three nights a week

Source: Venice Critics’ Week

‘Three Nights A Week’

Florent Gouelou’s French drama Three Nights A Week will open Venice International Film Critics’ Week, the sidebar of the Venice Film Festival, playing out-of-competition.  Moroccan director Yasmine Benkiran’s Queens will close the selection, also out -of -competition.

The Critics’ Week competition is comprised of seven feature debuts, including including Niccolo Falsetti’s Margini from Italy and Theo Montoya’s Anhell69 from Colombia. 

Dogborn  by Swedish director Isabella Carbonell is the only film by a female director in the competition section. 

The 10 titles were selected by a new committee from the Union of Italian Film Critics, headed by general delegate Beatrice Fiorentino, with Enrico Azzano, Chiara Borrini, Ilaria Feole and Federico Pedroni.

Scroll down for the full feature line-up

Three Nights A Week is written by Gouelou in collaboration with Raphaelle Valbrune-Desplechin. It follows a 29-year-old man in a relationship, who is mesmerised by a young drag queen from the Parisian scene and becomes immersed in that world. It is produced by Nelson Ghrenassia for Yukunkun Productions, with France’s Pyramine International handling international sales. 

A version of Pedro Costa’s 1989 Blood, restored in collaboration with the official festival, is also screening out-of-competition.

The 37th edition will run from August 31-September 10 and is dedicated to Mantas Kvedaravicius, the Lithuanian filmmaker who was killed by Russian soldiers while covering the war in Ukraine, aged 45. Kvedaravicius presented his first fiction feature Parthenon in Critics’ Week in 2019.  

Venice International Critics’ Week 2022 line-up

In Competition

Anhell69 (Col) dir. Theo Montoya

Beating Sun (Fr) dir. Philippe Petit

Dogborn (Swe) dir. Isabella Carbonell

Eismayer (Austria) dir. David Wagner

Have You Seen This Woman? (Ser) dirs. Dusan Zoric, Matija Gluscevic

Margini (It) dir. Niccolo Falsetti

Skin Deep (Ger) dir. Alex Schaad

Out of Competition

Three Nights A Week (Fr) dir. Florent Gouelou – opening film

Queens (Mor) dir. Yasmine Benkiran – closing film

Blood (Por) dir. Pedro Costa

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