3+ day, 5+ hour ago   (854+ words) The hard-hitting documentary premieres in Venice Competition and is executive produced by Jonathan Glazer Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor ‘NAZA’ is a slang term that the Israeli military uses for collateral damage. It’s also the title of the new film…...

3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (533+ words) Canada’s animation industry has always been driven by a strong legacy. Today it is positively thriving, with a rise in the number of funding applications for animation projects and an increased interest in international collaboration. “The world is paying attention…...

3+ day, 2+ hour ago   (118+ words) Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s wrenching Venice competition film is executive-produced by Jonathan Glazer Dir: Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor. UK. 2026. 80mins Achieves much of its impact through the slow accretion of devastating facts Jelena Maksimović’s fiction debut relies heavily on the…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (689+ words) Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor’s documentary NAZA was selected late for Competition at Venice film festival to allow the team time to finish anonymising its Israeli sources, according to producer Jim Wilson. NAZA was added to the Competition on August…...

4+ day, 2+ hour ago   (270+ words) Kornél Mundruczó follows up Berlin title ‘At The Sea’ with Venice out of competition premiere Source: Venice Film Festival Dir. Kornél Mundruczó. Australia. 2026. 104mins There’s an uneasy discord between the two performance styles The central relationship between the two main characters…...

4+ day, 6+ hour ago   (751+ words) Dignitaries including George Clooney, South Korea’s President Lee Jae-myung and French President Emmanuel Macron during the Lumière Summit meeting France gathered many of the world’s top film executives in the French village of Saint-Paul-de-Vence on Monday (September 7) for the Lumière…...

5+ day, 32+ min ago   (117+ words) Stephen Graham also stars in Zeller’s London-set Venice competition title Source: Venice Film Festival Dir/scr: Florian Zeller. France, Spain. 2026. 126mins Production design: Alain Bainée Main cast: Penélope Cruz, Javier Bardem, Stephen Graham, Paul Dano, Patrick Schwarzenegger FKA twigs stars as…...

5+ day, 2+ hour ago   (127+ words) Gibney’s exhaustive documentary plays Venice ahead of berths in Toronto and London Source: Venice Film Festival Dir: Alex Gibney. US. 2026. 225mins Can be too slickly assembled, but it lays out a persuasive case Producers: Zhang Xin, Joey Marra, Nick Shumaker, Jessica…...

5+ day, 5+ hour ago   (159+ words) The 2008 police killing of a teenager in Athens informs Jacqueline Lentzou’s audacious Venice Horizons title Source: Venice Film Festival ‘A Day In The Life Of Jo: Chapter Phaedra’ A strange, audacious film that uses a death to celebrate a life…...