The Venice Film Festival kicks off the fall fest season Wednesday and moves awards season into another gear. These days, Cannes has become t...

In hybrid documentary “Broken English,” which premieres in Venice Film Festival’s Out of Competition section, filmmakers Jane Pollard and Ia...

After being overshadowed last year, the Lido bounces back with a slate full of A-list talent and awards-season heat, reaffirming its status...

Variety is exclusively unveiling the first trailer for “Mother,” starring Noomi Rapace as Mother Teresa, which is opening the Venice Film Fe...

EXCLUSIVE: Italian director Pietro Marcello’s biopic Duse about iconic stage actress Eleonora Duse – the Italian Sarah Bernhardt rival who c...

Oscar winning filmmaker Alexander Payne is presiding over the Venice Film Festival’s main competition jury this year, returning for the firs...

A chance flight brought director Kent Jones and Willem Dafoe together and revealed they were chasing the same obscure story: "[Dafoe] had a...

In his first press conference, the jury president offered diplomatically, “My political views, I’m sure, are the same as many of yours. I ha...

The ongoing war in Gaza was main topic of conversation at this year’s Venice Film Festival jury press conference, although director Alexande...

Paolo Sorrentino re-teams with “The Great Beauty” star Toni Servillo on his latest film “La Grazia,” which opens the Venice Film Festival on...

With the curtain about to go up on the 82nd Venice Film Festival, a press conference was held this morning in front of the event’s main venu...

The Spanish screen icon looks back on a fearless, decades-long career — from breaking away from her conservative family to reshaping Spanish...

Italian and international film industry and cultural groups are jointly calling on the Venice Film Festival to publicly condemn Israel's mil...

These restaurants and cocktail hideaways prove Venice is as much a feast for the palate as it is for the eyes.

Hollywood luminaries Brad Pitt, Joaquin Phoenix, Rooney Mara, Alfonso Cuaron and Jonathan Glazer are among heavyweights to get behind Gaza d...