{"id":550571,"date":"2026-07-20T13:17:13","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:17:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/550571\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T13:17:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T13:17:13","slug":"venice-international-critics-week-unveils-2026-selection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/550571\/","title":{"rendered":"Venice International Critics\u2019 Week Unveils 2026 Selection"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tVenice<\/a> parallel sidebar Settimana Internazionale della Critica (International Critics\u2019 Week) has unveiled the lineup for its 41st edition.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe section, organised by the Union of Italian Film Critics (SNCCI) and focused on works by emerging filmmakers, will showcase seven features in competition and two films out of competition. <\/p>\n

\n\tColombia has a strong presence this year with two works tapping into the country\u2019s turbulent history. Bibiana Rojas G\u00f3mez and Juan David C\u00e1rdena will compete with The End of Times, a radical essay film using archive footage and artificial intelligence to reflect on memory and colonialism. They are joined by countryman Sebasti\u00e1n M\u00fanera\u2019s Meteorite, which is described as an intense female-centred story set in a land still haunted by the ghosts of violence.<\/p>\n

\n\tFurther competition titles include Tunisian director Kamel Laaridhi\u2019s dystopian drama The H@llow Man, imagining a future in which emotions and memory are controlled by technology, and London, the debut feature of Brazilian directors Victor Di Marco and M\u00e1rcio Picoli, a queer story that places physicality, desire and the freedom of self-determination at its centre.<\/p>\n

\n\tChilean-Indian London-based director Shalini Adnani is also in the mix with Our Share of Sand, a timely family drama reflecting on inequality and environmental crisis. It was showcased in Cannes this year at the project stage as part of the British Film Institute\u2019s Great 8 initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\n\tItaly<\/a> is represented in the competition with Tommaso Usberti\u2019s Prima della Guerra, described as an intense coming-of-age story set in the Po Valley addressing contemporary masculinity with extraordinary maturity.<\/p>\n

\n\tCompleting the lineup is Zoom In, Zoom Out by Chinese filmmaker Dong Jie, a work that weaves together mystery, online gaming and urban alienation to capture the anxieties of Generation Z.<\/p>\n

\n\tScreening Out-of-Competition, Marco Santi\u2019s existential noir Il grande Giaffa, starring Edoardo Pesce, will open the section, while Rider, the latest work from award-winning filmmaking and musical duo Roan Johnson and Davide Pavanello, aka Dade, is the closing film.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe latter work is described as an urban musical using the language of rap \u201cto explore precarious work, the desire for emancipation and the conflicts shaping a new Italy\u201d.<\/p>\n

\n\t\u00a0The selection for the 41st edition is curated by General Delegate Beatrice Fiorentino together with committee members Matteo Berardini, Marianna Cappi, Francesco Grieco and Marco Romagna.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe 41st Venice International Critics\u2019 Week will take place on the Venice Lido from September 2 to 12 alongside the 83rd Venice International Film Festival.<\/p>\n

\n\tFounded in 1984 by Lino Miccich\u00e9, has previously showcased the early works of Kevin Reynolds, Mike Leigh, Olivier Assayas, Harmony Korine, Pedro Costa and Pablo Trapero, as well as major names in Italian cinema including Carlo Mazzacurati, Sergio Rubini, Antonio Capuano, Roberta Torre and Gianni Di Gregorio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Venice parallel sidebar Settimana Internazionale della Critica (International Critics\u2019 Week) has unveiled the lineup for its 41st edition.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":550572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[146,85,46,2971,397,11652,250161],"class_list":["post-550571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-entertainment","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-italy","tag-movies","tag-venice","tag-venice-critics-week"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=550571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/550571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/550572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=550571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=550571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=550571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}