Tag: 2026 Venice Film Festival
One Minute to Midnight (Un peu avant minuit) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
The Man Who Snubbed Women: Pariser Performs a Patriarchal Audit
There’s something that feels a bit ‘too little, too late’ in Nicolas Pariser’s latest film...
NAZA | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
Destroy Everything You Touch: Abraham & Szor Explore the Cogs of the Palestinian Genocide
Investigative journalists and documentarians Rachel Szor and Yuval Abraham follow up...
The Fire Within You (Il fuoco che ti porti dentro) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
The Shrill Seekers: De Angelis Turns to Comedic Caricature
For his latest venture, The Fire Within You, Edoardo De Angelis seems to be employing the...
A Good Little Soldier (Un bon petit soldat) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
A HR Manager Never Cries: Brize Takes on Executive Hypocrisy
When he’s not exploring intimate relationship melodramas, French director Stéphane Brizé has been one of...
DAU | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
Darkness Visible: Khrzhanovsky Reformulates Saga of Shattered Scientists
If ex-Attorney General and fascist sentinel Pam Bondi was ever credited as uttering anything worth repeating, it...
Company | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
Let the White One In: Affleck Can’t Satisfy the Hunger
Like many actors who doggedly pursue a parallel career as film directors, Casey Affleck manages...
Bunker | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
Atlas Dug: Zeller Teases the Comedy of Obligation
It’s become increasingly clear celebrated writer Florian Zeller has a difficult time killing his darlings when it...
The Spiral (L’Estranea) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
The Devil is a Woman: Strippoli Concocts an Elegant Parent Trap
As far as horrific moral fables about Catholic guilt and resisting temptation go, director...
Look Back | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
Broken Heart Art: Kore-eda Builds Bittersweet Elegy to Friendship
Art is both the impetus for destruction and creation in Hirokazu Kore-eda’s latest, Look Back, a...
London | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
Magnificent Obsession: Di Marco & Picoli Patrol the Poison of Perfection
Our conditioned notions regarding beauty standards maintains our insidious and unhealthy fixation with obtaining...
Agata the Writer | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
The Blindness of Strangers: Dorabialski Stings the Storyteller
“In the end, we’ll all become stories,” per Margaret Atwood, a sentiment which is ultimately at the...
Woman Unknown | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
The Penile Code: el-Toukhy Explores the Gendered Paradox of Liberation
Something is certainly rotten in the state of Denmark following the country’s liberation from Nazi...
The Echo Chamber | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
An Affair to Disremember: Pallaoro Explores the Unbearable Bleakness of Being
Love is hardly a many-splendored thing in The Echo Chamber, the fourth feature directed...
Oase (Oasis) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
The Child Inside: Lenz Explores the Virtues of Violence
For his narrative feature debut Oasis, Jannis Lenz channels contemporary intergenerational neglect and the inherent apathy...
Possible Love | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
Blue is the Warmest Collar: Chang-dong Prepares a Touch of Class
Boiled down to its core essence, Possible Love, the first feature from South Korean...
It Will Happen Tonight (Succederà questa notte) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
The Birds, the Bees and the (Displaced) Italians: Moretti Tries Amour For
In the latter half of his career, revered Italian director Nanni Moretti has...
Primetime | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
The Catcher in the Sty: Oppenheim Skewers Hack Journalist
It’s perhaps fortuitous for Lance Oppenheim’s narrative debut Primetime, which charts the brief but meteoric run...
Un détour par Diane | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
Even Cowgirls Gets the Clues: Sirot/Balboni Rewrite the Past...in the Future
Belgium tandem Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni take the machinery of the western —...
Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
How Awful About Allen: Tsukamoto Continues Charting Casualties of War
“Ain’t war hell?,” asks the door gunner to Matthew Modine’s protagonist in Stanley Kubrick’s Full...
The City of the Living | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
Autopsy Audit: Gabbriellini Examines the Choices Before the Mistakes
Those left behind to pick up the pieces are rarely the center of film dramas —...
A Place To Heal (15/18) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
Teenage Wasteland: Kahn Gets Clinical with Familiar Procedural
Picture this: A bustling medical ward in a top performing French facility with specialized treatment protocols where...
House of the Wind (La maison du vent) | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
If You Build It, They Won't Come: Yanghu Offers Alternate Version to Home Improvement
Working through migration, isolation and the complicated meaning of home, Auguste...
2026 Venice Exclusive: Poster One-Sheet & Clips for Sebastián Múnera’s Meteorito
The violence of Colombia’s past has been repackaged as entertainment, commerce and everyday life, but it hasn't disappeared. Violence that lingers beneath the surface....
Wild Horse Nine | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
They Shoot Agents, Don’t They?: McDonagh Morosely Reflects a Pernicious Empire
Americans can’t quite seem to directly engage with their ills of the present by...
Bucking Fastard | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
Sisters Doing It For Themselves: Herzog Returns with Theater of the Bizarre
Until quite recently, it was a foregone conclusion legendary director Werner Herzog would...
2026 Venice Exclusive: Poster One-Sheet & Clip for Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu’s House of the Wind (La maison du vent)
Working with themes of migration, loneliness, abandonment and the need for connection, among the feature debuts programmed in this year's Orizzonti competition line-up we...
Ink | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
The Sun Also Rises: Boyle Explores the Origins of Media Sensationalism
If, as Alan Moore posits, “It is the job of the artists to give...
The Girl with the Leica | 2026 Venice Film Festival Review
Coupins D’abord: Marazzi Documents Love in Times of Capa
Dually exploring the construction of an image and of a brand, the story of Gerda Taro...
2026 Venice: Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor’s Secret Docu ‘NAZA’ Added to the Golden Lion Competition
“Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, NAZA reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in...
2026 Venice: Gábor Reisz, Rami Kodeih, Paul Schrader & Gael García Bernal in Venice Spotlight/Venice Open
With a bit of rebranding (now sounds like a tennis ATP tour event) the Venice Open section which houses the non comp non-fiction films,...
2026 Venice: Gibney, Kopple, Kossakovsky, Loktev, Lorentzen, Dweck/Kershaw & Mariano Llinás in S-tier Level Docs Line-Up!
This is not hyperbole. The Venice Film Festival have unveiled perhaps the most stacked Out-of-Competition Non-Fiction line-up in decades. It's a who's who list...
2026 Venice: Anuparna Roy, Jacqueline Lentzou, Rubaiyat Hossain, Phuttiphong Aroonpheng & Robert Greene in Orizzonti Comp
Cannes have the Un Certain Regard section, and Venice has the Orizzonti. While we do find some fresh new voices from the nineteen films...
2026 Venice: Lee Chang-Dong, Werner Herzog & Martin McDonagh in Golden Lion Comp
As we had mentioned in our predictions piece over the weekend, the competition skews heavily dude-centric this year, with May El-Toukhy's Woman Unknown being...
2026 Venice Film Festival: Lili Horvát, Nathalia Acevedo & Robert Guédiguian in Giornate Degli Autori
Hungarian filmmaker Lili Horvát, actress-turned filmmaker Nathalia Acevedo and veteran French filmmaker Robert Guédiguian are among the ten in the female-centric competition line-up. Horvát's...
2026 Venice Film Festival: Debuts From Shalini Adnani, Sebastián Múnera & Tommaso Usberti in International Critics’ Week
Venice's International Critics’ Week aka Settimana Internazionale della Critica have made their selections for their 41st edition and we've got some Sundance, Rotterdam and...
2026 Venice Film Festival: Projecting the Lido Lineup – 82 Titles in All!
Next week we will know the line ups for the 83rd Venice International Film Festival, as well as the 41st International Critics’ Week picks...
2026 Venice: Danny Boyle’s ‘Ink’ is the Opener for Golden Lion Competition
Danny Boyle's INK will indeed competition for the Golden Lion --- with the Venice Film Festival setting the control of free speech thriller as...
2026 Venice Final Cut WIP Lab: Alaa Eddine Aljem, Sofia Djama & Bassel Ghandour Among Six Projects
Among the final stops on the road to their expected premieres at the major prestige film festivals of 2027 — most notably Cannes —...
2026 Venice: Virginia Mori, Annie Ning, Saoirse Ronan & Nathan Silver in Orizzonti Shorts
The Venice Film Festival have announced the short films that will be part of the competition section and we find Italian illustrator Virginia Mori,...
