Venice and Rome as film festival rivals

In an interview conducted by Giussepina Manin, Davide Croff, president of the Venice Biennale, doesn't seem to fear competition from the Rome festival. "Our strength lies first of all in the absolute originality of the linguistic melting pot that the Mostra represents, a unique example with world-wide authority. Both intuitive idea of film as art and the idea of a review/show-case were born here in the 1930s. All the other festivals, Cannes, Berlin, Locarno, were modelled on us, the festival in Rome too. Its birth does not bother us. There is no conflict between us, only healthy emulation."

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