The Latest Breaking News from Venice

As the Sag-Aftra strikes roll on, film schedules are being torn up and A-listers are ditching promotional duties. But what’s a film festival without the talent?

Film critic Lisa Nesselson speaks to Eve Jackson about the week's film news, including the Venice and Deauville film festivals, the box office hits of the summer "Oppenheimer", "Barbie" and "Mission Impossible: Dead Reckoning", plus a look at the Franco-Senegalese writer-director Ramata-Toulaye Sy's love story "Banel & Adama", which is…

Watch as jury members arrive for the 80th Venice International Film Festival on Wednesday, 30 August.

The Brazil Pavilion won the prestigious 2023 Golden Lion award for best national participation, as announced at the Venice Architecture Biennale in Italy this weekend - along with more honours for individual and country-led installations

Scottish-Ghanaian architect Lesley Lokko is giving voices that have long been silenced a platform at this year’s Venice Architecture Biennale

As curator of the 2023 Venice architecture biennale, the Ghanaian-Scottish architect, Lesley Lokko, has chosen to highlight the African continent as “the laboratory of the future”.

The artist represented Scotland at last year’s Venice Biennale.

It opens in Edinburgh on Saturday.

After premiering at Venice and picking up a swag of awards on the festival circuit, Indonesian political thriller Autobiography began its theatrical run in its home country this month.

Feeling Her Way, featuring videos of five black female musicians, to be shown in Margate and Leeds

This week on The Sound Kitchen you’ll hear the answer to the question about Alice Diop. There’s The Sound Kitchen mailbag, the bonus question and the “Listeners Corner” with Michael Fitzpatrick, and plenty of good music. All that, and the new quiz question, too, so click on the “Audio” arrow…