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Vita gazette – The 80th journey of the Venice Film Festival has begun. Six local directors are competing for the Golden Lion: Edoardo De Angelis with “Comandante”, Garrone with “Io Capitano”, Costanzo with “Finally l’Alba”; Castellitto with “Aeneas”; Rights with “Lubo” and Sollima with “Adagio”. The opening of the festival will take place with “Comandate”.

The 80th Venice International Film Festival is organized by the Venice Biennale and directed by Alberto Barbera; will be held on the Venice Lido from 30 August to 9 September 2023.

The official poster signed by lorenzo mattotti for the 2023 cinema biennale takes inspiration from cinema on the road. The Italian illustrator is also the author of the theme song.

The 2023 edition of the Venice Biennale International Film Festival to be held from 30 August to 9 September. 80. The international jury presidents of the 80th Venice Film Festival are Damien Chazelle, Alice Diop and Jonas Carpignano.

The pre-opening evening of the 80th Venice Film Festival will be entirely dedicated on Tuesday 29 August to the Italian icon Gina Lollobrigida. The godmother of this edition of the exhibition will be the Sardinian actress Caterina Murino.

On Tuesday 29 August is an important date for cinema enthusiasts: the pre-opening of the long-awaited event will be held from 9 pm, in the Sala Darsena (Palazzo del Cinema) on the Venice Lido with a double screening to pay homage to the great Gina Lollobrigida, an icon of Italian cinema who died last January.

In the early evening, the documentary Portrait of Gina made by Orson Welles in 1958 will be screened. It will have its world premiere in Venice in collaboration with Cinecittà, in the version restored for the occasion by the Filmmuseum in Munich.

This is the pilot episode, lasting 27 minutes, of an ABC television series that was never completed: an interview by Welles with Gina Lollobrigida in her villa on the Appian Way. Reported missing, the film remained unreleased until 1986, when it was screened at the Venice Film Festival, a year after the director’s death.

This will be followed by La provinciale (1953) by Mario Soldati, presented in the world premiere in the version restored for the occasion by the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia-Cineteca Nazionale, in collaboration with Compass Film, for which the original negative was used

This time a female literary drama based on the homonymous novel by Alberto Moravia and written by the same director in which we find the actress in the role of the protagonist Gemma.

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The two films are part of the Venezia Classici program of the 80th Mostra and are part of the overall project of initiatives dedicated to the great actress conceived by the Undersecretary for Culture Lucia Borgonzoni and the President of Cinecittà Chiara Sbarigia.

A project that also includes two photographic exhibitions underway in Rome and Venice and an award for young talents, which will be presented during the Venice Film Festival.

Barbera: “Impact of the US strike will be modest”

The 80th edition of the event is preparing to enliven the Lido of the Venetian city. Barbera: “Impact of the US strike will be modest”. Six local directors are competing for the Golden Lion: Edoardo De Angelis with “Comandante”, Garrone with “Io Capitano”, Costanzo with “Finally l’Alba”; Castellitto with “Aeneas”; Rights with “Lubo” and Sollima with “Adagio”. Here are the films that will be presented at the Festival.

The event was to be opened by Challengers by Luca Guadagnino, but due to the strike of Hollywood actors and screenwriters, production was halted and the film will not be at the Festival. In his place was chosen Comandante, by Edoardo De Angelis and with Pierfrancesco Favino. All the other films that were planned, assured Barbera, Artistic Director of the Cinema Sector of the Biennale, “will be there”: the impact of the protests in Los Angeles on the Festival “is very modest” La sociedad de la nieve by J.A. Bayona. Roberto Cicutto, president of the Venice Biennale, spoke of a Festival that “starting from the image of the poster, is projected towards the future”. Here is the complete programme.

COMPETITION

There are 23 films in competition, like last year. Six of these are Italian: Commander by De Angelis, Enea by Castellitto, Finally the Dawn by Costanzo, Lubo by Rights, Io Capitano by Garrone and Adagio by Sollima. These are the titles:

Comandan   Enea             Finalmente l’Alba            Lubo                        Io Capitano       Adagio

  • Comandante di Edoardo De Angelis;
  • Bastarden (The Promised Land) di Nikolaj Arcel;
  • Dogman di Luc Besson;
  • La Bête di Bertrand Bonello;
  • Hors-Saison di Stéphane Brizé;
  • Enea di Pietro Castellitto;
  • Maestro di Bradley Cooper;
  • Priscilla di Sofia Coppola;
  • Finalmente l’Alba di Saverio Costanzo;
  • Lubo di Giorgio Diritti;
  • Origin di Ava Duvernay;
  • The Killer di David Fincher;
  • Memory di Michelle Franco;
  • Io Capitano di Matteo Garrone;
  • Aku Wa Sonzai Shinai (Evil Does Not Exist) di Ryūsuke Hamaguchi;
  • Zielona Granica (The Green Border) di Agniezska Holland;
  • Die Theorie Von Allem di Timm Kröger;
  • Poor Things di Yorgos Lanthimos;
  • El Conde di Pablo Larraín;
  • Ferrari di Michael Mann;
  • Adagio di Stefano Sollima;
  • Kobieta Z… (Woman Of) di Małgorzata Szumowska e Michał Englert;
  • Holly di Fien Troch.

FUORI CONCORSO – FICTION

  • Coup de Chance di Woody Allen;
  • The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar di Wes Anderson;
  • The Penitent di Luca Barbareschi;
  • La Sociedad De La Neve di J.A. Bayona;
  • L’Ordine Del Tempo di Liliana Cavani;
  • Vivants di Alixe Delaporte;
  • Daaaaaali! di Quentin Dupieux;
  • The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial di William Friedkin;
  • Making Of di Cédric Kahn;
  • Aggro Dr1ft di Harmony Korine;
  • Hit Man di Richard Linklater;
  • The Palace di Roman Polanski;
  • Xue Bao (Il Leopardo Delle Nevi) di Pema Tdesen.

 FUORI CONCORSO – NON FICTION

  • Amor di Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri;
  • Frente a Guernica di Yervant Gianikian e Angela Ricci Lucchi;
  • Hollywoodgate di Ibrahim Nash’at;
  • Ryuchi Sakamoto | Opus di Neo Sora;
  • Enzo Jannacci Vengo Anch’io di Giorgio Verdelli;
  • Menus Plaisirs – Les Troisgros di Frederick Wisemann.

 FUORI CONCORSO – SERIES

  • Znam Kako Dises (Conosco La Tua Anima) – Episodi 1 e 2 – di Alen Drljević e Nemin Hamzagić
  • D’Argent Et De Sang – Episodi 1-12 – di Xavier Giannoli e Frédéric Plancho.

 FUORI CONCORSO – CORTOMETRAGGI

  • Welcome To Paradise di Leonardo di Costanzo.

SEZIONE ORIZZONTI – LUNGOMETRAGGI CONCORSO

Due i film italiani in concorso ad Orizzonti: la pellicola di animazione Invelle, primo lungometraggio di Simone Massi, e Una Sterminata Domenica di Alain Parroni. Il primo è un racconto, tra memoria e miserie, sul Novecento attraverso tre bambini di tre diverse epoche. Il secondo è una storia di nichilismo ambientata nell’estrema periferia romana, una esperienza visiva musicale e sensoriale “che aspira – ha detto Barbera – a diventare possibile manifesto di una generazione perduta”. Questa la lista completa:

  • Oura El Jbel (Behind the Mountains) di Mohammed Ben Attia;
  • El Paraíso di Enrico Maria Artale;
  • A Cielo Abierto di Marianna e Santiago Arriaga;
  • The Red Suitcase di Fidel Devkota;
  • Tatami di Guy Nattiv e Zar Amir Ebrahimi;
  • Paradiset Brinner (Paradise Is Burning) di Mika Gustafson;
  • The Featherweight di Robert Kolodny;
  • Invelle di Simone Massi;
  • Tereddüt Çizgisi (Hesitation Wound) di Selman Nacar;
  • Sem Coração (Heartless) di Nara Normande e Tião;
  • Una Sterminata Domenica di Alain Parroni;
  • Ser Ser Salhi (City of Wind) di Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir;
  • Magyarázat mindenre (Una Spiegazione Per Tutto) di Gábor Reisz;
  • Gasoline Rainbow di Bill e Turner Ross;
  • En Attendant La Nuit di Céline Rouzet;
  • Domakinstvo Za Pocetnici (Housekeeping For Beginners) di Goran Stolevski;
  • Hokage (Shadow Of Fire) di Shinya Tsukamoto;
  • Yurt (Dormitory) di Nehir Tuna
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  • SEZIONE ORIZZONTI – CORTOMETRAGGI CONCORSO
  • Aitana di Marina Alberti;
  • Sea Salt di Leila Basma;
  • A Short Trip di Erenik Beqiri;
  • Et Si Le Soleil Plongeait Dans L’Océan De Nuages di Wissam Charaf;
  • Wander To Wonder di Nina Gatz;
  • The Meatseller di Margherita Giusti;
  • Dive di Aldo Iuliano;
  • Area Boy di Iggy London;
  • Cross My Heart and Hope To Die di Sam Manacsa;
  • Dar Saaye Sarv (All’Ombra Del Cipresso) di Hossein Molayemi;
  • Bogotá Story di Esteban Pedraza;
  • Sentimental Stories di Sandra Popescu;
  • Duan Pian Gushi di Lang WU.

SEZIONE ORIZZONTI EXTRA

L’unico film italiano selezionato per Orizzonti Extra è invece Felicità, prima opera di Micaela Ramazzotti. 

  • Bota Jonë di Luàna Bajrami;
  • Nazavzhdy-Nazavzhdy di Anna Buryachkova;
  • El Rapto di Daniela Goggi;
  • Day Of The Fight di Jack Huston;
  • In The Land Of Saints And Sinners di Robert Lorenz;
  • Felicità di Micaela Ramazzotti;
  • Pet Shop Boys di Olmo Schnabel;
  • Stolen di Karan Tejpal;
  • L’Homme d’Argile di Anaïs Tellenne.

VENEZIA CLASSICI – RESTAURI

  • Slike iz života Udarnika di Bahrudin Bato Čengić;
  • One From The Heart di Francis Ford Coppolla;
  • Ultimo Mondo Cannibale di Ruggero Deodato;
  • Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm di Allan Dwan;
  • The Exorcist di William Friedkin;
  • King & Country di Joseph Losey;
  • Days Of Heaven di Terrence Malick;
  • Saaz Dahani di Amir Naderi;
  • Chichiariki di Yasujirō Ozu;
  • Tini Zabutykh Predkiv di Sergei Parajanov;
  • Profundo Carmesi Director’s Cut di Arturo Ripstein;
  • The Working Girls di Stephanie Rothman;
  • La Caza di Carlos Saura;
  • La Provinciale di Mario Soldati;
  • Ohikkoshi di Shinji Somai;
  • Andrej Rublev Director’s Cut di Andrej Tarkovskij;
  • Les Créatures di Agnès Varda;
  • Bellissima di Luchino Visconti;
  • Orson Welles At Large: Portrait of Gina di Orson Welles;
  • Bugis Street di Yonfan Yon.

VENEZIA CLASSICI – NON FICTION

  • Bill Douglas My Best Friend di Jack Archer;
  • Le Film Pro-Nazi D’Hitchcock di Daphne Baiwir;
  • Thank You Very Much di Alex Bravermen;
  • Landrian di Ernesto Daranas Serrano;
  • Un’Altra Italia Era Possibile, Il Cinema Di Giuseppe De Santis di Stefano Della Casa;
  • Michel Gondry Do It Yourself di François Nemeta;
  • Ken Jacobs From Orchard Street To The Museum Of Modern di Fred Riedel;
  • Dario Argento Panico di Simone Scafidi;
  • Frank Capra: Mr. America di Matthew Wells.

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