The Venice Film Festival used to be the place where the awards season put on its best tuxedo. This year, it looks more like a war room, with politics and political cinema set to dominate the red carpet.
The 83rd Venice International Film Festival kicks off on September 2 with Danny Boyle's "Ink," a drama about Rupert Murdoch's 1969 takeover of Britain's The Sun tabloid — the origin story of the Murdoch right-wing media empire.
Over 11 days on the Lido, audiences will also get films about Israel and Gaza, Russia's war on Ukraine, the CIA-backed coup in Pinochet's Chile, ICE raids in Minneapolis and a tell-all documentary on the world's richest man.
Festival artistic director Alberto Barbera has called it Venice's "most political" edition ever.
'Naza,' a documentary by 'No Other Land' directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, runs in the official competitionImage: Venice Film Festival/AP Photo/picture alliance
