الترفيه
Dutch filmmaker Finn Szumlas has started principal photography on his debut feature “Stairway to Earth,” kicking off a 5-week shoot in the Netherlands. Leading the film is Polish star Magdalena Koleśnik (“Sweat”) and Dutch actor Kay Greidanus (“Dit Zijn Wij”), playing two strangers who meet up after a one night stand at at a summer […]
اقرأ المزيد ←
الترفيه
Liu Haonan and Qiao Yuhang have been finishing each other’s stories since high school, where they drew together, talked about animation and film, and traded ideas for comics and stories of their own. More than a decade later, they’re doing something a two-person team couldn’t have pulled off a few years ago: building a science-fiction […]
اقرأ المزيد ←
الترفيه
Actor-turned director Anna Foglietta is back in Venice in a different guise this year, after serving as the event’s official emcee in 2020. Foglietta — who is best-known to international audiences for her role in Italy’s smash hit “Perfect Strangers” — is on the Lido with her directorial debut, “A Common Story.” It’s a marriage […]
اقرأ المزيد ←
الترفيه
Philippine studio Viva Communications has acquired the rights to remake Indonesian film “2nd Miracle in Cell No. 7,” marking the first time an Indonesian film will be officially remade for the Philippine market. The adaptation is set to premiere Dec. 25 as part of the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF). The original “Miracle in Cell […]
اقرأ المزيد ←
الترفيه
At the start of her eponymous reality show “Earle Meets World,” the influencer Alix Earle promises that while “there’s a whole other side” of the creator economy “people don’t get to see,” her viewers are “gonna see everything in this show.” I hope for Earle’s sake she isn’t telling the truth, because if “Earle Meets […]
اقرأ المزيد ←
الترفيه
Liam and Noel Gallagher, to perhaps nobody’s surprise, aren’t ones for getting teary-eyed, even when reconciling after well over a decade apart. So say Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern, directors of the upcoming Disney+ documentary “Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger,” speaking to Variety ahead of the film’s world premiere in Venice. In early 2025, […]
اقرأ المزيد ←
الترفيه
Four years after “Blanquita” won the Silver Lion for best screenplay, Chilean director Fernando Guzzoni returns to Venice. The filmmaker is set to present his latest project, “Land of the Savages,” at the Venice Gap-Financing Market, eyeing a return to the festival’s prestigious red carpet soon. “Land of the Savages” takes place in 1850 and […]
اقرأ المزيد ←
الترفيه
“Free Solo” directors Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi and Jimmy Chin return with their most personal film to date. In “Everest: The Other Side” — screening in Venice and Toronto — they follow ski mountaineers Jim Morrison and Hilaree Nelson as they attempt to do something that has never been done before: ski down the North Face […]
اقرأ المزيد ←
الترفيه
Over the last decade, Felipe Solari Yrigoyen has worked as an assistant director to some of the most lauded filmmakers in South America. His credits include Rodrigo Moreno’s “The Delinquents,” Martín Rejtman’s “The Practice” and Santiago Mitre’s upcoming “Villaflor.” After learning from the best, Solari Yrigoyen is finally claiming the director’s chair for himself with […]
اقرأ المزيد ←
الترفيه
When Alexandre Smia began writing “Jupiter,” his gripping feature directing debut about a newly elected French president confronted with the possibility of nuclear war with Russia, Joe Biden was still in the White House. A year and a half later, as the film prepares to world premiere out of competition at the Venice Film Festival, […]
اقرأ المزيد ←
الترفيه
Romanian director Bogdan Mirică lives a life intricately connected to screens. He has directed two feature films, including the award-winning “Dogs,” as well as majorly popular television shows, like HBO’s “Shadows.” Over the last few years, however, the director has become increasingly aware of the presence of screens all around us. The result of that […]
اقرأ المزيد ←
الترفيه
In February of 2022, when Russia invaded Ukraine and started the largest and deadliest war in Europe since World War II, director Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk feared for his life and held even more tightly to his and his family’s possessions. Four years later, as the war rages on and despite having found great international success with […]
اقرأ المزيد ←