Pierfrancesco Favino plays a former tennis star who begins coaching a young prodigy in this Italian dramedy premiering at the Venice Film Festival.
Tag "Out of Competition"
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‘My Tennis Maestro’ Venice Review: a coming-of-age on and off the court
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‘Nuestra Tierra’ Venice Review: Memory, Justice, and the Killing That Shook a Community
This documentary focuses on the murder of Indigenous leader Javier Chocobar and on his community’s long struggle to achieve justice. It screens out of competition at the Venice Film Festival.
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‘Holy Boy’ Venice Review: A Haunting Fable of Pain, Healing, and Horror
Paolo Strippoli’s unsettling horror film reimagines trauma and healing through a disturbing ritual in a remote Italian village. Starring Michele Rondino and Giulio Feltri.
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‘My Father and Qaddafi’ Venice Review: A Personal Quest Amid a Nation’s Turmoil
Libyan filmmaker Jihan K explores her father’s mysterious disappearance under Qaddafi’s regime, intertwining a personal story with the nation’s complex history.
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‘Director’s Diary’ Venice Review: Aleksandr Sokurov’s Exhaustive Chronicle of a Changing World
The Russian director of Mother and Son revisits the major world events that took place between 1957 and 1991 in this documentary built from his diaries and archival footage.