In the days leading up to the festival, hundreds of film professionals signed an open letter demanding that the star-studded event take a st...

In probably the largest demonstration to hit Venice, or any major film festival, thousands of activists marched in support of the Palestinia...

Jacob Elordi is a very sympathetic monster in this visually stunning but thematically lacking film, which co-stars Oscar Isaac and Mia Goth

Ever since he was a kid Guillermo del Toro has dreamed of making two movies. The first was accomplished in 2022 with Guillermo del Toro’s Pi...

The Venice Film Festival on Saturday became the focus of possibly the largest protest ever seen at a major film event over Israel’s ongoing...

Veteran Chinese filmmaker Jia Zhangke held a masterclass at the Venice Film Festival, covering a wide swathe of topics, from embracing artif...

If you can’t be in Venice this year, Variety is bringing Venice to you. We’re publishing daily digital editions, running Aug. 29 – Sept. 2,...

Guillermo del Toro‘s adaptation of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein launches at the Venice Film Festival today and the filmmaker, cast and backer...

With his fourth film, Cornish director Mark Jenkin fuses his previous two outings into a hypnotic study of mental disintegration that, thoug...

Though singer-songwriter and countercultural icon Marianne Faithfull died earlier this year, at the age of 78, this witty, provocative, and...

“By the way, when you edit this, I don’t need to be saying ‘distinctive’ 500 times.” Jeb Brody is describing the ethos behind the upcoming f...

When she approached Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera 13 years ago with a proposal for a market event devoted to films...

Writer and director Amir Azizi’s new film, led by Amirhossein Hosseini, world premieres in Venice’s Giornate Degli Autori, or Venice Days.

With his unique brand of elusive, analog filmmaking, Cornish writer-director Mark Jenkin has cultivated a devoted band of followers, none mo...

Switzerland-based distributor First Hand Films has taken world sales on “Elvira Notari: Beyond Silence,” which reconstructs the overlooked s...