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The short film The Human Voice of Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar will be presented out of competition at the next edition of the Venice Film Festival , which will take place between September 2 and 12, its organizers announced today.

Along with Almodóvar's film, "which has been recorded and edited in record time immediately after the end of the closure due to the coronavirus," organizers explained, the film One Night in Miami with the award-winning actress is also added to the event's program. Oscar Regina King .

" I am very excited to be able to return to Venice in this special year with the Covid-19 as an unintended guest. Everything will be different and I can't wait to discover it for myself," said Almodóvar.

The British actress Tilda Swinton is the protagonist of this short directed by the Spanish filmmaker and her first film in English , based on the homonymous work of the French poet and playwright Jean Cocteau, and she will also receive in Venice together with the Hong Kong filmmaker Ann Hui the Lion Gold for their careers .

The Spanish director added that "it is an honor to support Tilda in a year in which she will receive a well-deserved award" and explained that the film: "It is actually a Tilda festival, a review of her infinite and varied records as an actress. It was a show directing it . "

For the director of the Mostra, Alverto Barbera , "it is an extraordinary pleasure and a great honor to welcome Pedro Almodóvar back to Venice, one year after having awarded him the Golden Lion for his career." "It is an exceptional circumstance, in a year out of the ordinary: the most beautiful way to celebrate together the desire to return to the cinema in the company of one of the greatest contemporary directors," he added.

The human voice , lasting 30 minutes, "is a free adaptation of the original play by Jean Cocteau that Pedro Almodóvar has dreamed of for decades," they explain from the Venice Film Festival. It tells the story of a desperate woman (Tilda Swinton), who is waiting for the phone call from her lover who has just left her.

Furthermore, the film by actress and director Regina King is set on the night of February 25, 1964 when young Cassius Clay, later known as Muhammad Ali, becomes the new boxing heavyweight champion , but Unable to stay at the hotel to celebrate victory due to Jim Crow laws on racial segregation, he spends the night at the Hampton House Motel in Miami's historic black neighborhood.

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