[Photo on top: White Noise, by Noah Baumbach, with Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola. © Netflix]
From August 31 to September 10, 2022, Venice Lido hosts the 79th International Film Festival, organized by La Biennale, which every year brings new productions from all over the world to the Venetian seaside, accompanied by numerous international stars on the red carpet.
The Venice Film Festival did not stop even for the pandemic, adopting in the last two years all the means and precautions so as not to deprive the public of this highly anticipated event.
In addition to the Official Selection (73 films between fiction and documentaries), the short films and two TV series, the exhibition will also present the Venezia Classici section, where the tribute to Monica Vitti–the recently deceased Italian actress–stands out: the movie Teresa la ladra (Carlo di Palma, 1973). Moreover, this year, the Extended Reality section, which includes all the technologically advanced realities, returns to its original location on the Isola del Lazzaretto Vecchio with Venice Immersive.
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The program of the Festival is, as always, very rich with works from almost 60 different countries, among which the large Italian representation bodes well for the health of Italian cinema.
The opening film is White Noise by Noah Baumbach with Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig, based on Don DeLillo’s novel, in which conspiracies enter everyday life and mix with the fear of death that we all try to keep at a level subordinate to the our perceptions.
This year there are two Golden Lions for Lifetime Achievement: the American director and screenwriter Paul Schrader and the French actress Catherine Deneuve who will receive the award at the Palazzo del Cinema.
The poster of the 79. Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica, by Lorenzo Mattotti
And it is again, and for the fifth time, the illustrator Lorenzo Mattotti who signs the official image and the starting titles of the Mostra: a graceful female figure with wings and tail that transforms the lion symbol of the exhibition and of the city into an elegant lioness, hovering upwards, holding out the anniversary number. Because the Venice Biennale celebrates two important milestones this year. The first is precisely the 90th anniversary of the Foundation of the Venice International Film Festival, which has officially reached its 79th edition, taking into account that at the beginning it was a biennial event, and that after the 1938 edition it resumed in ’46 at the end of the Second World War. The second milestone is the ten years of activity of Biennale College Cinema which, with an annual call, selects and produces the projects of young people in the field of the seventh art.
Come di consueto, una selezione di film viene proiettata nelle sale del cinema Rossini di Venezia e del cinema Candiani di Mestre nella rassegna Circuito Cinema in Mostra.
Tutti i film vengono presentati nella versione originale con sottotitoli.
HOW TO REACH THE VENICE FILM FESTIVAL
BY TRAIN
Arrival at Venezia S. Lucia railway station, then vaporetto boat to Lido (Actv lines, stops: Lido S. Maria Elisabetta and/or Lido Casinò).
BY CAR
Exit the A4 Motorway at Venice, follow road signs for Venezia Lido, then board on the Actv ferry boat.
BY BOAT
From Ferrovia, Piazzale Roma and S. Zaccaria, any Actv line to Lido S. Maria Elisabetta; Actv lines 20 and MC to Lido Casinò.
BY AIRPLANE
Arrival at Marco Polo Venice Airport, then Alilaguna boat (red line), stop: Lido S. Maria Elisabetta.
79. Mostra Internazionale d’Arte Cinematografica
From August 31 to September 10
Lido di Venezia
You can find the complete list of films in the Official Selection on: labiennale.org/it/cinema/2022/selezione-ufficiale
Tickets and information on: labiennale.org/it/cinema/2022/informazioni#tickets
