Dir: Jelena Maksimović | Drama 2026 Jelena Maksimović’s debut fiction feature is an impressively scruffy piece of political cinema, though its ambitions occasionally outrun its execution. Set against Serbia’s student protests,...

Dir:  Grzegorz Dębowski | Drama 2026 There is something deliberately claustrophobic about Grzegorz Dębowski’s What Belongs to Others. The camera seems almost unwilling to give its characters room to breathe: handheld...

Dir: Tommaso Landucci | Drama Italy 2026 Tommaso Landucci’s fiction debut, 'Children of the Monkey' (I figli della scimmia), arrives in Venice’s Orizzonti sidebar carrying the heavy weight of expectations. Luckily...

Dir: Nicolas Pariser | Cast: Drama France 2026 Nicolas Pariser’s Un peu avant minuit, in competition at Venice, is a politically engaged drama that prefers conversation to confrontation and intellectual uncertainty...

Dir: Mario Martone | Italy Drama 2026 Mario Martone’s Scherzetto is an endearing, understated little drama that gradually morphs into a thriller and something of a departure from the director’s usual...

Wri/Dir: Damilola Orimogunje Set in south-western Nigeria in the 1990s, Damilola Orimogunje’s Dear Ajayi is an intimate, atmospheric family drama about two sisters locked in a battle between duty and desire. Ade...

Dir: Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu | Cameroon, drama 2026 House of the Wind is a quietly devastating film, unfolding with an intensity that comes not from spectacle but from what remains...

Dir: Francesca Archibugi | Italy 2026 Carla Lonzi was never going to make a cosy biopic. The Italian art critic turned feminist firebrand spent her life kicking against patriarchy, convention and,...

Dir: Martin McDonagh | UK Comedy Drama 2026 McDonagh’s latest film, premiering at Venice, is unmistakably his own: wickedly funny, verbally flamboyant and populated by people who seem to regard emotional...