2022 Venice Film Festival

Director Teona Strugar Mitevska is having an “exciting” time in her life, related to the title of her last movie, The Happiest Man in the World (2022). In her case, the happiness is literal, unlike her characters that meet in a speed dating event in Sarajevo looking for a Saturday break but end up in a spiral web of twists and emotions of different tenure, including absurdity, when a woman reconnects with the man who had shot and almost killed her 30 years ago, during the ex Yugoslavia war.

From the moment it had its world premiere at the Venice Film Festival, Argentina, 1985, the new film by Santiago Mitre starring Ricardo Darín and Peter Lanzani, has been a crowd pleaser, regardless of where it has been screened. It was not a surprise that it won the Audience Award at the San Sebastián Film Festival, or that it has become an instant hit in its own country, where lines form regularly around the block to enter the cinemas, a rarity in these days of watching content on platforms at home.

Hanging Gardens is Iraqi filmmaker Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji's first feature film. It follows twelve-year-old As’ad (Hussain Muhammad Jalil), who is trying to make ends meet in post-war Baghdad in Iraq.

Athena was one of the most talked about films at this year's Venice Film Festival. Just released in theaters, it will surely make audiences think, feel and discuss.

Don’t Worry Darling was on everyone’s tongue at TIFF. The film which premiered at the Venice Film Festival was the target of much discussion and little of it had to do with the film itself.

Survival of the fittest is the perfect way to describe my inaugural trip to La Biennale di Venezia, better known as the Venice Film Festival, on the Lido di Venezia, Italy. I spent nearly two full weeks in Venice.

In recent years, the film industry has made strides in showcasing female voices on and off screen. The 79th Venice Film Festival was no exception.

Japanese writer and director Kôji Fukada is no stranger to international film festivals. In 2016, his film Harmonium was selected to be presented at the Cannes Film Festival’s Un Certain Regard.

  HFPA journalists Elisabeth Sereda and Janet Nepales sat down to reflect on their experiences at the 2022 Venice Film Festival, which came to an end this past weekend. They touch on everything from the surprise win for the documentary All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, some of the red carpet fashion trends from the likes of Timothée Chalamet and Cate Blanchett, and the controversy surrounding Olivia Wilde's new film Don't Worry Darling - and more.

Oliver Stone’s latest documentary Nuclear, which begs us to reconsider nuclear energy to solve the environmental crisis, was presented out of competition on September 9 at the Venice Film Festival. In Venice Stone was also awarded the 21st edition of Premio Fondazione Mimmo Rotella (an Italian renowned artist) during a special ceremony held at the Centurion Palace in Venice.