Joanna Hogg and Alice Diop: Star auteurs for Miu Miu Women’s Tales

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, the 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.

Autobiografia di una borsetta  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.

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