79th Venice Film Festival Preview
We take a look at the UK films and talent taking part in the 2022 edition of the festival.
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Film Festivals
Early each September, the vaporettos and water taxis of Venice are filled with film critics and film stars visiting the lagoon city. They all want to see who will take home the Golden Lion at the Venice Film Festival, the world’s oldest film festival. But they also devour the huge range of films for which the festival is famous, from European arthouse to crowd-pleasing blockbusters, and this year they’re in for some treats.
New releases
Industry
The cut-throat world of corporate finance is at the centre of this razor-sharp and riveting drama.
We Met in Virtual Reality
A groundbreaking and intimate virtual reality documentary celebrating the love and friendships fostered in VRChat.
Bad Sisters
Sharon Horgan, Anne Marie-Duff and Eve Hewson star in a deliciously dark murder-plot comedy.
As Dusk Falls
An emotionally-intense interactive game where you make difficult choices in a decades-spanning story.
Talent Focus
Falling in with Florence Pugh
With her starring role alongside Harry Styles in Olivia Wilde's Don't Worry Darling premiering at this year's Venice Film Festival, we take a look back on the career of one of the UK's brightest acting talents.
Watch this clip to find out more and take a look at the links below to find out where to watch some of the UK films and TV series that led her to Hollywood stardom.
Rogue Agent
Gemma Arterton and James Norton star in a cat-and-mouse thriller, based on a true story.
My Life as a Rolling Stone
Celebrating The Rolling Stones at 60, this docu-series delves into the making of the world famous band.
F1 22
New rules, new cars, new modes. The ante is upped in this Formula 1® simulation game.
Three Minutes: A Lengthening
A Polish town, pre-Holocaust, is immortalised on celluloid in this haunting documentary.
Interviews
Adeel Akhtar on Ali & Ava: “When we think about all the stories we hear about Asian guys from Bradford, that’s not one of them”
The BAFTA nominated actor discusses his role as the romantic lead in Clio Barnard’s Ali & Ava.
Peter Strickland on Flux Gourmet: “Extreme violence doesn’t interest me. It doesn’t really provoke”
Gastrointestinal problems, Robert Bresson and This Is Spinal Tap are all ingredients in Flux Gourmet, the latest strange brew from Peter Strickland.
A Hollywood-style hoax in 90's Glasgow
Hear from Jono McLeod, the Scottish director of strange-but-true doc My Old School in this exclusive Screen UK interview.
Video Games
From Grand Theft Auto to Little Big Planet, the UK has produced some of the world's most played video games. Take a look at some of our favourite releases of 2022 so far.
The TV shows illuminating our relationship to social media
Staring The Crown's Erin Doherty, limited series Chloe reaches US screens this month and is one of a number of recent British shows to explore themes of social media and surveillance.
Guilt
Two brothers try to get away with (accidental) murder in this pitch-black, Scottish comedy.
Fall
127 Hours meets Free Solo in this stomach-churning climbing-based survival thriller.
Everything I Know About Love
Dolly Alderton’s hit memoir makes for a nostalgic and fun-fuelled TV series.
She Will
An ageing actress retreats to the Scottish wilderness in this creepy supernatural horror.
Animation focus
A Golden Age for UK Animation
Did you get hooked on Peppa Pig during lockdown? Discover more UK animation through the work of these six exciting studios.
Making friends with a playful mouse and rabbit
ScreenUK talks with the writing team behind the new British animated series Pip and Posy.
Motorways, morphine and losing a sense of scale
We spoke to the team behind Scale, a short animation selected for Cannes and Annecy.
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Mr. Tuner
Masterful director Mike Leigh gives Turner’s life a fresh coat of paint with this vivid biopic.
Bannan
Secrets are abound in this brooding Scottish Gaelic drama, set in a Scottish Island community.
Trigonometry
A young couple invite a third person into their relationship in this quietly radical British miniseries.
Peaky Blinders
An electric and epic period drama set amid the gangsters and grifters of 1920s Birmingham.
Pirates
Party like it’s 1999 with this peppy comedy about mates, music and the new millennium.
'71
Jack O’Connell sets the screen alight in this hair-raising action thriller set over the course of one night in Belfast.
Phantom of the Open
Welsh actor-turned-director Craig Roberts returns with this big-hearted biopic of not-so-gifted golfer Maurice Flitcroft.
Hidden
The misty (and murderous) mountains of Snowdonia are the perfect setting for this Welsh-language whodunnit.
South of the Circle
An emotionally-gripping narrative adventure game that takes you on a journey to the brink of despair.
The Survivalist
This haunting, high-stakes (but low-budget) post-apocalyptic thriller makes for a grim but gripping watch.
Autonauts vs. Piratebots
A colourful and surprisingly complex simulation game that rewards patience and creativity.
Surge
Ben Whishaw unleashes a kinetic performance in this boundary-pushing drama about what it means to be alive.