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The 81st Venice International Film Festival opened with Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. Its Orizzonti sidebar was opened by Feeling Better. Sigourney Weaver and Peter Weir both received honorary Golden Lions. The Golden Lion for best film went to Pedro Almodóvar for The House Next Door.
The festival runs from 28 August to 7 September.
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- Episodic
- Orizzonti
- Orizzonti Extra
- Out Of Competition
- Venezia 81 Competition
- Venice Classics
- Venice Days
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Venice Latest Reviews
Best friends Yuta and Kou are on the brink of graduating from high school in a near-future Tokyo where the threat of a catastrophic earthquake casts a shadow over daily life.
Over seven hallucinatory days, a village with no name, in an undefined time and place, disappears.
After a newborn dies during delivery, the morals and professionalism of an ob-gyn, Nina, come under scrutiny amid rumors that she performs illegal abortions for those in need.
From sold-out concerts to family moments with her parents and sister, the passage of time brings loss but also provides liberation for an artist whose body is a canvas for artistic expression.
A high-powered CEO puts her career and family on the line when she begins a torrid affair with her much younger intern.
Dramatisation of the life of the opera singer Maria Callas.
1944, Vermiglio, a remote mountain village. The arrival of Pietro, a deserter, into the family of the local teacher, and his love for the teacher's eldest daughter, will change the course of everyone's life.
An FBI agent comes to believe a series of violent crimes are the work of domestic terrorists.
A louche older man pursues a younger boy toy in Mexico City before the pair go on the hunt for psychedelics in Ecuador.
When Ingrid finds out that her old friend Martha is seriously ill, they reunite and embark on a journey of discoveries.
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