Looking at this year's line-up as a whole, what do you think Venezia 83 tells us about the world today?

This is probably the most political festival we had in years.

Not because of our choice, it's because the contemporary cinema, the cinema made by the most important filmmakers is a sort of a window on the most relevant contemporary problems that we have to face daily from the news and from the newspaper and the media.

all the problems there, war, Palestine, tyrannies, social conflicts, reduction of freedom everywhere, the problem of the couple, and mainly the problem of the young people who are facing a future which seems to be hopeless with a school which is unable to forge them to face their own future.

So, I mean, this is the main topic of the film of the festival.

Not only that, of course.

But I would say that cinema confirms Seth as the most powerful tool to understand and reflect on the contemporary reality.

Is there still a moment, just before it begins, when you feel the same excitement as you did at the very beginning?