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  The second Venice Film Festival is held two years later, from the 1st to the 20th of August. Initially the festival was inextricably linked to the Venice Biennale, and had the same schedules. However, there is an important change after the first film festival: the second is a competitive …

  The festival is rightly considered one of the first international events of its type, and receives considerable government support. The first festival was held on the terrace of the Excelsior Hotel in the Lido of Venice, however it was not yet a festival competition. The films were simply presented …

  The story behind the Festival  The Thirties  The first international film festival held in Venice (known as the First International Film Expo) took place from the 6th to the 21st of August, 1932. The festival came about thanks to the president of the Venice Biennial, Count Giuseppe Volpi of …

  The 1968 festival was scheduled to run from the 10th to the 24th of May. The president of the jury, Monica Vitti, resigned following disputes, and her resignation was followed by that of other jurors. On the 18th, Louis Malle, a resigning member of the jury, François Truffaut, Claude …

  He is present through the main character, a radically transformed Roberto Benigni, an amiable vagabond who gazes in rapt astonishment upon this crooked, messed up world. He speaks with the intonation of the director whom he represents: in his willingness to listen to the voices of the deep; in …