{"id":2013,"date":"2026-06-17T20:35:45","date_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:35:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2013"},"modified":"2026-06-17T20:35:45","modified_gmt":"2026-06-17T20:35:45","slug":"venice-2026-the-films-most-likely-to-make-the-cut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2013","title":{"rendered":"Venice 2026: The Films Most Likely to Make the Cut"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tAfter the studios snubbed Cannes \u2014 for the first time in decades not a single studio-backed movie premiered on the Croisette this year \u2014 the focus has shifted to Venice and the question of whether the majors will return to the Lido in force.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2011\">Tom Dreesen, Stand-Up Comic and Sinatra\u2019s Opening Act, Dies at 87<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\tA big studio show this year would strengthen director Alberto Barbera\u2019s position as the award season whisperer. Venice 2025 saw the launch of eventual Oscar-winner <em>Frankenstein<\/em> and multi-nominee <em>Bugonia<\/em> but also the quick-fire fizzles <em>A House of Dynamite<\/em> and <em>Jay Kelly. <\/em>(Not to mention <em>After the Hunt<\/em> and <em>The Smashing Machine<\/em>, which were dead on arrival).<\/p>\n<p>\n\tA few big names have ruled themselves out \u2014 Christopher Nolan\u2019s <em>The Odyssey<\/em> and Ridley Scott\u2019s <em>The Dog Stars <\/em>will drop ahead of the festival \u2014 but the studio contenders still looks impressive. Netflix is certain to be out in force \u2014 David Fincher\u2019s Brad Pitt-starrer <em>The Adventures of Cliff Booth <\/em>is their biggest fall title that could be Lido-bound \u2014 and tentpoles including Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu\u2019s <em>Digger <\/em>(Warner Bros.) and Aaron Sorkin\u2019s <em>The Social Reckoning <\/em>(Sony) can\u2019t be ruled out.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBeyond the majors, Venice should have its pick of arthouse faves. Here is our long list of the projects most likely to make the cut for the 83<sup>rd<\/sup> Biennale \u2014 from Lido regulars and up-and-comers, studio stalwarts and indie darlings.<\/p>\n<div>\n<div>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018A Good Little Soldier,\u2019 Director St\u00e9phane Briz\u00e9<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tFrench director St\u00e9phane Briz\u00e9 has screened his last three features \u2014 <em>A Woman\u2019s Life<\/em> (2016), <em>Another World <\/em>(2021) and <em>Out of Season<\/em> (2023) \u2014 in competition at Venice, and it would be a shock if his latest doesn\u2019t make the Lido cut. Gaumont has set a Nov. 25 release in France, so a Fall festival bow looks certain.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tVenice faves Alba Rohrwacher (2014 Best Actress winner for <em>Hungry Hearts<\/em>) and Vincent Lindon (Best Actor winner for 2024\u2019s <em>The Quiet Son<\/em>) star in this corporate drama, with Rohwacher playing a devoted HR executive caught between caring for her colleagues\u2019 well-being and the performance goals of her demanding boss (Lindon).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018A Long Winter,\u2019 Director Andrew Haigh<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tAndrew Haigh may be looking to return to Venice, where his 2017 feature <em>Lean on Pete<\/em> premiered, for his latest. The festival has been courting him, enticing the British director to serve on the 2024 Venice Jury. But Haigh picked Telluride for the premiere of his breakout feature, <em>All of Us Strangers<\/em>, and the fest could have the edge over Venice for his follow-up. Even the mountain setting of the new drama, adapted from a Colm T\u00f3ib\u00edn short story and starring Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Caitr\u00edona Balfe and Fred Hechinger, would seem to favor Colorado over the Lido. Expect producer\/distributor Mubi to have the final say.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018Alpha Gang,\u2019 Director David and Nathan Zellner<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tAfter two decades of kicking out cultish projects at Sundance (<em>Kumiko<\/em>, <em>The Treasure Hunter<\/em>, <em>Sasquatch Sunset<\/em>), the Zellner brothers could be poised for a splashy launch on the Lido. <em>Alpha Gang<\/em>, described as an eccentric alien invasion comedy, wrapped in Hungary last July. Cate Blanchett stars as Alpha One, leader of an extraterrestrial strike force disguised in human form as a 1950s leather-clad biker gang, whose ruthless conquest of Earth unravels when the crew catches, per the film\u2019s official description, \u201cthe most toxic, contagious human disease of all: emotion.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\n\tChris Pine, Dave Bautista, L\u00e9a Seydoux, Lily-Rose Depp, Adria Arjona and Doona Bae fill out the gang with memorable faces, with <em>It Follows <\/em>DP Mike Gioulakis shooting. Mk2 Films is selling internationally, with CAA Media Finance handling North American rights.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018Bad Lieutenant: Tokyo,\u2019 Director Takashi Miike<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tFirst Abel Ferrara, then Werner Herzog \u2014 next comes a <em>Bad Lieutenant<\/em> care of Japan\u2019s most prolific provocateur. Shun Oguri plays the titular degenerate cop, a corrupt gambler in Tokyo\u2019s Metropolitan Police Force, pulled into a tangled case when an enigmatic FBI agent (Lily James) arrives to investigate the disappearance of a politician\u2019s daughter (WWE star Liv Morgan), with a deviant killer of the yakuza underworld shadowing their moves. <em>Audition<\/em> scribe Daisuke Tengan wrote the script, and Jeremy Thomas produced. The film wrapped last year, and Neon reportedly has it set for a September release stateside. Announcing the project, Miike promised, \u201ca fastball straight down the middle of the strike zone.\u201d He previously competed in Venice with the <em>Sukiyaki Western Django <\/em>(2007) and samurai remake <em>13 Assassins <\/em>(2010).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018Behemoth!,\u2019 Director Tony Gilroy<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tFourteen years after his last feature \u2014 and fresh off the universally acclaimed <em>Star Wars<\/em> series <em>Andor<\/em> \u2014 Tony Gilroy returns to the big screen with what he\u2019s called the most personal project of his career. Drawing on his own youth as a musician, the director of <em>Michael Clayton<\/em> describes <em>Behemoth!<\/em> as a movie that \u201csurfs on music.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\n\tPedro Pascal plays a cellist from a family of musicians who returns to Los Angeles for session work, with the film\u2019s score reportedly triggering flashbacks across two decades to reveal why he left and why he\u2019s come back. Will Arnett \u2014 stepping in for <em>Stranger Things<\/em>\u2018 David Harbour, who exited after the shoot began \u2014 co-stars alongside Olivia Wilde, Eva Victor and Matthew Lillard. Gilroy reunites with his acclaimed <em>Andor<\/em> cinematographer Dami\u00e1n Garc\u00eda. Searchlight hasn\u2019t dated the film yet, but it\u2019s expected to launch during the fall awards corridor, which could set the stage for Gilroy\u2019s European festival debut.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018Being Heumann,\u2019 Director Sian Heder<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tSian Heder\u2019s follow-up to her Oscar-winner <em>CODA<\/em> is an adaptation of the memoir of disability rights activist Judy Heumann, following her 28-day occupation of the San Francisco Federal Building in 1977, a landmark protest for disability rights and accessibility legislation. Ruth Madeley stars as Heumann, Mark Ruffalo plays her advisary, U.S. Secretary of Health, Education, and Welfare Joseph A. Califano Jr.. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tAn obvious awards play, <em>Being Heumann<\/em> will land at one of the big fall festivals. If not Venice, than Telluride or TIFF. It may come down to Apple, which is producing and releasing the feature, and who have taken a liking to Venice in recent years, using the Lido to platform their high-end series <em>Disclaimer<\/em> and the Brad Pitt\/George Clooney action comedy <em>Wolfs<\/em>. Seth Rogen also caught a vaporetto to the festival last year, using Venice as a backdrop for Season 2 of AppleTV\u2019s <em>The Studio<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018Bucking Fastard,\u2019 Director Werner Herzog<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<br \/>Werner Herzog reportedly turned down an out-of-competition slot in Cannes for his latest feature film, making a Venice premiere all but certain. Siblings Rooney and Kate Mara stars as twins who dig a tunnel through a mountain in search of a mythical land where \u201ctrue love is possible\u201d in this new piece of existential weirdness from the legendary director of <em>Fitzcarraldo<\/em> and <em>Grizzly Man<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018Bunker,\u2019 Director Florian Zeller<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tZeller\u2019s London- and Madrid-shot psychological thriller finished filming early this year and has been in post since spring, which precluded a Cannes entry. The director\u2019s first original screenplay, after adapting two of his own plays for the screen (<em>The Father<\/em>, <em>The Son<\/em>), <em>Bunker<\/em> stars real-life spouses Javier Bardem and Pen\u00e9lope Cruz as a couple whose marriage buckles after he, a celebrated architect, accepts a commission to build a bunker for a billionaire. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tZeller has said he wrote the script expressly for the Spanish pair, hoping to draw on the texture of a real long-term cohabitation. Stephen Graham, Paul Dano and Patrick Schwarzenegger co-star. FilmNation is handling sales. None of <em>Bunker<\/em>\u2018s principals are Venice newcomers. <em>The Son<\/em> premiered in competition there in 2022, and both leads have won Volpi Cups \u2014 Bardem for <em>Before Night Falls<\/em> (2000), Cruz for <em>Parallel Mothers<\/em> (2021).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018Circles,\u2019 Director Michel Franco<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<em>Circles<\/em> marks a departure, geographic at least, for Michel Franco. Instead of modern-day Mexico, the Hebrew-language film is set in early-1950s, during the formative years of the State of Israel. Co-written with Tom Shoval (<em>Youth<\/em>), it follows real-life brother and sister Meir and Shoshana Har Zion, whose lives tracked the bloody history of the region.  Produced by Alexander Rodnyansky of AR Content, <em>Circles<\/em> was snatched up for France by Metropolitan, leading some to assume it would premiere in Cannes, but Venice, where Franco won the Silver Lion for <em>New Order<\/em> back in 2021, now looks the safe bet. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018Cry to Heaven,\u2019 Director Tom Ford<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tTom Ford successfully premiered his first two features in Venice: 2009\u2019s <em>A Single Man<\/em> won Best Actor for star Colin Firth and <em>Nocturnal Animals<\/em> took the 2016 Grand Jury Prize. The Italian setting of <em>Cry to Heaven<\/em> \u2014 adapted from the Anne Rice novel, about an 18th century Venetian noble and a maestro castrato from Calabria who team up to make it big in the opera world \u2014\u00a0and the stacked cast, featuring Nicholas Hoult, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, George MacKay and Adele, make the Lido the most likely launch pad for his new film as well.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018Digger,\u2019 Director Alejandro G. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tIf Warner Bros. wills it, <em>Digger<\/em> will be this year\u2019s event of the Lido. The studio has dated I\u00f1\u00e1rritu\u2019s first English-language film since <em>The Revenant <\/em>for U.S. release on Oct. 2, the very same frame <em>Joker<\/em> claimed in 2019 weeks after winning Venice\u2019s Golden Lion. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tBilled as \u201ca comedy of catastrophic proportions,\u201d Tom Cruise stars as Digger Rockwell, \u201cthe most powerful man in the world,\u201d racing to prove he\u2019s humanity\u2019s savior before a disaster of his own making destroys everything. Although technically a studio comedy, the film is suffused with awards season pedigree. Emmanuel Lubezki shot <em>Digger<\/em> on 35mm VistaVision, and Sandra H\u00fcller, Jesse Plemons, John Goodman, Michael Stuhlbarg, Riz Ahmed, Sophie Wilde and Emma D\u2019Arcy fill out the $125 million production. I\u00f1\u00e1rritu is also a Venice regular \u2014 <em>21 Grams<\/em>, <em>Birdman<\/em> (en route to best picture), and <em>Bardo<\/em> also premiered there. Cruise got his fighter-jet moment in Cannes just a few years ago; perhaps it\u2019s time for an armada of water taxis.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018Dune: Part Three,\u2019 Director Denis Villeneuve<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tWarner Bros. has set Villeneuve\u2019s trilogy-closer for release on Dec. 18 \u2014 head-to-head with Marvel-Disney\u2019s <em>Avengers: Doomsday<\/em>, a clash some have already dubbed \u201cDunesday.\u201d At this point, a December tentpole of <em>Dune<\/em>\u2018s scale hardly needs a festival. But Villeneuve and Venice have history: the director premiered <em>Arrival<\/em> in competition in 2016 and launched <em>Dune: Part One<\/em> to tremendous fanfare out of competition on the Lido in 2021.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tShot on 65mm film and IMAX formats, largely in Budapest, the <em>Dune Messiah<\/em> adaptation wrapped in November 2025, plenty of time for the project\u2019s prodigious VFX to be ready by September. Timoth\u00e9e Chalamet\u2019s emperor Paul faces the conspiracies of Frank Herbert\u2019s follow-up novel alongside Zendaya, Florence Pugh, Jason Momoa, Rebecca Ferguson and Javier Bardem, with Robert Pattinson joining the saga, reportedly as shape-shifting villain Scytale. <em>Part Two<\/em>, released in March 2024, skipped festivals entirely \u2014 but Barbera is undoubtedly taking his shot.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018Harmonia,\u2019 Director Guy Nattiv<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tGuy Nattiv made Lido history in 2023 when <em>Tatami<\/em> \u2014 the first feature ever co-directed by an Israeli and an Iranian, made with Zar Amir Ebrahimi \u2014 world-premiered in Venice\u2019s Orizzonti competition. The Israeli director has described his follow-up as his \u201cmost personal film\u201d to date. Drawn from his own grandmother\u2019s real-life entanglement with a sinister cult, the 1980s-set thriller stars Carrie Coon as Rita, a mother who abandons her family for an all-female commune run by Lily James\u2019 radiant young guru; Bella Ramsey and Odessa Young play the daughters who stage a rescue mission. The film shot in British Columbia last summer and Bleecker Street, which released Nattiv\u2019s Golda, holds U.S. rights and plans a late 2026 theatrical release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018Here Comes the Flood,\u2019 Fernando Meirelles<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tNetflix paid seven figures for Simon Kinberg\u2019s spec script back in 2020 \u2014 Jason Bateman was once attached to direct \u2014 and the long-gestating heist thriller, told in nonlinear fashion, has finally come together under <em>City of God<\/em> director Fernando Meirelles. Denzel Washington, Daisy Edgar-Jones and Robert Pattinson star in the tale of a bank guard, a teller and a master thief locked in a deadly game of cons and double crosses, with Danai Gurira, Sean Harris and Justin Kirk supporting. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe film was shot in New Jersey through late January, with Meirelles reuniting with his <em>City of God<\/em> DP C\u00e9sar Charlone. Netflix hasn\u2019t dated <em>Here Comes the Flood <\/em>yet, nor revealed whether it will be positioned as a potential awards contender or simply a commercial play with an especially high-end cast.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018I\u2019ll Forget Your Name,\u2019 Director Yann Gonzalez<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tYann Gonzalez has been a Cannes stalwart \u2014\u00a0his debut short <em>By the Kiss<\/em> (2006) premiered there, as have both his features, <em>You and the Night <\/em>(2013), and<em> Knife + Heart <\/em>(2013) \u2014\u00a0but his new feature was picked for last year\u2019s Venice Gap-Financing Market, and those projects, once finished, tend to land on the Lido. The film seen Gonzalez re-teaming with Vanessa Paradis and his brother, M83 frontman Anthony Gonzalez, on what is described as a gothic fantasy romance. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tParadis plays a 50-year-old schoolteacher living in a remote mountain village who leads a double life as a one-night-stand seducer of lonely men. But the main attraction for Venice could be her co-star, Filippo Scotti, the young Italian who won the Marcello Mastroianni Award as best emerging actor at the festival in 2021 for Paolo Sorrentino\u2019s <em>The Hand of God<\/em>. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018Ink,\u2019 Director Danny Boyle<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tAfter his bloody comeback with zombie franchise reboot <em>28 Years Later<\/em>, Danny Boyle is shifting gears with this drama, adapted from James Graham\u2019s stage play, about the rise of media mogul Rupert Murdoch. Guy Pearce plays Murdoch with Jack O\u2019Connell as Larry Lamb, editor of Murdoch-owned British tabloid <em>The Sun<\/em>. It looks like a strong return to biographical drama for the <em>Steve Jobs<\/em> director. It\u2019s a toss up which Fall fest will land it. Venice has a good chance but <em>Ink<\/em> could as easily look to Telluride, where Boyle screened <em>Steve Jobs<\/em>, or Toronto, where he triumphed with <em>Slumdog Millionaire, <\/em>as the launch pad for its award run.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018I Play Rocky,\u2019 Director Peter Farrelly<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<em>I Play Rocky <\/em>has been a hot title since FilmNation began shopping it to international buyers back in Cannes 2024.  A Hollywood-behind-Hollywood feature, it follows Sylvester Stallone in his struggles to get his 1976 classic made, while insisting he, an acting no-hoper, will play the lead. Anthony Ippolito, who played a young Al Pacino in Paramount\u2019s \u201cmaking of <em>The Godfathe<\/em>r\u201d series <em>The Offe<\/em>r, is Stallone, with Jay Duplass as <em>Rocky<\/em> director John G. Avildsen, Stephan James as Carl Weathers, and Matt Dillon as Frank Stallone Sr.  <\/p>\n<p>\n\tAmazon MGM, who have domestic rights, have dated this for a Nov. 13 limited release, going wide Nov. 20, almost 50 years to the day of the original <em>Rocky<\/em> premiere (released Nov. 21, 1976). The film history hook, and Balboa\u2019s Italian roots, would make this one a nice fit for Venice, but given Farrelly\u2019s penchant for Toronto \u2014 he premiered both <em>Green Book <\/em>(2018) and <em>The Greatest Beer Run Ever<\/em> (2022) at TIFF \u2014 the Great North seems the most likely launchpad. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018It Will Happen Tonight,\u2019 Director Nanni Moretti<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tThis could be the year Barbera claims back one of Italy\u2019s most established festival favorites. Every Moretti feature since <em>Caro diario<\/em> (1994) has premiered at Cannes, but the Palme d\u2019Or winner\u2019s romantic drama \u2014 his second adaptation of an Eshkol Nevo work after <em>Three Floors <\/em>\u2014 shot through last autumn in Spain, Rome and Turin, was conspicuously absent from the Croisette in May. A Venice bow would be his first since <em>Palombella rossa<\/em> in 1989.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSpanish distributor BTeam has dated the Italy-France-Spain co-production for Christmas, solid positioning for a Lido launch. Louis Garrel leads opposite Jasmine Trinca \u2014 the female lead of Moretti\u2019s Palme d\u2019Or winner <em>The Son\u2019s Room<\/em> some 25 years ago \u2014 with Moretti, who recovered quickly from a 2025 heart attack, taking a small role himself. Interweaving several of Nevo\u2019s stories, the film, the director has said, \u201cmanages to describe our feelings today, our fears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2008\">Lukas Gage Says \u2018Prison Break\u2019 Reboot Will Be \u201cReally Dark\u201d and Teases \u201cWe Might See a Couple of OGs Coming Back\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>Jesse Eisenberg Untitled Musical<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tAfter the success of <em>A Real Pain<\/em>, Jesse Eisenberg is poised to take his most ambitious swing yet: an original musical, for which he wrote the songs himself. Julianne Moore plays a shy woman unexpectedly cast in a community-theater production who goes to extremes as she loses herself in the role, falling under the spell of its strong-willed director, played by Paul Giamatti. Halle Bailey, \u00a0Havana Rose Liu and Broadway legend Bernadette Peters co-star, with Emma Stone producing through her Fruit Tree banner and A24 distributing.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tThe pedigree behind the camera is similarly stacked, with\u00a0<em>Anora<\/em>\u00a0DP Drew Daniels shooting, <em>Hamilton<\/em>\u00a0choreographer Andy Blankenbuehler staging the musical numbers, and\u00a0<em>A Complete Unknown\u2019s\u00a0<\/em>Steven Gizicki supervising the music. Shooting wrapped after an April start in New Jersey. Eisenberg is a Sundance regular \u2014 both his prior features bowed in Park City \u2014 but a finished fall-ready musical of this scale makes sense for a step up into the European prestige leagues.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018Kawalan,\u2019 Director Lav Diaz<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tLav Diaz may be an acquired taste, but Venice has embraced the slow cinema style of the Filipino filmmaker and his latest durational opus looks Lido-bound. Set in the Philippines during the pre-World War II Commonwealth period, it follows the old, venerable mayor of the remote town of Kawalan, who, after learning of the impending Japanese invasion, organizes members in his community to set up a hidden settlement in the middle of the forest, where they hope to escape the impending atrocities of the war. Even if <em>Kawalan<\/em> doesn\u2019t make the competition cut, it looks a lock for Venice\u2019s Horizons sidebar.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018Let Love In,\u2019 Director Felix van Groeningen<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tFelix van Groeningen\u2019s new feature looks a sure pick for Venice, given the blockbuster success, in Italy, of his last feature, <em>The Eight Mountains<\/em>, and the red carpet draw of its Italian star Luca Marinelli. Charlotte Vandermeersch, co-director on <em>Eight Mountains<\/em>, penned the script to <em>Let Love In <\/em>with Van Groeningen and Anne Paulicevich, and steps in front of the camera to co-star alongside Marinelli as a couple whose relationship is destabilised after a long-buried affair resurfaces.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018Look Back,\u2019 Director Hirokazu Kore-eda<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tWith its Japan release date set for Sept. 11, smack in the middle of Venice, <em>Look Back<\/em> could give perennial Japanese festival favorite Hirokazu Kore-eda his second high profile European premiere this year. Completed not long after his speculative soft-sci-fi <em>Sheep in the Box<\/em>, which competed at Cannes in May, <em>Look Back <\/em>is the first live-action adaptation of Tatsuki Fujimoto\u2019s beloved manga, a coming-of-age story about two girls chasing their dreams of becoming manga artists. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tProduced by start-up label K2 Pictures, Look Back was shot in Japan\u2019s northern Nikaho City with Natsuki Deguchi starring as the cocky Fujino and Aju Makita as her reclusive classmate Kyomoto. As usual, Kore-eda wrote, directed and edited the feature. GKIDS has already snapped up U.S., U.K. and Irish rights, while Goodfellas is selling it elsewhere outside Asia. Kore-eda\u2019s Lido history runs deep \u2014 his debut <em>Maborosi<\/em> bowed there in 1995.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018Mimesis\u2019 Director Kaouther Ben Hania<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tKaouther Ben Hania looks set to return to Venice a year after her docudrama <em>The Voice of Hind Rajab <\/em>rocked the Lido, winning the Grand Jury Prize on the way to an Oscar nomination. This feature, described as an epic love story set in Tunsia in the 1940s and 1990s, was ready to shoot in 2024, before <em>Hind Rajab<\/em>, but Ben Hania put the project on hold to focus on the more politically urgent story of the Palestinian girl killed, along with her family, by Israeli forces in Gaza.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018Musk,\u2019 Director Alex Gibney<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tAlex Gibney delivered a finished cutof his hotly-anticipated documentary on Elon Musk early last year only to return to the editing suite to reshape the film, expanding its scope to include Musk\u2019s involvement in U.S. politics and his DOGE escapades. Recent Musk-y headlines, including the hype around the IPO of Space X, and his new status as the world\u2019s first trillionaire, could mean further delays, so a Venice premiere is far from certain.  <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018No Pain,\u2019 Director Gianni Amelio<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tAs a Venice veteran, and Golden Lion winner (for <em>The Way We Laughed<\/em> in 1998), Amelio should be guaranteed a competition slot for his lastest. The drama, featuring Italian stars Valeria Golino and Alessandro Borghi, is set in a town struck down by a strange phenomenon which puts the entire population to sleep. The main question is whether the film, which just finished principle photography in April, will be ready for the Lido.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018Possible Love,\u2019 Director Lee Chang-dong<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tEight years after <em>Burning<\/em>, the elder statesman of Korean arthouse cinema returns. Backed by Netflix and already buzzed-about as one of the streamer\u2019s leading international awards contenders of the year, Lee\u2019s latest searing melodrama is said to follow two married couples leading completely opposite lives whose worlds collide, sending fractures through their daily existence. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tKorean screen royalty Jeon Do-yeon and Sul Kyung-gu play Mi-ok and Ho-seok, opposite Zo In-sung and <em>Parasite<\/em>\u2018s Cho Yeo-jeong, with Lee co-writing alongside Oh Jung-mi. The casting is a homecoming in itself \u2014 Jeon won Cannes\u2019 best actress prize for Lee\u2019s landmark <em>Secret Sunshine<\/em>, Sul anchored his classics <em>Peppermint Candy<\/em> and <em>Oasis<\/em>, and this marks the pair\u2019s fourth screen partnership. Lee is usually a Cannes stalwart, but Netflix is all but certain to bring him back to the Lido for the first time since he received the Silver Lion for best direction in 2002 for <em>Oasis<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018Primetime,\u2019 Director Lance Oppenheim<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tDocumentarian Lance Oppenheim \u2014 whose unnerving studies of eccentric American subcultures span <em>Some Kind of Heaven<\/em>, <em>Spermworld<\/em> and HBO\u2019s <em>Ren Faire<\/em> \u2014 makes his narrative feature debut with an A24 film starring Robert Pattinson as Chris Hansen, the NBC newsman whose televised predator stings became a mid-2000s ratings phenomenon. Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo and Phoebe Bridgers, in her feature debut, co-star, and Pattinson produces through his Icki Eneo Arlo banner alongside Square Peg\u2019s Lars Knudsen and Ari Aster. Shot in New Orleans in early 2025, the film dropped a queasy first teaser in late May, and A24 is reportedly targeting a fall release.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018Saturn Return,\u2019 Director Greg Kwedar<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tIn astrology, a Saturn return is the planet\u2019s roughly 29-year homecoming to its natal position \u2014 the cosmic deadline for growing up. Greg Kwedar\u2019s follow-up to <em>Train Dreams<\/em> is a Chicago-set romance spanning the decade between aspirational college love and the complicated realities of adulthood, told across two timelines as former best friends Eve, Anders and Nathan reunite as virtual strangers at a funeral, the film tracing \u201cwhat was lost in between and what can still be found.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\n\tCharles Melton, Rachel Brosnahan and Will Poulter lead, with David Morse, Kim Dickens and Jean Yoon in supporting parts. Gaelyn Golde wrote the script \u2014 revised by Kwedar and his <em>Train Dreams<\/em> partner Clint Bentley \u2014 and Plan B produces for Netflix. Plan B\u2019s awards pedigree and Melton\u2019s rising star power make Venice a natural launch pad, with Toronto a potential fallback.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018Sweetsick,\u2019 Director Alice Birch<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<em>Lady Macbeth <\/em>screenwriter Birch will make her directorial debut with this drama, starring and produced by Cate Blanchett, who plays a woman with a strange gift of being able to see what others most intimately need. Blanchett\u2019s involvement makes the film a good fit for Venice \u2014 she was Venice Jury President in 2020, won Best Actress on the Lido for <em>T\u00e1r <\/em>in 2022 and was part of the ensemble cast of last year\u2019s Golden Lion winner <em>Father Mother Sister Brother<\/em> \u2014 but studio backer Searchlight might prefer to premiere the film in Toronto.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018Tender Loving Care,\u2019 Director Mike Leigh<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tMike Leigh, winner of the Golden Lion for <em>Vera Drake<\/em> in 2004, is looking to return to Venice with his latest, arriving just two years after TIFF contender <em>Hard Truths<\/em>. As ever with Leigh, plot details of the feature, starring Marion Bailey, Paul Jesson, Kate O\u2019Flynn, and Alice Bailey Johnson remain closely guarded. But the rapid turnaround between projects suggests a renewed creative momentum for the veteran British director, who, at 83, shows no signs of slowing down.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018The Adventures of Cliff Booth,\u2019 Director David Fincher<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tSeldom do you get to see such distinctive auteurs enter each other\u2019s worlds. Quentin Tarantino created the characters and wrote the script, but, reluctant to make it his tenth and final film, handed the reins to David Fincher \u2014 who reunites with Brad Pitt for the first time since\u00a0<em>The Curious Case of Benjamin Button<\/em>, their fourth collaboration after\u00a0<em>Seven<\/em>\u00a0and\u00a0<em>Fight Club<\/em>. Pitt reprises his Oscar-winning\u00a0<em>Once Upon a Time in Hollywood<\/em>\u00a0role, the story leaping forward in time to a \u201cvery different Hollywood\u201d of 1977, where the former stuntman now works as a studio fixer. <\/p>\n<p>\n\tElizabeth Debicki, Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Timothy Olyphant, Carla Gugino, Scott Caan and Peter Weller fill out the ensemble, with Fincher\u2019s regulars Erik Messerschmidt shooting and Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross scoring the $200 million Netflix production. Just two years ago, Fincher and Netflix premiered <em>The Killer <\/em>in competition on the Lido, but that film launched on streaming on Nov. 10. Netflix has set an exclusive IMAX run for <em>The Adventures of Cliff Booth<\/em> on Nov. 25 ahead of its Dec. 23 streaming release \u2014\u00a0a long stretch, but here\u2019s hoping Barbera pulls off a coup.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018The Basics of Philosophy,\u2019 Director Paul Schrader<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\u201cVenice is the Lion of my heart,\u201d Paul Schrader declared in 2022, while accepting the festival\u2019s Golden Lion for lifetime achievement. The Lido has become the go-to launchpad for the <em>Taxi Driver<\/em> scribe\u2019s late-career output, having premiered <em>First Reformed<\/em> (2017) and <em>The Card Counter<\/em> (2021) before hosting <em>Master Gardener<\/em> (2022) out of competition.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tSchrader\u2019s latest extends his long-running man-in-a-room lineage: Jack Huston embodies the latest diary-keeping, damaged protagonist, following Ethan Hawke, Oscar Isaac and Joel Edgerton, playing a repressed philosophy professor grappling with buried guilt over a past decision when the victim suddenly reenters his life. Sofia Boutella, Bill Pullman, Dana Delany and Daniel Zovatto co-star, with <em>Good Time<\/em> DP Sean Price Williams shooting his first Schrader picture and <em>Card Counter<\/em> producers Braxton Pope and David Wulf back on board. The film wrapped a brisk six-week shoot across Kansas City, New Haven and Los Angeles last July. After his detour to Cannes for 2024\u2019s <em>Oh, Canada<\/em>, a Lido homecoming for Schrader feels highly likely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018The Echo Chamber,\u2019 Director Andrea Pallaoro<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n<em>The Echo Chamber<\/em> has a powerful Italian pedigree behind it. The film is built on the final screenplay by Bernardo Bertolucci, who died in 2018. The maestro behind <em>The Conformist<\/em> and <em>The Last Emperor<\/em> co-wrote the script with Ilaria Bernardini and Ludovica Rampoldi, and it has been entrusted to a fitting custodian: all three of Trento-born Pallaoro\u2019s features have premiered at Venice \u2014 <em>Medeas<\/em> (2013), then <em>Hannah<\/em> (2017), which won Charlotte Rampling the Volpi Cup, and <em>Monica<\/em> (2022). <\/p>\n<p>\n\tAlicia Vikander and Luca Marinelli star in <em>The Echo Chamber <\/em>as Anne and Leo, lovers trapped in a bond they can neither escape nor relinquish, with Susan Sarandon as Ava, a voice echoing across time and memory. Paolo Sorrentino\u2019s home shingle Indigo Film produces with Rai Cinema; Paradise City is selling worldwide with UTA co-repping North America. Now in post \u2014 and unveiled via first-look images during the Cannes market \u2014 the project should be ready in time for September.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018The Social Reckoning,\u2019 Director Aaron Sorkin<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tSixteen years after <em>The Social Network<\/em> opened the New York Film Festival, Aaron Sorkin returns to the subject of Mark Zuckerberg\u2019s Facebook \u2014 this time directing his own script. Billed as a companion piece rather than a sequel, the drama recounts how Facebook engineer-turned-whistleblower Frances Haugen (Mikey Madison) enlisted Wall Street Journal reporter Jeff Horwitz (Jeremy Allen White) to expose the platform\u2019s most guarded secrets \u2014 the reporting published in 2021 as \u201cThe Facebook Files\u201d \u2014 while Jeremy Strong assumes the Zuckerberg mantle from Jesse Eisenberg.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBill Burr, Wunmi Mosaku, Billy Magnussen and Betty Gilpin co-star. In something of a continuity flourish, David Fincher\u2019s <em>Social Network<\/em> DP Jeff Cronenweth returns behind the camera, but Alexandre Desplat wrote this one\u2019s score rather than Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross. Columbia has dated the film for Oct. 9. Venice would likely welcome the world premiere, though Telluride and a return to NYFF loom as rivals.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018The Statement,\u2019 Director Tom McCarthy<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tA Florida beachside resort, 1980: twenty scientists, activists and policymakers gather for a weekend conference on a curious new issue \u2014 CO2 emissions \u2014 with one congressional mandate, to \u201cwrite a statement about what to do.\u201d Tom McCarthy\u2019s darkly comic origin story of the climate debate, adapted from Nathaniel Rich\u2019s <em>Losing Earth<\/em> with Jacques Audiard\u2019s regular writers Thomas Bidegain and No\u00e9 Debr\u00e9, assembles an embarrassment of character-actor riches: Paul Rudd, Paul Giamatti, John Turturro, Tatiana Maslany, Amy Ryan, Evan Peters and Jason Clarke.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tMcCarthy\u2019s <em>Spotlight<\/em> world-premiered on the Lido in 2015 on the way to winning the best picture Oscar, and this is his first feature since <em>Stillwater<\/em> bowed at Cannes five years ago. Sony Pictures Classics would likely prefer to repeat <em>Spotlight<\/em>\u2018s playbook, but cameras only rolled in St. Petersburg, Florida this spring, which could make a fall festival bow a stretch. The film hasn\u2019t yet been dated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018The Uprising,\u2019 Director Paul Greengrass<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tPaul Greengrass doesn\u2019t have much history with Venice \u2014\u00a0his only Lido debut was Netflix real-life drama <em>22<\/em> <em>July<\/em> back in 2018 \u2014\u00a0but his latest effort could make the 2026 cut. Andrew Garfield headlines as a farmer who becomes a leader of the English Peasants\u2019 Revolt, the 1381 uprising against King Richard II. The star-studded cast \u2014\u00a0Thomasin McKenzie, Katherine Waterston, Jamie Bell, Tom Hollander, and Jonny Lee Miller \u2014\u00a0might tip the balance for Venice, though a Toronto or Telluride bow are just as likely. <\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands,\u2019 Director Nathalie \u00c1lvarez Mes\u00e9n<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tNathalie \u00c1lvarez Mes\u00e9n made her feature debut in Cannes with 2021 Directors\u2019 Fortnight stand out<br \/><em>Clara Sola<\/em>, but the Swedish-Costa Rican director is no Venice newbie. <em>Entre T\u00fa y Milagros<\/em>, which she co wrote with director Mariana Saffon, won the Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film on the Lido in 2020. Her sophomore feature, and English-language debut, is a gothic horror co-written with Icelandic author Sj\u00f3n (<em>Lamb<\/em>, <em>The Northman<\/em>). Set in the 1860s Pacific Northwest, it stars Darla Contois (<em>Little Bird<\/em>) as a Native American governess hired to teach the daughters of a British widower (played by Alexander Skarsg\u00e5rd). Production on the film wrapped in December so a Venice (or Toronto) bow looks likely.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018Trick,\u2019 Director Mario Martone<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tAnnouncing the Naples shoot of <em>Trick<\/em> earlier this year, Martone offered an appealingly off-hand, entirely Italian logline: \u201cNaples, a house, a grandfather, a four-year-old grandson. Enough of a synopsis?\u201d Adapted with Ippolita di Majo from Domenico Starnone\u2019s novel \u2014 translated into English by Jhumpa Lahiri \u2014 the chamber piece unfolds almost entirely within an apartment and its balcony over a few days, staging an unexpected duel between Toni Servillo\u2019s Daniele Mallarico, a celebrated illustrator long accustomed to solitude, and his grandson, played by Lorenzo Perrotta, with Serena Rossi and Leonardo Lidi as the boy\u2019s parents.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIt\u2019s the seventh Martone-Servillo collaboration, and Martone won Venice\u2019s Grand Jury Prize with his 1992 debut <em>Death of a Neapolitan Mathematician<\/em>, while Servillo arrives as the reigning Volpi Cup winner for last year\u2019s <em>La grazia<\/em>. The film wrapped production in the spring, which makes the timeline tight \u2014 but after Martone\u2019s recent detours to Cannes for <em>Nostalgia<\/em> and <em>Fuori<\/em>, the home turf of the Lido beckons.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018Wild Horse Nine,\u2019 Director Martin McDonagh<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tProbably the most bankable Venice contender on this list. McDonagh\u2019s last two features \u2014 <em>Three Billboards Outside Ebbing<\/em>, <em>Missouri<\/em> and <em>The Banshees of Inisherin<\/em> \u2014 both world-premiered in Venice\u2019s competition, both won the festival\u2019s screenplay prize, and together they collected 16 Oscar nominations. Can you imagine a cast with more salty personality? McDonagh\u2019s new one sends CIA agents Chris (John Malkovich) and Lee (Sam Rockwell) from Santiago to Easter Island shortly before the 1973 Chilean coup, dispatched by their bureau chief MJ (Steve Buscemi). Tom Waits and Parker Posey co-star. Among the island\u2019s iconic statues, dark pasts, present conspiracies and Chris\u2019s bond with two rebellious students conspire to send the trip sideways. Produced by Blueprint and Film4, the film has been set for a Nov. 6 release by Searchlight \u2014 with a trailer already out since March.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<article>\n<h2>\u2018Woman, Unknown,\u2019 Director May el-Toukhy<\/h2>\n<p><!-- do not apply CSS styles to this element! --><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\n\tDanish-Egyptian filmmaker May el-Toukhy broke out at Sundance in 2019 with <em>Queen of Hearts<\/em>, winner of the World Cinema dramatic audience award, and her long-awaited third feature looks built for a European festival launchpad. Set in post-World War II Denmark, the drama follows Marie (Mathilde Arcel), a young housekeeper poised to marry the wealthy widower she serves, while guarding a shameful secret: a wartime relationship with a German soldier that resurfaces during the three days surrounding her engagement dinner. Carsten Bj\u00f8rnlund co-stars in the Nordisk Film production, co-written with longtime collaborator Maren Louise K\u00e4hne, shot in Riga, Gothenburg and Copenhagen, and with a late-2026 release planned. An Orizzonti berth beckons, but a big step up into Venice\u2019s main competition is also conceivable.<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/uspropertymoves.com\/?p=2006\">Tom Holland Is Back Swinging in \u2018Spider-Man: Brand New Day\u2019 Trailer<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From &#8216;Dune 3&#8217; to &#8216;Digger&#8217;: the biggest, buzziest and most likely contenders for the 83rd Venice Film Festival.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2012,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[1362,1664,1363,1665,641,2,1211,1185,1666,1667,1668,1669],"class_list":["post-2013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting","tag-aaron-sorkin","tag-danny-boyle","tag-david-fincher","tag-dune-part-three","tag-elon-musk","tag-international","tag-jesse-eisenberg","tag-kaouther-ben-hania","tag-mike-leigh","tag-timothee-chalamet-2","tag-venice-2026","tag-venice-film-festival"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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