SINCE: 1932
WHERE: Venice, Italy
ABOUT THE FESTIVAL
The Venice International Film Festival is organized by La Biennale di Venezia. The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness and promote international cinema in all its forms as art, entertainment and as an industry, in a spirit of freedom and dialogue. The Festival also organizes retrospectives and tributes to major figures as a contribution towards a better understanding of the history of cinema.
Venice International Film Festival
Poor Things directed by Yorgos Lanthimos won the Golden Lion for Best Film at Venice Film Festival. In the film starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef, Christopher Abbott, and Jerrod Carmichael, a young Victorian woman, Bella, is brought back to life by brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter.
Filmmaker Wes Anderson (The French Dispatch, Grand Budapest Hotel, The Royal Tenenbaums) will receive the prestigious Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award at the 80th Venice International Film Festival, dedicated to a personality who has made a particularly original contribution to the contemporary film industry.
Venice Film Festival unveiled the 2023 lineup with new films by Luc Besson, Bradley Cooper, Sofia Coppola, David Fincher, Ava DuVernay, Michel Franco, Michael Mann, Pablo Larraín and Agnieszka Holland premiering in official competition.
Society of the Snow (La Sociedad de la nieve), an epic story of survival in extreme conditions, directed by J.A. Bayona (The Orphanage, The Impossible) is the Closing Film, Out of Competition, of the 80th Venice International Film Festival.
Comandante, directed by Edoardo De Angelis and starring Pierfrancesco Favino, is the new opening film, a world premiere in Competition, of the 80th Venice International Film Festival.
The 80th Venice International Film Festival taking place 30th August – 9th September 2023), unveiled the selection of projects for Venice Immersive, the XR – Extended Reality section.
The 80th Venice International Film Festival will dedicate its Pre-opening event to actress Gina Lollobrigida, the icon of Italian cinema who passed away last January.
Challengers, directed by Luca Guadagnino, starring Zendaya, Josh O’Connor and Mike Faist is the Opening Film, Out of Competition, of the 80th Venice International Film Festival taking place August 30 to September 9, 2023.
Directors Damien Chazelle, Alice Diop and Jonas Carpignano will chair the international juries respectively of Venezia 80, the “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film and the Orizzonti section of the 80th Venice International Film Festival taking place August 30 – September 9, 2023.
Director Liliana Cavani and actor Tony Leung Chiu-wai will each receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at the 80th Venice Film Festival (International Film Festival of the Biennale di Venezia) taking place August 30 to September 9, 2023.
Laura Poitras’ All the Beauty and the Bloodshed won the Golden Lion for Best Film at the 79th Venice Film Festival. The documentary chronicles the photographer and activist Nan Goldin and her crusade to hold Purdue Pharma, owned by the Sackler family, accountable for the opioid epidemic.
Prior to its world premiere in the official competition category of the 79th Venice Film Festival, No Bears, the film directed by Jafar Panahi, unveiled the first official poster