Venice Film Festival: “Religion Today” program presented | AgenSIR

The round table “Dialogue between faiths, from a female perspective” opened the 25th edition, full of contents, at the Lido of Venice. The program has been unveiled from 14 to 21 September: “Religion Today” will bring 42 films in competition from 23 different countries to Trentino, with 11 national premieres, 4 European and 1 international … Read more

Venice Film Festival, Abel Ferrara and his Padre Pio: “It’s not the story of a saint”

Abel Ferrara in private concert at the Lido of Venice (LaPresse) Abel Ferrara is at the Lido with his new film Father Pio. The friar of Pietralcina has the face of Shia LaBeoufwho spent a long time in the convent for this film, starting, he says, a path of conversion. Abel Ferrara, Shia really seems … Read more

And now cinema. Stefano Bollani and Valentina Cenni make a stop in Venice

On the wall, in the house that is not in Via dei Matti n ° 0 like the imaginary one of the cult TV program, but certainly evokes it, there is the Native American amulet, the dreamcatcher, the dream catcher, which filters nightmares, and thus protects from demons and negativity. It is the message of … Read more

Master Gardner / Venice Film Festival / Drama Festival Venice Film Festival / Persinsala.it

Arrived in Venice to collect the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, Paul Schrader, director-symbol of New Hollywood, presents his new effort out of competition Master Gardnerplayed by Joel Edgerton and Sigourney Weaver. It must be said that few directors in the history of cinema can boast a career and biography as bumpy and complex as … Read more

Venice. Padre Pio defender of the poor in the film (which will cause discussion) by Abel Ferrara

Shia LaBeouf in “Padre Pio” by Abel Ferrara -. “So you write for the Catholic press?” Did you like the film? ‘ The great New York director is direct and attentive Abel Ferrara, who has lived in Italy for years, immediately makes it clear how much he cares about his latest film Father Pio, written … Read more

Venice 2022, the revolution of Padre Pio according to Abel Ferrara

“I am surprised and saddened that many of you Italians do not know about the massacre of San Giovanni Rotondo of 1920… How is it possible!?”. He asks incredulously Abel Ferrara who built his own on that tragic event Father Piothe new and anticipated feature film by the New York director proposed in competition today … Read more

Santa Chiara and Padre Pio at the Venice cinema

actuality Works of faith in competition The most obvious hypothesis is that, in our difficult times, the refuge in faith, the gaze upwards, the support of religion, may be the only weapons capable of countering a bleak landscape made up of wars, pandemics, environmental disasters. . Beyond all this, however, there is … Read more

Venice 79, Franco Zeffirelli

Franco Zeffirelli – Rebel Conformistthe new docufilm by Anselma Dell’Olio about the iconic Italian director of timeless classics such as The Taming of the Shrew (1967), Romeo and Juliet (1968) and A tea with Mussolini (1999), was selected in competition at the 79th Venice International Film Festival in the “Venezia Classici” section. Plot and cast … Read more