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Reviews‘Lovers In The Blue Night’ review: Anapurna Roy’s modest second feature interweaves migrant lives and loves in Mumbai
Roy returns to Venice Horizons after winning the best director prize in 2025 for her debut film Songs Of Forgotten Trees
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Reviews‘Big Little Things’ review: A gay Chinese woman invents a boyfriend to appease her family in candid, personal debut
Writer/director Michelle Zhou takes inspiration from her own life for Venice Horizons drama
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Reviews‘Until The Day Ends’ review: Vivid if limited portrait of revolutionary youth in modern-day Serbia
Jelena Maksimović’s fiction debut relies heavily on the charisma of lead Jelena Maksimović
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Reviews‘The Color Of The Sun’ review: Sensual Okinawa-set coming-of-age tale makes for a striking, enigmatic debut
Venice Horizons title is visually assured exploration of adolescence against the tensions of contemporary Okinawa
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Reviews‘A Common Story’ review: Alba Rohrwacher is extraordinary in distinctive, daring Italian empty nest drama
Anna Foglietta’s accomplished debut premieres in Venice Horizons
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Reviews‘A Day In The Life Of Jo: Chapter Phaedra’ review: Formally bold, compassionate drama is inspired by a real-life Greek tragedy
The 2008 police killing of a teenager in Athens informs Jacqueline Lentzou’s audacious Venice Horizons title
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Reviews‘The Burning Giants’ review: Shape-shifting Thai displacement drama blurs myth and reality
’Manta Ray’ director Phuttiphong Aroonpheng turns his attention to marginalised S’gaw community in ambitious third feature
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Reviews‘The Difficult Bride’ review: A fairytale Bangladeshi wedding turns into a nightmare in sharp feminist body horror
Rubaiyat Hossain’s latest work becomes the first Bangladeshi film to play in Venice
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Reviews’Diane In the Loop’ review: Quirky Belgian drama confronts the legacy of sexual violence
Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni’s funny, compassionate third feature is produced by the Dardenne brothers
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Reviews‘Eklipse’ review: Tender 1999-set debut explores an Austrian childhood in the shadow of AIDS
Secrecy and stigma threaten a childhood friendship in Manuel Wetscher’s Venice Horizons premiere
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Reviews‘House Of The Wind’ review: A tender Cameroonian study of solitude and unexpected kinship
Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu’s debut finds emotional force in an ageing mother’s search for connection
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Reviews‘Too Much Sugar’ review: Robert Greene delivers a clear-eyed portrait of family dysfunction and filmmaking as therapy
The Procession director’s latest is a moving exploration of fatherhood and masculinity in small-town Missouri
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Reviews‘Falling House’ review: Unsubtle Iranian family drama turns a condemned home into a symbol of patriarchal control
A Tehran family is pushed to breaking point in Mohsen Gharaei’s Venice Horizons premiere
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Reviews‘The Girl With The Leica’ review: Gerda Taro biopic struggles to bring its pioneering photojournalist subject into focus
Alina Marazzi’s lively, mannered portrait of the Spanish Civil War photographer opens Venice Horizons
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NewsVenice Horizons title ‘Eklipse’ acquired for international sales
EXCLUSIVE: Debut feature is set in Tyrolean Alps during the 1999 full solar eclipse.
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NewsVenice Horizons title ‘What Belongs To Others’ boarded for sales
EXCLUSIVE: Film is second feature from Polish filmmaker Grzegorz Debowski.
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NewsMark Jenkin’s ‘Rose Of Nevada’ acquired for UK-Ireland cinema release
EXCLUSIVE: Film scheduled for release in 2026.
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Reviews‘On The Road’ review: Venice Horizons winner is taut, tender tale of gay Mexican drifter
Writer/director David Pablos sets his story in the ultra-masculine environment of Mexico’s trucking community
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Reviews‘Barrio Triste’ review: Colombian-American photographer Stillz sets his debut in 1980s Medellin
Harmony Korine produces the unfocused feature about disaffected kids, which premieres in Venice Horizons
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Reviews‘Human Resource’ review: A pregnant worker navigates a hostile world in Thai drama
Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit’s Venice Horizons title features an enigmatic central performance from Prapamonton Eiamchan