September 5: Opening of Venice Fest 2024–Horizons Sidebar

September 5 focuses on a sports broadcasting team who suddenly find themselves covering a hostage crisis when the Palestinian militant organization Black September infiltrates the Olympic Village.

Blue Sun Palace: Writer-Director Constance Tsang’s First Feature, Tale of Dislocation (Cannes Film Fest 2024, Critics Week)

Writer-director Constance Tsang’s first feature, Blue Sun Palace, is a story about inevitable dislocation and the devastating effects of displacement.

Julie Keeps Quiet: Leonardo Van Dijl’s riveting psychological drama, Un Certain Regard (Cannes Film Fest 2024, Good Film)

Highlights of Critics Week, Cannes Film Fest 2024: “Julie Keeps Quiet” (Belgium)

Locarno Film Fest 2024: Program Includes Hong Sang-soo, Paz Vega Films, Honors for Mélanie Laurent, Guillaume Canet

Wang Bing, Radu Jude, Ramon Zürcher, and Ben Rivers are also part of the Swiss fest’s 77th edition.

Club Zero (2023): Austrian Jessica Hausner’s New Film (Worst Competition Films, Cannes Film Fest 2023)

Her critical admirers almost abandoned her when she made in 2019 her disappointing English-language horror-thriller Little Joe.