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All Out Of Competition articles
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Reviews‘My Father And Qaddafi’ review: Libyan filmmaker Jihan explores the 1993 abduction of her politician father
Moving documentary looks at what happened to Mansur Rashid Kikhia, an opponent of Colonel Qaddafi’s brutal regime
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Reviews‘In The Hand Of Dante’ review: Oscar Isaac takes a dual role in Julian Schnabel’s offbeat biopic
Gerard Butler, Gal Gadot and Jason Momoa also star in Schnabel’s sprawling look at the Italian poet
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Reviews‘Notes Of A True Criminal’ review: Alexander Rodnyansky explores Ukraine’s plight, past and present
Co-directing with Andriy Alferov, the Ukrainian filmmaker presents a deeply personal documentary
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Reviews‘Kabul, Between Prayers’ review: Engrossing documentary follows a lost generation of Afghan men
Dutch-Afghan film-maker Aboozar Amini’s follow-up to ’Kabul, City In The Wind’ focuses on three radicalised brothers
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Reviews‘Dead Man’s Wire’ review: Bill Skarsgard impresses in Gus Van Sant’s real-life crime caper
The director’s Venice title dramatises the 1977 kidnapping of a mortgage broker by disgruntled landowner Tony Kiritsis
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NewsGus Van Sant’s cast discuss his “guerilla filmmaking” style for ‘Dead Man’s Wire’
“It was hard on our bodies,” says Myha’la Herrold.
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Reviews‘Marc By Sofia’ review: Sofia Coppola profiles designer Marc Jacobs in this warm documentary
The pair’s longstanding friendship results in a lightweight film which premieres out of competition in Venice
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NewsDwayne Johnson: “Chasing box office can push you into a corner”
Johnson said he’d “been scared to go deep, intense, raw” until ‘The Smashing Machine’.
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Reviews‘My Tennis Maestro’ review: Pierfrancesco Favino charms as a faded Italian tennis pro
Andrea Di Stefano’s 1980s-set comedy premieres out of competition in Venice
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Reviews‘Landmarks’ review: Lucrecia Martel critiques Argentina’s treatment of its Indigenous communities
The writer/director’s debut documentary focuses on a real-life murder trial
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Reviews‘The Holy Boy’ review: Paolo Strippoli’s third feature is a warped coming-of-age tale
Italian horror from the director of ’Flowing’ premieres out of competition in Venice
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Reviews‘After The Hunt’ review: Julia Roberts heads Luca Guadagnino’s problematic #MeToo drama
Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield and Michael Stuhlbarg also star in this Yale University-set Venice title
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Reviews‘Cover-Up’ review: Laura Poitras co-directs fascinating portrait of US journalist Seymour Hersh
Poitras and Mark Obenhaus follow Hersh’s career reporting on the likes of Vietnam, Watergate and Abu Ghraib
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News“We are stirring it up for you,” says Julia Roberts of #MeToo themes in ’After The Hunt’
“We are challenging people to have conversations and be excited or infuriated by that,” said Roberts in Venice.
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News‘Sermon To The Void’: first trailer for Hilal Baydarov’s Venice official selection title
EXCLUSIVE: Film follows a man who searches for the Water of Life as the world comes to an end.
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Reviews‘Ghost Elephants’ review: Werner Herzog tracks the legendary beast through the Angolan highlands
Herzog joins South African conservationist Steve Boyes on an expedition to find the giant creatures
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FeaturesVenice 2025 preview: Screen’s guide to the Out Of Competition titles
Venice 2025 Out Of Competition titles include films from Luca Guadagnino, Sofia Coppola, Gus Van Sant, Werner Herzog and Laura Poitras.
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NewsAleksandr Sokurov’s Venice title ‘Director’s Diary’ boarded for sales
EXCLUSIVE: CEO Jean-Christophe Simon says Films Boutique has “one of its strongest lineups to date” for fall festivals.
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FeaturesEight talking points from the Venice 2025 line-up
Long films, up to 305 minutes; starry nights, with Julia Roberts, George Clooney set to attend; political topics.
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Reviews‘Horizon: An American Saga - Chapter 2’: Venice Review
The wagons just keep rolling in the second chapter of Kevin Costner’s mythical Western epic