Argentine director Luis Ortega , whose last feature “Kill the Jockey” premiered in competition at the 2024 Venice Film Festival , returns to the Lido with his next film, “Magnetized,” which he’ll be presenting during the Venice Gap-Financing Market running Aug. 29 – 31.

With a nod to films like John Cassavetes’ “Minnie and Moskowitz” and Paul Thomas Anderson’s “Punch-Drunk Love,” “Magnetized” is Ortega’s vision of a “crazy love story” that finds its protagonist, the young libertine priest Ramón, falling into a passionate but destructive relationship with the actress Eva, a woman who’s in the midst of a nervous breakdown.

Before long, Ramón is drawn into a dark world where, driven by hard drugs, he finds himself pushed to the brink of madness. When Eva suddenly disappears without a tr

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