David di Donatello Milestones: From De Sica and Fellini to Sorrentino and Garrone

With most of the film festivals in the first half of 2020 either canceled or postponed already, the next big event on the calendar is the Venice Film Festival in early September. And up until now, the idea that the Italian event would continue as planned, even with COVID-19 still a major issue all around the world, was in doubt.

With the U.S. celebrating Memorial Day on May 25, Andrea Bocelli is paying tribute to the fallen heroes of the country’s military.

The festival will run from September 2-12

By Nancy Tartaglione

ROME — The Venice Film Festival will go ahead as scheduled at the beginning of September, Luca Zaia, the governor of the region around the Italian city said on Sunday as the spread of the new coronavirus in the country slows.

By Nick Vivarelli

By Nick Vivarelli

By Variety Editors

Italy's Far East Film Festival is moving online this year as the country continues to grapple with the novel coronavirus pandemic. The 22nd edition of the festival, an influential specialty event that brings popular and arthouse Asian cinema to Europe, was originally slated to run April 24-May 2.

By Patrick Frater

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By Nick Vivarelli

By Nick Vivarelli

By Nick Vivarelli

Through a trippy circumstance, a young woman learns to cherish the yearly gifts from her deceased mom in this Italian sobfest.

Firefighters across Ayrshire have joined a national day of remembrance for their fallen colleagues.

Film and television production in Italy's region of Lazio will go forward under heightened safety measures including testing, face masks and distancing. Rome's film industry is set to reopen on Monday, but under heightened safety conditions.

The raging fires of the particular phenomenon known as Daft Punk pandemonium were stoked earlier this week with the news that the French icons are working on the soundtrack to an upcoming film by legendary Italian director Dario Argento.