NEWS DIRECTORS FILMS PROGRAM PRESENTATION REGULATIONS PARTNERS CONTACTS CURRENT EDITION select news "THE LAST DAYS OF EMMA BLANK" WINS VENICE EUROPA CINEMAS LABEL ERIK GANDINI’S “VIDEOCRACY” STIRRING UP HEALTHY CONTROVERSY HARJO’S “BARKING WATER” A POETIC ROAD MOVIE ABOUT COMING HOME HORMANN’S “DESERT FLOWER” BLOOMS ON LIDO VAN WARMERDAM’S BLACK COMEDY “EMMA BLANK” ADAPTATION OF HIS PLAY CAETANO’S “FRANCIA” A MOVING CHILDREN’S FILM WITH ADULT SENSIBILITY THE VISITOR BY JUKKA-PEKKA VALKEAPÄÄ TRIUMPHS AT THE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL OF GÖTEBORG ALLOUACHE BACK IN VENICE WITH FILM ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS I LOVE, THEREFORE I AM: STEFANO CONSIGLIO RECOUNTS THE SIMPLICITY OF EMOTIONS RELEASE - ARGENTINA, COLOMBIA, SWEDEN… AND ITALY ROUND OUT THE PROGRAM NEW DELEGATE GENERAL AND EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE APPOINTED PRESS RELEASE - 2009 PROGRAM MONZON’S “CELL 211” TAKES GENRE FILM TO COMPELLING HEIGHTS GANSLANDT RETURNS TO LIDO WITH “THE APE” SUB-TI COMPETITION WINNERS AT THE VENICE DAYS NAVAS DEBUTS “BLOOD AND RAIN” IN SUNNY VENICE THE PROJECT “100+1” MOVES FORWARD FATHER AND SON MILLER TEAM MAKE COMPELLING FAMILY DRAMA LIFE TREMBLES IN PAOLA SANGIOVANNI’S STIRRING DOCUMENTARY CREATIVITY AND INNOVATION DAY FEHNER’S MAKES “SILENT VOICES” HEARD SPADA RETURNS WITH DOC ON POET ANTONIA POZZI NOT JUST FESTIVALS, NOT JUST AWARDS PASKALJEVIC RETURNS WITH NOT-SO-ROMANTIC “HONEYMOONS” SÁNCHEZ-ARÉVALO BACK ON LIDO WITH TOUCHING “FULL-SIZE” COMEDY 2009/2010 SEASON: VENICE DAYS FILMS IN CINEMAS SCOUTING FOR TALENT ON THE CROISETTE TEHRAN MON AMOUR DOCUMENTARY CAPTURES VITTORIO DE SICA’S INDOMITABLE SPIRIT A “HORDE” OF ZOMBIES CREATE BUZZ ON LIDO JALONGO’S DOCUMENTARY FURTHERS POLEMICS AGAINST ITALIAN MEDIA LIFE TREMBLES IN PAOLA SANGIOVANNI’S STIRRING DOCUMENTARY 11/09/2009 In Venice Days documentary Girls, Life is Trembling, Paola Sangiovanni smartly weaves together archive material and interviews with four women in an examination of the Italian feminist movement of the 1960s and 70s. In pa ... HARJO’S “BARKING WATER” A POETIC ROAD MOVIE ABOUT COMING HOME 11/09/2009 Sterling Harjo’s Barking Water is a quintessentially American film, though about an America that most people, especially outside the US, have probably never seen. But that did not stop audiences from expressing their ... CAETANO’S “FRANCIA” A MOVING CHILDREN’S FILM WITH ADULT SENSIBILITY 11/09/2009 An established name at the world’s top festivals, Argentina’s Israel Adrian Caetano directs his daughter’s acting debut in his latest, independent feature, Francia, which made its successful world premiere in Venice Day ... DOCUMENTARY CAPTURES VITTORIO DE SICA’S INDOMITABLE SPIRIT 11/09/2009 One of Italy’s most renowned, esteemed and influential directors, Vittorio De Sica, is the subject of the latest documentary by Mario Canale and Annarosa Morri, Vittorio D.. As expected, the film evoked lengthy applause ... VAN WARMERDAM’S BLACK COMEDY “EMMA BLANK” ADAPTATION OF HIS PLAY 10/09/2009 Alex van Warmerdam’s gleefully perverse The Last Days of Emma Blank surprised and won over audiences at its international premiere in Venice Days today. A renaissance man, van Warmerdam not only wrote and directed this fi ...