Shah won the Jury Prize for his debut feature at this year's Cannes Film Festival, where it was selected in Un Certain Regard.
Debanjan Dhar
About The Author
A film festival-junkie, Debanjan takes a keen interest in tracking and reporting on South Asian independent cinema.
About The Author
A film festival-junkie, Debanjan takes a keen interest in tracking and reporting on South Asian independent cinema.
Venice Film Festival 2026 | Playing Out of Competition, the Filipino auteur’s contained companion piece to Magellan is set against the clash between native animism and Spanish Catholicism.
Venice Film Festival 2026 | The ultimate vagrants of contemporary cinema, Argentina’s El Pampero collective has produced another rambling, nearly six-hour adventure between life, fiction, fantasy and charming investigation.
Adapting Aravind Adiga’s 2011 novel, Sooni Taraporevala’s screenplay expunges much of its mordant humour and tips instead to a straight-faced comment on India’s redevelopment boom.
Venice Film Festival 2026| Towering over the Orizzonti competition, Xavier Tera’s debut is an intimately observed coming-of-age marvel, finding light amidst grief and teenage uncertainties.
Venice Film Festival 2026 | Premiering in Critics’ Week, the drama on class privilege covers up a familiar narrative with clear-eyed direction.
Venice Film Festival 2026 | Emanuele Maria Di Stefano powers this murky, sexually ambiguous Orizzonti title which retraces the 2016 murder of 23-year-old Luca Varani.
Venice Film Festival 2026 | After Manta Ray, the Thai filmmaker returns to Orizzonti competition with a formally disruptive skewering of State-backed violence.
Venice Film Festival 2026 | Trailing a bride-to-be’s uncanny visions and troubled sensations, Bangladesh’s first-ever Orizzonti selection comes undone in a lame, blunt screenplay that is sorely out of sync with Leonor Teles’ striking imagery.
Director Gurmmeet Singh takes us to an earlier, wishful point in the original series timeline, preceding major character deaths, when a certain alliance still seemed possible.
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