'In the Hand of Dante' Alex Majoli EXCLUSIVE: Julian Schnabel's Venice Film Festival-winning In the Hand of Dante will close the Sarasota Film Festival. The pic which stars a murderer's row of thespians including Oscar Isaac, Gal Gadot, Al Pacino, and Martin Scorsese, follows a disillusioned author who is drawn into a violent underworld quest to authenticate a manuscript believed to be Dante Alighieri's original Divine Comedy. The story weaves between 14th-century Italy and modern-day, exploring themes of love, divinity, and obsession.