Venice Film Festival 2024
Film Fests 2024: Shah Rukh Khan Excites Locarno, ‘Anora’ Seduces Cannes, Erotic Fare Turns on Venice
THR's look at the good, the bad and the buzzed-about from the international festival circuit of the past year.
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Maura Delpero’s Venice-Winning Period Drama ‘Vermiglio’ Lands North American Distribution
Sideshow and Janus Films picked up the acclaimed Italian film after it won the 2024 Venice Film Festival's Silver Lion Grand Jury Prize.
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‘Youth (Homecoming)’ Review: Documentarian Wang Bing Concludes His Chinese Garment Workers Trilogy in Compelling Fashion
A follow-up to 2023's 'Youth (Spring)' and this year's 'Youth (Hard Times),' the film follows several factory workers as they return to their hometowns to celebrate the New Year.
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‘The Brutalist’: Venice Winner Brady Corbet Opens Up About the Tireless Seven-Year Journey Behind His Buzzy Epic
The acclaimed film, which has secured U.S. distribution with A24, stars Adrien Brody, Felicity Jones, Guy Pearce and Joe Alwyn.
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‘Love’ Review: A Charming and Intelligent Norwegian Dramedy to Win Over Hearts and Minds
The film, about two colleagues with very different approaches to sex and romance, is the second in a planned thematic trilogy from writer-director Dag Johan Haugerud.
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Venice Film Festival Awards: Pedro Almodóvar Wins Golden Lion for ‘The Room Next Door’
Other top winners include Brady Corbet (Silver Lion for best director for 'The Brutalist'), Nicole Kidman (best actress for 'Babygirl') and Vincent Lindon (best actor for 'The Quiet Son').
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‘Happy Holidays’ Review: A Cleverly Structured Palestinian Drama Explores Constriction and Complicity in Israeli Society
The latest feature by Oscar-nominated filmmaker Scandar Copti ('Ajami') observes four characters whose fates are linked through a series of surprising events.
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‘Horizon: An American Saga — Chapter Two’ Review: Kevin Costner’s Western Epic Trudges Ahead With a Slightly More Watchable Sequel
Sienna Miller, Giovanni Ribisi and Luke Wilson also star in the sweeping adventure, intended as part of a four-film series about the settlement of the American frontier.
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‘Stranger Eyes’ Review: A Slippery, Well-Acted Singaporean Thriller About Observation and Surveillance
The latest from director Yeo Siew Hua ('A Land Imagined') centers on a couple whose secrets are exposed after their young daughter goes missing.
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‘Of Dogs and Men’ Review: A Thoughtful and Quietly Powerful Israeli Docudrama Explores the Aftermath of Oct. 7
Director Dani Rosenberg ('The Vanishing Soldier') shot his latest feature at the Nir Oz kibbutz just weeks after the attacks that ignited the current Israel-Hamas war.
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‘April’ Review: A Doctor Dispenses Off-The-Books Abortions in Miraculous, Wrenching Georgian Drama
'Beginning' star Ia Sukhitashvili reunites with director Dea Kulumbegashvili for her second feature, about an OB-GYN operating in a remote rural community.
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Documentary Crew Uses Venice Red Carpet to Spotlight Ukrainian Prisoners of War
The crew of 'Songs of Slow Burning Earth' wore clothing on Venice's prestigious red carpet embroidered with the distances from the Lido to various locations where Russians are holding Ukrainian prisoners.
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