Good afternoon International Insiders. We end another week as Venice wraps and with plenty else going on. Max Goldbart here penning the newsletter. Sign up here if you haven’t already, and do read on.

Venice Curtain Call

Hind Rajab finds a voice: This year’s Venice Film Festival ends on Saturday. Comparative with previous years, it has felt a little quieter. There haven’t really been any slam-dunk breakouts from the Lido like festivals past – there’s been a bit too much ‘mid’, as the kids might say. A seriously headline title, however, has been Kaouther Ben Hania’s latest, The Voice of Hind Rajab . At its premiere on Wednesday, the film received a festival record 23-minute and 50-second ovation, during which members of the audience chanted “Free Palestine” and waved Palestini

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