Netflix Screens Two Movies at Venice Film Festival

Reuters: Venice may be the world’s oldest film festival, but this year it is pioneering what may well become the future of cinema as Netflix screens two films there, one of them its first feature and a contender for the top prize. “Beasts of No Nation” stars Idris Elba as an African warlord who uses young boys as child soldiers. Another Netflix film being shown out of competition is the documentary “Winter on Fire” about the 2014 Maidan protests that brought down the Ukrainian government.