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Ok, here we are to continue our little chat about this year’s Venice Film Festival and some interesting titles that we’ll have a chance to see on its traditional home on the Venice Lido.

Mira Furlan and Miki Manojlovic in Cirkus Columbia

Danis Tanovic (No Man’s Land, Triage) and his project Cirkus Columbia is definitely one of them, which is already being described as a “romantic saga” which “covers the end of a century that tragically announced the arrival of a new era in the Balkans”.

Here’s the Cirkus Columbia synopsis: “A small town in south Herzegovina, in the wake of the war. After years of communist rule, a new democratic government is elected, and this means that all the sinners of the ex-system are suddenly forgiven.

This is a sign for Divko Buntic to return home and start a series of little revenges after years of exile.

Eastwood Eyes J. Edgar Hoover Project: One of this year's sure-fire Oscar contenders is Clint Eastwood's Hereafter, merely because the name Eastwood is attached as director, and now we learn his next film is a biopic of controversial FBI director J. Edgar Hoover with Brian Grazer and Ron Howard's Imagine Entertainment. Oscar-winning Milk scripter, Dustin Lance Black, penned the screenplay based on Hoover, who was most recently depicted by Billy Crudup in Michael Mann's Public Enemies.

Hoover was instrumental in founding the FBI in 1935 and turned it into an efficient crime-fighting organization. He remained its director until his death in 1972, but his sculpted persona was already coming apart at the seams; he employed the FBI to harass political activists and used illegal methods to make secret files on leaders. Many biographies also assert the man was a closeted homosexual and cross-dresser. Speculation has it ending up at Warner Bros.