Jay Kelly, by Noah Baumbach, starring George Clooney and Adam Sandler; The Smashing Machine, by Benny Safdie, with Dwayne Johnson and Emily Blunt; A House of Dynamite, by Kathryn Bigelow, featuring Idris Elba; Father Mother Sister Brother, by Jim Jarmusch, with Cate Blanchett and Adam Driver; Frankenstein, by Guillermo del Toro, starring Oscar Isaac; and Emma Stone and Jesse Plemons in Bugonia, by Yorgos Lanthimos. Once again this year, American productions – helped in no small part by the relationship that the Venice Film Festival has established with Netflix – have a prominent place in the lineup expected on the Lido from August 27 to September 6, alongside new films by Paolo Sorrentino and Park Chan-Wook. Yet, as its artistic director since 2011, Alberto Barbera explained, the festival is likely to be shaped by a turbulent political context. The collective Venice4Palestine (V4P), made up of artists and journalists, has called for the festival's institutions to take a stronger stance on the situation in Gaza.

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