Filmfestivals.com partner of Venice Production Bridge sat down with the Pascal Diot who shared with our audience a few practical facts and figures on the Market which he has created 6 years ago.
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The actress and author Emanuela Fanelli, one of the most original and innovative performers in Italian cinema and television, will host the opening and closing nights of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia (27 August – 6 September 2025).
Emanuela Fanelli will lead the inauguration ceremony of the 82nd Venice Film Festival on the night of Wednesday 27 August on the stage of Sala Grande (Palazzo del Cinema on the Lido), as well as the closin...
The 10th edition of the Book Adaptation Rights Market (August 29th – August 31st, 2025), organized as part of the Venice Production Bridge, will take place at the Hotel Excelsior at the Lido di Venezia, during the forthcoming 82nd Venice International Film Festival (August 27th – September 6th, 2025).
The VPB Focus 2025 will be dedicated to the United Kingdom, Chile and Morocco.
Following the call which was launched on January 14th, the Book Adaptation Rights Mar...
La Biennale di Venezia is proud to announce that the 12. edition of the Venice Gap-Financing Market (August 29 – August 31, 2025), organised as part of the Venice Production Bridge, has selected 40 Fiction and Documentary projects, 14 Immersive projects and will present an additional 10 Immersive and 3 Fiction projects developed during the Biennale College Cinema workshops.
The 3-day Venice Gap-Financing Market ...
La Biennale di Venezia is pleased to announce that La Grazia, written and directed by the Oscar®-winning filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino (The Hand of God, The Great Beauty, Il divo), and starring Toni Servillo and Anna Ferzetti, is the opening film, in a world premiere in competition, of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival directed by Alberto Barbera (27 August – 6 September 2025).
Photo: La Grazia Toni Servillo by Andrea Pirrello
La Grazia will have its world premiere scr...
The legendary American actress Kim Novak (Vertigo, Picnic, Bell, Book and Candle) has been awarded the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia (August 27 – September 6, 2025).
The decision was made by the Board of Directors of La Biennale, upon recommendation of the Artistic Director of the Festival, Alberto Barbera.
Kim Novak in accepting the offer, declared: “I am deeply, deeply touched to rec...
American director Alexander Payne (The Holdovers, Sideways, Nebraska, The Descendants,) will be the president of the International Jury of the Competition at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival (August 27 - September 6, 2025), which will assign the Golden Lion for Best Film, as well as other official awards.
The decision was made by the Board of Directors of La Biennale di Venezia, who confirmed the recommendation of the Director of the Venice Film Festival, Alberto Barbera.
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The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia (August 27 – September 6, 2025) has been awarded to the great German director Werner Herzog (Aguirre, the Wrath of God, Fitzcarraldo, Nosferatu the Vampyre). The decision was made by the Board of Directors of La Biennale, upon recommendation of the Artistic Director of the Festival, Alberto Barbera.
Photo credit: Werner Herzog courtesy of Lena Herzog
Werner Herzog, in a...
The Italian call for the 14th Biennale College – Cinema remains open for another ten days, through April 14th 2025, on the website www.labiennale.org. This is the higher education workshop launched by La Biennale in 2012, addressed to emerging filmmakers to develop and produce microbudget feature films over the course of one year.
Registration for the Biennale College Cinema – Italia is open to teams consisting of directors and producers, both of whom must be Italian natio...
La Biennale di Venezia announces that the new call for the Venice Gap-Financing Market opens on Monday February 3rd, the deadline for submitting projects is May 1st 2025.
The twelfth edition of the Venice Gap-Financing Market will be held from 29th to 31st of August 2025, as part of the Venice Production Bridge of the 82nd Venice International Film Festival (27 August – 6 ...
La Biennale di Venezia / 82nd Venice International Film Festival / Venice Production Bridge on www.labiennale.org /
Announcing the program breeding talents and awards that supports films in post production from Africa and the Middle East
La Biennale di Venezia announces that the new call for Final Cut in Venice opens today Monday March 17th , the deadline for submitting projects is June 9th 2025.
The Final Cut in Venice program will take place...
She had distributed three Golden Lion films, Hana-bi by Takeshi Kitano,
The Circle (2000) by Jafar Panahi and From Afar (2015) by Lorenzo Vigas
A remembrance by Alberto Barbera /
The President, the General Manager, the Artistic Director of the Venice International Film Festival of La Biennale di Venezia remember with esteem and affection the great French-Iranian producer and distributor Hengameh Panahi, founder of Celluloid Dreams and unparalleled...
Michel Ciment (1938-2023) pictured on the wall (shot by Jerry Schatzberg with closed eyes, quite unusual for a film critic) and with Jerry shot by Bruno Chatelin
Michel Ciment au festival Lumière, photo Paul Grandsard
Historic director of “Positif” magazine, he was a juror and expert for the Venice International Film Festival which he followed uninterruptedly from 1964 to 2021.
The President, the General Manager, the Artistic Director of the ...
As we tie a ribbon on the Festival emotions grow stronger! After being blown away by the energy of the cast of LA SOCIEDAD DE LA NIEVE (SOCIETY OF THE SNOW), many stars arrive at the Palazzo del Cinema for the awards ceremony. As the night falls on #Venezia80, this edition's winners dazzle in the Sala Grande. Among all, Yorgos Lanthimos' star shines the brighest: his POOR THINGS fills the Red Carpet with golden light on the magical last day of the Mostra
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The second to last day of the Festival! It starts with the new #Orizzonti films, it goes on following the rhythm of the music of ENZO JANNACCI VENGO ANCH'IO by Giorgio Verdelli. And then, the cast of KOBIETA Z... (WOMAN OF) arrives in Venice before Stéphane Brizé, Alba Rohrwacher and Guillaume Canet blow everyone away. As the sun sets on #Venezia80, Michel Franco, Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard sparkle on the Red Carpet: Day 10 has stolen our hearts!
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The Better World Fund event in Venice took place during the 80th Edition of the Venice Film Festival, La Mostra, on the 7th & 8th of September, 2023.
More than 300 people attended at the Ca' Sagredo Hotel & La Scuola Grande Della Misericordia di Venezia with the participation of great personalities such as: Isabelle Huppert, Jeremy Piven, Euzhan Palcy, Tom Volf, Keira Chaplin, Nadia Farès, Elisabeth Moreno, Jo...
VENEZIA 80
The VENEZIA 80 Jury, chaired by Damien Chazelle and comprised of Saleh Bakri, Jane Campion, Mia Hansen-Løve, Gabriele Mainetti, Martin McDonagh, Santiago Mitre, Laura Poitras and Shu Qi having viewed all 23 films in competition, has decided as follows:
GOLDEN LION for Best Film to:
POOR THINGS
by Yorgos Lanthimos (UK)
SILVER LION – GRAND JURY PRIZE to:
Aku Wa Sonzai Shinai (Evil Does Not Exist)
by Ryusuke Hamaguchi (Jap...
ARCA CinemaGiovani Award | ARCA CinemaGiovani
Best Film of Venezia 780: ZIELONA GRANICA (GREEN BORDER) by Agnieszka Holland
Best Italian Film in Venice: EL PARAÍSO by Enrico Maria Artale
Authors under 40 Award | dedicated to the director Valentina Pedicini by "Venezia a Napoli. Il cinema esteso"
Best directing and screenwriting: LUNA CARMOON for Hoard
Best directing: MIKA GUSTAFSON for Paradiset Brinn...
The Venice Production Bridge, an integral part of the 80th Venice International Film Festival, and a specialized hub where film professionals can converge to advance and finalize their projects, is being held from August 31st to September 8th, 2023.
The Venice Production Bridge receives the support of the European Commission through its Creative Europe and MEDIA programme.
The figures of the 2023 VENICE PRODUCTION BRIDGE in compar...
For the seventh year, La Biennale di Venezia gives a cash award of € 5.000 to support the Best Film in post-production.
La Biennale di Venezia Prize Jury, composed of Bobby Allen (MUBI), Enrico Bufalini (Cinecittà) and Sarah Chazelle (The Party Film Sales) has awarded the film:
CARISSA by Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar, (South Africa)
Producers: Deidre Jantjies, Annemarie Du Plessis
“We were entranced by this journey from modernity back to traditions and th...
The end of #Venezia80 is nearing and the emotions are more intense! On Day 9 we meet the #Orizzonti films delegations, Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri presents her AMOR, and Fien Troch lands in #Venice with the cast of HOLLY. Giorgio Diritti, Franz Rogowski, Valentina Bellè and Christophe Sermet arrive at the Palazzo del Cinema for the premiere of LUBO, Quentin Dupieux, Édouard Baer and Anaïs Demoustier crack jokes on the Red Carpet of DAAAAAALI!: relive the ninth day of the Festiv...
Another day brimming with joy at #Venezia80! From the radiant #Orizzonti film delegations to a delighted Sergio Castellitto receiving the Premio Pietro Bianchi 2023, and the cheerfulness of the casts of XUE BAO (SNOW LEOPARD) and ZNAM KAKO DIŠEŠ (I KNOW YOUR SOUL). And then, Matteo Garrone plays with the performers of IO CAPITANO (ME CAPTAIN) on the Red Carpet, a beaming Ava DuVernay greets her fans, and the cast of VIVANTS steals one last smile from the enthusiastic crowd welcomin...
If there’s any kind of magic in this world it must all be at #Venezia80! From #Orizzonti to the experiencies of #VeniceImmersive at the Lazzaretto Vecchio Island, the #BiennaleCinema2023 continues to surprise us. But it doesn't end there! Between press conferences, Photocall, #BiennaleCall and Red Carpet, here are ZIELONA GRANICA (GREEN BORDER), ENEA and HIT MAN!
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Hugs, kisses, smiles: at #Venezia80 we can't help but falling in love again! On the sixth day of the #BiennaleCinema2023 new #Orizzonti arise, the cast of MAKING OF lands in #Venice, Ryûsuke Hamaguchi and the cast of EVIL DOEST NOT EXIST win everyone over with their tenderness. And then, the story changes: Sofia Coppola, Cailee Spaeny and Jacob Elordi are acclaimed by adoring fans on the Red Carpet of #Venezia80. Finally, when the lights are about to go down, Woody Allen arrives: the s...
Many stars grace #Venezia80: from the young promises of the #BiennaleCollegeCinema to the discoveries of #Orizzonti. And then, the DIE THEORIE VON ALLEM cast, Bertrand Bonello and David Fincher light up the Red Carpet. As night falls the brightest star of all shines in the Sala Grande: William Friedkin, in the tribute that the #BiennaleCinema dedicates to the great director Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the #BiennaleCinema2013.
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