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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…
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…
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…
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.”…
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…
Kim Kardashian is one of several stars to wear a slingback heel at the 2025 Venice Film Festival. The reality star arrived in Venice for the 82nd year of the festival on Thursday showing…
Light Dox has acquired sales rights to Lana Daher‘s documentary “Do You Love Me,” which has its premiere in Venice Days, a sidebar to the Venice Film Festival. Variety debuts an exclusive…
Italian distribution company I Wonder Pictures has acquired rights to Venice-bound “Broken English,” a portrait of the late Marianne Faithfull directed by BAFTA nominees Iain Forsyth and…
Julia Roberts defended her new film “After the Hunt” at a heated Venice Film Festival press conference, where the star was questioned about the movie’s statements surrounding the #MeToo…
Ciao! The 82nd annual Venice Film Festival is underway and the stars have hit the canals, with this year’s world premieres including Yorgos Lanthimos kidnap thriller “Bugonia,” Noah…
George Clooney braved a sinus infection and a rainstorm on Thursday night for the Venice premiere of Noah Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly,” which soaked in an 8.5-minute standing ovation. Clooney…
Kim Kardashian, Heidi Klum, Amal Clooney and more celebrities have touched down at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, showing off a bevy of timeless slingback heels. Although slingback pumps…
A young soprano trying to keep her hearing loss a secret ahead of a make-or-break performance is at the center of “Maya Butterfly,” the feature debut of Irish filmmaker Edwina Casey, a…
Kaouther Ben Hania’s “The Voice of Hind Rajab” has been selected as the Tunisian candidate in the contest for the best international feature film Oscar at the 98th Academy Awards. As…
Emma Stone strapped her feet into Manolo Blahnik for the “Bugonia” photo call during the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on Thursday in Italy. The Oscar winner stepped out onto the…
“Bugonia” star Emma Stone jokingly made a confession at the Venice Film Festival press conference for her latest movie: She believes in aliens. In the black comedy directed by her frequent…
Just as George Clooney and Adam Sandler hit the Lido for Noah Baumbach’s “Jay Kelly,” the Venice Production Bridge is kicking off with some 3,300 film industry executives – roughly 1,400…
Variety is exclusively unveiling the first trailer for “A Dance in Vain,” the second feature from Lee Hong-chi following his 2023 Venice Lion of the Future Award-winning debut “Love is a…
“The Brutalist” director Brady Corbet sent film Twitter into a flurry last year when he boasted that it took 26 reels of 70mm film stock, weighing approximately 300 pounds, to bring his…
The star-studded Venice Film Festival is under way, with numerous stars and renowned filmmakers making the trek to Italy by plane, train and vaporetto. Those expected at the annual…
The Italians love Paolo Sorrentino. His latest drama “La Grazia,” which kicked off the 82nd Venice Film Festival on Wednesday night, was met with a four-minute standing ovation on the…
The ongoing war in Gaza was the main topic of conversation at this year’s Venice Film Festival jury press conference, although director Alexander Payne diplomatically chose to not offer…
Brad Pitt and Joaquin Phoenix are among the Hollywood stars who have boarded Kaouther Ben Hania’s Gaza-set drama “The Voice of Hind Rajab” as executive producers ahead of the movie’s…
Santiago, an Argentinian corporal, faces a perplexing metamorphosis as he finds himself on the lam in neighboring Uruguay in multi-hyphenate Daniel Hendler’s third feature, “A Loose End”…
