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The Diaries, because sometimes life needs more. 

A still from 'Roma' the Venice Golden Lion winning film by Alfonso Cuarón which will be in theater and on Netflix in December 2018

A still from 'Roma' the Venice Golden Lion winning film by Alfonso Cuarón which will be in theater and on Netflix in December 2018

The Venice Diaries: The mixtape of Venezia 75 is an homage to creativity's soundtrack

E. Nina Rothe September 10, 2018

This year's Venice Film Festival seemed to carry a special soundtrack, like a mixtape of our collective thoughts and hopes and wishes. For a future where we are finally able to learn from our past and stop thinking that our opinions count individually. For a world where we will discover, finally, a middle ground in shades of grey, instead of living everything in either black or white.

Here is my Venezia 75 Mixtape. 

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In The Diaries, Festival, Cinema Tags Roma, Alfonso Cuaron, Venezia 75, Venice Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, Golden Lion, Netflix, A Tramway in Jerusalem, Amos Gitai, Voyage en Palestine, Gustave Flaubert, Israel, Palestine, Palestinian rapper, I don't know how to love him, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Jesus Christ Superstar, What You Gonna Do When the World's On Fire?, Roberto Minervini, Chief Kevin and the Mardi Gras Indian, Somebody Gotta Sew, spirituals, A Star is Born, Bradley Cooper, Lady Gaga, Shallow, SIA, Spotify, Natalie Portman, Vox Lux, Brady Corbet, Willem Dafoe, The Greatest, C'est ça l'amour, Claire Burger, Venice Days, Giornate degli Autori, Paolo Conte, Sparring Partner, film, music, mixtape
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Bouli Lanners, flanked by Justine Lacroix, right and Sarah Henochsberg in Claire Burger's 'C'est ça l'amour'  

Bouli Lanners, flanked by Justine Lacroix, right and Sarah Henochsberg in Claire Burger's 'C'est ça l'amour'  

The Venice Diaries: Giornate degli Autori winner Claire Burger on her film 'C’est ça l’amour' (Real Love)

E. Nina Rothe September 8, 2018

Think back to the last time a film redefined love for you. That felt like a magical discovery then, didn't it? For me, cinema exists at its best when it does something that changes me -- and of course I want that change to be for the better.

In Claire Burger's touching follow up to her Cannes Camera d'Or winner 'Party Girl' -- which she co-directed with Marie Amachoukeli and Samuel Theis -- I found a new fatherhood role model. For a woman whose own father was at best unavailable throughout my teenage years and beyond, Burger's wondrous father figure Mario (played by the spellbinding Bouli Lanners) is a revelation and offers a sense of newfound hope. His quest to be a good father to the young Frida (the perfectly rebellious Justine Lacroix) and the teenage Kiki (cool and flirty Sarah Henochsberg) takes the audience on a journey of discovery along with the characters. 

But 'C'est ça l'amour' is a multilayered film and so it's no surprise that, among quite a few strong and beautiful stories featured in this year's Giornate degli Autori line up, Burger's film ended up walking away with the top prize -- the GdA Director's Award.

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In Cinema, Festival, Interviews, The Diaries Tags Claire Burger, C'est ça l'amour, Real Love, Venice Days, Venice Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, Giornate degli Autori, Cannes Film Festival, Camera d'Or, Bouli Lanners, Sarah Henochsberg, Justine Lacroix, Jonas Carpignano, GDA Director's Award, European Union, Karel Och, Karlovy Vary Film Festival
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The Venice Diaries: Sudabeh Mortezai's 'Joy' wins multiple awards, and conquers hearts, in Venice

E. Nina Rothe September 7, 2018

As we watch our nightly dose of immigration porn fed to us by the local news channels, particularly those of us who live in Europe we see row after row of young men stepping off boats and assorted vessels. We could be mistaken into thinking that they left their women safe at home, in their country of origin, the wives and girlfriends and mothers awaiting their return, as well as their paycheck. That's so far from the truth and if you ever held such a wrong opinion, 'Joy' by Sudabeh Mortezai will set you straight. 

In her beautifully shot and perfectly told film premiering in the Giornate degli Autori, Venice Days sidebar at the Venice Film Festival, Mortezai shows us the complex network of Nigerian women who virtually invisibly inhabit our European streets. 'Joy' is as much about the oldest profession in the world, the prostitution networks these women get sucked into and then, once they have paid off their debts, also manage and run in Europe, as it is about womanhood itself. We follow the story of these young women from the juju ritual they are subjected to at home, in Benin City Nigeria, to the streets of Vienna where they owe their traffickers the kind of money one wouldn't spend traveling around the world for a year and staying at the best hotels. 

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In Cinema, Festival, Interviews, The Diaries Tags Precious Mariam Sanusi, Joy, Sudabeh Mortezai, Joy Anwulika Alphonsus, Venice Days, Giornate degli Autori, Hearst Film Award 2018 for Best Female Direction, Europa Cinema Label Award, Label Europa Cinema prize, Nigeria, prostitution, Benin City, Human trafficking, Venice 75, Venice Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, Iran, Austria, Vienna, Klemens Hufnagl
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The Venice Diaries: Creativity decoded by Schnabel's 'At Eternity's Gate', Assayas' 'Non-Fiction' and 'Why Are We Creative?'

E. Nina Rothe September 4, 2018

The first ever Venice Film Festival was held in 1932, from the 6th to the 21st of August and it opened with 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' -- the Fredric March version. March went on to win favorite actor and since there were no official prizes, he was picked by the audience.

In that magical moment, during the first edition of the first ever world film festival our own profession -- film criticism and film writing -- was also born. There hadn't been a true need for it before, think about it.

When I come to Venice, I realize this is where it all comes from, and despite some problematic years in our history, we should remember the heritage of the Venice Film Festival. All journalists should take a moment and think about that when they first set foot on the Lido. Without Venice, we probably wouldn't be here. They started it. All.

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In Cinema, Festival, The Diaries Tags Venice 75, Venice, Venice Film Festival, Venice Days, La Biennale di Venezia, Why Are We Creative?, Hermann Vaske, Quentin Tarantino, Yoko Ono, Dalai Lama, David Bowie, Vivienne Westwood, Stephen Hawking, Giornate degli Autori, Arafat, Shimon Perez, Willem Dafoe, Doubles Vies, Non-Fiction, Olivier Assayas, Juliette Binoche, Guillaume Canet, Personal Shopper, Vincent Macaigne, Nora Hamzawi, creativity, favorites, At Eternity's Gate, Julian Schnabel, Vincent Van Gogh, Rupert Friend, Mads Mikkelson, Emmanuelle Seigner, Miral, Basquiat, Before Night Falls, Competition
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COURTESY OF VENICE DAYSA still from Shirin Neshat’s ‘Looking for Oum Kulthum’ featuring Yasmin Raeis

COURTESY OF VENICE DAYS

A still from Shirin Neshat’s ‘Looking for Oum Kulthum’ featuring Yasmin Raeis

The Venice Film Festival Diaries: ‘Looking for Oum Kulthum’, ‘Woodshock’ and a ‘Coda’ That Isn’t the End

E. Nina Rothe February 5, 2018

If you think that in order to feature strong women a film festival only has to pay attention to the male to female ratio of filmmakers in their Competition section, think again. At this year’s Venice Film Festival, powerful, interesting, revolutionary women roles, filmmakers and icons have been everywhere. You just have to know how to look. And maybe you won’t always find them in the director’s chair, which is alright by me. But in the case of the first two films I’ll talk about here, they happened to be both in front of and behind the camera.

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In The Diaries, Cinema, Festival Tags Looking for Oum Kulthum, Woodshock, Shirin Neshat, Yasmin Raeis, Venice Film Festival, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice Days, Oum Kulthum, Egypt, Iran, Women Without Men, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Laura and Kate Mulleavy, Rodarte, Kirsten Dunst, Pilou Asbæk, California Redwoods, Stephen Nomura Schible, Japan
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