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‘Stranger Eyes’: Venice Review 3842e
Singapore’s first film to compete at Venice is a closely-observed mystery about a child who has vanished
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‘Sicilian Lessons’: Venice Review 3h4g3x
An ex-politician goes undercover in this Sicilian mob comedy which fails to hit the target
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‘Aicha’: Venice Review 5c4x30
Mehdi M. Barsaoui directs Fatma Sfar in an electric performance as a Tunisian woman on an unexpected journey of reinvention
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‘April’: Venice Review 3b1hp
An doctor in rural Georgia risks herself to care for her female patients in Dea Kulumbegashvili’s Venice Jury Prize-winning feature
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‘Perfumed With Mint’: Venice Review 53vv
A decaying Egyptian city teems with ghosts both literal and metaphorical in this meditative debut
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‘Diva Futura’: Venice Review 2g1861
Rich, lengthy biopic explores the life and work of Italian pornographer Riccardo Schicchi
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‘Joker: Folie A Deux’: Venice Review 4v3v4y
Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix fail to spark in Todd Phillips’ musical sequel
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‘My Birthday’: Venice Review 53711c
Raw debut from Italy from Biennale College follows a young man trying to find his estranged mother on the eve of his 18th birthday
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‘The Quiet Son’: Venice Review 3s1v49
A solid Vincent Lindon dominates this disappointingly apolitical film about a French youth enthralled by the far right
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‘Pavements’: Venice Review 2h1b5
Alex Ross Perry’s hybrid documentary charts the fortunes of US indie band Pavement
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The dark tourism sites of Paris prove a quirky backdrop for this unconventional love story
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‘Happy Holidays’: Venice Review 674k5o
Scandar Copti follows the Oscar-nominated Ajami with this compelling spliced drama
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‘From Darkness To Light’: Venice Review dq3m
Startling documentary about Jerry Lewis’s failed attempt to direct a Holocaust film in Sweden in 1971
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‘Happyend’: Venice Review 4ji66
Neo Sora’s fiction debut follows a group of students in near-future Japan as they attempt to disrupt surveillance society
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‘Maldoror’: Venice Review 11126n
Anthony Bajon is a police officer determined to crack a Belgian paedophile ring in Fabrice du Welz’s tense police procedural
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‘Queer’: Venice Review 3j2m1d
Daniel Craig cruises 1950s Mexico in Luca Guadagnino’s adaptation of the William S Burroughs novella
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‘Harvest’: Venice Review 2d605h
Athina Rachel Tsangari’s film is a textured adaptation of a novel set in a 17th century Scottish village
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‘Familiar Touch’: Venice Review 3t1t6r
Sensitive drama follows an American woman struggles to keep hold of herself in the face of dementia
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‘2073’: Venice Review 3o3bp
Asif Kapadia blends documentary and fiction to present a damning hypothesis of Earth’s dystopian future
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‘Don’t Cry, Butterfly’: Venice Review 4u675s
A woman turns to the spirits to win back her philandering husband in this enigmatic Vietnamese debu