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Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person scoops the GdA Director’s Award

Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person scoops the GdA Director’s Award

VENICE 2023: French-Canadian filmmaker Ariane Louis-Seize wins the Giornate degli Autori award; the Europa Cinemas Label goes to Photophobia and the Audience Award to Through The Night  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori/Awards

Céline Sciamma  • Director of This Is How a Child Becomes a Poet

Interview: Céline Sciamma • Director of This Is How a Child Becomes a Poet

"Patrizia Cavalli was inspiring because she was so much fun, and her way of life was also an inspiration"

VENICE 2023: The French director pays tribute to female poet Patrizia Cavalli, documenting the final day in her home, before it all came to an end  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Delphine Girard  • Director of Through the Night

Interview: Delphine Girard • Director of Through the Night

"I wondered, in real life, what would happen to these characters after this story"

VENICE 2023: The Belgian director's film revolves around an instance of sexual abuse, the ensuing investigation and the different points of view on what happened  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Lina Soualem  • Director of Bye Bye Tiberias

Interview: Lina Soualem • Director of Bye Bye Tiberias

"I wanted these women to reclaim the sheer complexity of their journeys, their battles and also their contradictions"

VENICE 2023: The director paints the portrait of four generations of Palestininan women who keep their story alive through the sheer strength of their bonds  

08/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Afef Ben Mahmoud, Khalil Benkirane • Directors of Backstage

Interview: Afef Ben Mahmoud, Khalil Benkirane • Directors of Backstage

"The idea was to start with the show and then get closer to these characters, who are normal people"

VENICE 2023: The directorial duo talk about their road movie through the forests of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, where we follow a dance troupe as they head out on the last leg of their tour  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of 21 Days Until the End of the World

Interview: Teona Strugar Mitevska • Director of 21 Days Until the End of the World

"It's a film that came intuitively; the only rule was to shoot in 21 days"

VENICE 2023: The Macedonian director talks about her most personal film to date in it, in which she asks: “What would you do if you only had 21 days left to live?”  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Kyoshi Sugita  • Director of Following the Sound

Interview: Kyoshi Sugita • Director of Following the Sound

"The regret of not having helped her mother always follows the main character"

VENICE 2023: The film by the Japanese director broaches the topics of empathy and altruism through the character of a young woman who can detect the pain in the faces of strangers  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Annalena Benini, Francesco Piccolo • Directors of Le mie poesie non cambieranno il mondo

Interview: Annalena Benini, Francesco Piccolo • Directors of Le mie poesie non cambieranno il mondo

"We were interested in following Patrizia Cavalli and coming up with our own edit that would make it emotional"

VENICE 2023: The screenwriter and the journalist step behind the movie camera to pay tribute to Patrizia Cavalli, one of the most influential contemporary Italian female poets  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Fabio Mollo, Alessandra Cataleta • Directors of Flesh and Bronze

Interview: Fabio Mollo, Alessandra Cataleta • Directors of Flesh and Bronze

"We wanted to make a film that would not just tell the story of the work of art per se"

VENICE 2023: With their documentary, the directorial duo retrace half a century's worth of history, telling the story of the world's two best-preserved bronze statues: the Riace bronzes  

07/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

Review: Backstage

Review: Backstage

VENICE 2023: The feature debut by directorial duo Afef Ben Mahmoud and Khalil Benkirane recreates the vibrant and chaotic universe of what goes on behind the scenes of a touring dance troupe  

06/09/2023 | Venice 2023 | Giornate degli Autori

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