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‘Conversation With The Sea’ Trailer: Muayad Alayan Explores Everyday Pressures For Palestinians In Jerusalem – TIFF
EXCLUSIVE: Palestinian director Muayad Alayan’s Jerusalem-set drama Conversation with the Sea makes its North American premiere in Toronto on Wednesday, following its Venice debut, and Deadline can unveil the trailer. Kamel El Basha, who won Venice’s Volpi Cup for Best Actor for his performance in The Insult in 2017, plays a 60-year-old Palestinian man, who […]
Deadline•Melanie Goodfellow16 Sept
Venice Winner ‘Woman Unknown’ Unveils New Deals Including France In Wake Of Golden Lion Victory
Trust Nordisk has unveiled fresh deals for Danish-Egyptian director May el-Toukhy’s Woman Unknown following its Golden Lion win at the Venice Film Festival. New sales include to Memento for France, as well as Spain (Karma Films), Poland (Best Film), Portugal (Nitrato Filmes), the former Yugoslavia (MCF Megacom Film) and Bulgaria (Beta Film). Previously announced deals […]
Deadline•Melanie Goodfellow15 Sept
Venice best actress winner says she signed on at Danish job centre days before her victory
Mathilde Arcel, who won the Volpi Cup on Saturday for her role in Golden Lion winner Woman Unknown, said job offers have now begun to arrive The winner of this year’s best actress prize at the Venice film festival has revealed that she is on unemployment benefits and had to fly to back to Copenhagen to report to the job centre before receiving her award. On Saturday night, Danish actor Mathilde Arcel won the prestigious Volpi Cup for her first leading role in a feature film, May el-Toukhy’s post-second world war drama Woman Unknown, which also won the Golden Lion award for best film. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Philip Oltermann European culture editor15 Sept
Benjamin Netanyahu joins Israeli ministers attacking Venice-winning documentary 'NAZA'
The documentary 'NAZA', which won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival, examines Israel's targeting practices in Gaza and alleges that mass civilian deaths are routinely factored into decisions over military strikes.
Euronews15 Sept
Thousands of Art Nonprofits Command Billions in Assets. A New York Conference Sheds Light on an Under-Studied Sector
Stoa has gathered arts nonprofit founders and leaders in Paris and Venice, and now their starry convening is happening in New York.
ARTnews•Brian Boucher14 Sept
Israeli minister threatens to strip Israeli directors of citizenship over Venice-winning Gaza doc 'NAZA'
Israel’s culture minister has called for the Oscar-winning Israeli directors of 'NAZA', Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, to be stripped of their citizenship. The documentary about the country’s mass killing of civilians in Gaza won Venice's Special Jury Prize.
Euronews14 Sept
Lee Chang-dong’s Films Head to Netflix Worldwide After ‘Possible Love’ Wins Silver Lion at Venice
Netflix will expand its lineup of Lee Chang-dong films worldwide, following the Silver Lion (Grand Jury Prize) win for “Possible Love” at the Venice Film Festival. The expansion will let viewers everywhere explore titles including “Secret Sunshine” and “Peppermint Candy.” “Possible Love,” Lee’s first film in eight years, opens in South Korean theaters Sept. 23, […]
Variety•Naman Ramachandran14 Sept
Netflix To Stream Lee Chang-Dong’s Previous Works Following ‘Possible Love’ Silver Lion Win In Venice
Following the Silver Lion win for Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love at this year’s Venice film festival, Netflix is set to stream more of the director’s work worldwide. Lee’s earlier films Green Fish and Secret Sunshine are already available on Netflix, streaming from August in Italy, the UK, France, Australia, and New Zealand. Peppermint Candy and […]
Deadline•Liz Shackleton14 Sept
Israel’s Culture Minister Calls For Oscar-Winning Israeli Filmmakers Behind Gaza Doc ‘NAZA’ To Lose Their Citizenship
The day after Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor‘s bombshell Israeli documentary NAZA alleging the Israeli army targeted civilians in Gaza won the Special Jury Prize at Venice, Israel’s Culture Minister Miki Zohar announced that he would “act immediately to revoke the Israeli citizenship” of the directing duo. According to a translation provided by X, Zohar went on to call […]
Deadline•Tomt14 Sept
NAZA director says 'it's important Israelis watch this film' after win at Venice festival – video
NAZA, a new film directed by Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor and produced by the Guardian, has been awarded the special jury prize at the 83rd Venice film festival. Shot at night on the rooftops of Tel Aviv, NAZA reveals in detail the systems behind Israel’s calculated mass killing of Palestinian civilians in Gaza. Abraham, in his prize acceptance speech, said: 'It's really important Isrealis watch this film. It's our country that is doing these crimes' ‘They know the house they are bombing is full of children’: NAZA’s directors on their devastating film about Israeli intelligence Continue reading...
The Guardian13 Sept
Woman Unknown wins Venice film festival as NAZA takes special jury prize
May el-Toukhy becomes eighth female director to take Golden Lion in festival’s 77-year history, as Lee Chang-dong’s Possible Love and Guardian-produced documentary about Israeli intelligence also awarded Bold and bravura choices as Venice celebrates A Woman Unknown, Possible Love – and NAZA May el-Toukhy’s Woman Unknown has scooped the Golden Lion at the Venice film festival, at an awards ceremony that also saw the Gaza documentary NAZA win the jury prize. Set in the immediate aftermath of Danish liberation from Nazi occupation, the Egyptian-Danish director’s film tells the story of a young housemaid, Marie (Mathilde Arcel), who is about to marry her widowed employer but anxious about him discovering a shameful secret in her past: during the war, Marie had an intimate relationship with a German soldier. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Philip Oltermann European culture editor12 Sept
Mia Wasikowska Fills Out the Screen As ‘Agata the Writer’ in Kuba Dorabialski’s Venice Drama: ‘It’s Our Responsibility to Understand Each Other’
Mia Wasikowska fills out the screen in Kuba Dorabialski’s “Agata the Writer.” Metaphorically and figuratively, as one especially arresting sequence shows her in close-up looking directly at the audience and recounting the rest of the story. “I was so curious about it,” she says. “Luckily, when I’m doing something, I don’t think too much about […]
Variety•Marta Balaga12 Sept
Maggie Gyllenhaal’s Venice Jury Didn’t Award ‘Woman Unknown’ the Golden Lion Just Because It Was Directed by a Woman: It ‘Was Like a Laser Beam’
Maggie Gyllenhaal kicked off her term as Venice jury president by calling out the lack of women filmmakers in the running for the prestigious Golden Lion. And on Saturday night, she concluded it by awarding the prize to the only film solely directed by a woman: May el-Toukhy’s “Woman Unknown.” But at a press conference […]
Variety•Ellise Shafer12 Sept
Gaza genocide documentary ‘NAZA’ wins Special Jury Prize at Venice
‘NAZA’, a documentary about Israel’s genocide in Gaza, has won the Special Jury Prize at the Venice Film Festival.
Al Jazeera12 Sept
‘The Fire Within You’ Review: A Monstrous Mama Unleashes in an Admirable but Draining Italian Comedy-Drama Set on a Miserable Christmas Eve
This Venice competitor from Edoardo De Angelis stars Vanessa Scalera as a caustic matriarch hosting family members whom she subjects to constant and withering criticism.
The Hollywood Reporter•Leslie Felperin12 Sept
Venice 2026 Winners: Red Carpet Underway With Sightings Of ‘Woman Unknown’ & ‘Possible Love’ Directors Alongside Jury – Updating Live
The awards ceremony of the Venice Film Festival kicks off at 7pm local time (10am PT) and Deadline will be live updating the winners. The red carpet is already underway with Maggie Gyllenhaal and her jury posing for photos, with sightings of Golden Lion contenders May El-Toukhy (Woman Unknown) and Lee Chang-dong (Possible Love) suggesting […]
Deadline•Melanie Goodfellow12 Sept
Iranian ‘A Bit Of Light’ Filmmakers Discuss Timely Venice Contender: “We Have To Talk About The Reality… Of The Mass Killing That Happened”
Iranian director Ali Asgari’s contemporary Tehran-set drama A Bit Of Light premiered at the Venice Film Festival on Friday evening as the penultimate competition screening. The raw, timely drama was shot in the immediate aftermath of the Islamic Republic’s brutal crackdown of pro-democracy protests in January 2026, in which thousands, if not tens of thousands, […]
Deadline•Melanie Goodfellow12 SeptA
Condor NW26 City Network Flight Number Changes
Published at 1300PDT / 2000GMT 11SEP26 Condor at the launch of Northern winter 2026/27 season plans flight number changes to its City Network to/from Frankfurt . From 25OCT26, flight number changes include the following. Frankfurt – Berlin DE40xx > DE400x Frankfurt – Hamburg DE41xx > DE40xx Frankfurt – London Gatwick DE41xx/42xx/43xx > DE43xx Frankfurt – Milan Malpensa DE43xx > DE42xx Frankfurt – Munich DE43xx/44xx > DE40xx Frankfurt – Paris Charles de Gaulle DE42xx > DE43xx Frankfurt – Prague DE440x/441x > DE448x Frankfurt – Vienna DE434x/435x > DE436x Frankfurt – Zurich DE43xx > DE44xx Following routes will see new flight number range when seasonal service resumes on 30APR27: Frankfurt – Barcelona DE43xx > DE44xx Frankfurt – Budapest DE44xx > DE43xx Frankfurt – Rome Fiumicino DE41xx/44xx > DE42xx Frankfurt – Venice Marco Polo Minor variations within DE42xx range
AAeroRoutes•AeroRoutes - Jim Liu11 Sept
‘A Bit of Light’ Review: A Despondent Man Stumbles Into a Renewed Sense of Connection in a Mournful, Quietly Comic Drama From Iran
Ali Asgari, one of the writer-directors of ‘Terrestrial Verses,’ enters Venice’s main competition with the story of a persecuted Iranian doctor and his matter-of-fact plan to end his life.
The Hollywood Reporter•Sheri Linden11 Sept