Venice Film Festival 2020

Venice Film Festival 2020: Cate Blanchett, Pedro Almodovar discuss streamers' strangehold over cinema during coronavirus lockdown

Cate Blanchett, who is chairing the jury at Venice, said cinema needed support and warned it could be tricky "moving from a monoculture of streaming over the last six months to how we open cinemas"

Venice Film Festival 2020: Romola Garai, Susanna Nicchiarelli discuss bringing their film Miss Marx to spotlight

Susanna Nicchiarelli's historical drama, Miss Marx, profiles Karl Marx’s youngest daughter, Eleanor, an innovative British-born social activist and women’s rights campaigner.

Cate Blanchett opens up on return to Venice Film Festival, her fears around coronavirus: We've to be courageous

Cate Blanchett talks about heading the Venice Film Festival jury and how baffled she is that other countries didn’t learn from Italy to be better prepared to fight the coronavirus outbreak when it spread.

Venice Film Festival 2020 sees 44 percent of films in competition directed by women

Venice Film Festival director Alberto Barbera noted past “embarrassing percentiles” and said that the films this year were selected “exclusively on the basis of their quality" and not as a result of gender protocols.

Venice Film Festival 2020 becomes first major event to operate after coronavirus outbreak with safety protocol

The public will be barred from the Venice Film Festival red carpet, Hollywood stars will be largely absent, and face masks are mandated throughout the course of festival.

Roma director Alfonso Cuaron to executive produce Chaitanya Tamhane's Marathi feature The Disciple

The Disciple is set to represent India at the 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival and will be screened in the Competition section

Court director Chaitanya Tamhane's Marathi film The Disciple to compete at Venice Film Festival

Chaitanya Tamhane's sophomore feature The Disciple has been selected for the Competition section. Ivan Ayr’s Milestone will be shown in the Horizons section at the Venice Film Festival 2020.

Venice Film Festival 2020 lineup announced; Cate Blanchett joins as Jury, Daniele Luchetti’s Lacci selected for opening night

The Venice Film Festival 2020 will be held from 2 to 12 September in Lido and will be the first big international film festival to take place since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic

Oscar-winning actress Cate Blanchett to serve as jury president at Venice International Film Festival 2020

Cate Blanchett's name for jury president was recommended by festival director Alberto Barbera