Tag: Venice Film Festival

The Pervert’s Guide to Utopias

Posted by Carmen Gray | Sep 8, 2026 | Festivals, 2026, VENICE 2026 |

Proving their rambunctious, winning formula is a snug fit for dark times, Sophie Fiennes and philosopher comrade Slavoj Zizek plumb how our world got to where it is, through iconic movies.

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Imperium

Posted by Carmen Gray | Sep 6, 2026 | 2026, Festivals, VENICE 2026 |

Sergei Loznitsa’s Imperium is a mesmeric, sprawling, sparely unadorned journey through the disparate corners of an imagined state monolith that never really existed.

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How to Shoot a Ghost

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Sep 1, 2025 | Festivals, VENICE 2025, Verdict Shorts |

Mortality is on the mind in Charlie Kaufman’s contemplative and illusory short, How to Shoot a Ghost – an enveloping, chimeric memento mori.

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Coyotes

Posted by Ben Nicholson | Aug 29, 2025 | Festivals, VENICE 2025, Verdict Shorts |

Said Zagha’s pulsating neo-noir probes at the dark consequences of being pushed to breaking point in Coyotes, a genre-inflected Palestinian short.

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Wishing on a Star

Posted by Carmen Gray | Oct 29, 2024 | Festivals, Leipzig 2024 |

A playful, lighthearted hybrid doc from Peter Kerekes on steering one’s fate, as an Italian astrologer sends her troubled clients off globetrotting.

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