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Argentine Cinema Shines at Venice Amidst Budget Cuts and Uncertainty

This is Beirut, 01/09 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Although Argentina has been underrepresented at recent international festivals due to government cuts to the sector, five Argentine films are on show at the Venice Film Festival, including Lucrecia Martel's documentary Nuestra Tierra (Our Land). Since President Javier Milei came to power in December 2023, his austerity measures have had a major ...

Park Chan-Wook’s ‘No Other Choice’ Unveiled at Venice: A Dark Look at Capitalism”

This is Beirut, 29/08 20:55 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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It took 20 years for South Korean director Park Chan-wook to return to the Venice Film Festival and the same length of time for the veteran cineaste to make his latest film. The director of Old Boy, which thrust him into the international spotlight in 2004 after winning the Grand Prix at Cannes, will premiere his latest feature, No Other Choice ...

Julia Roberts Shakes Up Venice with Campus Drama After the Hunt

This is Beirut, 29/08 17:10 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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Julia Roberts hopes to "stir it all up" for viewers of her new film about a university professor grappling with fraught US campus politics, as the Hollywood star made her debut at the Venice Film Festival on Friday. The Pretty Woman star was attending the city's festival for the first time in her career for After the Hunt, a cancel-culture ...

Werner Herzog Honored with Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement at Venice Film Festival

This is Beirut, 28/08 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Globetrotting filmmaker Werner Herzog, an eclectic risk-taker whose monumental works often explore humankind's conflict with nature, was honored with a special award on Wednesday at the Venice Film Festival. The 82-year-old arthouse giant, who helped launch New German Cinema in the 1960s, received the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement ahead of ...

Venice Film Festival 2025: 21 Films Compete for the Golden Lion

This is Beirut, 25/08 15:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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As the leading international cinema event of the fall, the Venice Film Festival welcomes a flurry of stars and a strong selection of films, many with a distinctly political tone. 21 Films Competing for the Golden Lion Among the 21 films vying for the Golden Lion, the most anticipated include: Le mage du Kremlin, by Olivier Assayas An ...

Venice Film Festival Returns with Daring Stories and Star Power

This is Beirut, 25/08 10:30 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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The 82nd Venice Film Festival lifts its curtains this Wednesday, turning the Lido into a magnet for cinema’s brightest talents and boldest ideas. Over eleven days, twenty-one films will compete for the Golden Lion, while dozens of world premieres, documentaries, and out-of-competition works will chart new creative territory. This year’s ...

Pompeii: The City That Survived Its Own End

Bélinda Ibrahim, 15/08 18:00 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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It is hard to imagine Pompeii as anything other than silent stones locked under volcanic dust, a tragic instant frozen in time. Yet recent discoveries overturn that museum-like image: the city did not vanish in a single breath; it lived on in a clandestine and fragile existence beneath its own ashes. Behind cracked walls and half-faded mosaics, ...

Forget Gelato, Try This Instead

This is Beirut, 14/08 12:00 - Reading : less than a minute

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Beat the Roman heat with grattachecca, a colorful shaved ice treat loved for over a century. Affordable, refreshing, and a must-try on your trip to Rome!

In Heatwave, Romans Turn to Vintage Snow Cones to Stay Cool

This is Beirut, 13/08 18:05 - Reading : 3 minute(s)

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Forget ice cream, sorbet or even the beloved Italian gelato, when Roman’s swelter in a heatwave, they turn to the traditional "Grattachecca". It may be difficult for non-Italians to pronounce think -"gratta-kekka" - but the Roman-style shaved ice is colorful, cheap and refreshing like no other. In a turn-of-the-century kiosk near the Tiber ...

Child Dies in Italy as European Heatwave Sets Records and Sparks Wildfires

This is Beirut, 11/08 21:35 - Reading : 4 minute(s)

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A young boy died of heatstroke in Italy while wildfires threatened a UNESCO site in Spain and French cities saw record temperatures, as a heatwave baked Europe on Monday. The four-year-old Romanian boy died days after being found unconscious in the family's car in Sardinia. The boy was airlifted to a Rome hospital but died of irreversible brain ...

Italy’s Fast Fashion Hub Turns Into Chinese Mafia Crime Battleground

This is Beirut, 04/08 13:30 - Reading : 5 minute(s)

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When Zhang Dayong lay in a pool of blood on a sidewalk in Rome after being shot six times, few suspected a link to Italy's storied textile hub of Prato. But a "hanger war" is raging in the city near Florence — turning Europe's largest apparel manufacturing center and a pillar of Made in Italy production into a battleground for warring Chinese ...

Turkey, Italy and Libya Hold Talks in Istanbul

This is Beirut, 01/08 18:45 - Reading : 2 minute(s)

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Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan on Friday hosted a mini-summit in Istanbul with the prime ministers of Italy and Libya's UN-recognized government for talks on several issues, including migration, officials said. Images from what the Turkish presidency called "Turkey-Italy-Libya cooperation summit" at Erdogan's Istanbul office showed ...

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