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Fashion United
6 days ago
- Entertainment
- Fashion United
Sofia Coppola to spotlight Marc Jacobs in new documentary
Sofia Coppola will debut her first-ever documentary at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, offering an intimate portrait of American fashion designer Marc Jacobs. The film, titled Marc by Sofia, a play on the now-discontinued Marc by Marc Jacobs, diffusion line, reported Wallpaper, will screen out of competition at the 81st edition of the festival, which runs from 27 August to 9 September. Known for her meditative and visually exacting films, Coppola turns her lens to a familiar figure: Jacobs has long been a creative confidant and collaborator. The designer notably created costumes for Coppola's Marie Antoinette (2006) and remains one of fashion's most enduring personalities, having helmed Louis Vuitton's ready-to-wear collections from 1997 to 2013, in addition to building his eponymous label. Marc by Sofia marks the first full-length documentary dedicated to Jacobs since Marc Jacobs & Louis Vuitton, released in 2007. Details about the film remains limited, though the title suggests a personal approach, blending archival footage and firsthand insight. Its Venice debut comes at a time of renewed interest in fashion documentaries and biopics, as audiences seek deeper, more candid narratives about cultural figures.
Broadcast Pro
23-07-2025
- Entertainment
- Broadcast Pro
Kaouther Ben Hania's ‘The Voice of Hind Rajab' to premiere at Venice Film Festival
Ben Hania obtained the full 70-minute recording from the Red Crescent, spoke with Hind's mother and rescuers, and crafted a script centered on silence, fear, and the agonising wait for help, rather than visible violence. Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania's latest feature, The Voice of Hind Rajab, will premiere in the main Competition at the 2025 Venice Film Festival, which runs from August 27 to September 9. The announcement was made by festival director Alberto Barbera, who described the film as a profoundly moving work likely to leave a lasting impression on both audiences and critics. The Voice of Hind Rajab has been nominated for the Golden Lion, the festival's top prize. The film centres on the harrowing true story of six-year-old Palestinian girl Hind Rajab, who was killed along with six members of her family during an Israeli attack in Gaza in 2024. While fleeing Gaza City, their car was shelled, killing Hind's uncle, aunt and three cousins. Hind and another cousin initially survived and contacted the Palestine Red Crescent Society for help. Days later, their bodies were discovered along with the paramedics who had attempted a rescue. The tragedy drew global attention, with protests erupting around the world. At Columbia University, students renamed Hamilton Hall to 'Hind's Hall,' and American rapper Macklemore released a protest anthem bearing the same name. According to the official synopsis, the film begins on January 29, 2024, when Red Crescent volunteers receive a desperate emergency call. On the other end is a six-year-old girl trapped in a car, pleading for rescue as gunfire rages outside. The Red Crescent team does everything in their power to reach her in time. Her name is Hind Rajab. Ben Hania, best known for her acclaimed documentary Four Daughters, which premiered at Cannes in 2023 and earned an Oscar nomination, revealed that the decision to make The Voice of Hind Rajab was deeply personal and immediate. While traveling for Four Daughters' awards campaign, she came across an audio clip of Hind's final call for help. The impact, she said, was instant and transformative. 'I heard the sound of her voice, and I felt the ground shift beneath me,' Ben Hania recalled. 'In that moment, I knew I couldn't carry on with my original plans. I had to make this film.' She added: 'I contacted the Red Crescent and asked them to let me hear the full audio. It was about 70 minutes long, and harrowing. 'After listening to it, I knew, without a doubt, that I had to drop everything else. I had to make this film. I spoke at length with Hind's mother, with the real people who were on the other end of that call, those who tried to help her. I listened, I cried, I wrote. 'Then I wove a story around their testimonies, using the real audio recording of Hind's voice, and building a single-location film where the violence remains off-screen. That was a deliberate choice. Because violent images are everywhere on our screens, our timelines, our phones.' She concluded: 'What I wanted was to focus on the invisible: the waiting, the fear, the unbearable sound of silence when help doesn't come. Sometimes, what you don't see is more devastating than what you do. 'At the heart of this film is something very simple, and very hard to live with. I cannot accept a world where a child calls for help and no one comes. That pain, that failure, belongs to all of us. This story is not just about Gaza. It speaks to a universal grief. And I believe that fiction (especially when it draws from verified, painful, real events) is cinema's most powerful tool. More powerful than the noise of breaking news or the forgetfulness of scrolling. Cinema can preserve a memory. Cinema can resist amnesia. May Hind Rajab's voice be heard.'
Yahoo
09-06-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Kim Novak To Receive Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion For Lifetime Achievement
Kim Novak is to receive the Venice Film Festival's (August 27 – September 6) Golden Lion for lifetime achievement. The festival will also screen the world premiere of documentary Kim Novak's Vertigo by Alexandre Philippe, made in collaboration with the legendary American actress. More from Deadline Alexander Payne Announced As Jury President At 2025 Venice Film Festival Werner Herzog To Receive Venice Film Festival's Golden Lion For Lifetime Achievement From The Next Yorgos Lanthimos, Paul Thomas Anderson & Spike Lee, To Scarlett Johansson & Kristen Stewart's Directorial Debuts & A Tom Cruise Return To Cannes?: 72 Films From Around The World That Could Light Up Festivals In 2025 Known for movies including Vertigo, Picnic, and Bell Book and Candle, Novak said today: 'I am deeply, deeply touched to receive the prestigious Golden Lion Award from such an enormously respected film festival. To be recognized for my body of work at this time in my life is a dream come true. I will treasure every moment I spend in Venice. It will fill my heart with joy.' Venice's Artistic Director Alberto Barbera declared: 'Inadvertently becoming a screen legend, Kim Novak was one of the most beloved icons of an entire era of Hollywood films, from her auspicious debut during the mid-1950s until her premature and voluntary exile from the gilded cage of Los Angeles a short while later. She never refrained from criticizing the studio system, choosing her roles, who she let into her private life and even her name. Forced to renounce her given name, Marilyn Pauline, because it was associated with Monroe, she fought to conserve her last name, agreeing, in exchange, to dye her hair that shade of platinum blonde which set her apart. Independent and nonconformist, she created her own production company and went on strike to renegotiate a salary that was much lower than that of her male co-stars.' He continued: 'Thanks to her exuberant beauty; her ability to bring to life characters who were naïve and discreet, as well as sensuous and tormented; and her seductive and sometimes sorrowful gaze, she was appreciated by some of the major American directors of the period, from Billy Wilder (Kiss me, Stupid), to Otto Preminger (The Man With the Golden Arm), Robert Aldrich (The Legend of Lylah Clare), George Sidney (The Eddy Duchin Story, Jeanne Eagels, Pal Joey), and Richard Quine, with whom she made unforgettable romantic comedies (Pushover, Bell Book and Candle, Strangers When We Meet, The Notorious Landlady). But her image will remain forever linked to the dual characters she played in Hitchcock's Vertigo, which became the role of her life. This Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement celebrates a star who was emancipated, a rebel at the heart of Hollywood who illuminated the dreams of movie lovers before retiring to her ranch in Oregon to dedicate herself to painting and to her horses.' A major star in the 1950s, Novak withdrew from acting by 1966 and has only worked sporadically in films since. She appeared in The Mirror Crack'd in 1980 and had a regular role on the primetime series Falcon Crest (1986–1987). After making film Liebenstraum in 1991 she retired from acting. The festival will also fete revered German filmmaker Werner Herzog. Best of Deadline Tony Awards: Every Best Musical Winner Since 1949 Tony Awards: Every Best Play Winner Since 1947 2025-26 Awards Season Calendar: Dates For Tonys, Emmys, Oscars & More
