The Venice Film Festival has announced a series of masterclasses and onstage conversations featuring Jane Campion, Sofia Coppola, Alfonso Cuarón and Werner Herzog, among other prominent auteurs.
There will be five masterclasses on the Lido including German filmmaker Herzog, who will receive one of this year’s Golden Lions for lifetime achievement and will present his latest work “Ghost Elephants”; legendary U.S. actress Kim Novak (“Vertigo”) who is also being feted with a lifetime achievement Golden Lion this year and will be featured in the documentary “Kim Novak’s Vertigo”; Chinese director Jia Zhang-ke, who won the Golden Lion for best film in 2006 for “Still Life”; Romanian director Cristian Mungiu; and Taiwanese helmer Tsai Ming-liang.
Additionally, the festival is hosting four conversations as part of an event organized by Cartier called “The Art and Craft of Cinema,” which is in collaboration with the fest’s parent organization La Biennale. These chats will include dialogues between Sofia Coppola, who won a Golden Lion for best film in 2010 for “Somewhere” and will be back on the Lido with her Marc Jacobs doc titled “Marc by Sofia,” and Oscar-winning Italian costume designer Milena Canonero; Italian actor and director Sergio Castellitto and writer Margaret Mazzantini, who is his wife; Alfonso Cuarón, who won a Golden Lion in 2018 for “Roma” and film critic Stéphan Lerouge; and Jane Campion, who won a Silver Lion in 2021 for “The Power of the Dog,” and English producer Tanya Seghatchia.
All masterclasses and conversations will be livestreamed on La Biennale’s website.
The 82nd edition of the Venice Film Festival will run Aug. 27 to Sept. 6.