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German Police Rush to Prevent an Islamic Terror Attack in ‘Blindspot Berlin’ (Exclusive Trailer)
Albrecht Schuch and Bayan Layla star in the true-crime thriller series, which will have its world premiere at TIFF.
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Inside ‘Dau’: The Movie that Became a Functioning Soviet State
Director Ilya Khrzhanovsky built a sealed world in Ukraine, populated it with thousands of participants and filmed them for three years. Two decades, 14 films and innumerable scandals later, his original epic is finally arriving in Venice.
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Laura Poitras and Rachel Lauren Mueller on Making ICE Doc ‘They’re Here’ Like a “Horror Movie”
The Oscar-winning filmmaker and Minneapolis-based journalist chronicle the Minneapolis resistance movement to ICE’s paramilitary occupation, which resulted in the fatal shootings of Renée Good and Alex Pretti.
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Venice Home Crowd Gives Italian Horror ‘The Spiral’ 9-Minute Standing Ovation
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi shines as a devilish femme fatale in Paolo Strippoli’s campy thriller.
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How a Sweet, Horny Hockey Show Rewrote the Rules of Independent TV
Accent Aigu Entertainment turned a $200,000 lowball offer and a rabid BookTok fandom into the game-changing global hit ‘Heated Rivalry.'
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Ellen Burstyn on Being “Recognized” by Marilyn Monroe, Changing Roles for Women With ‘Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore’
The 93-year-old Oscar-winning star is in Venice with two films, and to receive a honorary Golden Lion for lifetime achievement.
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Venice’s Lone Female Competition Director May el-Toukhy on Gender Gap: “I’ve Never Heard a Female Director Being Called a Genius”
The Danish filmmaker, whose post-WWII thriller 'Woman Unknown' premieres in competition Sunday, calls the shortage of women vying for the Golden Lion "a structural problem" that is "as old as cinema and even older than that."
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Oscars: Iraq Picks ‘No Paradise If You Are Killed by a Woman’ as Best International Feature Contender
Halkawt Mustafa’s feature, which premieres out of competition in Venice, follows a female Kurdish sniper who returns to Mosul to try and rescue her younger sister.
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Wim Wenders on His 14-Year Journey Building Peter Zumthor Doc ‘From Inside Out’
The Oscar-nominated director of 'Pina' and 'The Salt of the Earth' returns to 3D for 'From Inside Out: The Architecture of Peter Zumthor,' a portrait of the Pritzker-winning architect behind LACMA's $724 million David Geffen Galleries — and a defense of beauty in a world of flattened cities.
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Gallagher Brothers Skip Venice Press Conference for Concert Doc
'Oasis: Don't Look Back in Anger' captures the brothers’ blockbuster Oasis Live ’25 reunion tour, their first live performances after their infamous falling out back in 2009.
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Kate and Rooney Mara Talk ‘Bucking Fastard,’ Synchronized Sisterhood and Werner Herzog Life Lessons: “He Doesn’t Give a S***”
The real-life sisters play Irish siblings who speak, love and dream in unison in the new drama from the director of 'Grizzly Man' and 'Fritzcaraldo,' which premiered in competition in Venice.
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Paul Schrader Tears Up at ‘The Basics of Philosophy’ Venice Premiere
Jack Huston leads Schrader’s latest meditation on guilt and redemption, alongside Sofia Boutella and Bill Pullman.
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