Veteran filmmaker Kathryn Bigelow debuts A House of Dynamite , her first feature in eight years, this evening in Venice .

The film has been described as a nuclear thriller and opens as an unattributed missile is launched at the United States. As a result, a race begins to determine who is responsible and how to respond.

A House of Dynamite was written by Noah Oppenheim, and during this afternoon’s presser for the film, Bigelow said she took the project on as a way to promote immediate discussion about nuclear disarmament across the globe.

“Hopefully the film is an invitation to decide what to do about all these weapons,” Bigelow told journalists in the room.

“My answer would be to initiate a reduction in the nuclear stockpile. How is annihilating the world a good defensive mea

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