Julia Jackman 100 nights for heroes Emma Colin and Charli XCX will star in one of 40 choicesth Venice Critics Week closes the sidebar of the independent Venice Film Festival from the competition.
100 nights for heroes It is one of the three UK features of the critics’ 2025 lineup, alongside Imran Perretta’s you know Oscar Hudson Straight circlethe latter are both in seven strong competitions.
Scroll down on the selection of the full Venice Critics week of 2025
Strand opens in a French-Canada collaboration with Caroline Dell Aspino Stereo Girls Starring Lena Garrell, daughter of French filmmaker Philip Garrell.
100 nights for heroes It was produced by Stephanie Aspin and Helen Simmons for Erebus photos and along with Grant S Johnson of Project Infinity. Set in a fantasy world based on Isabel Greenberg’s graphic novel of the same name, the film follows a woman whose husband goes on a business trip as her husband has forbidden feelings towards her maid.
Alongside cast members Colin and XCX are Nicolas Garlitzin, Mica Monroe, Amir El Masley, Richard E. Grant and Felicity Jones.
Critics Week is led by artistic director Beatrice Fiorentino. It is independent from the Main Venice Biennale Festival, but is supported by the Italian Ministry of Culture.
This section focuses on debut features such as Perretta’s you know – depicting two best friends separated by racial profiling, Hudson Straight circlean oriental nightmare grasps two enemy soldiers stationed at a lonely desert border.
This section will be held from August 27th to September 6th, in parallel with the official selection of Venice, which will be announced tomorrow (Tuesday, July 22nd).
Venice Critics 2025
In competition
Agon (it-fran)dir. Julio Berteri
Cotton Queen (ger-fr-pal-egy-qat-sarabia)dir. Suzanna Milgani
Golgona (gr-fr)dir. Evi Kalogiropoulo
you know (UK) dir. Imran Peretta
Lokia (alg-fr-qat-sarabia)dir. Giannis Kusim
Straight circle (UK) dir. Oscar Hudson
I’ll wake up (That) dir. Federico Cammarata, Filippo Foscarini
From the competition
Stereo Girls (fr-can)dir. Caroline Iberus Piano – Opening film
100 nights for heroes (UK) dir. Julia Jackman – Close Movie
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