55th International Art Exhibition
Opening and award ceremony on Saturday, June 1st
Golden Lions of the 55th International Art Exhibition
Maria Lassnig and Marisa Merz. Award ceremony on Saturday 1 June
Programmes of the Dance Music Theatre sections in 2013
Presented in a press conference on 8th May 2013
Biennale College – Cinema: second edition
The new international call for participation launched on 8th May 2013
Venues
Palazzo del Cinema
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The Palazzo del Cinema at Venice Lido is the main facility and screening theatre of the Venice Film Festival. It was built according to the modernist trends of the 1930s, and inaugurated on 10th August 1937 on the occasion of the fifth edition of the festival.
The Palazzo was enlarged in 1952 by adding a new facade and entrance hall. A few years later, Federico Fellini said that for a film director, “entering the Palazzo del Cinema at the Venice Film Festival was like passing a final exam.”
Inside the Palazzo lies the Sala Grande, with a seating capacity of 1,100. This theatre has made the history of the Venice Film Festival, welcoming over the years, with its very particular warmth, the greatest personalities of world cinema. Two further screening theatres, smaller in size, find their location inside the Palazzo: the Sala Zorzi and the Sala Pasinetti.
VIDEO: restoration of the Sala Grande, August 2011.
The Palazzo was enlarged in 1952 by adding a new facade and entrance hall. A few years later, Federico Fellini said that for a film director, “entering the Palazzo del Cinema at the Venice Film Festival was like passing a final exam.”
Inside the Palazzo lies the Sala Grande, with a seating capacity of 1,100. This theatre has made the history of the Venice Film Festival, welcoming over the years, with its very particular warmth, the greatest personalities of world cinema. Two further screening theatres, smaller in size, find their location inside the Palazzo: the Sala Zorzi and the Sala Pasinetti.
VIDEO: restoration of the Sala Grande, August 2011.
