plays the titular…
The Venice Film Festival on Saturday became the focus of possibly the largest protest ever seen at a major film event over Israel’s ongoing military assault on Gaza. Thousands, young and…
Danish director Anders Thomas Jensen makes Mads Mikkelsen look bad. Literally. “It actually comes from him. Everybody thinks about Mads as this iconically beautiful man, so a part of him…
Vesuvius — the very name sounds ancient, rhythmically mythical, so tied into tales of a destroyed past that one almost forgets it’s still very much in the ordinary, existing present. The…
Mohamed Hefzy, the Egyptian producer whose banner Film Clinic is presenting three movies at the Venice Film Festival, is teaming with French producer Valerie Garcia’s banner Gabman on a…
In his autobiography, Keith Richards described “As Tears Go By,” a disarmingly simple ballad that he and Mick Jagger composed under duress, as “a terrible piece of tripe.” You can see why,…
Gianfranco Rosi, who scooped the 2013 Venice Golden Lion with “Sacro GRA”, is back on the Lido with “Below the Clouds.” It’s a passionate personal exploration of Naples and its suburbs…
“By the way, when you edit this, I don’t need to be saying ‘distinctive’ 500 times.” Jeb Brody is describing the ethos behind the upcoming film slate at Imagine Entertainment, where he’s…
When she approached Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera 13 years ago with a proposal for a market event devoted to films from Africa and the Middle East, industry…
Switzerland-based distributor First Hand Films has taken world sales on “Elvira Notari: Beyond Silence,” which reconstructs the overlooked story of Italy’s first female director, ahead of…
Indonesian auteur Kamila Andini is gearing up for what she calls “the hardest story I’ve ever created” with “Four Seasons in Java,” a magical realist drama that confronts the dark…
Filmmaker Potsy Ponciroli (“Old Henry”) is back in Venice with “Motor City,” a film with about three lines of audible dialogue driven by needle-drops, a terrific score and a charismatic…
Silver Lion winner Cai Shangjun is back at the Venice Film Festival with competition title “The Sun Rises on Us All,” a restrained drama about guilt, complicity and the elusive possibility…
Italian producer Annamaria Morelli, who took the reins at Fremantle-owned production company the Apartment in early 2024, is having a pretty good year. She recently landed movies in both…
Taiwan is making waves at the 82nd Venice Film Festival with its most significant presence to date, headlined by Shu Qi‘s directorial debut, “Girl,” becoming the first Taiwanese film to…
After nearly three decades as one of Asia’s most recognizable screen performers, Shu Qi has stepped behind the camera for “Girl,” her directorial debut that world premieres in competition…
MILAN — A Black woman wanders through the halls of a museum, stopping to examine paintings while a voiceover cites titles and descriptions, revealing the place that Western art has often…
Acclaimed South Korean director Park Chan-wook returned to the Venice Film Festival and was greeted with a six-minute standing ovation for the twisted black comedy “No Other Choice.”…
Greenlandic filmmaker and visual artist Inuk Silis Høegh (“Sumé – The Sound of a Revolution”) is in pre-production on “Orsoq,” a documentary that explores the delicate balance between…
Julia Roberts got emotional as her new movie, “After the Hunt” — Luca Guadagnino’s drama in which she plays a troubled professor — wowed Venice on Friday night. The Amazon MGM Studios…
