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Venice Film Festival · 2022

Venice Film Festival 2022

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8 films · 3 reviews

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Amanda

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The story may be presented in a quirky way, with a highly distinctive visual style, but it’s well observed and relatable.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
As far as 24-year-old Amanda can remember, she has never had friends. It’s the thing she desires most. When she finds out that as infants she and Rebecca had spent a lot of time together, Amanda settles on her new mission: convincing her that they are still best friends.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Carolina Cavalli; Writer: Carolina Cavalli; Stars: Benedetta Porcaroli, Galatéa Bellugi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Michele Bravi, Monica Nappo)

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Hanging Gardens (Janain mualaqa)

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Al Daradji has a way of making the usual meanings of things slip from their moorings.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
When a young Iraqi rubbish picker rescues an American sex doll from the Baghdad dumps, he crosses into a perilous red zone, where friends become enemies and nothing is certain.

(Year: 2022; Director: Ahmed Yassin Aldaradji; Writer: Ahmed Yassin Aldaradji; Stars: Jawad Al Shakarji, Wissam Diyaa, Akram Mazen Ali, Hussain Muhammad Jalil)

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Nezouh

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If Kaadan doesn't quite get the dramatic weight to land solidly, she nevertheless has a fine eye for a poetic image.

Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
As a man refuses to flee war-torn Damascus, his wife and daughter face a choice.

(Country: Syria, UK, France; Year: 2022; Director: Soudade Kaadan; Writer: Soudade Kaadan; Stars: Samer al Masri, Kinda Alloush, Hala Zein, Nizar Alani)

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Notte Fantasma

A youngster finds himself in trouble after being arrested by a plain clothes cop.

(Country: Italy; Year: 2022; Director: Fulvio Risuleo; Writer: Fulvio Risuleo; Stars: Yothin Clavenzani, Edoardo Pesce, Elisa Pierdominici)

The Origin Of Evil (L'Origine Du Mal)

Jealousy and bitterness lead a woman to invent a whole other life for herself in order to impress the rich men and women who surround her.

(Country: France, Canada; Year: 2022; Director: Sébastien Marnier; Writer: Sébastien Marnier; Stars: Laure Calamy, Suzanne Clément, Doria Tillier, Jacques Weber, Dominique Blanc)

Valeria Is Getting Married (Valeria Mithatenet)

Christina is a Ukrainian woman who moved to Israel through a ‘bride-to-order’ kind of deal. Things work out well until her sister also arrives as a result of matchmaking.

(Country: Israel, Ukraine; Year: 2022; Director: Michal Vinik; Writer: Michal Vinik; Stars: Lena Fraifeld, Yaakov Zada Daniel, Dasha Tvoronovich, Avraham Shalom Levi)

Without Her (Bi Roya)

Just two weeks before Roya, a banned Iranian journalist, is set to emigrate from Iranshe encounters a quiet young girl. She takes her in unaware the girl has come to replace her.

(Country: Iran; Year: 2022; Director: Arian Vazirdaftari; Writer: Arian Vazirdaftari; Stars: Tannaz Tabatabaei, Saber Abar, Shadi Karamroudi, Sam Nakhai, Mehri Al Agha, Nahal Dashti, Reza Davoudnejad, Mojtaba Fallahi, Faranak Kalantar, Tiam Kermanian, Maedeh Tahmasebi, Milad Yazdani)

Zapatos Rojos (Red Shoes)

At a remote location in the mountains of Mexico lives Artemio, a farmer who is watching the desolate plot of land on which he works and his life itself slip from his fingers. When he receives shocking news, he decides to set off for the city in search of deliverance, but finds himself having to deal with a brutal world that is completely unknown to him.

(Year: 2022; Director: Carlos Eichelmann Kaiser; Stars: Natalia Solián, Eustacio Ascacio)