{
  "id": 2124852,
  "title": "Venice Head Alberto Barbera Defends Selection Of Russian Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s ‘DAU’: “It Is Not Pro-Putin Propaganda”",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/venice-head-alberto-barbera-defends-selection-of-russian-director",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-08-20T10:59:24.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Deadline",
    "slug": "deadline",
    "url": "https://deadline.com/2026/08/alberto-barbera-ilya-khrzhanovskys-dau-russia-putin-1237046112/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "Following weeks of criticism from activists and Ukrainian officials, Venice Film Festival director Alberto Barbera defended his selection of Russian filmmaker Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s feature DAU in a lengthy Instagram message posted on Wednesday. Beginning by describing Russia’s invasion of Ukraine as “bloody and cruel”, Barbera said that critics of Venice and its inclusion of DAU […]",
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  "coverage": {
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  },
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}