Un Ospite di Venezia - Settembre 2023

SePTemBeR WiTH mAJOR eVenTS
Who knows Venice, but especially who loves to experience the city through its events
as well, knows there is an unmissable period... the month of September.
Benefiting from a climate capturing the delights of seasonal change, it has always
been characterised by a sequence of rendez-vous capable of attracting international
attention, and naturally, even that of the many guests in town.
Here is a summary of the main ones.
The Film Festival.
It opens the month, as indeed is customary, even though in fact it has just debuted
with the film Comandante, directed by Edoardo De Angelis. The International Cinematographic
Art Exhibition - in its exact wording – is once again the most anticipated
event of the month.
now at its eightieth edition - the first one was in 1932 - directed once more by Alberto
Barbera, it is presenting a programme featuring 82 new feature films divided into
its classic sections, beginning from the “competition”, named Venezia 80, featuring
23 films. Here, among the many italian directors, names of the calibre of David Fincher,
Yorgos lanthimos, Bradley Cooper and sofia Coppola will enter the contest for
the Golden Lion.
other important names such as Woody Allen, roman Polański and Wes Anderson
are returning to Venice instead among the 19 films of the Fuori Concorso (Out of
competition section).
these first two sections for the films in Competition will moreover be accompanied
by Orizzonti (new expressive trends) and Biennale College Cinema.
finally, the screenings calendar will be completed by the Venezia Classici section,
with restored films, and documentaries on the history of Film; Short films; TV Series
and Venice Immersive, the latter dedicated to creative expression media.
This extensive billboard will end Fuori Concorso with “La sociedad de la nieve” dramatic
film by spanish director J. A. Bayona.
On that same evening, Saturday 9 September, actress Caterina Murino will conduct
the closing ceremony during which the lions and the other official awards will be
announced.
Regarding this year's, already awarded, "Lifetime Achievement" Lions, they went to
filmmaker liliana Cavani and to actor tony leung Chiu-wai.
The international Architecture exhibition.
Promoted by the Venice Biennale, it is the major exhibition event of the year.
Open since the month of May, on its eighteenth edition it features a theme increasingly
and dramatically touching the entire world, that is, the ever more complex relationship
between man and the planet, shining the spotlight upon Africa and, inevitably,
upon its diaspora.
The Laboratory of the future, the title of this Exhibition by curator Lesley Lokko,
ideally starting from the Central Pavilion at the Giardini, winds along the Arsenal
complex and reaches forte Marghera on the mainland.
The exhibition naturally includes the national Participations (63 this year) with individual
showcases set up in the Pavilions at the Giardini and at the Arsenal, as well as
in the historic centre in town.
About a dozen further "Collateral" exhibitions add themselves to those, also spread
throughout the town's urban fabric. Closure scheduled for 26 November.
The Art exhibitions.
together with the museums, they are confirmed as one of the city's attractions.
Among them, we may point out the retrospective on Venetian Twentieth century artist
edmondo Bacci, presented by the Peggy guggenheim Collection; the chronora-
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