Tuesday, 13 March 2012

Italy films to dominate 65th Venice Film Festival

The Venice Film Festival will feature Italian movies this year _ and it will also show fewer American movies because of the writers' strike.

Festival organizers on Tuesday unveiled the 21 films competing for the coveted Golden Lion award, including Johnathan Demme's "Rachel is Getting Married" and Kathryn Bigelow's "Hurt Locker." The competition features five Hollywood productions, four from Italy and three each from France and Japan.

Organizer say the film festival will show 20 Italian films to 10 American this year, because fewer U.S. productions were ready because of last year's writers' strike.

The festival runs from Aug. 27 to Sept. 6.

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