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Venice Film Festival · 2024

Venice Film Festival 2024

Venice Days

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3 films · 3 reviews

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Kora

Review preview for Kora

Allowing each woman’s testimony to play out uninterrupted means they gather weight, not just as individual stories but as a meditation on the nature of memory and our desire to preserve it.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Refugee women living in Portugal tell their stories.

(Country: Portugal; Year: 2024; Director: Cláudia Varejão)

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Peaches Goes Bananas

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Shot over 17 years, it mingles intimate personal moments with visceral concert footage, its musical sequences knitted together with some of the best editing you’re likely to see this year.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
From sold-out concerts to family moments with her parents and sister, the passage of time brings loss but also provides liberation for an artist whose body is a canvas for artistic expression.

(Country: France, Belgium; Year: 2024; Director: Marie Losier; Stars: Peaches, Suri Nisker, Marlene Saldana)

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To Kill A Mongolian Horse

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What emerges is a carefully calibrated, bleak but elegiac picture of an environment where people are being forced to perform rather than allowed to live on their own terms.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Saina, a herdsman by day and horseback performer by night, is torn between two worlds.

(Country: Malaysia, Hong Kong, Korea, Japan, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, US; Year: 2024; Director: Xiaoxuan Jiang; Writer: Xiaoxuan Jiang; Stars: Saina, Undus, Qilemuge, Tonggalag)

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