All Critics' Week articles
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News‘Don’t Cry, Butterfly’, UK feature ‘Paul & Paulette’ head Venice Critics’ Week winners
Trump supporter documentary ‘Homegrown’ takes technical prize.
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Reviews‘Perfumed With Mint’: Venice Review
A decaying Egyptian city teems with ghosts both literal and metaphorical in this meditative debut
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Reviews‘Don’t Cry, Butterfly’: Venice Review
A woman turns to the spirits to win back her philandering husband in this enigmatic Vietnamese debu
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Features‘Paul & Paulette Take A Bath’ director on crafting his Venice Critics’ Week debut “outside of the system”
The dark comedy is the first feature from UK born, Paris-based commericals and music video producer Jethro Massey.
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Reviews‘No Sleep Till’: Venice Review
Time stops for the few remaining residents of a Florida coastal town before the hurricane hits in this contemplative US debut
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Reviews‘Anywhere Anytime’: Venice Review
The theft of a bicycle is the catalyst for this confident, incisive drama about a Sengalese immigrant in Italy
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Reviews‘Peacock’: Venice Review
Albrecht Schuch headlines this assured Austrian debut as a paid companion whose facade starts to crumble
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Reviews‘Homegrown’: Venice Review
Unflinching documentary follows three right-wing American extremists in the lead up to the volatile 2020 US election
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FeaturesCannes 2024 line-up guide: Critics’ Week titles
Includes films from Saïd Hamich Benlarbi, Constance Tsang and Antoine Chevrollier.
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NewsLuna Carmoon’s Venice title ‘Hoard’ scores multiple deals including UK (exclusive)
Film also sells to Greece, Poland among others.
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NewsLuna Carmoon's ‘Hoard’ takes three prizes including audience award at Venice Critics’ Week
Tana Gilbert’s ‘Malqueridas’ the other key winner.
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Reviews‘Vermin’: Venice Review
Venice Critics Week closes with this skin-crawling French horror in which a housing project is beset by killer spiders
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Reviews‘Malqueridas’: Venice Review
Debut documentary paints a poignant picture of life in a Chilean women’s prison
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Reviews‘About Last Year’: Venice Review
Unusual documentary captures three cisgender friends as they find acceptance and release in Turin’s ballroom scene
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Reviews‘Love Is A Gun’: Venice Review
Taiwanese actor Lee Hong-chi makes his directorial debut with this tale of an ex-convict desperately trying to go straight
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FeaturesHow lockdown isolation helped UK director Moin Hussain rediscover his Venice sci-fi ‘Sky Peals’
“I had a lovely year where things were going quickly and then. lockdown, ” says the UK director.
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Reviews‘The Vourdalak’: Venice Review
Tolstoy’s blood-sucking novella gets an imaginative reworking by French stylist Adrien Beau
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FeaturesUK producers Helen Simmons, Loran Dunn talk harnessing Joseph Quinn’s fanbase for Venice title ‘Hoard’
They have produced Luna Carmoon’s debut feature ‘Hoard’, debuting in Critics’ Week at Venice.
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Reviews‘Hoard’: Venice Review
Debut British filmmaker Luna Carmoon draws from her own life for this unconventional mother-daughter drama
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Reviews‘Life Is Not A Competition, But I’m Winning’: Venice Review
Inventive hybrid documentary from Germany takes a historical look at gender boundaries in competitive sport