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‘Wild, Wild East’ review: Second World War thriller set in occupied Poland starts strong but can’t sustain its intrigue
Jan Holubek’s Venice Platform premiere is part Western, part noir.
‘Faith’ review: Erin Doherty and James McAvoy drive delicate, genre-fluid exploration of grief and the unknown
Paul Andrew Williams’ wrenching follow-up to Dragonfly bows as a Toronto Special Presentation
‘A Long Winter’ review: A sheltered young man faces a seismic shift in Andrew Haigh’s masterful 1950s Rocky Mountain drama
Haigh follows All Of Us Strangers and 45 Years with this atmospheric study of a splintering family
‘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
‘A Bit Of Light’ review: Ali Asgari’s profoundly affecting drama finds hope amid despair in contemporary Tehran
The Iranian filmmaker makes his Venice Competition debut with the story of a doctor pushed to breaking point
‘Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing’ review: Cinematic, empathetic doc gets in the ring with Japan’s most iconic sport
Erik Shirai’s absorbing film will next play London after berths in Telluride and Venice
‘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
‘Ground Floor’ review: Absurdist Hungarian comedy effectively turns a run-down apartment block into state of the nation satire
Ádám Tompa stars in director Gábor Reisz’s follow-up to 2023 Venice Horizons winner Explanation For Everything
‘The Fire Within You’ review: Vanessa Scalera’s invigorating performance fuels Italian Christmas-from-hell drama
Edoardo De Angelis’s darkly comic feature premieres in Venice competition
‘Being Heumann’ review: Ruth Madeley impresses as US disability advocate Judy Heumann in broad period drama
Sian Heder follows CODA with cutesy dramatisation of Heumann’s 1977 San Francisco sit-in which opens Toronto
‘Stuffed’ review: Jodie Comer and Harry Melling bond over taxidermy in bold, bracing gothic musical
The debut of UK filmmaker Theo Rhys premieres in Toronto’s Discovery strand
‘NAZA’ review: Urgent, gut-punch doc from ‘No Other Land’ directors interviews Israeli operatives about their actions in Gaza
Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s wrenching Venice competition film is executive-produced by Jonathan Glazer
‘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
‘Guria’ review: Textured community portrait finds humour and hardship in post-Soviet Georgia
Levan Koguashvili’s black-and-white Venice Spotlight title finds its own distinctive rhythm amid poverty and tradition
‘The Uprising’ review: A stirring Andrew Garfield is unable to energise Paul Greengrass’s listless period drama
The writer/director’s take on England’s 1381 Peasants’ Revolt also stars Tom Hollander, Jamie Bell and Thomasin McKenzie
‘A Good Little Soldier’ review: A magnetic Alba Rohrwacher anchors Stéphane Brizé’s study of toxic workplace culture
Vincent Lindon also stars in timely, darkly comic Venice competition title
‘Dau’ review: Ilya Khrzhanovsky’s sprawling new installment in his conceptual project is an affecting study of Soviet tyranny
The Venice competition title follows previous features and a 2019 art installation
‘Place To Be’ review: Ellen Burstyn and Taika Waititi star in odd-couple comedy which never quite takes flight
Kornél Mundruczó follows up Berlin title ‘At The Sea’ with Venice out of competition premiere
‘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
‘I Matter’ review: Romanian children’s home drama is sometimes conventional, always authentic
Roma actress and filmmaker Alina Serban’s heartfelt feature bows in Venice Spotlight
‘Union Town’ review: Fifty years after ‘Harlan County, USA’, Barbara Kopple returns to the frontline of America’s labour struggle
The veteran documentarian’s absorbing portrait of the gig economy is the third in her ‘labour rights’ trilogy
‘Company’ review: Casey Affleck directs, co-writes and stars in atmospheric but convoluted slice of American Gothic
Nick Nolte, Scott McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn and Emily Alyn Lind also star in Affleck’s twisting Venice competititon premiere
‘Bunker’ review: Javier Bardem and Penélope Cruz navigate a marriage under siege in Florian Zeller’s elegant drama
Stephen Graham also stars in Zeller’s London-set Venice competition title
‘Musk’ review: Alex Gibney presents a gripping if glossy study of controversial billionaire Elon Musk
Gibney’s exhaustive documentary plays Venice ahead of berths in Toronto and London
‘A Common Story’ review: Alba Rohrwacher is extraordinary in distinctive, daring Italian empty nest drama
Anna Foglietta’s accomplished debut premieres in Venice Horizons
‘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
‘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
‘No Paradise If You Are Killed By A Woman’ review: Tense, blunt-edged Kurdish war thriller follows a female sniper in Iraq
Halkawt Mustafa’s female-led action drama brings glossy genre mechanics to a story of Kurdish resistance
‘Conversation With The Sea’ review: Kamel El Basha anchors Muayad Alayan’s uneven Palestinian drama
A Jerusalem-set mystery turns one man’s private reckoning into a pointed portrait of Palestinian life in Israel
‘The Spiral’ review: Paolo Strippoli’s dark Italian family fable promises more than it delivers
Star Valeria Bruni Tedeschi impresses in this stylish but increasingly repetitive Faustian horror
‘Look Back’ review: Hirokazu Koreeda sketches a tender but overly sentimental portrait of young friendship
The Japanese auteur’s live-action adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto’s acclaimed manga debuts in Venice Competition
‘Boatbuilders’ review: Luke Lorentzen’s Maine-set boatyard documentary is a finely crafted delight
The ‘Midnight Family’ director slows the pace for this beautifully observed portrait of craftsmanship and community
‘Hombre Al Agua’ review: Gael Garcia Bernal’s class satire proves disjointed and underpowered
Garcia Bernal directs, co-writes and stars in this Venice Spotlight premiere
‘Woman Unknown’ review: May el-Toukhy’s Venice competition title is formal yet ferocious post-war Danish drama
Mathilde Arcel puts in a terrific lead performance in the director’s follow-up to Long Story Short and Queen Of Hearts
‘The Echo Chamber’ review: Andrea Pallaoro turns Bernardo Bertolucci’s final script into precise, somewhat odd study of love and dependency
Alicia Vikander, Luca Marinelli and Susan Sarandon star in London-set Venice competition title
‘Holy Wood Dust’ review: Victor Kossakovsky’s study of trees lacks the revelatory magic of his best works
The Russian documentarist’s follow-up to Trillion and Architecton premieres out of competition in Venice
‘Possible Love’ review: Lee Chang-dong explores class, desire and exploitation in powerful Venice competition return
The ‘Burning’ director reunites with star Sul Kyung-gu for an enigmatic drama about two married couples divided by wealth
‘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
‘Citizen Osama’ review: A Palestinian journalist balances war reportage with family life in harrowing Gaza doc
Ahmed Hassouna’s Venice out of competition title has been selected as Palestine’s official Oscar submission
‘Father Joe’ review: Kiefer Sutherland takes holy orders in Luc Besson’s violent action romp
Al Pacino adds marquee heft to Barthélémy Grossmann’s knowingly trashy action thriller
‘Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger’ review: Sentimental doc about UK band’s reunion plays best when it focuses on the music
Directors Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace chart Oasis’s 2025 tour in Venice out of competition title
‘It Will Happen Tonight’ review: Nanni Moretti’s latest is unashamedly melodramatic Italian romance
Louis Garrel and Jasmine Trinca star in the director’s sprawling drama which premieres in Venice competition
‘Primetime’ review: Robert Pattinson is ‘To Catch A Predator’ host Chris Hansen in visually striking, dramatically contrived thriller
Merritt Wever is also memorable in Lance Oppenheim’s feature debut, which bows in Venice competition
'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
‘Imperium’ review: Sergei Loznitsa surveys the 1970s Soviet empire in revealing archive epic
Italian archive footage forms the basis of an expansive documentary with clear contemporary resonance
