The first feature films of the 2024 Venice Film Festival lineup have been unveiled through the Giornate Degli Autori section. Artistic Director Gaia Furrer’s programming team has selected sixteen films—ten competition titles and six special screenings—excluding the Venetian Nights section for Italian cinema. No surprises here – most of these films were not on our radar. A docu-filmmaker who has been on the Lido for her last two features, Federica Di Giacomo follows 2016’s Deliver Us (Winner of the Orizzonti Award) and 2021’s Il palazzo (also a Giornate Degli Autori selecrtion) with opening film of the section in The Open Couple.… Read the rest