All Venice articles
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Reviews‘Wild Horse Nine’ review: John Malkovich and Sam Rockwell command Martin McDonagh’s potent 1970s character study
The director’s Easter Island-set fifth feature premieres in Venice competition and looks set for awards attention
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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‘Bucking Fastard’ review: Kate and Rooney Mara are perfectly in sync in Werner Herzog’s strange tale of sisterly devotion
The director’s absurdist drama premieres in Venice competition
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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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NewsHow Martin McDonagh’s ‘Wild Horse Nine’ became the second film ever to shoot on Easter Island
“Our idea was ‘leave nothing behind’” said producer Graham Broadbent.
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NewsGeorge Clooney critiques Paramount merger, calls out authoritarianism at Venice
“Stories are always dangerous to people who peddle in fear,” says Clooney.
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NewsVenice day 2: Are high costs putting off the studios? - The Screen Podcast
Plus, highlights from the jury, George Clooney and ‘Ink’ press conferences.
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Reviews‘Ink' review: Jack O’Connell is magnetic as ‘The Sun’ tabloid editor Larry Lamb in Danny Boyle’s feverish Venice opener
Guy Pearce and Claire Foy also star in this seductive, high-energy portrait of ambition and media disruption
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Reviews‘My Notes On Mars’ review: Lili Horvat opens Venice’s Giornate degli Autori with genre-coded tale of love, desire and control
Mackenzie Davis and Rupert Friend star in this enigmatic English-language relationship drama set in Hungary.
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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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NewsDanny Boyle speaks out against AI proliferation: “It’s insane what we’re doing”
Boyle says he shares “a loathing for the British establishment” with Rupert Murdoch.
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NewsLuca Guadagnino’s Venice title ‘Joie De Vivre’ acquired for sales
Seven-hour film will play in two parts on the Lido.
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NewsMaggie Gyllenhaal questions male-dominated Venice Competition lineup
Gyllenhaal also says “honest” films are “fundamentally, unavoidably political, as well as a lot of other things.”
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NewsVenice day 1: The hot acquisition titles to look out for - The Screen Podcast
Includes May el-Touhky’s ‘Woman Unknown’ and Cedric Kahn’s ‘15/18’.
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FeaturesPornographer or auteur? As Venice shows 1967’s ‘Deadly Sweet’ as its ‘pre-opening’ night film, Alberto Barbera defends the legacy of Tinto Brass
To many, Tinto Brass is an ageing satyr of European cinema – but the artistic directors of Venice and Locarno hold a different view
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NewsVenice opening jury press conference to go ahead, individual film conferences to proceed
Festival has resolved “conflicting schedule” that threatened jury session.
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FeaturesVenice Production Bridge head talks new location market: “My aim is to provide producers with everything”
The new location market “completes the chain of services” offered to producers, says VPB head Pascal Diot, who has headed the event since its inception in 2012.
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FeaturesVenice 2026 preview: Screen’s guide to the Horizons titles
Lineup includes new titles by Anuparna Roy, Rubaiyat Hossain and Phuttiphong Aroonpheng.
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FeaturesVenice 2026 preview: Screen’s guide to the Open titles
Profiles of the rebranded Venice Open - Fiction, Non Fiction, Film on Films and Short Films sections.
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FeaturesVenice 2026 preview: Screen’s guide to the Critics’ Week titles
Lineup includes Shalini Adnani’s UK feature ‘Our Share Of Sand’.