Venice Days Lineup Includes Toni Servillo, Cécile De France, Golshifteh Farahani & Fernando Meirelles-Backed Climate Change Doc
stars Toni Servillo, Carlo Buccirosso, and Valeria Golino, while the closing film will be, based on the novel by Giacomo Mazzariol, gets a special screening out of competition.Great Green Wall
which is fronted by singer and activist Inna Modja . Fernando Meirelles is an executive-producer on the UN-backed film. The lineup also includes the debut of up-and-coming Sudanese director Amjad Abu Alala with, which is screening out of competition. The Miu Miu Women’s Tales section includes shorts by Hailey Gates and Lynne Ramsay.
The Venice Days competition winner gets a €20,000 cash prize, selected by 28 young filmgoers, one from each country in the European Union. The strand is directed by Giorgio Gosetti with Andrea Purgatori as president for the first time this year. The team said, “If any common thread is to be found in this assortment, you could say it’s the clash of cultures that reveals just how fragile the contemporary world is, torn as it is between a desire for uniformity and conformity and the vitality of ancestral roots, unbowed by mass culture.”
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