Venice Critics’ Week has announced the line-up for its 38th edition, running August 30 to September 9 alongside the Venice Film Festival.
The seven competition titles include UK director Moin Hussain’s debut feature Sky Peals about a lonely man working the night shifts at a motorway service station with little human contact or connection.
Upon hearing that his estranged father has died, Adam finds himself piecing together a complicated image of a man that he never really knew and uncovers details of his life that he struggles to comprehend.
The debut feature follows a trio of well-travelled shorts including Holy Thursday, Real Gods Require Blood, which premiered at Cannes Critics’ Week in 2017 and also played at Sitges, Frightfest, and Edinburgh, and Naptha.
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