The 2025 Venice Film Festival got underway on Wednesday, August 27 with Italian director Paolo Sorrentino’s latest La Grazia, kicking off an 82nd edition that includes films starring the likes of George Clooney, Julia Roberts, Idris Elba, Jacob Elordi, Cate Blanchett, Emily Blunt, Tony Leung, Oscar…

Beautiful, elusive and peppered with provocative nuggets about the nature of life and our place in it, Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi's Silent Friend is the Venice Film Festival's parting gift to all those who have lasted the distance. Festival press shorthand has dubbed it "the tree film" — its…

Iranian director Amir Azizi's biographical drama has won the top GdA Director's Award at the 22nd edition of Venice parallel section Giornate degli Autori, which was previously known as Venice Days. Described as a love letter to Tehran and based loosely on Azizi's own experiences, Inside Amir…

EXCLUSIVE: Argentina's 58th President, Alberto Fernández, isn't particularly well-regarded at home. During his tenure, he oversaw historic economic woes and is currently on trial for Presidential corruption. Abroad, his stock is even lower, with most people associating him with a series of comments…

Good afternoon International Insiders. We end another week as Venice wraps and with plenty else going on. Max Goldbart here penning the newsletter. Sign up here if you haven’t already, and do read on. Venice Curtain Call Saja Kilani…

EXCLUSIVE: Hungarian director Ildikó Enyedi's Silent Friend closes the Venice Film Festival competition on Friday evening as the last 2025 Golden Lion contender to be unveiled this edition, before heading to Toronto a Special Presentation. Deadline can reveal the official trailer for the…

The Venice Film Festival and its parent body the Biennale have paid tribute to Italian fashion king Giorgio Armani whose death was announced on Thursday, as the 82nd edition enters its final days. "It was with extreme sadness that we learned of the disappearance, while the 82nd edition of the…

In 2009, Stephania Albertani, a 28-year-old woman hailing from the Italian lakeside town of Como, admitted to killing her older sister, burning her body to hide the crime, and then trying to also murder her parents. Interest in the crime was heightened by Albertani's assertion that she had no…

As the curtain rises on Pietro Marcello's handsome but very culturally specific biopic Duse, the legendary Italian actress Eleonora Duse has been in retirement since 1909. Such is her enduring fame that she still draws a crowd when entertaining the…

In the Hand of Dante, writer-director Julian Schnabel’s ambitious adaptation of the Nick Tosches novel that moves between the 14th and 21st centuries, received a 9 1/2-minute ovation after its world premiere Wednesday night at the Venice Film Festival. Oscar Isaac stars in the pic alongside Al…

There is no stopping painter-sculpter-filmmaker Julian Schnabel’s penchant for cinematically embracing fellow artists. In an impressive filmography, he always seems to be giving them their due with major introspection in films like his Oscar-nominated The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, which was…

Kaouther Ben Hania's Gaza-set drama The Voice of Hind Rajab, one of the buzziest titles coming into this year’s Venice Film Festival given its subject matter, received what might be a film festival record 23-minute and 50-second ovation after its world premiere Wednesday evening, when the audience…