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VENICE SPOTLIGHT - WORLD PREMIERE / TIFF MARKET
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GROUND FLOOR
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by Gábor Reisz (EXPLANATION FOR EVERYTHING, BAD POEMS)
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2026 - Hungary/Italy - Tragicomedy - 108 min
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with Ádám Tompa, Rodrigo Crespo, Bettina Józsa, Tünde Bacskó, Marcello Fonte (DOGMAN)
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On the eve of departure for the summer holiday with his wife Vera, Kristóf unexpectedly discovers black mold on the wall behind their closet. Convinced it is caused by a water leak somewhere in the building, he begins knocking on his neighbours' doors in search of its origin. What seems like a simple maintenance issue soon spirals into a tragicomic housing revolution, forcing Kristóf to confront not only a crumbling apartment block but also the deeper cracks running through contemporary Hungarian society.
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Screenings in Venice:
SAT 5 SEP 16:45 Sala Pasinetti Private (Gold & Trade Industry)
THU 10 SEP 14:30 Sala Giardino P&I
THU 10 SEP 21:00 Sala Giardino World Premiere
FRI 11 SEP 9:00 Sala Giardino Public
Screening at TIFF:
SUN 13 SEP 9:00AM TIFF Lightbox 5 Market
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VENICE HORIZONS - WORLD PREMIERE / TIFF CENTREPIECE
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THE DIFFICULT BRIDE
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by Rubaiyat Hossain (MADE IN BANGLADESH, UNDER CONSTRUCTION)
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2026 - Bangladesh/France/Norway/Portugal/Germany - Drama - 88 min
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with Zaineen Chowdhury Karim, Saberi Alam Motaher, Azmeri Haque, Reekita Nondine Shimu
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In Dhaka, Zaineen prepares for her wedding following beauty rituals and family expectations. However, her body reacts in many unexpected ways. Amongst home remedies, social pressures, and haunting visions, the path to marriage becomes a physical and psychological struggle against what is imposed on her.
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Screenings in Venice:
SAT 5 SEP 19:00 Sala Casino P&I
SAT 5 SEP 22:00 Sala Volpi P&I
SUN 6 SEP 14:15 Sala Darsena World Premiere
MON 7 SEP 16:30 Sala Astra 2 Public
MON 7 SEP 17:00 Sala Astra 1 Public
Screenings at TIFF:
FRI 11 SEP 12:05PM Scotiabank 8 P&I
WED 16 SEP 4:00PM TIFF Lightbox 4 Public
THU 17 SEP 10:00PM TIFF Lightbox 4 Public
SAT 19 SEP 12:15PM Scotiabank 7 Public
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VENICE HORIZONS - WORLD PREMIERE / TIFF CENTREPIECE
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EKLIPSE
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by Manuel Wetscher (Debut Feature)
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2026 - Austria/Italy - Drama - 91 min
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with Moritz Hohlrieder, Finley Brown, Hannes Perkmann, Lenz Moretti
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Tomy and his best friend Chris spend the summer of 1999 at an alpine dairy. They help Tomy’s uncle with the milking, build a dam and explore the great outdoors. Whilst the boys are discovering new worlds, Tomy’s mother decides to continue keeping the real reason why his father is in hospital a secret from her son.
When Chris learns that Tomy’s father is in hospital with "the gay disease", he becomes frightened - and Tomy is suddenly confronted with rejection and his own family’s silence.
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Screenings in Venice:
FRI 4 SEP 19:00 Sala Casino P&I
FRI 4 SEP 22:00 Sala Volpi P&I
SAT 5 SEP 14:00 Sala Darsena World Premiere
SUN 6 SEP 16:30 Sala Astra 2 Public
SUN 6 SEP 17:00 Sala Astra 1 Public
Screenings at TIFF:
FRI 11 SEP 9:05AM Scotiabank 7 P&I
MON 14 SEP 2:30PM Scotiabank 3 Public
WED 16 SEP 3:10PM Scotiabank 3 Public
SAT 19 SEP 7:45PM Scotiabank 14 Public
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NEW YORK FF MAIN SLATE - WORLD PREMIERE
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I DESERVE A LOVER WHOSE EVERY RISE SETS FIERY DOOMS RAGING ACROSS THE SKIES
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by Mani Haghighi (A DRAGON ARRIVES, SUBTRACTION, PIG)
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2026 - Iran - Non Fiction - 76 min
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with Nasser Bakhshi & Roghayeh Najdi
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Set between Tabriz and Tehran in the weeks between the Twelve-Day War and the subsequent conflict between Iran, Israel, and the United States, this film follows two Iranian artists whose lives have become inseparable from a vast private archive assembled over decades: photographs, documents, discarded objects, and traces of anonymous lives. Working somewhere between collecting, hoarding, preservation, and obsession, they have created an improvised museum of neglected lives, one in which sex workers, young soldiers, child labourers, and ordinary families emerge through abandoned albums, damaged belongings, and fragments of memory left behind by history.
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SOUMSOUM, THE NIGHT OF THE STARS
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by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun (GRIGRIS, A SCREAMING MAN)
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2026 - France/Chad - Drama - 101 min
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with Maïmouna Miawama, Ériq Ebouaney, Achouackh Abakar Souleymane
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In the Ennedi desert of Chad, millennia old mountains rise from the sand. They carry the memory of a forgotten past and whisper ancient legends. Kellou, a young woman from a nearby village, is troubled by haunting visions that set her apart from those around her. Her world shifts the day she meets Aya, an outcast rejected by the community.
As the villagers turn against their growing sisterhood, Kellou must stand up for Aya and face the hostility of her own people, while fighting for their freedom.
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Screenings at TIFF:
FRI 11 SEP 5:50PM Scotiabank 6 P&I
THU 17 SEP 3:30PM TIFF Lightbox 2 Public
FRI 18 SEP 9:15PM TIFF Lightbox 2 Public
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THE GOLDEN AGE
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by Bérenger Thouin (Debut Feature)
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2026 - France/Italy - Drama - 112 min
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with Souheila Yacoub (THE BALCONETTES, DUNE), Vassili Schneider (THE COUNT OF MONTE CRISTO, FOREVER YOUNG), Yile Yara Vianello (LA CHIMERA)
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Born at the turn of the century in a village's butcher shop, Jeanne Lavaur dreams of becoming a countess. Inspired by the fearless Céleste and guided by her love for Guillaume de Barante, Jeanne’s journey carries her from the vibrant Paris of the Golden Twenties through the turmoil of two world wars. As her life intertwines with the great upheavals of the 20th century, she rises as a fiercely free woman, determined to never let anyone else define who she is meant to be.
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Screening at TIFF:
MON 14 SEP 9:00AM TIFF Lightbox 5 Market
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TIN CASTLE
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by Alexander Murphy (GOODBYE SISTERS)
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2026 - Ireland/France - Documentary - 96 min
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Along a long-forgotten road, the O’Reillys live in a rundown trailer stranded in the middle of the fields. Pa’, Lisa, and their ten children weather the seasons in their tin castle, heirs to a way of life on borrowed time. Under threat of eviction, their tenuous balance falters, yet - steadfast in their tradition - they resist. The children laugh, the dogs bark, the trailer holds on - but for how long?
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AQUÍ
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by Tiago Guedes (THE DOMAIN)
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2026 - Portugal/France - Drama - 200 min
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with Manolo Solo (THE GOOD BOSS, CLOSE YOUR EYES), Patricia López Arnaiz (SUNDAYS, 20.000 SPECIES OF BEES), Sergi López (SIRAT, PAN’S LABYRINTH), Lambert Wilson (OF GODS AND MEN, THE MATRIX RESURRECTIONS), Ángela Molina (THAT OBSCURE OBJECT OF DESIRE, BROKEN EMBRACES), Fernando Trueba (BELLE EPOQUE, THE GIRL OF YOUR DREAMS), Álex Peláez & Hugo Encuentra
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In a new land where everyone receives a new name and begins again without a past, Simón takes responsibility for David, a child he met on the crossing to a new life. Driven by an inexplicable conviction, he sets out to find the boy’s mother despite the fact David remembers nothing about her. When he recognizes Inés as the right woman, she accepts the role and an unlikely bond forms between them. While society imposes rules and treats difference as a threat, David resists being shaped and stands for imagination and freedom.
Based on the “Jesus Trilogy” by Nobel Prize winner J.M. Coetzee.
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