Get ready for an onslaught of Italian movies on the post-Venice fall festival circuit. Seven Italian titles are set launch into North America from Toronto. Seven will be bowing into Asia from Busan.

Lido Cantarutti, the founder and director of Marin’s long-running Italian Film Festival, recently announced the lineup for the festival’s 48th season, which features six films on Saturdays between ...

Marco Bellocchio, Alba Rohrwacher and Matteo Garrone are among hundreds of Italian cinema professionals who have signed an open letter calling on the Venice Film Festival to acknowledge the ongoing ...

A group of filmmakers penned an open letter Saturday to the Venice Film Festival urging event organizers to take a stronger pro-Palestine stance. The group, operating under the name Venice4Palestine ...

In the glitzy and glamorous world of Bollywood, it’s usually the dazzling and gleaming life of celebrities that comes to the forefront; however, behind every successful story of actors, there is a ...

A large group of mostly Italian film industry professionals, including auteurs Marco Bellocchio, Matteo Garrone and Alice Rohrwacher, has launched an appeal for the Venice Film Festival to take a more ...

Giorgio Armani gestures at the end of the Giorgio Armani Prive Haute Couture Spring Summer 2025 collection in Paris on January 28, 2025. Italian fashion designer Giorgio Amani died Thursday at the 91, ...

FILE - George Clooney, left, and Brad Pitt upon arrival for the press conference of the film 'Wolfs' during the 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, on Sunday, Sept. 1, 2024.

VENICE – No Hollywood star seems as intrinsically tied to Venice as George Clooney. Twenty-seven years ago he attended his first Venice Film Festival with the instant classic “Out of Sight”; 20 years ...

To appreciate the power and hope of Paolo Sorrentino‘s latest film La Grazia, which opened the 2025 Venice Film Festival in competition, it is important to have some context of some of the past ...