Venice Film Festival

Saim Sadiq’s ‘Darling’ bags award at Venice Film Festival

The film won the Best Short Film award. Read More

Climate change activists storm red carpet at film festival

Wearing white boiler suits, the roughly 300 protesters sat on the red carpet where Hollywood… Read More

Angelina Jolie backs Afghan film ‘Hava, Maryam, Ayesha’

The film premiered on September 6 at the Venice Film Festival. Read More

Actress or spy? hidden layers unveiled in ‘Saturday Fiction’

Gong Li portrays a film and stage star with a hidden agenda in “Saturday Fiction”,… Read More

‘Avengers’ team launch Hollywood’s first all-Arabic action movie

Producers said that they hoped the movie would become a turning point in the way… Read More

Timothee Chalamet dons armor for medieval coming-of-age tale ‘The King’

The 2019 film screening at Venice Film Festival is an adaptation of several plays from… Read More

Black Lives Matter film hailed at Venice

"American Skin" received an eight-minute standing ovation after it premiered at the Venice film festival,… Read More

Joaquin Phoenix’s ‘Joker’ gets eight-minute standing ovation at Venice premiere

The world premiere of the highly anticipated movie took place on Saturday at the film… Read More

Venice film festival pulls the stars but gender disparity casts shadow

There are only two female directors among 21 in the running for the top Golden… Read More

Venice Film Festival moves on gender equality, but no sign of quotas

VENICE:  The organizers of the Venice Film Festival signed a pledge on Friday to work… Read More

Coen brothers return to ‘True Grit’ country with six tales of the Old West

VENICE:  Coen brothers fans get six movies for the price of one in The Ballad of… Read More

Glamorous Venice Film Festival courts controversy

ROME: Global superstars Lady Gaga, Ryan Gosling and Vanessa Redgrave descend on Venice this week… Read More

Del Toro’s fairy tale wins top prize at Venice Film Festival

VENICE: Mexican director Guillermo del Toro’s “The Shape of Water”, a dark fairy tale in… Read More

Natalie Portman plays Jackie Kennedy, her ‘most dangerous’ role

VENICE: Natalie Portman said Wednesday that portraying a grief-stricken Jacqueline Kennedy was her "most dangerous" film… Read More

Drama of mother starving baby grips Venice fest

VENICE: A film portraying New York City mother who starves her baby because she thinks… Read More