A wealthy documentary filmmaker befriends a laid-off steelworker’s wife, blurring the line between genuine empathy and the exploitation of her subject’s pain. Streaming on Netflix this November.
Tag "Venice 2026"
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‘Possible Love’ San Sebastian Review: Lee Chang-dong Turns The Camera’s Gaze Into A Question Of Class
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‘NAZA’ San Sebastian Review: This Chilling Exposé Lifts The Veil On Israeli Intelligence’s Algorithmic War
Israeli Intelligence sources detail how AI systems locate Hamas targets inside Gaza homes, prioritizing kills over the civilian «collateral damage» left behind. Winner of the Special Jury Prize in Venice.
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‘Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors’ Venice Review: Lav Diaz Revisits the Horrors of Colonialism
In 1617, a group transporting marble for a church faces violence and danger, revealing the brutal realities of Spanish colonial rule. In Venice Open.
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‘Back to Buenos Aires’ Venice Review: The Long Shadow of the Dictatorship
An Italian doctor returns to Argentina to testify against his torturers, confronting the guilt, trauma and moral ambiguities left by the dictatorship. In Competition.
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‘Lovers in the Blue Light’ Venice Review: Love in the Shadows of Mumbai
Four Indian migrants navigate love, desire, secrecy, and survival in Mumbai’s dangerous nightlife while searching for connection amid overwhelming loneliness. Screening in Orizzonti.
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‘Meteorite’ Venice Review: Colombian Director Sebastián Múnera Builds a Dreamlike World Haunted by Violence
A Colombian woman recruits her friend for a prison smuggling job, leading them through a strange landscape where reality and memory blur. Venice Critics Week.
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‘One Minute to Midnight’ Review: Melvil Poupaud Anchors A Self-Critical, Self-Centered Portrait Of Masculinity In The Age Of #MeToo
Stranded in Paris for a week, a man nearing 50 revisits old colleagues and lovers, confronting how #MeToo reframes his past. Starring Melvil Poupaud and Chaira Mastroianni. In Competition.
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‘What Belongs to Others’ Venice Review: A Place Among Strangers
A desperate thief exploits a tragic misunderstanding for profit, but her fake relationship with a dead man slowly transforms her life forever. Orizzonti.
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‘The Phantom’ Venice Review: A Witty Meditation on Memory and Artistic Legacy
A mock documentary about an overlooked Argentine artist evolves into a poignant reflection on creativity, friendship, and the passage of time. Screening in Giornate degli Autori (Venice Days).
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‘Biografía de Jorge Luis Borges’ Venice Review: Mariano Llinás Turns a Biography Into an Epic Detective Story
A five-and-a-half-hour journey into Borges’s life becomes an unpredictable labyrinth where literature, memory, fiction and reality constantly intersect and transform one another.
