Venice 2026: Roberto De Paolis Maino’s Savage Satire ‘Serpenti’ Takes Aim At Society’s Ills
Pillars of the criminal justice system are excoriated in Roberto De Paolis Maino’s existential, absurdist comedy, Serpenti (Snakes), especially the ...
Pillars of the criminal justice system are excoriated in Roberto De Paolis Maino’s existential, absurdist comedy, Serpenti (Snakes), especially the ...
Brazilian filmmakers Victor Di Marco & Márcio Picoli's debut feature London sets out to showcase that “disabled bodies are the ...
Set in Mexico near the U.S. border, Gabriel Gutierrez Morales’s debut feature Tijuana, Todavia (Still, Tijuana), centers on two lonely, ...
“Don’t you just ever wanna bleed ‘em?” -- Man on plane “I think what I do is a little worse.” ...
Jane Fonda once discussed how important it was to seek out and unearth details of her ancestors’/parents’ past in order ...
Austrian filmmaker Manuel Wetscher’s feature debut, Eklipse, is set in August of 1999, right before a solar eclipse, in a ...
Much like last year’s nuclear Venice nail-biter, A House of Dynamite, Alexandre Smia’s taut, tense and dynamic thriller, Jupiter, deals ...
Set in Yaoundé, the capital city of Cameroon, Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu’s House of the Wind (La Maison Du Vent) ...
Set in Rome, Gianni Amelio’s Nessun Dolore, follows Davide (Alessandro Borghi), a somewhat odd but affable street bookseller who has ...
“We came down here to destabilize your democracy,” proudly boasts Chris (John Malkovich) a 72-year-old CIA operative to a pair ...
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