Dir: Tom Nicoll | UK Drama 90’ A hunger for purpose and a flair for delusion animate Tom Nicoll’s assured debut, a sharp and empathetic portrait of young men adrift in...

Dir: Gábor Reisz | Hungary Drama 108’ There is something wonderfully Hungarian about discovering a disaster just when you are supposed to be leaving for holiday. For Kristóf, it begins with a...

Dir: Lav Diaz | Drama 2026 Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors places Lav Diaz firmly back in the territory he has made unmistakably his own: the Philippine past as a living...

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...