Which Films Are In The Running For The 2026 Venice Film Festival?

As the world premieres proceed to unspool in Cannes, conversations on the Croisette are turning to what might debut on the Lido at Venice Film Festival running September 2-12.

Netflix may very well be able to make a splash with each The Adventures Of Cliff Boothscripted by Quentin Tarantino and starring Brad Pitt, and Fernando Meirelles’ heist thriller Here Comes The Flood with Denzel Washington, Robert Pattinson, and Daisy Edgar-Jones.

While the powers that be at Warner Bros and Legendary mull over whether or not to ship Alejandro G. Iñárritu’s Digger starring Tom Cruise and it appears unlikely that Albert Serra’s Not The End Of The World will probably be prepared, stronger bets are Tom McCarthy’s satire The StatementMike Leigh’s Tender Loving Careand Searchlight Pictures’ Chile-set Wild Horse Nine from Venice common Martin McDonagh.

Further candidates embrace Werner Herzog’s Bucking Fastard led by Rooney and Kate Mara; Andrew Haigh’s mountain-set A Long Winter with Ebon Moss-Bachrach and Caitriona Balfe; Alex Gibney’s Elon Musk documentary; Brazilian filmmaker Fellipe Barbosa’s Morocco-set household drama Leila Et La Nuit; Paul Schrader’s The Basics Of Philosophy with Bill Pullman and Sofia Boutella; and Guy Nattiv’s thriller Harmony starring Bella Ramsey.

Married couple Javier Bardem and Penelope Cruz would improve the red-carpet glamor in help of Florian Zeller’s thriller Bunkerwhereas Felix van Groeningen’s Let Love In attracts on the director’s real-life relationship with co-writer and star Charlotte Vandermeersch.

In a poor yr for contenders by girls administrators, standouts embrace May el-Toukhy’s A Woman Unknown; Nathalie Álvarez Mesén’s interval horror The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands with Alexander Skarsgard; Bangladeshi director Rubaiyat Hossain’s supernatural feminist drama The Difficult Bride; and Sian Heder’s potential awards season play Being Heumann, reuniting the filmmaker with Apple, which took her feelgood hit Coda all the solution to a number of Oscars in 2022.

A strong Italian contingent may convey Andrea Pallaoro’s love story The Echo Chamber starring Alicia Vikander, Luca Marinelli and Susan Sarandon; Nanni Moretti’s romance It Will Happen TonightRoberto Saviano’s animated biopic I’m Still Alive co-directed by Ivan Cappiello; Mario Martone’s Naples-set Trick starring Toni Servillo; Daniele Vicari’s mountaineering biopic White; and Gianni Amelio’s drama No Pain.

Shane Meadows may very well be packing his baggage for a visit to Italy in late summer time together with his first movie in over a decade, Chork. Exiled Russian writer Kirill Serebrennikov can also be in the running together with his French-language Afterstacked with an A-list French forged of Ludivine Sagnier, Fanny Ardant, Vincent Macaigne, Guillaume Gallienne and Louis Garrel; as are Stephane Brize’s A Good Little Soldier starring Alba Rohrwacher and Vincent Lindon; and Cedric Kahn’s A Place To Heal about an adolescent psychiatry unit in a French public hospital.