Dir: Akihito Hata | Cast: Damien Bonnard, Samir Guesmi, Mouna Soualem, Tudor-Aaron Istodor, Ahmed Abdel-Laoui, Denis Eyriey Issaka Sawadogo, Mounir Margoum, Zacharia Mezouar | France Sci-fi Thriller 91’ The impact of...

Dir/Wri: David Pablos | Spain Mexico 2025 93’ This neon-drenched Mexican road movie wastes no time in getting down to business. In the sleazy backwater of a darkened motorway bar two...

Dir: Ildiko ENYEDI | Cast: Tony Leung, Luna Wedler, Léa Seydoux | Drama Germany/Hungary/France –147’ Reviewed by Ian Long Beginning his tenure at the university of Marburg, neuroscientist Tony Wong finds himself...

Dir/Wri: Jethro Massey | Cast: Marie Benati, Jérémie Galiana | UK In a summery Paris boy meets girl. She is a french lesbian who occasionally dates men. He is a straightforward...

Dir: Damien Hauser | Switzerland/Kenya 80’ | Cast: Shandra Apondi, Ibraham Joseph, Samson Waithaka, Michael Garama, Damien Hauser and
Newton Ronnoh A truly unique vision of a hopeful future comes in Memory...

Dir: Evi Kalogiropoulou | Greece 92’ 2025 Female power trumps male machismo in this wacky neon-infused Mad Max style Greek revenge thriller. Evi Kalogiropoulou’s  often ludicrous feature debut is set on a...

Dir: Shahad Ameen | Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Egypt, United Kingdom - 2025 - 115’ The desert makes a beguiling backdrop to this sophomore road movie from breakout writer/director Shahad Ameen (Scales)....

Dir: Teona Strugar Mitevska | Cast: Noomi Rapace, Sylvia Hoeks, Nikola Ristanovski | Drama | 105’ 2025 Noomi Rapace stars in this inspired drama that follows a week in the life...

  Venice Film Festival continues its mission to outshine Cannes. And this year's offering may very well achieve that aim with a glittering array of features from filmmakers at the zenith...