IONCINEMA.com’s Chief Film Critic Nicholas Bell reviewed the entire competition and more. Here is a comprehensive guide to all the feature films across all sections, including logged reviews and forthcoming ones. Our Venice coverage continues well beyond the festival dates.
Competition
La grazia – Paolo Sorrentino [Review]
The Wizard of the Kremlin – Olivier Assayas [Review]
Jay Kelly – Noah Baumbach [Review]
The Voice of Hind Rajab – Kaouther Ben Hania [Review]
A House of Dynamite – Kathryn Bigelow [Review]
The Sun Rises on Us All – Cai Shangjun [Review]
Frankenstein – Guillermo del Toro [Review]
Elisa – Leonardo Di Costanzo [Review]
À pied d’oeuvre – Valérie Donzelli [Review]
Silent Friend – Ildikó Enyedi [Review]
The Testament of Ann Lee – Mona Fastvold [Review]
Father Mother Sister Brother – Jim Jarmusch [Review]
Bugonia – Yorgos Lanthimos [Review]
Duse – Pietro Marcello [Review]
Un film fatto per bene – Franco Maresco [Review]
Orphan – László Nemes [Review]
L’étranger – François Ozon [Review]
No Other Choice – Park Chan-wook [Review]
Sotto le nuvole – Gianfranco Rosi [Review]
The Smashing Machine – Benny Safdie [Review]
Girl – Shu Qi [Review]
Out of Competition – Fiction
Sermon to the Void – Hilal Baydarov
L’isola di Andrea – Antonio Capuano
Il maestro – Andrea Di Stefano
After the Hunt – Luca Guadagnino
Scarlet – Mamoru Hosoda
The Last Viking – Anders Thomas Jensen
In the Hand of Dante – Julian Schnabel
La valle dei sorrisi – Paolo Strippoli
Dead Man’s Wire – Gus Van Sant
Orfeo – Virgilio Villoresi
Chien 51 – Cédric Jimenez (closing film)
Out of Competition – Non-fiction
Kabul, Between Prayers – Aboozar Amini
Ferdinando Scianna – Il fotografo dell’ombra – Roberto Andò
Marc by Sofia – Sofia Coppola
I diari di Angela – Noi due cineasti. Capitolo terzo – Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi
Ghost Elephants – Werner Herzog
My Father and Qaddafi – Jihan K
The Tale of Sylian – Tamara Kotevska
Nuestra tierra – Lucrecia Martel
Remake – Ross McElwee
Kim Novak’s Vertigo – Alexandre Philippe
Cover-Up – Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus
Broken English – Jane Pollard, Iain Forsyth
Notes of a True Criminal – Alexander Rodnyansky, Andriy Alferov
Director’s Diary – Aleksandr Sokurov
Back Home – Tsai Ming-liang
Orizzonti
Mother – Teona Strugar Mitevska [Review]
Divine Comedy – Ali Asgari
Hiedra – Ana Cristina Barragán
Il rapimento di Arabella – Carolina Cavalli
Estrany riu – Jaume Claret Muxart
Lost Land – Akio Fujimoto
Grand ciel – Akihiro Hata
Rose of Nevada – Mark Jenkin
Late Fame – Kent Jones
Milk Teeth – Mihai Mincan [Review]
Pin de fartie – Alejo Moguillansky
Father – Tereza Nvotová [Review]
En el camino – David Pablos [Review]
Songs of Forgotten Trees – Anuparna Roy
Un anno di scuola – Laura Samani
The Souffleur – Gastón Solnicki
Barrio triste – Stillz
Human Resource – Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit
Funeral Casino Blues – Roderick Warich
Venice Spotlight
Hijra – Shahad Ameen
Un cabo suelto – Daniel Hendler
Made in EU – Stephan Komandarev
Motor City – Potsy Ponciroli
La hija de la española – Mariana Rondón, Marité Ugas
À bras-le-corps – Marie-Elsa Sgualdo
Calle Málaga – Maryam Touzani
Ammazzare stanca – Daniele Vicari
Biennale College Cinema
Agnus Dei – Massimiliano Camaiti
One Woman One Bra – Vincho Nchogu
Becoming Human – Polen Ly
Secret of a Mountain Serpent – Nidhi Saxena
Venice Critics Week – Competition
Agon, Giulio Bertelli
Cotton Queen, Suzannah Mirghani
Gorgonà, Evi Kologiropoulu [Review]
Ish, Imran Perretta [Review]
Roqia, Yanis Koussim [Review]
Straight Circle, Oscar Hudson [Review]
Waking Hours, Federico Cammarata, Filippo Foscarini
Out Of Competition
Opening Film: Stereo Girls, Caroline Deruas Peano [Review]
Closing Film: 100 Nights of Hero, Julia Jackman (U.K.)
Giornate degli Autori
Bearcave – Stergios Dinopoulos & Krysianna B. Papadakis
Gioia – Nicolangelo Gelormini
Inside Amir – Amir Azizi
Last Night I Conquered the City of Thebes – Gabriel Azorín
Memory (opening film) – Vladlena Sandu
Memory of Princess Mumbi – Damien Hauser
Past Future Continuous – Morteza Ahmadvand and Firouzeh Khosrovani
A Sad and Beautiful World – Cyril Aris [Review]
Short Summer – Nastia Korkia
Vainilla – Mayra Hermosillo
Special Events
Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don’t (closing film) – Gianni Di Gregorio
Do You Love Me – Lana Daher
I Want Her Dead – Gianluca Matarrese
Laguna – Šarūnas Bartas
Who is Still Alive – Nicolas Wadimoff
Writing Life – Annie Ernaux Through the Eyes of High School Students – Annie Ernaux racontée par des lycéennes et de lycéens – Claire Simon
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