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Venice Film Festival Kickoff

Updated 2026-09-04 05:10 UTC 2 sources Neutral

The Venice Film Festival began on September 4 with the debut of Dong Jie’s ‘Zoom In, Zoom Out’ and the opening of the Venice Production Bridge market. The event showcases new films and projects from around the world.

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Variety
Venice’s informal indie market, the Venice Production Bridge, kicked off Sept. 4 with some 4,000 film industry executives — almost half of which are producers — in attendance on the Lido, where 37 feature-length fiction and documentary projects, and 14 immersive projects, will be on display at
2026-09-04 05:00 UTC
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Variety
A disappearance is the engine of Dong Jie’s debut feature “Zoom In, Zoom Out,” but the Chinese director is less interested in the mystery of where his character has gone than in what his absence reveals about everyone left behind. The film, which premieres at the Venice Critics’ Week, fo
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