Directed: Roman Polanski

Starrings: Jean Dujardin, Louis Garrel, Emmanuelle Seigner

Country: France, Italy

Year: 2019

Thirty thousand Iraqi soldiers are fleeing Mosul. Daesh has conquered Mosul, the city is totally in their hands. Yet a small but deadly and annoying resistance still exists in the city. It is a squadron of swats, all Iraqis. Deadly, heroic, brave, strong fighters, ruthless and bad. ISIS fears them, the order to kill them immediately without offering them the opportunity of the Towba, the conversion. These heroic human characters have attracted the curiosity of an American director Matthew Michael Carnahan. It made an American production action film with local actors and starred in Arabic. It is Mosul presented at the 76th Venice International Film Festival.

Why does a young Tunisian girl, after living ten years in Paris, move to Tunis to psychotherapy practice? The director Manele Labidi Labbé narrates it in the brilliant comedy Arab Blues - Un Divan à Tunis presented at the 76th Venice Film Festival. The girl is Selma. Selma is determined, intellectual, courageous, extravagant, proud, free. She is not afraid, she does not feel the anguish of fighting a new competition.

Bureaucracy is a clandestine power that subdues everyone, including governments, parliaments, dictators, kings, presidents. Preferred victims are ordinary, simple people. In front of the modules flattened like bureaucratic rifles, they are annihilated. La muerte de un burócrata by director Tomás Gutiérrez Alea tells of a heroic and terrible battle against the notorious bureaucracy.

In 1967 Hong Kong had many violent riots by youth riots. The boys demonstrated with the Red Book by Mao Tse-tung. The rallies were made up of dreamers, utopians and imaginative. Everything ended one day. Now those young people are mature men, many have become important, famous as the director Yonfan. His oneiric nostalgia is the beautiful No.7 Cherry Lane, presented at the 76th Venice Film Festival, winning the Golden Osella Best Screenplay.

Father is the one who protects and nourishes. A difficult and complex task. Many men have weaknesses or are totally unreliable in fatherhood. The film Rialto by director Peter Mackie Burns, presented at the 76th Venice Film Festival, shows two fathers, different, in crisis, one young and one mature. Both have families and have become unable to fulfill their role: to protect and nourish.