Venice Stirs Controversy With Only Two Women Directors In Competition And A Place For Roman Polanski

The Venice Film Festival has soared in recent years but the 2019 lineup could provoke the festival’s biggest polemic yet after artistic director Alberto Barbera revealed a 21-strong competiti…

Statistically, two women directors in competition – Haifaa Al Mansour with– is an ‘improvement’ on the last two editions, which only featured one each. But even Cannes managed four this year. Berlin had seven.

Melissa Silverstein, author and founder of campaign group Women and Hollywood, tweeted, “1 rapist. 2 women directions in competition at Venice. What else am I missing?”July 25, 2019 , about France’s notorious Dreyfus Affair, shows him “at the top of his game. He is one of the last great masters of European cinema, and he’s more than 80. At his age, he’s able to make a film that is an extraordinary reconstruction of a historical event.”

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