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Venice Film Festival

30 August – 9 September 2023

The 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival will run from August 30 to September 9. It will open with Comandante and close with Society Of The Snow. Please bear with us while we input the programme.

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  • The Summer With Carmen
    Review preview for The Summer With Carmen

    With a lesser canine star, the film would not have worked, but Nala is sensational.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    While enjoying a day at Athens’ queer beach, 30-something Demosthenes offers to help his bestie and aspiring filmmaker Nikitas in drafting an idea for his feature debut, inspired by the events surrounding a certain dog named Carmen.
  • Paradise Is Burning
    Review preview for Paradise Is Burning

    With a background in documentary, director Mika Gustafson captures something that, though not always coherent, feels fresh and raw and real.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    Three sisters try to cope in the absence of parents, afraid that social services will split them up if they find out about their situation.
  • Coup!
    Review preview for Coup!

    How it feels to take credit for something you haven’t done is one of the questions Coup! invites us to contemplate.

    Anne-Katrin Titze · 3.5 out of 5
    Sheltering from the 1918 Spanish Flu at their seaside estate, a progressive journalist and his socialite wife take in a mysterious grifter as a private cook... and soon find themselves facing mutiny.
  • Sky Peals
    Review preview for Sky Peals

    An unusually intimate, exploratory film underscored by dry humour, Sky Peals has an atmosphere that you won’t find anywhere else.

    Jennie Kermode · 5 out of 5
    A lonely man starts to piece together the story of his estranged father after his death and discovers the older man didn't believe he was human.
  • Hesitation Wound
    Review preview for Hesitation Wound

    Hesitation Wound is a melancholy piece of cinema but such an accomplished one that it is a delight to watch.

    Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
    A criminal lawyer faces difficult moral and emotional choices.
  • Hoard
    Review preview for Hoard

    Hoard goes further, creeps around, becomes something you can start to smell, to taste.

    Andrew Robertson · 4 out of 5
    1984, London: Seven-year-old Maria and her mother live in their own loving world built on sorting through bins and collecting shiny rubbish. One night, their world falls apart, and we join Maria a decade later, living with her foster mother.
  • In The Land Of Saints And Sinners
    Review preview for In The Land Of Saints And Sinners

    With plenty of meat for its fine cast to chew on, the film is often intense but never loses its nuance.

    Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
    A retired assassin finds himself drawn into a game of cat and mouse.
  • Gasoline Rainbow
    Review preview for Gasoline Rainbow

    Whatever structuring the directors are doing is achieved with the lightest of touches, so that we feel as though we’re just along for the ride with these guys.

    Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
    A group of teenagers go on a road trip.
  • Green Border
    Review preview for Green Border

    Essential, urgent and damning.

    Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5
    Multifaceted drama about the plight of refugees on the Belarus/Poland border.
  • Io Capitano
    Review preview for Io Capitano

    First-timer Sarr - who is a musician - is a remarkable lead and matched by the support from fellow novice Fall.

    Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
    Two Senegalese teenagers try to realise their dream of a new life in Europe.

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