67th Venice Film Festival

The 67th Venice International Film Festival, organized by La Biennale di

 

Venezia, will run 1st to 11th September 2010 at Venice Lido.

The aim of the Festival is to raise awareness and promote all the various

 

aspects of international cinema in all its forms: as art, entertainment and as

 

an industry, in a spirit of freedom and tolerance. The Festival includes

 

retrospectives and homages to major figures as a contribution towards

 

raising awareness of the history of cinema.

Marco Müller is the Director of the 67th edition. He has been heading the

 

Venice Biennale's Cinema section since 2004.

The official line-up of the 67th Festival includes the following sections:

 

Venezia 67 - Out of Competition - Orizzonti - Controcampo Italiano

 

Italian Comedy - The State of Things (retrospective section)

The independent and parallel sections include:

 

- International Critics' Week (A series of 7 films - debut works - independently

 

selected by a commission nominated by the National Syndicate of Italian Film

 

Critics)

 

- Giornate degli Autori - Venice Days (A series of 12 films independently

 

organized by a commission nominated by the Italian Association of

 

Film-makers (ANAC - Associazione Nazionale Autori Cinematografici) and by

 

the Association of Independent Directors and Producers (API - Associazione

 

Autori e Produttori Indipendenti)