Winner of the Audience Award and Best Documentary at the 2024 Berlinale, followed by an Oscar in 2025, Yuval Abraham & Rachel Szor – two of the four members of the collective – are presenting *Naza* in the #Venice2026 competition for MK2. The illustration accompanying the article is embarrassing:

Having directed his debut film in 2020 and produced the 2023 Teddy Award winner, Nigerian filmmaker Damilola Orimogunje is presenting *Dear Ajayi* at #Venice2026 for Luminalia.

Following a typically launched debut in Gdynia in 2023, Polish director Grzegorz Dębowski presents *What Belongs to Others* at #Venice2026 Orizzonti for New Europe. After the first quarter of an hour, the plot takes a rather unpredictable and compelling turn:

Following two short films that didn't get much attention, the Colombian duo Bibiana Rojas Gómez and Juan David Cárdenas present the experimental documentary *The End of Times* as opening film at #Venice2026 SIC, shown as a work-in-progress at Visions du Réel over a year ago.

Luca Guadagnino's marathon two-part tribute to Bernardo Bertolucci, JOIE DE VIVRE, includes essential deep dives on major films, and doesn't flinch away from the LAST TANGO controversy. But it also makes some perplexing choices. #Venice2026
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At Venice Days in 2016 and as the opening film director of the Mostra in 2023, Italian Edoardo De Angelis presents *The Fire Within You* at #Venice2026 for Rai.

Educated in Moscow and then New York, Georgian filmmaker Levan Kogashvili was discovered in Rotterdam in 2010 with his debut film. After winning awards for his latest film at Tribeca and Jeddah, he is presenting *Guria* at #Venice2026 Spotlight for Loco following a pitch at l’Atelier and

Discovered with his debut at the 1999 Quinzaine, French director Stéphane Brizé has been invited twice to Cannes and twice to Venice. He returns today with *A Good Little Soldier* in the #Venice2026 competition then #Toronto2026 SP for Gaumont.

Following a laughable entry in competition at last year’s Berlinale, Hungarian director Kornél Mundruczó – who was discovered at Cannes UCR in 2005 – is presenting *Place to Be* at #Venice2026 Open for CAA.

Xavier Tera, a Canadian now living in Tokyo, who works as a photographer and commercial director, presented his latest Taiwanese short film at Clermont-Ferrand last year. He is now presenting his debut feature, *The Color of the Sun*, at #Venice2026 Orizzonti for The Pool.

"The film, which appears to be very astutely built on simple, yet precise & truly funny twists, paints a picture of this world of gangsters no film has ever shown before." 💊 Read the review of Jérôme Pierrat's drug trade mockumentary Moolah, which just premiered at #Venice2026:
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Discovered at Venice Days in 2004, the Russian director Ilya Khrzhanovsky presented two rather unconvincing instalments of *Dau* at the 2020 Berlinale. He returns to #Venice2026 competition with *Dau*. A few monumental scenes in the style of Guerman

A journalist specialising in criminology, the Frenchman Jérôme Pierrat is presenting his debut film *La Moula* at #Venice2026 Orizzonti. The meta-primitive failure is stratospheric: the idea of exploring the boundary between criminals and police is not new,

Discovered at Cinéma du réel in 2007, Tunisian filmmaker Kamel Lazridhi presents *The H@llow Man* at #Venice2026 SIC. A poetic foray into science fiction, the presentation is initially intriguing,

Having screened out of competition here with his mockumentary in 2010 and then in Panorama with his first feature film, American actor Casey Affleck presents *Company* in #Venice2026 competition for AGC.

Award-winning Romanian actress Alina Şerban presented an ambitious debut historical short film in Cluj, which won an award in 2020 from a particularly discerning jury. *I Matter*, her highly autobiographical debut feature, is being launched today at #Venice2026 Spotlight for Pluto.

Paolo Strippoli's stylish and subversively twisty chiller THE SPIRAL casts Jasmine Trinca as a Real Housewife of Bari and Valeria Bruni Tedeschi as the stranger who claims her soul. Delectably nasty fun about the steep price of perfection. #Venice2026
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Penélope Cruz and Javier Bardem breathe heat into Florian Zeller's generally more glacial style in BUNKER. But the drama works best as an X-ray of a marriage in jeopardy, less so as a commentary on insularity, wealth and privilege. #Venice2026
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French novelist and, since last year, a member of the Académie Française, Florian Zeller won two Oscars for his debut film, launched at Sundance in 2020, and has already been invited to the Lido in 2023. He returns with *Bunker* to #Venice2026 competition for Pathé, followed by #Toronto2026 Gala.

Winner of the Golden Lion in 1994, the Taiwanese-Malaysian director Tsai Ming-liang returns with *Dust* at #Venice2026 Open, the eleventh film in the *Walker* series launched in 2012 to close Cannes Semaine.