There is no chance that former couple Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie will run into each other when they attend this year's Venice International Film Festival, a director claims.

Alberto Barbera, artistic director of the Venice Film Festival, in a recent interview with Vanity Fair magazine, even though Jolie's film “Maria” and Pitt's “Wolves” will premiere at the annual festival, The two executive producers assured that they are far from each other.

“Angelina will be there on the opening day, Thursday, August 29, and then she and [Maria's] director Pablo Larraín will head to Telluride [for the festival] right after. Brad will arrive in Venice on Saturday.”

“There is no way we will cross paths at the Lido,” Barbera added.

Pitt and Jolie are still in the midst of intense divorce negotiations after the actress filed for divorce from her former “Mr. & Mrs. Smith” co-star in 2016, just two years after the two married in 2014.

According to sources who spoke to People, the two are still “waging” a particularly contentious legal battle over a French winery named Chateau Miraval that they previously co-owned.

“The two sides are still talking,” an insider told the magazine, adding that despite their best efforts, negotiations “are not over yet.”

Their recent divorce and Pitt's reportedly estranged relationship with their mutual children came to the fore when their daughter Shiloh Jolie-Pitt filed to change her last name on her 18th birthday.

Shiloh's decision to remove her father's last name from her first name was reportedly a “serious decision” and came after a “painful event,” according to an earlier report in People.

“Shilo Jolly did not run an ‘ad’ announcing the name change, and the reports of it are inaccurate,” said Shilo's attorney, Peter Levine. 'As Shilo's attorney, I am obligated to give him legal notice. That legal notice was published in the Los Angeles Times, as required.”

“Shilo hired his own lawyer and paid for it himself,” a source recently told People, citing Jolie's claim that Pitt has a “history of abuse” as one of the reasons Shilo decided to file a legal petition for name change.

In court papers filed in 2022, Jolie detailed an incident in 2016 in which she claimed Pitt abused her and her children on a private plane traveling from France to California, The New York Times reported at the time.

According to the application, “Pitt choked one of the children, punched another in the face,” and “grabbed Jolie by the head and shook her.” On one occasion, Jolie alleges, Pitt “poured beer on Jolie and on another occasion poured beer and red wine on the children.” According to the New York Times, the incident was investigated, but federal authorities declined to pursue criminal charges against Pitt. Days after the plane trip and the alleged incident, Jolie filed for divorce.

In response, Pitt's lawyer, Ann Kiley, said the actor “has accepted responsibility for some things in his past, but not for things he did not do.”