Venice Film Festival

Black History, Chicago International Film Festival, International Films, Interviews

7 min read

Oscar winning filmmaker Euzhan Palcy on her film “Sugar Cane Alley”

by Rebecca Martin

October 24, 2025

Set against the vivid backdrop of 1931 French-colonized Martinique, “Sugar Cane Alley” (“Rue Cases-Nègres”) stands as one of cinema’s most tender and politically charged coming-of-age stories. The film follows eleven-year-old

Veronica Miles in Piazza San Marco, Venice
Directing, Film Festivals, International Films

20 min read

Spritz & Sofia: My First Venice Film Festival

by Veronica Miles

October 10, 2025

In 2019, I crashed the Cannes Film Festival. Well — not really. I went legitimately with a pass I applied for (if you work in the film industry, you usually

Awards, Film Festivals, International Films, Interviews

5 min read

Vietnam’s Dương Diệu Linh Unpacks the Making of Her Venice Critics’ Week-Winning Drama “Don’t Cry, Butterfly”

by Davide Abbatescianni

September 26, 2024

Tam (Lê Tú Oanh), a diligent wedding venue staffer, discovers her husband’s affair on live TV. Rather than confronting him, she enlists a powerful spell master to win back his

Cineuropa, International Films, Interviews

4 min read

Venice Lion of the Future Award-winning Director Ana Rocha de Sousa discusses her debut film “Listen”

by Cineuropa

September 16, 2020

Venice 2020 Orizzonti “Money doesn’t ever substitute love in this life” By Kaleem Aftab 09/09/2020 – VENICE 2020: We talked to Portuguese actress turned director Ana Rocha de Sousa about her

Interviews, Mother's Day, Now Playing

12 min read

Australian filmmaker Shannon Murphy’s “Babyteeth” washes over you with exuberant music, love and beauty

by Rebecca Martin

June 18, 2020

At the end of “Babyteeth”, and this does not spoil the film at all, you are on a beach staring at the ocean waves. You’re on the beach rather than

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