ACE Producers’ Films in Venice 2026

COMPETITION

L’ESTRANEA by Paolo Strippoli
Co-produced by Jean-Christophe Reymond (ACE France)

THE ECHO CHAMBER by Andrea Pallaoro
Co-produced by Jacques-Henri Bronckart (ACE Belgium)

WOMAN UNKNOWN by May el-Toukhy
Co-produced by Esko Rips (ACE Estonia)

VENICE OPEN OUT OF COMPETITION – FICTION

NESSUN DOLORE by Gianni Amelio
Produced by Simone Gattoni (ACE Italy)

NO PARADISE IF YOU ARE KILLED BY A WOMAN by Halkawt Mustafa
Produced by Janne Hjeltnes (ACE Norway)

PLACE TO BE by Kornél Mundruczó
Executive produced by Viktoria Petranyi (ACE Hungary)

VENICE OPEN OUT OF COMPETITION – NON-FICTION

HOLY WOOD DUST by Victor Kossakovsky
Produced by Emanuele Nespaca (ACE Italy)
Co-produced by Alba Sotorra (ACE Spain)
Executive produced by Tommaso Arrighi (ACE Italy)

IMPERIUM by Sergei Loznitsa
Co-produced by Giovanni Pompili (ACE Italy)

VENICE OPEN OUT OF COMPETITION – SERIES

PECCATO by Valerio Vestoso
Executive produced by Tommaso Arrighi (ACE Italy)

VENICE OPEN OUT OF COMPETITION – FILM ON FILMS

NINO – UN FILM SU NINO ROTA by Walter Fasano
Executive produced by Tommaso Arrighi (ACE Italy)

ORIZZONTI – FEATURES

A DAY IN THE LIFE OF JO: CHAPTER PHAEDRA by Jacqueline Lentzou
Produced by Ioanna Bolomyti (ACE Greece)

LA MAISON DU VENT by Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu
Produced by John Engel (ACE Belgium)

THE GIRL WITH THE LEICA by Alina Marazzi
Co-produced by Jonas Dornbach (ACE Germany), Janine Jackowski (ACE Germany)

UNTIL THE DAY ENDS by Jelena Maksimovic
Co-produced by Miha Černec (ACE Slovenia), Nicolay Mutafchief (ACE Bulgaria)

WHAT BELONGS TO OTHERS by Grzegorz Debowski
Co-produced by Agnieszka Dziedzic (ACE Poland)

ORIZZONTI – SHORTS

SILENCE by Pavlo Shpegun
Produced by Volodymyr Yatsenko

TROPIC OF THE MOURNING GECKO by Stavros Markoulakis
Produced by Ioanna Bolomyti (ACE Greece)

VENICE SPOTLIGHT

CONVERSATION WITH THE SEA by Muayad Alayan
Produced by Muayad Alayan (ACE Palestine)

I MATTER by Alina Serban
Produced by Ada Solomon (ACE Romania), Carla Fotea (ACE Romania)
Co-produced by Dries Phlypo (ACE Belgium)

VENICE CRITICS WEEK

OUR SHARE OF SAND by Shalini Adnani
Co-produced by Giorgos Karnavas (ACE Greece)

GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI – COMPETITION

BALCANICA by Nicola Sorcinelli
Co-produced by Snezana van Houwelingen (ACE Serbia)

MY NOTES ON MARS by Lili Horvát
Co-produced by Janine Jackowski (ACE Germany), Jonas Dornbach (ACE Germany)

GIORNATE DEGLI AUTORI – SPECIAL EVENTS

AL BARANEYA by Ashgan El-Hamus
Produced by Frank Hoeve (ACE The Netherlands)
Co-produced by Eurydice Gysel (ACE Belgium)

EVEN IF HELL CAME by Samuele Rossi
Co-produced by Emanuele Nespeca (ACE Italy)