72nd Venice International Film Festival

The International Film Festival is hosted every September in the city of Venice, in Italy.

The Event is considered an unmissable occasion for the “cinemaddicted”.The program is very varied, as the festival’s artistic director, Alberto Barbera, said, with a wide selection of U.S. and international movies. The film Everest has been announced as the festival’s opening film. Another 21 films are in competition. The following films are selected for the main competition: Argentine director, Pablo Trapero's, El Clan, Chinese director, Zhao Liang's, Behemoth, Polish director, Jerzy Skolimowski's, 11 minut, and Looking for Grace from Australia's, Sue Brooks. A restored version of Federico Fellini's film Amarcord will be shown and Italian director, Luca Guadagnino will come to the festival with A Bigger Splash.  Martin Scorsese's short film The Audition with the trio of Robert de Niro, Leonardo Di Caprio and Brad Pitt, is also included. The closing night’s film will be Guan Hu's drama film Mr. Six.

The countries represented during the Film Festival are from all over the world, from China to Brazil, from New Zealand to the United Arab Emirates.

Mexican director, Alfonso Cuarón, known for Gravity, will preside the jury. The distinguished and international members of the jury are important names such as the French author and director, Emmanuel Carrère, the Turkish director, Nuri Bilge Ceylanthe, the Italian, Francesco Munzi, the German actress, Diane Krugera and her American colleague, Elizabeth Banks, the British, Lynne Ramsay, the two directors, Hou Hsiao-hsien, from Taiwan, and Pawel Pawlikowski, from Poland.

The official prizes for the future films in competition are Best Film, Best Director, Best Actor, Best Actress and Best New Young Actor or Actress.

As the director Alberto Barbera said, the goal of the Film Festival is to raise awareness and promote the various international aspects of cinema in all its forms: as art, entertainment and as an industry, in a spirit of freedom and dialogue. The Festival also offers retrospectives and tributes to major figures as a contribution towards a better understanding of the history of cinema.