The Audience Award has been given to 'Our Share of Sand' by Shalini Adnani and Dong Jie's 'Zoom In, Zoom Out' has claimed the Circolo del Cinema di Verona Award.
The Hollywood Reporter•Lily Ford11 SeptI traveled by train from Venice to Rome and Milan during my first trip to Italy. Each destination surprised me with unique experiences.
Argentinian director Maria Aparicio’s drama “Sometimes Sadness, Sometimes Rebellion” — which mixes personal and political elements — has scored the Venice Days director’s award, the section’s top prize. “Sometimes Sadness, Sometimes Rebellion,” which marks Aparicio’s fourth feature, follows a woman named Eva who is passing through Madrid. “She spends her days there alone: she doesn’t know anyone […]
Variety•Nvivarelli11 Sept
Elsewhere, the Europa Cinemas Label has gone to Robert Guediguian's 'A Woman Today,' and Nicola Sorcinelli's 'Balcanica' stormed the People's Choice Award.
The Hollywood Reporter•Lily Ford11 Sept
Argentinian director María Aparicio’s third feature Sadness Sometimes, Other Times Revolt has scooped the top prize at the 2026 edition of Venice parallel section Giornate degli Autori, the GDA Director’s Award. In other key prizes, French director Robert Guediguian’s A Woman Today (Une Femme Aujourd’hui) won the Europa Cinemas Label, while Italian director Nicola Sorcinelli’s […]
Deadline•Melanie Goodfellow11 Sept
Russell Crowe touched down at the Venice Film Festival on Friday with his concert documentary What Love Builds, about his life as a musician and band Indoor Garden Party, which premieres Out of Competition on Friday. The Oscar-winning Gladiator actor, who has hit the headlines across his career for fiery outbursts, both private and public, […]
Deadline•Melanie Goodfellow11 Sept
Catherine Deneuve needed little convincing to play a “punk fairy godmother” in Léa Domenach’s “Peau d’Homme” (“A Man’s Skin“) the Venice-premiering medieval musical that reunites the famed French actor and up-and-coming director three years after “Bernadette.” “A punk fairy godmother — first of all, that idea alone would have been enough,” Deneuve told Variety in […]
Variety•Elskes11 Sept
Is Venice still vibrating from all the rounds of applause? It’s become customary for audiences at the festival’s premieres to clap and cheer for a seeming eternity after the credits roll. (Often to the visible discomfort of the actors and filmmakers, who look like they don’t know what to do with themselves when the hurrahs […]
Variety•Rebecca Rubin11 Sept
Mass civilian deaths were routinely built into Israeli military targeting decisions in Gaza, according to a Venice Film Festival documentary unveiled on Thursday that challenges official accounts of the war. "NAZA", directed by Israeli journalists Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, received a 25-minute standing ovation at its premiere, by far the longest of the festival so far this year.
'NAZA', the new documentary by 'No Other Land' filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, earned a record-breaking 24.5-minute standing ovation following its premiere – the longest-ever ovation recorded at the Venice Film Festival.
Euronews11 Sept
The written forum allows members of the public to vent their fury at the movies they’ve seen – and the festival organisers In an industry that is reliant on the fickle vagaries of taste, film festivals exist to establish facts. The reason why film-makers still go through the rigmarole of ferrying their cast to the red carpets of Venice, Cannes or Sundance is the need for empirical evidence of unambiguous quality: a solid-gold prize, a top score on the critics’ grid, a record-timed standing ovation that will convince every doubter that this is a great film . Film festivals, in turn, need beautiful A-listers to attract coverage and sponsorship, and hence there is a constant risk that these annual events become gigantic hype machines, in which every turkey is a classic and every half-hearted performance a masterclass. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Philip Oltermann in Venice11 Sept
Venice Film Festival honours NAZA, an expose on Israel's use of AI systems in Gaza.
Al Jazeera11 Sept
Polish director Damian Kocur is ready for “La Manche.” Presented at the Venice Production Bridge and produced by Kijora Film, the film will be co-produced by Germany’s Oma Inge Film and France’s Les Contes Modernes. Kocur is behind Venice premiere “Bread and Salt” and “Under the Volcano,” selected as the Polish Oscar submission in 2024. […]
Variety•Marta Balaga10 Sept
A film documenting Israel's use of artificial intelligence to facilitate the mass killing of Palestinian civilians in the Gaza Strip received a record 25-minute standing ovation at the Venice Film Festival on Thursday. "NAZA" details the brutal Israeli bombardment of the Palestinian territory through anonymous interviews with two dozen whistleblowers from the Israeli military or intelligence services.
“NAZA” was a late addition to the main competition in Venice this year, where organizers have selected several films about the Gaza conflict.
Venice film festival: Under the cover of night, anonymous personnel discuss AI, error rates and problematic intelligence units in a documentary produced by the Guardian Here is a disquieting documentary about what Israel’s military chiefs in Gaza reputedly call “Naza”, meaning civilian collateral damage – itself a queasy euphemism. The calculated “Naza” number is the amount of projected civilian deaths from each military strike, and perhaps it will come to have the same connotations as the US military term “body count” during Vietnam. The directors are Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the film-makers behind No Other Land , which was about attacks by the Israel Defense Forces on Palestinian West Bank villages. NAZA is executive produced by Jonathan Glazer and James Wilson and appears under the production auspices of the Guardian, in which some of the stories have already appeared. There are flaws: interviews were conducted on the condition of anonymity, but if no-one can be persuaded to put their name and face to their words (and of course it is terribly dangerous) then the impact of this as testimony is lessened. But even so, the film is casting a chilling light on what is happening now in Gaza. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Peter Bradshaw in Venice10 Sept
Testimony from Israeli military insiders involved in surveillance and remote killings features in documentary produced by the Guardian Testimony from 24 Israeli military insiders on the secret systems used in the war on Gaza has been revealed in a new documentary film about the mass killing of Palestinian civilians. NAZA, a film from the Oscar-winning Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, was shown at the Venice international film festival on Thursday as the only documentary competing for its prestigious Golden Lion award. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem and Xan Brooks in Venice10 SeptTestimony from Israeli military insiders involved in surveillance and remote killings features in documentary produced by the Guardian Testimony from 24 Israeli military insiders on the secret systems used in the war on Gaza has been revealed in a new documentary film about the mass killing of Palestinian civilians. NAZA, a film from the Oscar-winning Israeli directors Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, was shown at the Venice international film festival on Thursday as the only documentary competing for its prestigious Golden Lion award. Continue reading...
The Guardian•Emma Graham-Harrison in Jerusalem and Xan Brooks in Venice10 Sept
Tech mogul calls director Alex Gibney a ‘bitter old man’ who has ‘zero integrity’ in series of posts on X Elon Musk has issued an angry tirade at the film-maker behind a four-hour documentary about his life and influence, labelling the director Alex Gibney a “bitter old man” who has “zero integrity”. Gibney, who has previously made films about the collapse of Enron, WikiLeaks and Vladimir Putin, premiered his Musk documentary at the Venice film festival this week. He said he believed the world’s richest man was “extremely dangerous” . Continue reading...
The Guardian•Michael Savage Media editor10 SeptTech mogul calls director Alex Gibney a ‘bitter old man’ who has ‘zero integrity’ in series of posts on X Elon Musk has issued an angry tirade at the film-maker behind a four-hour documentary about his life and influence, labelling the director Alex Gibney a “bitter old man” who has “zero integrity”. Gibney, who has previously made films about the collapse of Enron, WikiLeaks and Vladimir Putin, premiered his Musk documentary at the Venice film festival this week. He said he believed the world’s richest man was “extremely dangerous” . Continue reading...
The Guardian•Michael Savage Media editor10 Sept