(August 3, 2017) Films from the Venice Film Festival have been screened for the first time in Manila for the “Venice Film Festival in Manila”, organized from July 26 to 31, thanks to a collaboration between the The Embassy of Italy in the Philippines, the Film Development Council of the Philippines and the Venice Film Festival itself, with the support of the Dante Alighieri Society in Manila and the local Chamber of Commerce of Italy. The first film to be screened was “The Woman Who Left” (Philippines 2016), directed by Lav Diaz and winner of the Golden Lion in 2016. Among other scheduled films, “Piuma” by Roan Johnson (Italy, 2016) “Tommaso” by Kim Rossi Stuart (Italy 2016), “Liberami” by Federica Di Giacomo (Italy, 2016), “Scent of a Woman” by Dino Risi (Italy, 1974), “Processo alla Città” by Luigi Zampa (Italy, 2016), “Jay” by Francis Pasion (Philippines, 2009), “Questi giorni” by Giuseppe Piccioni (Italy, 2016) “Orecchie” by Alessandro Aronadio (Italy, 2016), “Thy Womb” by Brillante Mendoza (Italy, 1952), and “L’Estate Addosso” by Gabriele Muccino (Italy, 2016). (Red)
