VENICE 2021 International Film Critics’ Week / Awards Minor accolades were bestowed upon European (co)productions including Erasing Frank, They Carry Death and Detours It’s a wrap for the 2021 Venice’s International Film Critics’ Week, an independent and parallel section organised by the National Union of Italian Film Critics (SNCCI) as …

In Arsalan Amiri’s confident feature debut, the invisible demons carry allegorical resonance Set in 1978, in a Kurdish village high in the mountains, Iranian horror entry “Zalava” pits rational, scientific beliefs against superstition and groupthink, a theme that carries a …

  Investigating reports of demonic possessions in a remote village, a skeptical military officer finds his beliefs tested by an enigmatic exorcist. In Kurdistan, nestled among the mountains of northwestern Iran, the village of Zalava is cursed by an ancient …