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Organised by La Biennale di Venezia and directed by Alberto Barbera, the 82nd Venice International Film Festival runs on the Lido di Venezia and celebrates film from all over the world.
We've just started putting this year's page together but you can enjoy some of our early coverage now and check back later for more.
The festival runs from 28 August to 6 September.
View Films by Strand:
- Biennale College Cinema
- Competition
- Critics' Week
- Orizzonti
- Out Of Competition
- Spotlight
- Venice Classics
- Venice Days
View previous years coverage of the Venice Film Festival festival:
Venice Latest Reviews
In Sudan, Nafisa picks cotton and learns from her grandmother. The arrival of a young businessman, threatens to change their way of life.
During the last days of Nicolae Ceausescu’s reign, a 10-year-old girl witnesses her sister’s disappearance.
Famous movie actor Jay Kelly and his devoted manager Ron embark on a whirlwind and unexpectedly profound journey. Both are forced to confront choices they've made, their relationships with loved ones and the legacies they'll leave behind.
A tragic mistake destroys a man’s life, isolating him in guilt and shaking his marriage. Now facing prison, can he find a path to forgiveness?
A brilliant but egotistical scientist brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation
When a single, unattributed missile is launched at the United States, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.
The story of legendary mixed martial arts and UFC fighter Mark Kerr.
Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
Eleonora Duse’s legendary career seems over, but in the ferocious times between the Great War and the rise of fascism, the Divina feels a call stronger than any resignation and returns to where her life began: on stage.
Ed Saxberger, a forgotten New York poet, works in the post office. After an eager and flattering young admirer appears on his doorstep, Saxberger is beckoned into a coterie of twentysomething admirers who anoint him as a rediscovered genius.
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