Every year, the Venice Film Festival delivers a slate full of headline films, fires the starting gun on awards seasons and throws up a bunch of viral moments, some of which will have you wincing in horror . This year threw up some surprises, including a Golden Lion winner, in Jim Jarmusch’s family triptych , that absolutely no one saw coming and a Luca Guadagnino #MeToo drama that many festival goers wished they hadn’t seen at all. Kathryn Bigelow scared us witless, and moved us to ugly tears, and Dwayne Johnson launched the beefiest Oscar campaign in cinema history. Here’s what to look out for between now and Christmas.

The Voice of Hind Rajab

This Silver Lion winning docudrama had Venice audiences in floods. It’s an elegy for six-year-old Hind Rajab that centres the distres

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