A devoted father of a disabled son grows dangerously attached to his teenage nephew, putting his family and emotional balance at risk. Starring Riccardo Scamarcio.
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‘Children of the Monkey’ Venice Review: A Sensitive Portrait of Parental Conflict
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‘Hombre al agua’ Venice Review: Gael García Bernal’s Playful, Overloaded Social Satire
After rescuing a Mexican businessman, a Cuban lifeguard enters a powerful family where wealth, manipulation and fiction reshape his life. Starring Gael García Bernal, Esmeralda Pimentel, Natalia Oreiro and Ricky Martin. Venice Spotlight.
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‘Sometimes Sadness, Sometimes Rebellion’ Venice Review: A Melancholic Meditation on Labor and Migration
Eva is passing through Madrid alone when she meets Dante, an Argentine historian researching labor struggles and the work of Juan Bialet Massé. Also in San Sebastian Film Festival.
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‘Teenage Wasteland’ Netflix Review: When High School Students Took on Toxic Waste
Three decades later, former teenagers revisit the investigation that transformed a high school media class into an unlikely force for accountability.
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‘Oasis’ Venice Review: An Intimate Portrait of Bullying and Adolescent Rage
Three teenagers facing different forms of school bullying seek refuge in a nearby forest, where they begin to embrace their emotional vulnerability. Screens in Orizzonti.
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‘London’ Venice Review: An Uncompromising Portrait of Independence
Caught between medical expectations and personal freedom, a young man refuses to let disability dictate who he is or how he lives. Venice Critics’ Week.
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‘The Indes’ Venice Review: A Mesmerizing and Savage Historical Odyssey
Carrying a royal portrait to Louis XIV, a sheltered aristocrat embarks on a perilous and violent journey that transforms diplomacy into a nightmare. In Venice Days.
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‘Diane in the Loop’ Venice Review: A Teenager’s Quest To Avenge Her Mother Turns Into An Offbeat Coming-Of-Age Odyssey
After learning her mother was raped years before her birth, a headstrong teenager sets off to find and confront the man responsible. Orizzonti.
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‘Imperium’ Venice Review: Sergei Loznitsa Mines Soviet Propaganda Reels To Expose The Empire’s Colonial Fault Lines
Using footage shot across the 1970s USSR by two Italian filmmakers, Loznitsa reveals how Soviet authority masked deep cultural and ethnic diversity. Venice Open. Out of Competition.
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‘Jupiter’ Venice Review: A French Take on the World War III Thriller
With nuclear war looming, France’s newly elected president must negotiate with Russia before the world crosses the point of no return. Starring Dénis Menochet and André Dussollier. In Venice Open. Out of Competition.


