Cai, who won Venice’s best director prize in 2011 for “People Mountain People Sea,” describes a filmmaking journey interrupted by the pandemic. “In 2017 I made a film called ‘The Conformist,’” he ...

VENICE, Italy (AP) — After 10 days and dozens of red carpet premieres, the 82nd edition of the Venice Film Festival came to a close Saturday. While cinema is focused on the qualitative, a quantitative ...

The 2025 Venice Film Festival got underway in Venice, Italy, on Wednesday, Aug. 27 with writer-director Paolo Sorrentino’s Italian love story, La grazia, which is one of the 21 films playing in ...

The magic of the Venice Film Festival is real, as I discovered—on the screen and the red carpets, the vaporettos and the streets of Lido. Venice is now considered the first stop on the yellow brick ...

Veteran Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke held a masterclass at the Venice Film Festival, covering a wide swathe of topics, from embracing artificial intelligence opportunities in filmmaking, to launching ...