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Doug Liman’s Asteroid and Edward Berger’s Submerged are among 69 projects selected for Venice Immersive, the extended reality section of Venice International Film Festival (August 27-September 6).

Xr (extended reality) thriller Asteroid is a 30-minute-long immersive short following a group of strangers who take an old rocket to mine a near-earth asteroid for a chance at substantial wealth.

After its Venice world premiere, Asteroid will launch on Google’s Xr app later this year. It is produced by 30 Ninjas Production, in association with Google initiative 100 Zeros, run in partnership with A Complete Unknown producers Range Media Partners. Creators are Liman,...

Deming Chen’s debut documentary Always won the top Dox:Award prize at Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Cph:dox) 2025.

Set in the mountains of China’s Hunan province, Always follows an eight-year-old boy living with his poor family, who discovers poetry as a way of describing his feelings and place in the world.

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The US-France-China co-production is produced by Hansen Lin for US company Timelight Film, in co-production with France’s SaNoSi Production and Taiwan’s Rustic Pictures.

Always receives the €10,000 in the main competition, from a jury of Rikke Tambo Andersen, Max Kestner,...

Deming Chen’s debut documentary Always won the top Dox:Award prize at Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival (Cph:dox) 2025.

Set in the mountains of China’s Hunan province, Always follows an eight-year-old boy living with his poor family, who discovers poetry as a way of describing his feelings and place in the world.

Scroll down for the full list of winners

The US-France-China co-production is produced by Hansen Lin for US company Timelight Film, in co-production with France’s SaNoSi Production and Taiwan’s Rustic Pictures.

Always receives the €10,000 in the main competition, from a jury of Rikke Tambo Andersen, Max Kestner,...

In Morocco, homosexuality is banned and just one in five citizens find gayness “acceptable,” at least according to a 2019 poll. An Elton John concert twelve years ago broke the law, but was personally approved by Morocco’s king. Still, Grindr thrives, and third-largest city, Tangier, has a decades-long tradition as a haven for LGBT+ culture in North Africa.

Morocco thus makes a fitting setting for British sophomore director Fyzal Boulifa’s challenging melodrama “The Damned Don’t Cry,” a loose remake of Pier Paolo Pasolini’s “Mamma Roma,” which was nominated for the Golden Lion sixty Venice Film Festivals ago. But selectors in this year’s Giornate Degli Autori sidebar program did not place Boulifa’s film out of sentimentality alone. “The Damned Don’t Cry” is excellent, asking tough questions about society and morality without easy answers or neat conclusions. Non-actors populate the cast, performing terrifically, in one of many nods...