All Critics' Week articles
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NewsLuna Carmoon's ‘Hoard’ takes three prizes including audience award at Venice Critics’ Week
Tana Gilbert’s ‘Malqueridas’ the other key winner.
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Reviews‘Vermin’: Venice Review
Venice Critics Week closes with this skin-crawling French horror in which a housing project is beset by killer spiders
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Reviews‘Malqueridas’: Venice Review
Debut documentary paints a poignant picture of life in a Chilean women’s prison
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Reviews‘About Last Year’: Venice Review
Unusual documentary captures three cisgender friends as they find acceptance and release in Turin’s ballroom scene
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Reviews‘Love Is A Gun’: Venice Review
Taiwanese actor Lee Hong-chi makes his directorial debut with this tale of an ex-convict desperately trying to go straight
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FeaturesHow lockdown isolation helped UK director Moin Hussain rediscover his Venice sci-fi ‘Sky Peals’
“I had a lovely year where things were going quickly and then. lockdown, ” says the UK director.
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Reviews‘The Vourdalak’: Venice Review
Tolstoy’s blood-sucking novella gets an imaginative reworking by French stylist Adrien Beau
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FeaturesUK producers Helen Simmons, Loran Dunn talk harnessing Joseph Quinn’s fanbase for Venice title ‘Hoard’
They have produced Luna Carmoon’s debut feature ‘Hoard’, debuting in Critics’ Week at Venice.
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Reviews‘Hoard’: Venice Review
Debut British filmmaker Luna Carmoon draws from her own life for this unconventional mother-daughter drama
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Reviews‘Life Is Not A Competition, But I’m Winning’: Venice Review
Inventive hybrid documentary from Germany takes a historical look at gender boundaries in competitive sport
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Reviews‘God Is A Woman’: Venice Review
Panama’s indigenous Kuna fight to reclaim a documentary filmed in their community in 1975
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FeaturesVenice 2023 preview: Screen’s guide to the Critics’ Week titles
Includes titles from Luna Carmoon, Lee Hong-Chi and Moin Hussain.
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NewsAlpha Violet acquires world sales rights to Luna Carmoon’s Venice Critics’ Week title ‘Hoard’ (exclusive)
Carmoon, producers Loran Dunn and Helen Simmons, and star Joseph Quinn all former Stars of Tomorrow.
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Reviews‘Queens’: Venice Review
Yasmine Benkiran’s tale of two women on the run from authorities through Morocco closes Venice Critics Week
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Reviews‘Have You Seen This Woman?’: Venice Review
Ksenija Marinkovic gives a committed performance in this existential psychodrama
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Reviews‘Anhell69’: Venice Review
Colombian filmmaker Theo Montoya crafts a dark meditation on a nation, and a generation
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Reviews‘Skin Deep’: Venice Review
Alex Schaad’s witty, body-switching debut explores identity, gender fluidity and sexuality
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Reviews‘Dogborn’: Venice Review
Isabella Carbonell’s debut feature is a tightly focused drama about homelessness and sex trafficking
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Reviews‘Eismayer’: Venice Review
Gerhard Liebmann gives a full-throttle performance in this true-life drama about a closeted military man
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Reviews‘Beating Sun’: Venice Review
This compelling drama stars Swann Arlaud as a landscape architect obsessed with building a public garden