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Venice parallel conception Giornate degli Autori (GdA) has unveiled a female focused lineup for its 2026 edition.
Drawn from 1,036 submissions from 114 countries, nan lineup features 25 world premieres, of which 13 are Italian and 14 directed by women; pinch 10 films successful competition, 1 closing movie retired of competition, 5 typical events, and a showcase of 9 titles successful Venetian Nights (scroll down for nan afloat section).
Hungarian head Lili Horvát’s first English-language movie My Notes connected Mars will unfastened nan edition. The sci-fi romance stars Mackenzie Davis arsenic a intelligence who vanishes during a hiking travel to reappear connected nan time of her ain memorial work pinch nary representation of nan life she has lived successful between. Rupert Friend co-stars.
Horvát antecedently made waves pinch Preparations to Be Together for an Unknown Period of Time, astir a talented surgeon who ditches her profession for a man who past claims to person ne'er met her before. That movie debuted successful nan GdA’s 2020 version and past went connected to triumph galore awards including a Golden Hugo successful Chicago’s New Directors Competition.
Léa Domenach’s A Man’s Skin, described arsenic a queer and feminist philharmonic drama group successful nan Italian Renaissance, and featuring Pomme, Karin Viard, and Catherine Deneuve successful nan cast, will adjacent nan section.
Horvát’s My Notes connected Mars is among 10 films being showcased successful competition.
Further contenders see Polish-born Australia-based filmmaker Kuba Dorabialski’s Agata nan Writer, starring Mia Wasikowska arsenic an Australian writer who travels to Sarajevo to activity connected a caller astir nan Bosnian warfare and is forced to admit nan limits of her ain creator vision.
In different title highlights see Post Tenebras Lux character Nathalia Acevedo directorial debut Salón de Belleza. Adapted from nan extremist caller by Mario Bellatin, it unfolds successful a beauty salon successful a metropolis ravaged by a mysterious illness which becomes a refuge for nan afflicted arsenic they linger betwixt life and death. Belgian multi-disciplinary artist Sam Louwyck, and Erwan Kepoa Falé co-star.
Established board successful nan operation see Robert Guédiguian pinch A Woman Today. Newcomer Marilou Aussilloux stars arsenic a young female grappling pinch nan region betwixt her ain thought of state and nan contradictions of a coming time still ridden pinch unit and inequality, alongside nan director’s longtime collaborators Ariane Ascaride, Jean-Pierre Darroussin, and Gérard Meylan.
The 23rd edition, moving alongside nan Venice Film Festival successful September, is dedicated to nan sidebar’s laminitis and longtime champion, movie professional and show exec Giorgio Gosetti who died abruptly and unexpectedly successful March.
“This version carries pinch it a heavy void and a heavy gratitude,” declares Artistic Director Gaia Furrer. “We beryllium to Giorgio nan very thought for this free arena we inhabit, on pinch his religion successful nan caller directions of cinema and his stubborn, loving determination to build and consolidate, twelvemonth aft year, a organization of men and women filmmakers and audiences. This year, Giornate springs from nan desire to grant this bequest by continuing to do what Giorgio taught us: activity out, discover, spell wrong, go passionate about, and judge successful cinema and successful those who make it happen.”
OFFICIAL SELECTION
IN COMPETITION
SADNESS SOMETIMES, OTHER TIMES REVOLT
by María Aparicio
Argentina, Spain, 2026
AGATA THE WRITER
by Kuba Dorabialski
Australia, 2026
BALCANICA – debut feature
by Nicola Sorcinelli
Italy, Serbia, Croatia, 2026
CAMOUFLAGE – debut feature
by Mykyta Gibalenko
Germany, 2026
DEAR AJAYI
by Damilola Orimogunje
Nigeria, Germany, 2026, 120’
I PLANT MY HAND IN THE GARDEN – debut feature
by Boris Hadžija & Hoda Taheri
Germany, Serbia, U.S.
The Indies – debut feature
by Pauline Julier, Nicolas Chapoulier
Switzerland, Spain, 2026
MY NOTES ON MARS – opening film
by Lili Horvát
Hungary, Austria
SALÓN DE BELLEZA – debut feature
by Nathalia Acevedo
Mexico, France, 2026
A WOMAN TODAY
by Robert Guédiguian
France, Italy, 2026
OUT OF COMPETITION
MAN’S SKIN – closing film
by Léa Domenach
France, 2026
SPECIAL EVENTS
AL BARANEYA
by Ashgan El-Hamus
Netherlands, Egypt, Belgium, Saudi Arabia, 2026
CARLA LONZI, A FEMINIST STORY
by Francesca Archibugi
Italy, 2026
THE PHANTOM
by Ignacio Masllorens, David Lamelas
Argentina, 2026
THE MASSACRE
by Cosimo Messeri
Italy, 2026
EVEN IF HELL CAME
by Samuele Rossi
Italy, 2026
