Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera has sparked criticism from several Italian film organizations — including Women in Film Television and Media Italia — for this year's sharp drop ...

Scheduled for November 10th, the mini-Italian film festival features five short Italian films and a Q&A with the films’ ...

Giovanna Taviani, a celebrated Italian film director, will be an artist-in-residence at Rochester Institute of Technology, which sponsored her visit to Rochester to show her film, “Ritorni ...

Six Italian film bodies have hit out at the lack of women in the Venice Film Festival’s main film competition this year in an open letter. The tribune, published in Italy’s La Repubblica newspaper ...

ROME (Reuters) - Franco Zeffirelli, who directed the world's greatest opera singers and brought Shakespeare to the cinema-going masses, has died. He was 96. In a statement, his foundation said he died ...

The world of cinema was in mourning Saturday after Italian film and opera legend Franco Zeffirelli, feted for his lavish productions, died at home in Rome aged 96. The Oscar-nominated director of ...

Speaking at a press conference for the film week in Hanoi on October 19, Italian Ambassador to Vietnam Marco Della Seta said the event was one of the cultural occasions anticipated by the embassy.

"We cannot simply conclude that women directors 'are not good enough',” says an impassioned appeal signed by Italian film orgs More broadly, “Quality is not a divine, neutral, objective category ...

Venice Film Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera has sparked criticism from several Italian film organizations - including Women in Film Television and Media Italia - for this year's sharp drop ...