Venice Chief Alberto Barbera On This Year's Oscar Hopefuls, A Movie Dispute & Why Films Are Too Long These Days.

Venice chief Alberto Barbera discusses Netflix's return on the Lido and why Dwayne Johnson could be headed for Oscar glory.

After losing Oscar ground to Cannes, Venice roars back with a star-packed, politically-charged selection led by Netflix, ...

The Venice Film Festival is expertly poised for film awards season, as Variety's Elsa Keslassy and Nick Vivarelli explain on ...

One of the films set for competition on the lineup, appropriately enough, is The Smashing Machine, and. Barbera revealed that ...

US megastar Julia Roberts is to make her debut at the Venice Film Festival this year, which will also feature Jude Law ...

Screen spoke to Barbera about his aproach to selecting films, his future at the festival, and whether he is concerned about political protests this year.

French sales outfit Alpha Violet has acquired the rights for Algerian horror film “Roqia,” written and directed by Yanis ...

Indian auteur Anurag Kashyap is throwing his weight behind emerging talent, coming aboard as presenter for Anuparna Roy’s ...

Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera has announced that Irish production company Element Pictures’ film Bugonia has been added to the lineup and is in competition for the Golden Lion ...

Hollywood stars, Oscar-winning directors, Asian heavyweights, and European auteurs will vie for top honours at this year's stellar Venice Film Festival, all looking to make a splash at the start of ...