Venice International Film Festival Venice Horizons Award (Orizzonti) Best Film (Winners)
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- DirectorHouman SeyyediStarsMohsen TanabandehMahsa HejaziNeda JebraeiliAfter being cast in a movie, a day laborer has to secretly shelter his lover on the set or else risk losing her and all that movie stardom has promised him.
İran - DirectorLaurynas BareisaStarsGabija BargailaiteGiedrius KielaIndre PatkauskaiteIndre and Paulius travel to the small town where a gruesome crime was committed and they learn it is not as easy as expected to revisit the past.Litvanya
- DirectorAhmad BahramiStarsAli BagheriMahdie NassajFarrokh NematiLotfollah is a brick factory supervisor, acting as go-between for the workers and the boss. The boss wants to talk to the them about the shutdown of the factory. All matters now to Lotfollah is to keep Sarvar, the woman he loves, unharmed.
İran - DirectorValentyn VasyanovychStarsAndriy RymarukLiudmyla BilekaVasyl AntoniakA soldier suffering from PTSD befriends a young volunteer hoping to restore peaceful energy to a war-torn society.
- DirectorPhuttiphong AroonphengStarsAphisit HamaWanlop RungkumjadRasmee WayranaNear a coastal village of Thailand, by the sea where thousands of Rohingya refugees have drowned, a local fisherman finds an injured man lying unconscious in the forest. He rescues the stranger, who does not speak a word, offers him his friendship and names him Thongchai. But when the fisherman suddenly disappears at sea, Thongchai slowly begins to take over his friend's life - his house, his job and his ex-wife.
- DirectorSusanna NicchiarelliStarsTrine DyrholmJohn Gordon SinclairAnamaria MarincaThe last year of singer Nico's life, as she tours and grapples with addiction and personal demons.
- DirectorFederica Di GiacomoDocumentary about the practice of exorcism and people's issues of everyday life: the contrasts between ancient traditions and modern habits.
- DirectorJake MahaffyStarsDavid HarewoodEdwina FindleyRaJay ChandlerSet in the distinctive world of storefront churches, based on actual events, Free in Deed depicts one man's attempts to perform a miracle. When a single mother brings her young son to church for healing, this lonely Pentecostal minister is forced to confront the seemingly incurable illness of the child and his own demons as well. The more he prays, the more things seem to spiral out of his control.
- DirectorChaitanya TamhaneStarsVira SathidarVivek GomberGeetanjali KulkarniWhen an aging activist is arrested, the lives of the accused, the lawyers, and the judge intertwine to reveal bigotry that underscores the judicial system.
- DirectorRobin CampilloStarsOlivier RabourdinKirill EmelyanovDaniil VorobyovA businessman makes a regular arrangement with a Ukrainian prostitute, despite the youngster's involvement in a controlling street gang.
- DirectorWang BingThree young sisters live and work in extreme poverty in the harsh environment of Yunnan, a province on the Sino Burmese border area of China.
- DirectorShin'ya TsukamotoStarsShin'ya TsukamotoCoccoYûko NakamuraWhen a single mother suffers a nervous breakdown, she is suspected of child abuse and her child is taken away. Her mental suffering escalates as she succumbs to her darkest fantasies.
- DirectorNicolás PeredaStarsClemencia AlejoGabriela AlejoJose Refugio AlejoSummer of Goliath is a documentary/fiction hybrid that narrates various stories of the people of the town of Huilotepec in rural Mexico. Teresa's husband has disappeared and she believes he has left her for another woman. Gabino, her son, is a soldier who searches cars at the side of a country road, where very few cars pass by. He hopes one day him and Alberto, his soldier partner, will get machine guns to further intimidate the people driving by. Amalio, Nico, and Oscar are three brothers whose stories we learn through a series of interviews and reenactments. Their father left them many years ago, and their mother can barely support them. Oscar has gained the nickname Goliath after the mysterious death of his girlfriend.
- DirectorPepe DioknoStarsCelso Ad. CastilloFelix RocoDaniel Medrana"Engwkentro" follows two teenage brothers attempting to escape an unnamed city controlled by an iron-fisted mayor. They must first break away from the cycle of crime, while trying to run from rival gang leaders and the state's murderous vigilantes.
- DirectorLav DiazStarsAngeli BayaniPerry DizonRoeder CamanagThree people engage in a strange therapy to get away from their agonies.
- DirectorVeiko ÕunpuuStarsRain TolkTaavi EelmaaJuhan UlfsakA film about the loneliness, despair and hope of six people who all live in a bleak Soviet-era apartment complex in Tallinn, Estonia.
- DirectorJie LiuStarsBaotian LiYaning YangYulai LüThe film follows three characters on a tour of the remote Yunman province of China where they travel with a horse to deal with legal disputes in mountain villages.
- DirectorAleksey FedorchenkoStarsBoris VlasovViktoriya IlyinskayaAnatoliy OtradnovBy means of archival footage, this mockumentary "reconstructs" how the Russians secretly realised the first manned flight to the moon as early as the 1930s.
- DirectorIlan Duran CohenStarsReine FerratoGuillaume QuatravauxJean-Philippe SêtThe Grand Sons shows how a grandmother deals with her most beloved gay grandson, his lover, & a handsome new gay housekeeper that vies for Her attention. Could the housekeeper be the catalyst for a family reunion.