The Venice Film Festival opens

Today, August 30, the 74th International Venice Film Festival begins work.

The opening will show the fantastic comedy of Alexander Payne “ shorter ”. This film and 20 more paintings, including the new works of Ai Veiveya, Darren Aronofsky, George Clooney and Guillermo del Toro, will take part in the main competition program of the festival.

Another 19 films are participated in the Horizons program, dozens of game and documentary paintings will be shown outside the competition, including the closing film of the festival - “The Last Chapter” ( Outrage Coda ) Takeshi Kitano.

Russian films were not included in the official program of the 2017 Venice Festival. According to TASS , in the Retrospective section “Venetian Classics” will be presented with an restored copy of the picture of Elem Klimov “Go and see” (1985).

Nine world prime ministers will take place in the parallel section of the festival, the Venetian International Criticism Week .

The 74th International Venice Film Festival will end on September 9. His winners will be determined by the international jury, which for the first time in 11 years was headed by a woman - actress Annette Bening (USA).

Some prizes are already known: the Golden Leo of St. Mark Award for outstanding achievements in cinema will be awarded to veterans of Hollywood Jane Fund and Robert Redford.