VAenezia, 26 Aug. (askanews) – After the open letter to the Venice Biennale of hundreds of cinema exponents Riunted under the acronym V4P (Venice4palestine), including Marco Bellocchio, Ken Loach, Matteo Garrone, Anna Foglietta, Alba Rohrwacher, Valeria Golino, Carlo Verdone, to keep the attention high on what is happening in Gaza, on the eve of the opening of the 82nd exhibition of the cinema initiatives and polemics have taken the scene.
On Wednesday 27, the traditional press conference for the opening of the artistic director Alberto Barbera will be preceded at 10in front of the Red Carpet, from the press conference to present the event-Corteo “Stop to the genocide in Palestine” to be held on Saturday 30 August at 5 pm at Lido. To the request of V4P to withdraw the invitations to two actors, Gal Gadot and Gerard Butler for their support to Israel, from the Biennale they replied that they were “open to dialogue”, but in reality the Israeli actress and the British actor had not confirmed their participation in the festival for the presentation of the new film by Julian Schnabel “In the Hand of Dante”.
Meanwhile Paolo Sorrentino is preparing to present his new film, “La Grazia”, At the opening of this edition in which there will be five Italian films in competition: “Duse” by Pietro Marcello, with Valeria Bruni Tedeschi in the role of the great actress, “Under the clouds”, documentary on Naples by Gianfranco Rosi, “A film made for good” by Franco Maresco and “Elisa” by Leonardo di Costanzo. Luca Guadagnino, out of competition, will present his “After the Hunt”, bringing Julia Roberts for the first time. But for now it does not seem time to talk about Star, while the most anticipated film in competition is certainly “The Voice of Hind Rajab” by the Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania, who tells the phone call of the red crescent of a 6 -year -old girl trapped in a car under the fire of a shooting in Gaza.
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