VENENZIA 2024 : Settimana Internazionale della Critica

The Settimana Internazionale della Critica is thrilled to unveil its 2024 programme!

The 9 films comprising the programme of the 39. Settimana Internazionale della Critica (28 August – 7 September 2024) open up a window to the world, allowing us to observe the present in all its complexity, its uncertainty, the lack of definition that clings to our days, no matter the latitude. Like a thermometer, they measure the swelling temperature of our increasingly strained society, displaying it, uncensored, in all its contradictions.
It is a wide-ranging programme that showcases both genre and art-house cinema codes with an array of styles, from the realistic to the documentary, with the use of irony, or through the filter of magic realism.

IN COMPETITION

ANYWHERE ANYTIME
Milad Tangshir
Italy

DON’T CRY, BUTTERFLY
Dương Diệu Linh
Vietnam, Singapore, Philippines, Indonesia

HOMEGROWN
Michael Premo
United States

NO SLEEP TILL
Alexandra Simpson
United States, Switzerland

PAUL & PAULETTE TAKE A BATH
Jethro Massey
United Kingdom

PEACOCK
Bernhard Wenger
Austria, Germany

PERFUMED WITH MINT
Muhammed Hamdy
Egypt, France, Tunisia

OUT OF COMPETITION

OPENING FILM

PLANET B
Aude Léa Rapin
France, Belgium

CLOSING FILM

LITTLE JAFFNA
Lawrence Valin
France

SHORT FILMS LINEUP

SIC@SIC Short Italian Cinema @ Settimana Internazionale della Critica is a short film programme in collaboration with Cinecittà.

In Competition:
AT LEAST I WILL BE 8 294 400 PIXEL by Marco Talarico
BILLI IL COWBOY by Fede Gianni
NERO ARGENTO by Francesco Manzato
PHANTOM by Gabriele Manzoni
PLAYING GOD by Matteo Burani
SANS DIEU by Alessandro Rocca
THINGS THAT MY BEST FRIEND LOST by Marta Innocenti

Out of Competition – Opening Short Films
DARK GLOBE by Donato Sansone
THE EGGREGORES’ THEORY by Andrea Gatopoulos

Out of Competition – Closing Short Film
DOMENICA SERA by Matteo Tortone

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