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Clockwise from top left: ‘Meteorite’, ‘Father Joe’, ‘The Difficult Bride’, ‘My Notes On Mars’, ‘Ink’, ‘Guria’
Newcomers and renowned <a href="https://cinemamix360.com/2026/08/27/governing-genealogies-of-international-film-education/” title=”Governing Genealogies of International Film Education”>filmmakers head to the Lido for Venice Film Festival’s 83rd festival edition (September 2-12).
Venice opens with Danny Boyle’s Rupert Murdoch bio-drama Ink, while its main Competition also contains films from Werner Herzog (Bucking Fastard), Florian Zeller (Bunker), Lee Chang-dong (Possible Love) and Martin McDonagh (Wild Horse Nine). And artistic director Alberto Barbera’s attempted own goal in programming a single film directed by a woman — May el-Toukhy’s Woman Unknown — received an 11th-hour reprieve when he added the documentary NAZA, co-directed by Rachel Szor, to the final lineup.
If at first glance Venice lacks the oomph of recent editions, it also allows more space for surprises to emerge. Below, Screenpreviews all the titles playing across the main sections at Venice, plus previews to the festival’s main sidebars.
Click on the links to each section for the profiles.
Competition
Horizons
Venice Open – Fiction
Venice Open – Non Fiction
Venice Open – Film On Films
Venice Open – Shorts
- Flesh Impact (Maggie Gylenhaal)
- They’re Here (Laura Poitras, Rachel Mueller)
- Wild Asparagus (Avi Mograbi)
Venice Open – Series
- Peccato (Valerio Vestoso)
Spotlight
Critics’ Week
Giornate Degli Autori Competition
Words by: Ben Dalton, Tim Dams, Elaine Guerini, Jeremy Kay, Rebecca Leffler, Geoffrey Macnab, Lee Marshall, Thea Middleton, David Opie, Michael Rosser, Matt Schley, Mona Tabbara, Sil
