The Venice Film Festival announced a series of masterclasses and conversations on stage featuring Jane Campion, Sofia Coppola, Alfonso Cuarón and Werner Herzog, among other eminent authors.
There will be five masterclasses on the Lido, including the German filmmaker Herzog, who will receive one of the Golden Lions of this year for a success for life and will present his latest work “Ghost Elephants”; The legendary American actress Kim Novak (“Vertigo”) which is also celebrated with a lion of Gold for life this year and will be presented in the documentary “Kim Novak’s Vertigo”; Chinese director Jia Zhang-Ke, who won the Golden Lion for the best film in 2006 for “Still Life”; Romanian director Cristian Mungiu; And Helmer Taiwanese Tsai Ming-Liang.
In addition, the festival organizes four conversations as part of an event organized by Cartier called “The Art and Craft of Cinema”, which is in collaboration with the parental organization of the Fest La Benenale. These cats will include dialogues between Sofia Coppola, which won a golden lion for the best film in 2010 for “SomeWhere” and will be back on the Lido with his Doc de Marc Jacobs entitled “Marc by Sofia”, and the creator of Italian costumes Oscarded Milena Canonero; The Italian actor and director Sergio Castellitto and the writer Margaret Mazzantini, who is his wife; Alfonso Cuarón, who won a gold lion in 2018 for “Roma” and film critic Stéphan Lerouge; And Jane Campion, who won a silver lion in 2021 for “The Power of the Dog” and the English producer Tanya Seghatchia.
All masterclasses and conversations will be broadcast live on the Biennale website.
The 82nd edition of the Venice Film Festival will take place from August 27 to September 6.
