A former resident of the Cinefondation, the Franco-Italian director Tommaso Usberti is presenting his debut film *Before the War* at #Venice2026 SIC for The Party*.

Norwegian-Iraqi-Kurdish Halkawt Mustafa, following his latest documentary at IDFA in 2023, presents *No Paradise If You Are Killed by a Woman* at #Venice2026 Open Midnight for True Colours. A gripping fiction film about a Kurdish female sniper – it sounded very appealing.

The latest film by the Danish-Egyptian director May el-Toukhy, who has been very busy with TV series, premiered at Sundance before being remade – to far greater effect – by Catherine Breillat. She is now presenting *Woman Unknown* in #Venice2026 competition for TrustNordisk.

His third film, *Hombre al Agua*, premieres tonight at #Venice2026 Spotlight for The Pool. A few ideas that don’t quite add up to a script, direction that remains hesitant, a comedic tone that aims to be intelligent but feels more like an overlong modern sitcom – in its dialogue –

Discovered at Orizzonti and then screened twice here in competition, Italian director Andrea Pallaoro presents *The Echo Chamber* today in the #Venice2026 competition for Paradise City.

Following an award-winning short film at Clermont-Ferrand and a documentary at Visions du Réel BL, Austrian director Jannis Lenz is presenting his debut feature film *Oase* at #Venice2026 Orizzonti for Totem, after a work-in-progress at Les Arcs last winter. The cinematography is as mature

After three films in competition at Cannes, the South Korean director Lee Chang-dong is presenting *Possible Love* in #Venice2026 competition and then at #Toronto2026 SP for Netflix.

Knocked out by Lee Chang-dong's exquisitely wrought meditation on economic and emotional unease, POSSIBLE LOVE, a complex chamber drama with a principal cast of four that simply could not be improved upon. One of the year's best. #Venice2026
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After a documentary at Cannes that was overshadowed by his award-winning Japanese film, German director Wim Wenders returns to the Lido with *From Inside Out – The Architecture of Peter Zumthor* at #Venice2026 Open for Hanway. Six minutes into the gala screening, Wim halted the projection:

The daughter of a Bangladeshi minister then raised in the US, Rubaiyat Hossain – 2019 Toronto CWC with her rather simplistic latest film – is presenting *The Difficult Bride* at #Venice2026 Orizzonti for Films Boutique, following 2022 Berlinale Co-Production Market and wip at Les Arcs last winter.

Following *La Flor* – awarded at Bafici and subsequently in competition at Locarno – and a number of lower-profile documentaries, the Argentine filmmaker Mariano Llinàs presents his new epic work, *Life of Jorge Luis Borges*, at #Venice2026 Open Non-Fiction for Luxbox.

Still relatively unknown outside their home country, the Brazilian duo Victor Di Marco & Márcio Picoli are presenting their film debut, *London*, at #Venice2026 SIC for Open Reel.

Following a film at Encounters and his latest entry in Berlinale competition in 2024, Russian director Victor Kossakovski is presenting Holy Wood Dust for Rai at #Venice2026. This attempt at a mainstream experimental film about Christmas trees is a bold one

First noticed with a genre film in 2007, Swiss actor Barthélemy Grossmann presents *Father Joe* at #Venice2026 Open Midnight for Kinology. The disastrous opening suggests a Z-grade film like Zorro, written and produced by Luc Besson, now a regular here. Then you get used to Kiefer and Al,

Having already directed a brilliant music documentary about LCD Soundsystem – which was shown at Wrocław New Horizons in 2012, following its screening at Sundance – Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace are presenting *Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger* at #Venice2026 Open for Sony.

Following his debut at the 2017 Cannes Quinzaine and a second film that opened the 2022 Orizzonti section, Italian director Roberto De Paolis Maino presents *Serpents* at #Venice2026 Spotlight for Elle Driver. A painful stylistic exercise

Winner of the 2001 Palme d’Or and absent from the Lido for 25 years, Italian Nanni Moretti returns to the #Venice2026 competition with *It Will Happen Tonight for Playtime*, an interesting disappointment. It’s hard to get into the film, with a first part that’s riddled with missteps: an unconvincing

Following a mediocre debut in Namur, the French couple based in Belgium, Ann Sirot and Raphaël Balboni, premiered their second film at a special screening during the 2023 Cannes Critics’ Week. *Diane in the Loop* is being screened today at #Venice2026 Orizzonti for Pyramide.

A former student of Ross McElvee at Harvard and director of a graduation documentary invited to Sundance in 2020, the young American Lance Oppenheim, aged thirty, is presenting his first feature film, *Primetime*, in the #Venice2026 competition for A24. Set in 2006 -

Robert Pattinson bites into the role of 'To Catch a Predator' host Chris Hansen in PRIMETIME, a Sleaze TV dive also starring Merritt Wever, Skyler Gisondo and Phoebe Bridgers that covers similar ground to last year's doc, PREDATORS. #Venice2026
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