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Wednesday, August 28, 2013

70th Venice International Film Festival Aug 28 - Sep 7,2013


The 70th Annual Venice Film Festival is scheduled to take placed from August 28, to 7 September 2013 in Venice, Italy

The Jury 

Headed up by Oscar-winning Italian Director Bernardo Bertolucci, best known for his raunchy 1972 "Last Tango in Paris"

British Director Andrea Arnold ("Red Road") and

German Actress Martina Gedeck ("The Lives of Others")
 Carrie Fisher,American actress, screenwriter and novelist

Pablo Larrain, Chilean Director

Virginie Ledoyen, French Actress

Ryuichi Sakamoto,Japanese Composer

Jiang Wen,Chinese Actor



Italian Actress Eva Riccobono is set to host the opening and closing nights of the festival


The  film festival opens with "Gravity", a 3-D sci-fi thriller starring George Clooney and Sandra Bullock as astronauts who are flung into deep space when a debris shower destroys their shuttle


For the first time, two documentaries will also be running for the top prize: American Errol Morris's "The Unknown Known: The Life and Times of Donald Rumsfeld" and Italian Gianfranco Rosi's "Sacro GRA" about Rome's ring road.

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