Venice Film Festival

The 83rd Venice Film Festival opened tonight, with George Clooney receiving a lifetime achievement award at the opening ceremony. Here is what we thought about Danny Boyle's opening film about the founding of the British tabloid 'The Sun'.

The Hollywood star arrived at the Venice Film Festival to receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. At the press conference, he addressed the controversy surrounding Mark Ruffalo and the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger, emphasizing the importance of free speech and expressing skepticism about the deal's economic logic.

The press conference of the jury at the Venice Film Festival has been canceled, with the official reason given by the organizers being a "scheduling conflict." However, the cancellation comes against the backdrop of a series of press conferences at major festivals where, in recent years, judges and creators have been asked repeatedly about the war in Gaza.

Former Pink Floyd star Roger Waters, Nobel Prize-winning author Annie Ernaux, actor Guy Pearce, and over 200 international artists have signed a letter to the Venice Biennale and the Venice Film Festival, calling on the cultural events to take "concrete steps" against what they describe as the "Palestinian genocide."

The Venice Film Festival will screen NAZA, a new documentary by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Shor, directors of the Oscar-winning "No Other Land". The film's synopsis describes "the systems behind the calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza". British-Jewish director Jonathan Glazer serves as executive producer.