{"id":116004,"date":"2026-09-14T14:04:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T18:04:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/?post_type=articles&p=116004"},"modified":"2026-09-14T12:15:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T16:15:00","slug":"venice-film-festival-2026-must-watch-movies","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/articles\/venice-film-festival-2026-must-watch-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Venice Film Festival Just Crowned Its Winners \u2014 These Are the 4 Movies You Need to Watch This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"Everyone spent the last two weeks arguing over who wore what on the Lido, and fair enough, the dresses earned every headline, but underneath all that taffeta an actual film festival was happening, one that handed its top prizes to work strange and sharp enough to be worth clearing an actual Friday night for. Here are the four titles that walked away with Venice’s blessing this year, and exactly why each one is worth the ticket.<\/p>\n

Woman Unknown<\/em> (Leone d’Oro)<\/strong><\/h1>\n

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\nDenmark’s May el-Toukhy took the festival’s top prize with this one, and it earns every inch of it. Set in Copenhagen in the summer of 1945, it follows Marie, a former housemaid one wedding away from a comfortable life with a wealthy widower, until her wartime romance with a German soldier starts clawing its way back into the light. Mathilde Arcel won the Coppa Volpi for Best Actress for the role, playing a woman caught in the specific, merciless math of postwar reckoning, where surviving an occupation and being punished for it can happen in the same breath. It’s the kind of history lesson your school skipped, going down easier than it has any right to.<\/p>\n