फ़िल्मनिर्माण के क्षेत्र में बड़े वार्षिक आयोजनों में से एक, वेनिस फ़िल्म समारोह की शुरुआत हो गई है. पहले ही दिन कोएन ब्रदर्स की बनाई और निर्देशित की गई नवीनतम कृति दिखाई जा रही है जिसके सितारे हैं ब्रैड पिट और जॉर्ज क्लूनी. वेनिस से विन्सेंट डॉड की रिपोर्ट...

रिपोर्ट सुनिए

The organisers of the 65th Venice Film Festival will be relieved to have secured a major American movie to kick off with this year. Burn After Reading is a comedy about the CIA from the Oscar-winning brothers, Joel and Ethan Coen.

Venice has sometimes been the launch pad for films which went on to do well in the Academy Awards - but the effects of the Hollywood writers' strike mean the US presence is slightly down this year. But the attendance of Brad Pitt and George Clooney at the Burn After Reading premiere will give Venice some star-power, even though the film isn't actually in competition.

The seven-member jury - headed by the German director Wim Wenders - have until a week on Saturday to choose the best of the 21 films in the main competition. Four of those films are Italian - an unusually high number. But there are new works too from Ethiopia, Algeria and a Japanese-Brazilian co-production. And one of the US movies is directed by Amir Naderi, who started his movie career in his native Iran.

As these big film festivals show, the world of cinema gets more international by the year.

Vincent Dowd, BBC News, Venice

आवाज़ सुनिए

will be relieved to have secured
इस बात से राहत महसूस कर रहे हैं

to kick off
किसी चीज़ को शुरु करना

the launch pad
कामयाबी की शुरुआत

went on to do well
बाद में सफल रहे

the effects
परिणाम, नतीजा

the US presence is slightly down
समारोह में अमरीकी फ़िल्में कम हैं

premiere
फ़िल्म का प्रीमियर

star-power
फ़िल्मी सितारों का जमावड़ा

until a week on Saturday
शनिवार तक, यानी एक सप्ताह बाद तक

by the year
प्रति वर्ष