VENICE 2023

Oceans Are the Real Continents

Jan 13, 2025 | Festivals, Featured, VENICE 2023

Just released in the U.S., ‘Oceans Are the Real Continents’ is an exquisite love poem to Cuba, where three generations struggle to survive daily life in a small rural town.

CineVerdict: Los océanos son los verdaderos continentes

Jan 13, 2025 | Cine Verdict, Featured, Festivals, VENICE 2023

Los oceános son los verdaderos continentes es un exquisito poema de amor a Cuba, donde tres generaciones luchan por sobrevivir y sueñan con escapar, representado en una serie de cuadros de la vida cotidiana en un pequeño pueblo rural.

City of Wind

Oct 17, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, International Oscars 2024, Oscar shortlist, Pingyao 2023, Toronto 2023, VENICE 2023

In ‘City of Wind’, Mongolia’s Academy Award hopeful which has already collected prizes at Venice and Pingyao, director Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir offers a charmingly intimate look at a gifted young city-dwelling shaman.

La Vourdalak

Oct 13, 2023 | VENICE 2023, Featured, Festivals

Adrien Beau’s ‘La Vourdalak’ is a lo-fi take on the 1839 Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy novella and a super-quirky, semi-scary, and supremely absurd film..

Through The Night

Oct 12, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, VENICE 2023

Delphine Girard examines the possibly violent encounter between a man and a woman in her solidly unadorned debut feature, ‘Through the Night’, winner of the Audience Award at the Giornate degli Autori.

CineVerdict: Memoria

Sep 20, 2023 | Cine Verdict, Festivals, VENICE 2023

CINE VERDICT: Después de su inquietante pero bien recibido thriller `Sundown`, el director mexicano Michel Franco , continúa con `Memoria` un drama familiar-romance dibujado con plantilla , actuado por Jessica Chastain en el papel de una trabajadora social emocionalmente afectada, en Brooklyn.

Venice 2023: The Verdict

Sep 10, 2023 | Festivals, Featured, The Festival Verdict, VENICE 2023

The best thing about the 80th Mostra del Cinema was a stand-out film that almost all the critics were able to get behind and support wholeheartedly – and it won the Golden Lion for Best Film.

CineVerdict: La sociedad de la nieve

Sep 9, 2023 | Festivals, VENICE 2023

La caída del avión uruguayo en 1972 en los Andes es recreada respetuosamente y en gran detalle en “La sociedad de la nieve,” una película infartante sobre el desastre, que cierra el festival de cine de Venecia número 80, y es dirigida por J.A. Bayona, que ganó fama con “Lo imposible.”

Memory

Sep 9, 2023 | Festivals, Toronto 2023, VENICE 2023

Mexican director Michel Franco follows up his unsettling but well-liked Tim Roth thriller ‘Sundown’ with ‘Memory’, a paint-by-numbers romance/family drama starring Jessica Chastain as an emotionally damaged social worker in Brooklyn

Coup!

Sep 8, 2023 | Featured, Festivals, VENICE 2023

Writer-director duo Austin Stark and Joseph Schuman blend historical pandemic echoes with timeless political tensions in their old-fashioned but engaging class-war drama ‘Coup!’

Awards Corner

VENICE 2023