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The 81st Venice International Film Festival opened with Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. Its Orizzonti sidebar was opened by Feeling Better. Sigourney Weaver and Peter Weir both received honorary Golden Lions. The Golden Lion for best film went to Pedro Almodóvar for The House Next Door.
The festival runs from 28 August to 7 September.
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- Episodic
- Orizzonti
- Orizzonti Extra
- Out Of Competition
- Venezia 81 Competition
- Venice Classics
- Venice Days
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Venice Latest Reviews
A louche older man pursues a younger boy toy in Mexico City before the pair go on the hunt for psychedelics in Ecuador.
When Ingrid finds out that her old friend Martha is seriously ill, they reunite and embark on a journey of discoveries.
Follows an octogenarian woman’s transition to life in assisted living as she contends with her conflicting relationship to herself and her caregivers amidst her shifting memory, age identity, and desires.
Failed comedian Arthur Fleck meets the love of his life as his murder trial begins.
Brazil, 1971: a country in the tightening grip of a military dictatorship. A mother is forced to reinvent herself when her family’s life is shattered by an act of arbitrary violence.
When visionary architect László Tóth flees post-war Europe in 1947 to rebuild his legacy and witness the birth of modern America, his life is changed forever by a wealthy client.
An online scammer, reselling faulty products at preposterously high rates, is on the run after some of his customers decide to hit back.
After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife.
When it becomes impossible to keep repairing the sea barriers in low-lying Denmark, the country is evacuated and once affluent Danes become refugees, with families torn apart in the process.
Two girls vanish. Police recruit Paul Chartier joins a covert unit tracking a sex offender. After the operation falters, Chartier pursues the perpetrators independently, disillusioned with legal constraints.
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