Venice Film Festival: Chaos Reigns As Delegates Struggle With COVID Checks Ahead Of ‘Parellel Mothers’ Screening

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A film festival is about more than just the films and the festival center. It is about the location, the journey, the experience.

Here on Deadline, we’ll be bringing you updates on what it’s like to be on the ground at the Venice Film Festival, which continues on schedule for a second year in a row despite the pandemic disrupting other events.After a relatively calm couple of days as Venice Film Festival delegates started to arrive on the Lido, this morning’s first press and industry screening—of Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers at 8:30AM—started without its full complement of ticket holders, who were held up by COVID and security checks at the various entry points to the festival zone.Deadline arrived at one of these checkpoints, outside