VENICE: Director Steven Soderbergh’s film The Laundromat, which screens in the main competition in Venice, is based on the book Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite by Jake Bernstein. The book and a series of exposes articles in 2015 came into being when documents that became known as the Panama Papers were leaked to journalists by someone inside the Panamanian law firm of Mossack Fonseca, one of the world’s largest providers of offshore corporate services. The documents revealed information about more than 200,000 offshore companies and set off an avalanche of scandal and money laundering investigations around the world, although no one is assuming that anything has changed in this system that aides the super-rich in hiding their money from tax-authorities and government officials.
VENICE: The Polish film Never Gonna Snow Again directed by Małgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert has become a hot seller in Vence racking up sales in Italy, Germany and the UK.
VENICE: Polish director Alicja Węgorzewska has received the Women in Cinema Award at the 77th Venice Film Festival for her production of opera films and her support of developing young talent.
FNE TV at VENICE 2020: CICAE Training Programme for Arthouse Cinema Professionals in Venice
Region 07-09-2020VENICE: The 17th Edition of the CICAE training programme for arthouse and independent exhibitors took place from 31 August to 6 September this year on the island of San Servolo in Venice despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. CICAE has decided to share with FNE TV and its viewers some of the highlights of the event in a series of video reports.
FNE TV at VENICE 2020: CICAE Training Programme for Arthouse Cinema Professionals Kicks Off in Venice
Region 04-09-2020VENICE: The 17th Edition of the CICAE training programme for arthouse and independent exhibitors, which runs from 31 August to 6 September this year on the island of San Servolo in Venice, has kicked off despite the challenges of the COVID-19 pandemic. CICAE has decided to share with FNE TV and its viewers some of the highlights of the event in a series of video reports.
VENICE: The Polish/USA coproduction Mosquito State directed by Filip Jan Rymsza will be screening Out of Competition at the Venice Film Festival at the midnight screenings at Sala Giardino on 5 September.
VENICE: Polish/German coproduction Never Gonna Snow Again by Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert, and the new film by Jasmila Žbanić, Quo Vadis, Aida?, a coproduction between Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Romania, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, France and Norway have been selected for the main Competition of the 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival (2-12 September 2020).
FNE at Venice 2020: Films from FNE Partner Countries in the Official Selection of the 77th Venice FF
Region 29-07-2020VENICE: Polish/German coproduction Never Gonna Snow Again by Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert, and the new film by Jasmila Žbanić, Quo Vadis, Aida?, a coproduction between Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Romania, the Netherlands, Germany, Poland, France and Norway have been selected for the Competition of the 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival (2-13 September 2020).
BERLIN: Two famous film veterans director Abel Ferrara and actor Willem Dafoe make the Italian, German, Mexican coproduction Siberia a tour de force fantasy that has earned the film a place in the main competition at this year’s Berlinale. This is not the first time Ferrara and Dafoe have worked together and the close collaboration between them make you feel that this odd and sometimes frustrating excursion into Ferrara’s strange mind could not have been made with any other actor by Dafoe.
