The Venice Movie Pageant unveiled its lineup of grasp lessons and conversations for 2024. Highlights embrace talks with triple Oscar-nominee Sigourney Weaver and Australian director Peter Weir, each of whom will obtain honorary Golden Lion awards in Venice this yr for lifetime achievement.

Actor-director Ethan Hawke and Italian filmmaker Pupi Avati can even give grasp lessons on the 81st Venice Worldwide Movie Pageant.

Venice’s conversations collection, organized in collaboration with Cartier, contains sit-downs with Richard Gere, Oscar-winning composer Nicola Piovani (Life Is Lovely) and French director Claude Lelouch (A Man and a Lady).

The grasp lessons shall be held on the Match Level Area on the Tennis Membership Venezia throughout from the Lodge Excelsior on the Lido from Aug. 29 to Sept. 6. They kick off with Weaver’s grasp class Thursday, Aug 29 at 4:30 p.m. native time. Weir’s grasp class is at 3:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 1. Hawke’s at 10 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 2, and Avanti’s at 3:30 p.m. native time Friday, Sept. 6.

The conversations program will run Saturday, Aug. 31 — Piovani’s discuss is at 11 a.m., Leloch’s at 4:30 p.m. — and Sunday, Sept. 1, with Gere at 10:30 a.m. All of the grasp lessons and conversations shall be livestreamed on the Venice Movie Pageant web site at www.labiennale.org.

The 81st Venice Movie Pageant runs Aug. 28 to Sept. 7.