All Venice Competition articles
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Reviews‘La Grazia’ review: An impressive Toni Servillo anchors Paolo Sorrentino’s austere Venice opener
The actor plays a fictional Italian president facing the end of his tenure in Sorrentino’s serious-minded follow-up to ‘Parthenope’
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NewsMona Fastvold's Venice Competition title ‘The Testament Of Ann Lee’ boarded for sales
Mona Fastvold directs the feature, with Amanda Seyfried in the lead.
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FeaturesVenice 2025 preview: Screen’s guide to the Competition titles
Includes new films by Kathryn Bigelow, Benny Safdie, Mona Fastvold, Noah Baumbach, Olivier Assayas and Guillermo del Toro.
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NewsLuca Guadagnino’s ‘Queer’ sold to multiple territories including UK-Ireland
Territories sold include UK-Ireland, LatAm, Canada, Germany.
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FeaturesVenice 2024 preview: Screen’s guide to the Competition titles
Includes films from Luca Guadagnino, Todd Phillips, Dea Kulumbegashvili, Pablo Larrain and Wang Bing.
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NewsIFC Films buys Andrea Pallaoro’s Venice Competition title ‘Monica’ (exclusive)
Trace Lysette, Patricia Clarkson star in the family drama.
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Reviews‘Our Ties’: Venice Review
Roschdy Zem’s sixth feature, co-starring him and co-written with Maiwenn, competes at Venice
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Reviews‘Love Life’: Venice Review
Family tensions are exacerbated by tragedy in Koji Fukada’s emotional melodrama
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Reviews‘Other People’s Children’: Venice Review
Rebecca Zlotowski draws from her own life for this portrait of a woman at the crossroads
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Reviews‘Argentina, 1985’: Venice Review
Ricardo Darin gives an awards-worthy performance in Santiago Mitre’s rousing real-life courtroom thriller
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Reviews‘Athena’: Venice Review
Romain Gravas presents a high-octane, bullish portrait of cultural conflict in his native France
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NewsFirst trailer for Roschdy Zem’s Venice Competition title ‘Our Ties’ (exclusive)
The family drama follows two brothers whose relationship changes after one of them suffers a brain trauma.
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NewsAltitude boards international sales, UK-Ireland rights on Laura Poitras’ ‘All The Beauty And The Bloodshed’
The film will play at Venice, Toronto and New York film festivals.
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NewsThe Match Factory boards Venice Competition title ‘Beyond The Wall’ (exclusive)
Filmmaker Vahid Jalilvand returns to the Lido for the third time.
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NewsMatch Factory strikes Asia, Europe deals for Venice winner ‘New Order’ (exclusive)
Michel Franco’s dystopian thriller won the Grand Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
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FeaturesKornel Mundruczo on making his English-language debut with ‘Pieces Of A Woman’
The Hungarian filmmaker, now based in Berlin, received advice from Martin Scorsese in an exec producer role.
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NewsFilms Boutique scores sales on buzzy Venice title ‘Dear Comrades!’ (exclusive)
Andrei Konchalovsky’s feature played in Competition on the Lido.
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Reviews‘In Between Dying’: Venice Review
This metaphysical road movie journeys through the terrain of Tarkovsky and Bresson
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Reviews‘Notturno’: Venice Review
Gianfranco Rosi’s documentary captures those who live on the tense borderlands of the Middle East
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Reviews‘Laila In Haifa’: Venice Review
Drinks, sex and commentary flow freely over the course of one night in an Israeli bar