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The 80th edition of the Venice Film Festival will run from August 30 to September 9. It will open with Comandante and close with Society Of The Snow. Please bear with us while we input the programme.
View Films by Strand:
- Biennale College Cinema
- Competition
- International Critics' Week
- Orizzonti
- Orizzonti Extra
- Out Of Competition
- Venice Classics
- Venice Days
View previous years coverage of the Venice Film Festival festival:
Venice Latest Reviews

While enjoying a day at Athens’ queer beach, 30-something Demosthenes offers to help his bestie and aspiring filmmaker Nikitas in drafting an idea for his feature debut, inspired by the events surrounding a certain dog named Carmen.

Three sisters try to cope in the absence of parents, afraid that social services will split them up if they find out about their situation.

Sheltering from the 1918 Spanish Flu at their seaside estate, a progressive journalist and his socialite wife take in a mysterious grifter as a private cook... and soon find themselves facing mutiny.

A lonely man starts to piece together the story of his estranged father after his death and discovers the older man didn't believe he was human.

A criminal lawyer faces difficult moral and emotional choices.

1984, London: Seven-year-old Maria and her mother live in their own loving world built on sorting through bins and collecting shiny rubbish. One night, their world falls apart, and we join Maria a decade later, living with her foster mother.

A retired assassin finds himself drawn into a game of cat and mouse.

A group of teenagers go on a road trip.

Multifaceted drama about the plight of refugees on the Belarus/Poland border.

Two Senegalese teenagers try to realise their dream of a new life in Europe.
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