Joanna Hogg and Alice Diop: Star auteurs at Giornate degli
Autori, for Miu Miu Women’s Tales 2025
Emma Corrin, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Myha’la, Alisha Boe, and Sarah Catherine Hook all step up for the conversation series at the Veneto Region / Veneto Film Commission Space.
Still: Autobiography of a Handbag by Joanna Hogg
Joanna Hogg, one of the U.K.’s leading women filmmakers, director of The Eternal Daughter starring Tilda Swinton, and Giornate degli Autori jury president in 2024; and Alice Diop, French author who in 2022 won the Grand Jury Prize and the Lion of the Future at Venice 2022, for her first feature film, Saint Omer: these are the filmmakers selected for the 2025 Miu Miu Women’s Tales showcase. Their short films will be screened at Giornate degli Autori on Saturday, August 30th, at 4:15pm, in the Sala Perla at the Palazzo del Casinò.
AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF A HANDBAG by Joanna Hogg (Italy, 2025, 24’) is an unconventional journey seen from the point of view of the Miu Miu Wander bag: from socially codified spaces like ultra-modern factories, enormous Italian villas, to run-down urban outskirts, passing from one owner to another, from a privileged teenager to a working-class killer, what emerges is a silent account of contemporary Italy, made of joys, sorrows, desperation and desire. FRAGMENTS FOR VENUS by Alice Diop (United States, France, 2025, 21’) is instead a reflection on the representation of the black woman body in the history of arts, freely inspired by the poem Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015) by the American poet Robin Coste Lewis.
The Miu Miu Women’s Tales project was born in 2012 and is a bright example of an artistic partnership between two different industries, who share the common goal of valorizing women’s talent and creativity. Every year, Miu Miu, Creative Partner of Giornate degli Autori, commissions two acclaimed women authors the creation of a short film each; the shorts are screened during the Venice Film Festival, with their directors and casts in attendance.
Still: Fragments for Venus by Alice Diop
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The screening will be followed over the next two days by three conversations held in the Veneto Region / Veneto Film Commission’s Space at the Hotel Excelsior, during which international guests from the film industry dialogue with the audience about their job from a woman’s perspective. Among the guests of past years: Liliana Cavani, Lena Dunham, Mira Nair, Alice Rohrwacher, Kate Mara, Sia, Hailee Steinfeld, Agnes Varda, Dakota Fanning, Juno Temple, Kate Bosworth, Zosia Mamet, Chloë Sevigny, Tessa Thompson, Brigitte Lacombe, Vanessa Kirby, Nathalie Emmanuel, Carla Simón, Emma Corrin, Cailee Spaeny, and Molly Gordon.
This year’s conversations, moderated by Penny Martin, Editor in Chief at “The Gentlewoman”, are:
Sunday, August 31st, at 10am
@ Veneto Region / Veneto Film Commission Space:
Writing our way out of the box: directors Alice Diop and Joanna Hogg on cross-genre storytelling
Sunday, August 31st, at 3pm
@ Veneto Region / Veneto Film Commission Space:
Classic tales, modern takes: Emma Corrin and Maggie Gyllenhaal on looking back to move forward
Monday, September 1st, at 10am
@ Veneto Region / Veneto Film Commission Space:
Strength of character: Myha’la, Alisha Boe and Sarah Catherine Hook on creating big, bingeable performances
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About Giornate degli Autori
Founded in 2004 by the filmmakers’ associations ANAC and 100autori, Giornate degli Autori is a platform for top-notch filmmaking and emerging talent that unfolds during the world’s oldest film festival. Sticking to its winning formula, the program this year weds a rigorous international selection of ten titles in competition (plus 6 special events), a showcase of Italian cinema today (the Venetian Nights lineup, arranged in accord with Isola Edipo), and talks and debates on hot-button issues for the audiovisual industry, culture, and society today. In particular, the section trains its gaze on the horror of war, the humanitarian crisis underway in Gaza, and the efforts of those fighting the barbaric undoing of civilization and defending freedom of speech and a free press.
Giornate degli Autori welcomes festival goers to experience the new and discover the cinema of audacity at several venues: at the Casa degli Autori and in Sala Laguna (via Pietro Buratti 1); in the spaces provided by the Veneto Region / Veneto Film Commission (for the Miu Miu Women’s Tales conversation series); at the Italian Pavilion (for the third edition of Cinèastes en dialogue); and in the Sala Perla (for the official selection).
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