02/09/2020

The stars of Miu Miu Women's Tales conversation series

Miu Miu is back at Giornate degli Autori for the ninth year running during the Venice Film Festival. As always, its renowned Women'ìs Tales showcase exploring vanity and the female condition in the 21st century will be bringing some of the most intense and original women filmmakers today to the Lido. Anticipation is mounting for the arrival of directors Małgorzata Szumowska and Mati Diop on Sunday, September 6th in the Sala Perla, to present their respective shorts #19 Nightwalk e #20 In My Room.

"Over the years, Miu Miu Women's Tales has invited women filmmakers from every continent, with their different sensibilities and styles, to celebrate female creativity in the 21st century, from a critical stance but also as members of a shared artistic universe," declares Giorgio Gosetti. "The conversations at Giornate degli Autori this year will sparkle, with Polish filmmaker Małgorzata Szumowska, winner of the Silver Bear at the Berlinale, and French director Mati Diop, who received kudos at Cannes last year, on hand to talk about their work."

In keeping with tradition, the screening will be followed up by a series of conversations at the Hotel Excelsior, in the Veneto Region Space and the Italian Pavilion - Tropicana Conference Room. Stepping up to the stage will be rising young actresses familiar from hit TV series and soon to appear to hotly-awaited upcoming films.

As she has every year, British journalist Penny Martin, editor-in-chief of The Gentlewoman, will be moderating all four talks.

FIRST TALK

Monday, September 7th at 11 am - Hotel Excelsior, Veneto Region Space

Guest speakers: Małgorzata Szumowska and Mati Diop

Małgorzata Szumowska also has a film in competition at the 77th Venice Film Festival, Never Gonna Snow Again. At Miu Miu Women's Tales she'll be presenting her short film #19 Nightwalk, about an overnight transformation on the streets of Warsaw, as a young man and woman shed the gender-dictated layers they have inherited. When they meet by chance, they silently realize they are kindred souls and offer each other comfort and a feeling of security.

In 2019, with her debut film Atlantics, Mati Diop won the Grand Prix of the Jury at the Cannes Film Festival. The Parisian-bred filmmaker, born to a French mother and a father from Senegal, will treat Giornate audiences to the twentieth short film in the Miu Miu collection, titled #20 In My Room.

SECOND TALK

Monday, September 7th at 3:30 pm - Hotel Excelsior, Veneto Region Space

Guest speakers: Emma Corrin, Francesca Hayward and Raffey Cassidy

Emma Corrin is the one to watch in her upcoming role as the iconic Princess Diana in the fourth season of the Netflix hit series The Crown.

Francesca Hayward is principal dancer at the Royal Ballet at Covent Garden in London. In 2019, she played Victoria the White Cat in the film version of the hit musical Cats.

Raffey Cassidy, an English actress born in 2001, already has a variety of roles to her credit, in major productions like Snow White and the Huntsman as well as auteur films such as The Killing of a Sacred Deer by Yorgos Lanthimos and The Other Lamb by Małgorzata Szumowska.

THIRD TALK

Tuesday, September 8th at 11 am - Hotel Excelsior, Veneto Region Space

Guest speakers: Nathalie Emmanuel, Lyna Khoudri, and Katherine Waterston

After an array of stage and screen turns, the British actress and model Nathalie Emmanuel shot to global fame thanks to her role as Missandei in the HBO blockbuster series The Game of Thrones. She'll be back on the big screen soon, with the Fast & Furious crew.

Best-actress-winner in the Horizons section at Venice in 2017, for her role in Sofia Djama's The Blessed, Lyna Khoudri is generating buzz for her upcoming role as a student activist in Wes Anderson's new film The French Dispatch.

Katherine Waterston, who stars in The World to Come by Mona Fastvold, in competition at Venice this year, is well known for her intense performance in Inherent Vice by Paul Thomas Anderson.

FOURTH TALK

Tuesday, September 8th at 3 pm - Hotel Excelsior, Italian Pavilion - Tropicana Conference Room

Guest speakers: Mona Fastvold and Vanessa Kirby

Norwegian filmmaker Mona Fastvold is on the Lido to present her second film, The World to Come.

Vanessa Kirby, winner of the BAFTA for best supporting actress in 2018 for her role as Princess Margaret in The Crown, is juggling two films on the Lido, The World to Come by Mona Fastvold and Pieces of a Woman by Kornél Mundruczó.