Pietrangelo Buttafuoco

Like every year, the entire world of Cinema renews its promise through La Biennale di Venezia and the Venice International Film Festival.
 
Filmmakers, the press, and film aficionados consider the appointment at the Lido an essential event for their filmic mindset and their imagination.
 
The Festival has the oracular power of reading ongoing reality and capturing upcoming trends. I am certain that during this year's Festival, the 81st, the selected movies will project their images well beyond the silver screen, illuminating – as they meet the future halfway – our desire to know.
 
For this reason, my thanks go to the prowess and sensitivity of Alberto Barbera, whose Direction has made the Festival an essential moment for the international film industry and for the irresistible factory of the imagination which all of us, as active spectators, draw on in life.
 

My thanks to all the institutions; the Ministry of Culture; the City of Venice; the Veneto Region; the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts, and Landscape of the Municipality of Venice and the Lagoon; and all those who help make the Film Festival the best and safest success possible.
 
I thank all the sponsors who support the 81st Festival.
The Main Sponsors Campari, Cartier, Mastercard, and Armani Beauty. As well as Vivendi, Lexus, Consorzio Tutela del Vino Conegliano Valdobbiadene Prosecco, Thelios, Major Events Media, Canon, and Radio Italia.
 
My thanks to RAI, the Main and Host broadcaster of the Film Festival and the Media partner of La Biennale di Venezia.