Young cinephiles take over the Venice Film Festival

レアジョブ英会話 Daily News Article Podcast · Oct 19, 2026 · 1m

As the Venice Film Festival approached its final weekend, the event's director Alberto Barbera, spoke about an increase in the number of younger cinemagoers who attended the annual celebration of the silver screen. "I'm here since 2012, and I saw the changing of the audience of the festival, which is more and more made by very young people from 16 years on, around 25, 30 years. They are passionate. They are here because they love movies," said Barbera. "They have the same curiosity and passion that we had when we started to go to festivals 50 years ago." Moreover, there is a program that the…