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Broke small-time rancher Dan Evans is hired by the stagecoach line to put big-time captured outlaw leader Ben Wade on the 3:10 train to Yuma but Wade's gang tries to free him.
Fifteen‑year‑old Emma becomes pregnant after a rape and defies her repressive rural Protestant community to carve a path of self‑determination. She transforms her trauma into a catalyst for emancipation while confronting the moral hypocrisy of her village and the lingering shadow of World War II.
Centered on White House staffers grappling with an impending missile strike on America, this gripping drama unfolds in real-time as tensions escalate.
A Long Goodbye tells the story of Ida, a 72-year-old pianist living with dementia. In this animated, interactive VR experience, we walk in Ida's shoes. We experience a day in her life, as her reality is fading. The apartment, where she spent a lifetime with her beloved husband Daniel, first feels empty and undefined. When we interact with objects and play the tape recordings of her husband, her playful world gradually comes to life, as if drawn in paint before our eyes.
A photographer at the peak of his career abandons his success to pursue writing, facing financial hardship and personal struggles as he chases his true passion.
A concise narrative short (~17 min) centered on two New Zealand characters, Simon Leary and Max Currie, exploring an undefined intimate or psychological dynamic. More plot specifics have not yet been released ahead of its Venice Orizzonti world premiere.
This immersive documentary places viewers alongside freediver Ant Williams as he attempts to break the world record for the longest distance swum under ice on a single breath, capturing the freezing clarity of the Arctic environment in an 8K immersive experience
A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.
Jesús was abused by a Catholic priest at age 11. Now that he's an adult, he initiates legal action and directly confronts his abuser in pursuit of justice, personal healing, and redemption.
Three lonely young denizens of Taipei unknowingly share an apartment used for sexual trysts.
This 15-minute VR installation guides participants into a speculative encounter with alien consciousness. Blurring the boundaries between observer and observed, the immersive experience invites viewers to inhabit an extraterrestrial vantage point—questioning assumptions about perspective, empathy, and otherness
Based on the autobiography of Antonio Zagari, the film follows the true story of a young Calabrian mafia hitman who becomes disillusioned with the violence and cruels of the criminal life, ultimately rejecting the bloody legacy imposed by his father as the 'ndrangheta's power expands across the 1970s in Italy
The story takes place in the old streets of Porto and by the banks of the Douro River. A gang of very young kids has just accepted a new member, Carlitos, a shy boy who has "played it tough" by stealing a doll in a shop. Carlitos soon has a crush on Terezinha, the only girl in the group. The trouble is that Eduardo, the gang boss, is also in love with the pretty girl. And he will not allow any rival to challenge him.
A high‑stakes immersive XR thriller in which a group of strangers commandeers an old rocket to mine a near‑Earth asteroid for unimaginable wealth. After the 30‑minute film concludes, audiences receive a real-time call from an AI‑powered character stranded on the asteroid, allowing them to continue the story through interaction
In the gritty outskirts of Medellín, Barrio Triste captures a hallucinatory day and night in the lives of youth navigating the raw edges of survival, desire, and escape. Through hypnotic imagery and a pulsating score by Arca, Stillz crafts a poetic portrait of street life where violence and tenderness coexist. With a loose, dreamlike narrative, the film drifts between moments of silence, chaos, and intimacy, as its characters search for meaning amid a crumbling urban reality. Executive produced by Harmony Korine, Barrio Triste is an audiovisual descent into the textures of marginalization and resilience, blurring the line between fiction, documentary, and music video.
An Iranian boy is lost after fleeing home for his life; his family has been killed during the Iran-Iraq war. He's saved and trained by a middle-aged woman.
In this 20‑minute mixed‑reality experience, participants are immersed into the world of 1950s Formula 1 legend Alberto Ascari. Blending motion‑capture, archival footage, VR, and 360° video, the piece allows users to perform a virtual pit stop, feeling the thrill and precision of historic auto racing. As viewers interact with the vintage Ferrari in real time, the boundaries between spectator and mechanic dissolve. The work pays homage to Ascari's legacy while reimagining storytelling through multiplayer, interactive design. It's a celebration of innovation, speed, and the dawn of immersive technology.
Blur is a mixed-reality theatre experience that explores this liminal state between life and death, fact and fiction. The production immerses ten audience members in a surreal world, where a performer interacts live with the digital environment of virtual reality. The audience journeys through an unfolding landscape, encountering firsthand the magical possibilities and terrifying consequences of these scientific advancements. The future is present. Step into the unknown.
An evocative short documentary exploring the enduring legacies and hidden histories of nuclear testing and uranium mining in North Africa. Through archival footage, personal testimony, and poetic reflection, the film traces how geopolitical ambition and atomic power have shaped desert communities and their cultural memory. Bouchareb interrogates the often untold human cost of scientific advancements, weaving together local voices and historical visuals. The result is a powerful cinematic meditation on contamination, resilience, and remembrance. At just 21 minutes, the piece delivers a haunting narrative that resonates long after the credits roll.
In 1973, Warner Brothers released The Exorcist. The film became a critical and cultural phenomenon, nominated for ten Academy Awards, and it became the highest grossing movie in the studio's history and the third highest grossing film of all time.
A psychedelic virtual-reality experience built on VRChat, where DJ Rekluma and VJ PK collaboratively compose a live audiovisual show. Users join a surreal digital world named Arcanum 15, immersed in shifting shader environments and experimental soundscapes. The performance unfolds as a DJ/VJ synchronization, allowing participants to trigger sequences and witness real-time visual transformations. Each session becomes a shared ritual of light, sound, and interactivity. Break 15˸ Arcanum explores the communal potential of virtual worlds and audiovisual nightlife in a digital age.
A new film by British artist–filmmakers Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth, showcased Out of Competition at the 2025 Venice Film Festival. Running at 96 minutes, this narrative–documentary hybrid continues their lyrical exploration of music, memory, and experimentation in moving‑image form.
Two conspiracy-obsessed young men kidnap the high-powered CEO of a major company, convinced that she is an alien intent on destroying planet Earth.
An aged Spanish woman in Tangier resists her daughter's decision to sell her home.
In a future Paris divided by class, an AI named Alma oversees society. When Alma's creator dies, cop Salia teams with Zem to unravel a mystery questioning their segregated world.
Thida, the guardian spirit of an old cinema slated for demolition, is forced to confront her existence as a ghost and the possibility of rebirth. Her encounter with Hai, with whom she develops a deep bond, pushes her to confront not only her spiritual destiny, but also the economic and social changes radically transforming her country.
Collective Body encourages us to reconnect to our embodied selves and each other through movement. This collective VR experience invites us to discover our movement identity: the signature ways of moving that each of us expresses in life.
A communal, immersive reading-performance in which audiences collectively explore a handcrafted artist's book accompanied by a live sound installation. Inspired by the blank and torn pages of C. P. Cavafy's teenage journal written during his family's exile from Alexandria, Constantinopoliad reflects on missing archives, queer history, erotic and historical ghosts, and the experience of loss and memory
An investigative documentary that follows journalist Seymour Hersh as he uncovers and exposes significant politically sensitive stories—continuing Poitras's acclaimed engagement with high‑stakes investigative journalism and governmental power.
A Palestinian doctor's nightly commute from Jericho to Ramallah goes awry when her tire blows on a desolate road. Surrounded by coyotes, a stranger arrives to assist—but soon reveals a darker motive, testing trust and survival.
An independently created VRChat world titled Cyberlove ｜ A7, designed as an immersive cyberpunk‑inspired virtual environment. It appears as part of a larger narrative universe and is presented as a standalone experience in the Venice Immersive 'Best of Worlds' category.
Eighty years after the end of World War II, this immersive documentary uncovers the untold story of Sgt. Richard Taylor—one of the first to land on Omaha Beach, not with a rifle but with a camera. His mission: to capture the Allied invasion so the world could witness the liberation of Europe. Decades later, his daughter Jennifer receives an unexpected message that launches her on a journey across time and continents to reconnect with the father she never truly knew.
An immersive virtual‑reality journey through Henri Matisse's iconic dance series (1906–1954), guided by original choreography from Sarah Silverblatt‑Buser. Through animated cut‑outs, gouache, charcoal, and live movement, users step into the painter's universe—experiencing La Danse de Paris, La Danse inachevée, and La Danse de Merion as living artworks.
In a world where sexuality often lurks in the shadows, Dark Rooms invites you to step into the realm of unspoken desires and intimate exploration. Through immersive VR storytelling, you'll follow our protagonists' real stories as they navigate their own sexual awakenings, confront societal taboos, and embrace their true selves. With Dark Rooms, we invite you to uncover not only the protagonists' truths but also your own, in a virtual safer space where you can explore various forms of sexual encounters without the need for real-life participation.
On February 8, 1977, Tony Kiritsis, entered the office of Richard Hall, president of the Meridian Mortgage Company, and took him hostage with a sawed-off shotgun wired with a "dead man's wire" from the trigger to Tony's own neck.
A bank robber released from jail must unlock his traumatised brother's memory to recover stolen loot.
In the final days of Ceausescu's Romania, Maria, 10, becomes the last witness to her sister's mysterious disappearance and must find the courage to grow up in a collapsing world.
A monumental five-hour documentary-philosophical panorama reflecting on Russia's cultural and political landscape as seen through Sokurov's eyes. Drawing from his personal diaries (1961–1995) and deeply symbolic imagery, the film traverses an impressionistic portrait of Russia and its people, blending memory, history, and spiritual introspection
In the hope of earning enough money to pay off his debts and save his land, a poor farmer becomes a rickshaw puller in Calcutta and faces many difficulties.
A VR experience or immersive work that reimagines the myth of Dracula's castle through innovative extended-reality storytelling—presented as a part of the Venice Immersive "Best of Worlds" showcase during Venice Film Festival 2025
The legendary Italian stage diva Eleonora Duse, through the latter part of her life and her legendary career is now long over.
When 7- to 8-year-old Ron, who is deaf, fears his first camping trip, his mother shares the story of "Eddie the Camper." Ron eventually falls asleep and enters a surreal forest where you embody Eddie, guiding him through the experience. Using hand-tracking and sign language cues, you help Ron overcome fear and communication barriers in this interactive VR adventure.
Inspired by Gustave Courbet's controversial painting, the 12-minute short recreates the artwork as a single unbroken tableau vivant. As the actress Leila Loforte embodies the image, the filmmaker and crew record an off‑camera discussion about the history of censorship, the gaze, and the tension between painting and cinema.
Elisa, the daughter of an ordinary family, has been in prison for ten years for brutally murdering her sister. She believes she doesn't remember what happened, but her fragmented memories begin to come into focus during meetings with the criminologist Alaoui.
Elvira Notari, Italy's first female director, left only 163 minutes of surviving footage. Despite few records of her life remaining, her work is experiencing a renaissance, sparked by scholars' rediscovery in the 1970s.
Inside the garden of a busy corporate building, a small sensitive virtual bird flutters. Flaming red, teetering on the edge of burnout, it mirrors the surrounding stress. It needs care! An AI-driven VR installation in two parts: a VR caring ritual experience, and a and a real-time simulation of the bird's evolving state. This immersive Tamagotchi-like piece explores emotional interdependence and collective well-being.
A drifter who sleeps with truckers meets a reserved driver and joins him hauling freight across northern Mexico. As they grow closer on the road, the drifter's past threatens them both.
After being unemployed for several years, a man devises a unique plan to secure a new job: eliminate his competition.
Dídac (15) travels by bicycle along the Danube with his family during one summer. He starts the journey where the river has just emerged, in Germany. But one afternoon, he begins to encounter a strange figure. It is Alexander (18), who appears and disappears among the waters of the river. Dídac feels that something is changing in him. At that moment, the Danube widens and becomes a giant river. The appearance of this mysterious boy starts to affect his relationship with his family. Biel (13) feels how his brother is growing and distancing himself from him to be with Alexander. Monika (40), the mother, who had made the same trip when she was sixteen, behaves strangely as she flirts with other strangers. Now, upon returning to the river, she evokes the memory of a youth love she experienced at that time. At the end of the journey, when Monika sees Alexander and Dídac together, she understands that it is now her son's turn to live what she lived and invites them to escape downstream in a boat. But during twilight, Dídac begins to mistrust Alexander.
Etty is the story of a modern, free-spirited, and sharply intelligent woman, wrestling with inner doubts and darkness yet endowed with extraordinary spiritual depth. Over the course of the series, a turbulent love affair with psycho-chirologist Julius Spier becomes the catalyst for Etty's profound transformation. As the threat closes in, her journey culminates in an extraordinary act of solidarity.
A VR immersive piece selected for the 2025 Venice Immersive section, Exhibition ⁄ Back Seeing is a virtual art film–experience by director haruki_haru. Its narrative likely engages with perception, memory, and layered visual perspectives, blending cinematic and installation modes in an immersive VR environment
An immersive virtual-reality installation showcased in the 2025 Venice Immersive program. Structural details are scarce, but the project—titled Experience—likely invites participants into a surreal, spatially layered environment combining interactive design with thematic subtext around memory, simulation, or digital worlds.
Estranged siblings reunite after years apart, forced to confront unresolved tensions and reevaluate their strained relationships with their emotionally distant parents
An intimate documentary portrait of Italian photographer Ferdinando Scianna. Directed by Roberto Andò, the film chronicles Scianna's life through art, illness, friendships, and deep reflections on the meaning of images and the act of photographing
This 35-minute immersive installation from Japan blends mixed reality and VR technologies, inviting viewers to inhabit a futuristic "virtual suit." The experience merges physical movement with digital layers, exploring embodiment, identity, and the blurred boundaries between human and virtual spheres
An immersive XR environment showcasing intense visual sequences. Exact narrative or thematic description is not detailed publicly, but the piece is recognized for its dynamic use of flashing visuals within a VR-world context
A VR-based immersive project that transports users into a conceptual virtual world titled Flat Earth. Specific narrative details remain sparse, but the experience centers around spatial perception and speculative environments, aligning with other independent VR works presented in Best of Worlds at Venice Immersive 2025
The film, directed by Stefano Pistolini, was born from a musical experiment by Francesco De Gregori who, about ten months before making the feature film, chose to take a decidedly unconventional path.
A brilliant but egotistical scientist brings a creature to life in a monstrous experiment that ultimately leads to the undoing of both the creator and his tragic creation
Funeral Casino Blues is an urban film born from village stories of debt and gambling, loan sharks, and fleeing the countryside to Pattaya or Bangkok. The city in front of you, concrete rushing beneath, thousands of windows in the night. The winning lottery ticket in your pocket that's gonna buy your mom a house. The hope of gambling and religion. The hope for a better next life. The hope of despair.
In the newly released world "FZMZ Point Zero," you can fully experience the artistic nature of FZMZ, known for its strong connections to digital culture such as gaming and VR, through various exhibits and features scattered throughout the space.
Follows a mysterious herd of ghost elephants in the jungles of Angola.
Ghost Town is a single player VR puzzle-adventure from the makers of The Room. London, 1983. Edith Penrose is a ghost hunter, busy exorcising her way through the city's restless spirits. But after her brother goes missing Edith must draw upon her wits & supernatural talents to unravel the mystery.
A 12-minute short film from New Zealand spotlighting moments in the lives of young women, exploring themes of connection, autonomy, and emotional realism in a minimalist cinematic style. Made through Jane Campion's A Wave in the Ocean film school initiative
Vincent works the night shift on the Grand Ciel building site, which is set to be a futuristic district. When a worker disappears, Vincent and his colleagues suspect the team leader of hiding the body somewhere on site. But Vincent is soon party to strange manifestations.
Joey believed happiness was lost forever—until you stumbled into her world through a diary while chasing butterflies. With Dusty the dust spirit, you team up with Joey's Shadow, using your own shadow to solve puzzles and face her deepest fears. Happy Shadow is an interactive journey through confusion, wonder, and healing.
In the hope of reuniting with their scattered family, Shafi (4) and his sister Somira (9) leave a Rohingya refugee camp in Bangladesh on a perilous journey to reach Malaysia.
Follows the story of a brave princess who transcends time and space.
A 10‑minute immersive short by Bonnie Lisbon (Fanny Fortage), HeartBeat presents a poetic exploration of rhythm, emotional connection, and silence, unfolding through encounters that find harmony in the unspoken.
At the age of 31, Azucena decides to look for the son she abandoned after getting pregnant at the age of 13. Julio, her 18 year-old son, is in his last year at the orphanage and the two look as if they were the same age. La Hiedra explores the relationship between a mother and her son from the angle of instinct, sleeping bodies, the relationship of those bodies with nature.
A drama centered on the bond formed between different generations of Saudi women during a journey across the desert to Mecca. When the eldest granddaughter disappears, the grandmother travels to the north in search of the missing teenager.
Drawing from an extensive archive of over 3,000 narrative works HOLOFICTION critically examines how Holocaust imagery has been codified and reproduced in cinema across decades. The film exposes recurring visual motifs and narrative patterns that have become iconic in the portrayal of the Holocaust. Inspired by Claude Lanzmann's skepticism toward visual representations of historical trauma, the film questions the possibility and implications of depicting such an atrocity in fictional cinema. Through its essayistic approach, HOLOFICTION invites audiences to reflect on the ethics and responsibility of cinematic storytelling, urging a deeper understanding of how these representations shape collective memory and historical perception.
After years in prison, Max promises revenge on his brothers for their betrayal. His lover Irene and memories of his past yield him a broader perspective.
A short film that invites a surreal and poetic exploration of presence and absence through the concept of filming the unseen. At 27 minutes, it presents a philosophical meditation on memory, visibility, and the act of documenting what may not be there.
A quietly poetic documentary by Tsai Ming‑liang, Hui jia (Back Home) captures the filmmaker's homecoming to Taipei, blending still long takes and observational visuals over 65 minutes to meditate on memory, urban alienation, and reconnection with one's origins.
A contemporary drama that explores human life amid a global decline in birth rates, following a female HR professional as she interviews a variety of candidates to find the "right one" for her company.
A director revisits the diaries of Angela, a fellow film-lover and companion, many years later.
It is said that one out of every 20 people in Japan is currently being treated for some form of mental illness. The field of psychiatry in Japan has various problems such as historical backgrounds, difficulties in psychiatry itself, and structural distortions of psychiatry, which may hinder the recovery of people suffering from mental illnesses. In this work, a boy who lost his beloved cat and began hallucinating about the cat is diagnosed with a mental illness simply because he can see the cat, and is forcibly admitted to a hospital for treatment. What will the boy experience in the hospital? This is a work that only VR can provide a realistic view of the problems of psychiatry, the relationship between mother and child, and what salvation means to the boy.
A teen tennis prodigy struggles with his father's expectations while embarking on a transformative coastal Italian training tour with his coach, an ex-champion who lost his way.
Andrea Artusi begins to have doubts about the loyalty of his beautiful wife. When doubt becomes an obsession, his behavior becomes completely crazy, stalking her relentlessly.
Il mostro dramatizes the notorious Monster of Florence case, exploring eight double murders between 1968 and 1985. The narrative examines not only the crimes but the psychological landscapes of those suspected—"possible monsters"—and the way collective paranoia and unresolved justice shaped communities around Florence.
An Italian woman named Holly is convinced she's the wrong version of herself until meeting a 7-year-old girl who changes her perspective.
This 14-minute short film offers an intimate conversation with Jack Maurer, unfolding as a poetic exploration of memory, identity, and the subtleties of human connection. Crafted by filmmaker Hash Perambalam, it blends observational framing with contemplative tone in a New Zealand‑based cinematic voice
A handwritten manuscript of Dante Alighieri's poem "The Divine Comedy" makes its way from a priest to a mob boss in New York City, where it is taken by Nick Tosches after he's asked to verify its authenticity.
Famous movie actor Jay Kelly and his devoted manager Ron embark on a whirlwind and unexpectedly profound journey. Both are forced to confront choices they've made, their relationships with loved ones and the legacies they'll leave behind.
Ada, a 14-year-old girl, helplessly watches her father's slow agony as he is seriously ill. She is sent to Saint Michel Chef Chef, a seaside resort in the West of France. On the beach, while she gets stung by a wasp, Ada feels her body change and her desire awaken.
This 14‑minute South Korean immersive VR film follows Haru, a cartoonist navigating grief after the sudden loss of a lover. Using real‑time image and AI‑generated monologue, the piece invites audiences to participate in Haru's process of mourning and memory—poetic, technological, and emotionally resonant.
A devoted soldier of the Taliban's ideology that has shaped his destiny since birth, Samim (23) struggles between the alluring promises of martyrdom and the mundanity of his daily existence as a husband and farmer. Samim's younger brother, Rafi (14), idolizes his big brother as he navigates the confusion of adolescence, leaving behind playfulness to enter a world shaped by decades of military intervention and resulting radicalization.
A man getting on in years sets out to find a way to resurrect his flagging virility.
Taking its title from an archaic Japanese word meaning "ghost story," this anthology adapts four folk tales. A penniless samurai marries for money with tragic results. A man stranded in a blizzard is saved by Yuki the Snow Maiden, but his rescue comes at a cost. Blind musician Hoichi is forced to perform for an audience of ghosts. An author relates the story of a samurai who sees another warrior's reflection in his teacup.
Explores Kim Novak's life, highlighting her role in Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo, and her journey from stardom to a reclusive life as an artist in Oregon, using rare archival footage and Novak's own reflections.
Bahram, an Iranian‑Azeri filmmaker, attempts to clandestinely screen his banned film by navigating absurd bureaucracies, underground deals, and surreal obstacles. As the screening commences, unexpected events challenge his sense of agency, transforming the act of exhibition into a metaphorical exploration of censorship, identity, and resistance.
Set in Aotearoa New Zealand, Kurī follows a Māori character through a day shaped by ancestral echoes and the natural world. The film evokes themes of belonging, heritage, and the resonance of whakapapa, told in a poetic style that merges ancestral memory with present-day sensibilities.
A poetic short that blends personal memory and historical place through the eyes of a family reconnecting with lost heritage in Constantinople (Istanbul). Alongside Roberto Citran and Leo Folin, the narrative intertwines intimate recollection and spatial encounter in a meditative exploration of belonging and return.
In 1930s Algeria, apathetic Frenchman Meursault shows total indifference to life. His emotional detachment leads to a murder, followed by a trial that scrutinizes both the crime and his character.
The story of the legal battle waged by two parents for the custody of their only 8-year-old son.
Inspired by Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale The Shadow, this immersive hybrid performance blends live dance, electronic percussion, video projections, mixed reality, and spatial sound. The work explores the boundary between the human and the virtual—where a scientist's shadow gains autonomy and ultimately threatens identity—evoking contemporary concerns about AI, embodiment, and perception.
"Truffaut‑style love story" paired with themes of Italian power and personal response to cultural shifts. The film stars Paolo's longtime muse Toni Servillo as the "Presidente" and Anna Ferzetti as Dorotea, suggesting an introspective character study under political and emotional pressure.
In crumbling Caracas, after burying her mother, Adelaida finds her home taken by armed militia. With society falling apart, she must risk all, including her identity, to survive.
On December 24, 1916, two postal couriers volunteer for a Christmas Eve mission across enemy lines to deliver mail to soldiers at the front. When their truck is struck by gunfire and crosses into contested territory, they face suspicion from both sides. An intense wartime drama unfolds through a tense cross-examination about their intentions, loyalty, and survival.
A meticulously hand-animated short VR experience in which a beloved urban legend, the story of a little mouse—takes a radical, disturbing turn. As visual elegance darkens, the narrative reimagines this popular folk tale to reflect deeper existential longing and transformation. Produced by Reynard Films and Atlas V with emotional voice performances and orchestral score, the work melds craft with poetic intensity.
An immersive virtual reality experience inviting visitors to wander the Palais Garnier in a dreamlike odyssey. Through the eyes of a young singer, Céleste, the work blends iconic arias, like "Song to the Moon," "Vissi d'arte," and "Habanera", with architecturally layered projections and sound to evoke memory, imagination, and the poetic legacy of opera.
In Italy's happiest village, a haunted teacher discovers dark secret behind weekly gatherings where locals seek healing from a teenage boy's embrace. His quest to save the youth reveals the sinister nature of a community hiding behind joy.
Legendary New York poet Ed Saxberger's forgotten works captivate an eccentric group of young creatives, reigniting his artistic passion. Their intrigue intertwines with the bewitching presence of actress Gloria.
A young Russian filmmaker becomes an unlikely advisor to Vladimir Putin as he rises to power in post-Soviet Russia, navigating the new era's complexities and chaos.
A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a foggy, French port city.
Light Aquarium is a VR/immersive piece directed by phi16, showcased in the Venice Immersive section at the 2025 Venice Film Festival. While details of the narrative are limited in public sources, it's described as a shimmering, interactive world of light and aquatic imagery in virtual reality
In an Iranian city, Lili, the lonely wife of a militia commander, plots a murder to secure her husband's rise within a corrupt regime. But when the killing unhinges the order of things, she is drawn into a network of deep web hackers—modern-day witches—who weaponize hidden truth. This stylized neo noir game adaptation of Macbeth unfolds through smartphones, computer screens, and deep-state surveillance, immersing players as hackers in the oppressive surveillance state.
On a beach road, a teenage boy and his mother hit something with their car - she insists it was nothing, but as the night unfolds the boy begins to doubt her story.
A woman and her lover murder her doctor husband, but when strange things start happening, they wonder if they really killed him, or if he has come back from the dead to haunt them.
A middle-aged college professor becomes infatuated with a 14-year-old girl.
Claire Duguet's documentary celebrates the life, filmography, and rebellious spirit of French master Louis Malle, tracing his cinema ventures from wartime reportage to provocative period dramas. Through archive footage, interviews, and music, it reflects on his defiance of norms and dedication to cinematic freedom.
Iva works in a clothing factory in rural Bulgaria battling a persistent, yet mysterious illness. When it is revealed that she is the first case of COVID in her small town, the news spirals into an endless j'accuse - first from the factory owners eager to shift responsibility, then from her fellow co-workers, her son, and eventually her entire community, despite the fact that Iva hasn't left her small town in years. With Iva's public demonization escalating as the first victims of the virus emerge, she is quickly turned into a social outcast. With a structure that edges on a social mystery drama focusing on the unsung layers of the COVID pandemic, Cannes director and KV Crystal Globe winner Stephan Komandarev returns with a reflection on aggressive capitalism to compound another gripping, timely, yet fierce portrait of the exploited—all made in the EU.
An intimate, unconventional portrait of fashion designer Marc Jacobs, guided through decades of friendship and creative collaboration with Sofia Coppola—his longtime friend, muse, and creative partner.
Set in 19th century California Marcos Zappa goes undercover as a pirate to expose the crooked Don Pedro Garcia.
In 1975, television star David Carradine came up with a novel way to forge a relationship with his estranged daughter Calista: he would make a movie with her. "Mata Hari" tells the story of David and Calista's relationship through the lens of their unfinished, years-long film project, an epic telling of the life of the Dutch courtesan and spy, Mata Hari.
A behind-the-scenes documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola's "Megalopolis"
A deeply researched documentary investigating Luis Buñuel's landmark 1950 film Los Olvidados, exploring its social realism, historical context, and ongoing legacy through interviews with filmmakers, critics, and historians, narrated in the voice of Arturo Ripstein as Buñuel. The film revisits original shooting locations in Mexico City, links Goya's visual influence to Buñuel's cinematic style, and reflects on the marginalization portrayed in Los Olvidados and contemporary society.
A twisted utopia unfolds, as singing cherubs melt to the sound of decay. Crafted by a sentient machine from the future, it unveils its own version of paradise.
An immersive VR piece exploring memory and identity, created with haptic interactivity. It premiered in the Venice Immersive competition at the 2025 Venice International Film Festival. The eight-minute experience is co-produced by partners across Saudi Arabia, the Netherlands, Bosnia & Herzegovina, and the UK
An immersive VR installation titled Mirage, directed by Tokyo Waiyoz, showcased out of competition in the Venice Immersive program at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival. It engages participants in a sensory-driven exploration of illusion and perception via virtual reality.
Mnemosyne is a poetic 35-minute virtual reality installation combining VR film with live theatre. It follows a grieving woman, Greek poetess Loukia Batsi, on a deeply sensory journey through memory and history, exploring the ties between personal loss and cultural remembrance
It will follow seven consecutive days at a pivotal moment in Mother Teresa's life, the period where she decides to leave the Loreto Entally convent in Calcutta and launch her own order.
In 1970s Detroit, MILLER falls in love with a local gangster's girl. In retaliation, the gangster enacts a frame job to send the innocent man to prison. Life ruined, Miller plots a revenge campaign against the man who took his girl away.
A cinematic virtual‑reality sci‑fi narrative created for Apple Vision Pro, Mulan2125 reimagines the legendary Mulan legend in a futuristic 2125 setting. Boasting exceptional CGI and immersive storytelling, it was one of China's standout works in the Venice Immersive competition.
In 1993, Mansur Rashid Kikhia, Libya's former diplomat and peaceful opponent to Qaddafi vanished in Cairo. His daughter Jihan investigates his disappearance while documenting her mother's 19-year search for truth.
Fall asleep in a cosy tree trunk and awaken as Natura, daughter of Mother Nature, within her hand‑crafted Queendom. Wander through luminous gardens, a whimsical mushroom forest, and a vibrant glacier lake as celestial melodies guide you through surreal, dreamlike biomes in a fully hand‑painted VR world.
Since the beginning of the full-scale war, 18-year-old Serhii lives in the evacuation zone at the West of Ukraine while his mother decided to stay in their occupied hometown to take care of Serhii's grandfather. As many of his friends joined the army, Serhii left alone. Day and night he volonteers to exhaustion in a humanitarian warehouse. On the day when his mother decides to evacuate too, they have a phone call, but communication breaks down. Serhii tries to contact his mother again, but the connection stays permanently failed. The next day, he learns in the news that a humanitarian convoy near his hometown had been destroyed by Russian shelling. Shocked by this news, Serhii can no longer work and is desperate to save his mother. After several unsuccessful attempts to leave for his hometown, Serhii decides to steal a humanitarian truck and set off in search of his mother.
Neoworlds is a fully functioning VR social world hosted on VRChat, built to emulate an early‑2000s visual aesthetic. Avatars are transformed into 2.5D low-resolution form as users explore stylized environments, fostering nostalgic immersion and community interaction.
Neuron is a VR/immersive experience exploring the intricate networks of the human brain through abstract, sensorial visualizations. The project debuted in the Best of Worlds – Out of Competition section at the Venice Immersive showcase during the 82nd Venice International Film Festival, where participants navigated neuro‑inspired environments in VRChat guided tours
Through performances at the Newport Folk Festivals 1963 to 1966, Newport and the Great Folk Dream revels in a generation's discovery of its voice through their rediscovery of American musical traditions.
Toni D'Angelo follows his father, Naples-born singer-actor Nino D'Angelo, over his "I miei meravigliosi anni '80" tour and into the neighborhoods of his youth, San Pietro a Patierno and Casoria—to uncover the story behind the symbolic 18‑day delay before meeting his newborn son. Through intimate conversation, concert footage, and familial settings, the film examines fame, memory, and reconciliation across generations
At 18, Yaimita fulfills her mother's long-held dream by starting an online romance with Sven, a man twice her age, in hopes of a better life. But her dreams crumble when she discovers that her mother has always known Sven isn't as idyllic as he seems.
Armed men kill Indigenous leader Javier Chocobar during attempted eviction in Argentina, 2009. After years of protests, court case opens in 2018. community voices and trial footage amid colonial land struggles.
In 1988, the smoke and dust covered the sky in Keelung Harbor. Lin Xiaoli grew up in confusion and longed to escape the darkness. Until she met Li Lili, a fearless and free girl, that she saw the colors of the world for the first time.
On the Other Earth is a radical post‑cinematic choreographic installation that immerses audiences within a panoramic 26-million-pixel 360° LED cylinder. Within this otherworldly environment, viewers enter intimate dance encounters blending live performance from Company Wayne McGregor and Hong Kong Ballet, AI, spatialised sound, and interactive visual imagery, creating an evolving narrative experience in real time.
An immersive VR-adventure game from Innerspace VR, mixing VR puzzle mechanics, surreal landscapes, meta-narrative, and mystery. Players journey through Balthazar Auxietre's richly textured worlds to uncover the fate of a fictional author, Jack Stevenson, whose vanished manuscript sets the stage for a mind-bending narrative of alternate realities and existential riddles.
One Woman, One Bra is a feature-length debut by Kenyan filmmaker Vincho Nchogu. Developed through the Biennale College Cinema 2024–25, the narrative explores a deeply personal journey of identity and femininity framed by the symbolic object of a single bra.
Orfeo is the surreal directorial debut feature by Italian animator and visual artist Virgilio Villoresi. Inspired by Dino Buzzati's graphic‑novel poem Poema a fumetti, it reimagines the myth of Orpheus in a fantastical, dreamlike Milan populated by stop‑motion miniatures, analog visual effects like zoetropes, and uncanny landscapes.
A 30-minute audiovisual reflection by environmentalist–filmmaker Yann Arthus‑Bertrand, Origin meditates on the planet's beginnings, and humanity's journey within it, through poetic visual narrative.
In Budapest in 1957, one year after the failure of the Hungarian Revolution, a young Jewish boy whose mother has raised him to believe that his father will return from the camps has his hopes shattered when a brutish stranger appears on the doorstep to take his family back.
A successful man's perfect life shatters when his baby disappears from daycare. His wife's frantic call reveals a devastating truth about a memory lapse known as Forgotten Baby Syndrome, joining countless similar tragedies.
Out of Nowhere gently explores how preserving alluvial forests, marshes and wetlands can help us face the challenges of an ever angrier, unpredictable climate.
An immersive, meditative VR animation drawing from the paintings of Lithuanian symbolist artist Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis. Developed as a spiritual sequel to Angelų Takais, the experience invites viewers through transcendent worlds—such as Creation, Flood, City, Fantasia, and Fairy Tales. It blends interactive imagery, contemporary musical reinterpretations, and emotional resonance designed to reconnect audiences with human feeling and cosmic wonder
A studio accident causes Piero Pelù severe nerve damage. Through family support, music, and spiritual journeys, including a pilgrimage to Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer, the rock singer finds healing and creates new art from his experience.
A playful, Beckett‑inspired tale where successive pairs of characters bid farewell: a mother and her son, an elderly blind pianist, a caretaker and her charge, two actors endlessly rehearsing a scene that will never be performed. Shot between Switzerland and Buenos Aires, the film infuses improvised documentary fragments and fictional structure in the spirit of El Pampero Cine.
The six‑episode drama series recreates the dramatic true story of iconic Italian TV host Enzo Tortora, who was arrested in 1983 after claims from state witnesses alleging involvement with the Camorra. Tortora's wrongful imprisonment and long legal ordeal unfold in detail, as Bellocchio explores injustice, media power, and personal tragedy with historical depth and moral urgency.
A praying mantis mutant seduces and preys on men out of desperation to save her child. A failed mission led to revelations of her past and dark secrets as the story unfolds.
Witek runs after a train. Three variations follow on how such a seemingly banal incident could influence the rest of Witek's life.
A convent girl is abducted and seduced by a prince before being sent off to a brothel in East Africa.
The death of his son causes McElwee, an autobiographical filmmaker, to look back on his life's work. He eventually turns to his archive of home movies. To what extent did his camera affect their relationship when Adrian was alive? To what extent does it define that relationship now that he is gone? Meanwhile, an effort to adapt McElwee's first feature, Sherman's March, into a work of fiction lurches along, giving the filmmaker another perspective from which to meditate on movie making and mortality.
The former lovers meet again after several years. The everyday life of alienation and bondage, revealing the regretful past. Love and sacrifice, repentance and repayment. The heavy burden was not only on her but also on him. Finally, they bid farewell once again, heart-wrenching yet suddenly awakened, the two lost souls finally embraced and cried.
Ri-lancia Luigi Broglio (Re-Launching Luigi Broglio) is a 33-minute immersive virtual reality experience that resurrects the legacy of Luigi Broglio, Italy's pioneering aerospace engineer and the mastermind behind the San Marco satellite project. Blending archival materials, speculative fiction, and cutting-edge virtual environments, director Vincenzo Cavallo invites the viewer into a layered meditation on memory, national ambition, and the future of space exploration. The installation reimagines Broglio's forgotten contributions through a contemporary lens, sparking dialogue on the intersection of technological heritage and visionary imagination.
Ritual is a vast and surreal VRChat world by DrMorro featured in Venice Immersive 2025. Designed as a non‑linear, dreamlike environment, it guides participants through expansive symbolic landscapes, shifting architecture, and ambient soundscapes. Its surreal atmosphere and meditative pacing encourage introspection and individual interpretation. While no traditional plot unfolds, the experience evokes ritualistic symbolism and a sense of personal pilgrimage within an enigmatic virtual terrain.
Five women interviewed for a job in 1951 Rome. A staircase collapsed during chaos, injuring many. The film follows how this incident impacted their different lives, some finding change, others disappointment.
Mysterious boat returns to a village 30 years after vanishing. Two men join its crew hoping for better fortune. After one voyage, they find themselves transported back in time, mistaken for the original crew.
Johann Wilhelm Trollmann becomes middleweight champion in Nazi Germany. He is the first Sinto, Gypsy, in world boxing to win this title. He is famous for his fighting style, which resembles a dance. With the enactment of the racial laws, he is stripped of his title, separated from his wife and daughter, subjected to chemical castration, and imprisoned in the Wittenberge and Neuengamme concentration camps, where he will die at age 37. Before he dies, reduced to a skeleton, he fights for the last time with a Nazi kapo who recognizes and challenges him. Against all odds, Rukeli, which in the Sinti language means tree, the Gipsy, knocks out the Nazi and with him the entire apparatus of power he represents. The next day he will be punished and killed for it, but Rukeli had decided to die a champion.
A tightly woven short drama set in Nigeria, Saint Siméon follows a character portrayed by Nollywood legend Kanayo O. Kanayo as he confronts the tensions between tradition, familial duty, and generational change. Through emotional interplay and cultural symbolism, the story captures the pressures facing a community at a crossroads.
Sangre del Toro is a feature-length documentary that delves into the life, imagination, and cinematic universe of Guillermo del Toro. Directed by Yves Montmayeur, the film portrays del Toro as a modern-day Minotaur – "half man, half bull" – navigating a labyrinth of creativity, drawing from his Mexican heritage and global artistic journeys. Through interviews, archival footage, and evocative imagery, the documentary explores his visionary blend of fantasy, symbolism, and humanistic storytelling
Scale Journey is an immersive VR project showcased in the "Best of Worlds" lineup at Venice Immersive 2025. Created by director S_Asagiri, the work offers a meditative journey through varying scales—from the infinitely small to the vast cosmos. Participants float across abstract terrains and microscopic vistas, experiencing an ambient exploration of dimension, perspective, and the poetic continuum between micro and macro realities
In a 1990s Himalayan town, teacher Barkha, whose husband serves at the border, develops feelings for enigmatic newcomer Manik amid a community of waiting women where silence and local myths prevail.
Sense of Nowhere is an interactive VR experience that takes viewers into a universe influenced by Buddhism, Taoism, Hinduism and psychology. Viewers immerse themselves in a world filled with particles that follow a cycle of creation and dissolution. The experience promises to unveil profound reflections on notions of reality, illusion and the interconnectedness of beings.
Shinonome Balloon is a serene and contemplative VRChat world crafted by sakanaplus, selected in the "Best of Worlds" section of Venice Immersive 2025. It presents a minimalist virtual environment where users float amidst soft ambient skies and delicate balloon motifs, evoking a sense of quiet meditation and subtle wonder. The experience unfolds non-narratively, inviting players to drift, observe, and reflect within its tranquil virtual space.
Tales told from the perspective of a lonely old tree standing in the middle of a botanical garden.
A young boy forms an unexpected bond with a Mormon missionary who visits his small-town home in New Zealand.
A migrant actress in Mumbai sublets her apartment to a corporate worker. Despite their different backgrounds, the two women develop an unexpected connection beyond being roommates.
A WWII submarine crew combats a harrowing torpedo attack in this adrenaline-pumping thrill ride. From filmmaker Edward Berger.
The Big Cube is a 7‑minute virtual reality short that uses minimalist geometric forms and spatial abstraction to examine how perception constructs reality. Through immersive scale shifts and simple yet powerful aesthetics, the work invites viewers into an abstract universe—prompting reflection on the boundaries between physical space and inner consciousness.
When a group of teenagers reunite to memorialise their friend's passing, latecomer Jed is forced to confront his unresolved grief before his erratic behaviour ruptures the sacred evening and severs the remaining relationships he has left.
The story follows Guan, a lawyer, whose life takes an unexpected turn when his wife loses her life in a random act of violence. Guan unexpectedly discovers a half-finished novel left by his wife, which is about the story of the endangered Formosan clouded leopard. He never knew his wife could write novels, nor did he understand the mountains of Taiwan. This leads him to set out on a journey to find the leopard and form a strong connection with it.
The Colony – Flat 804 is a VRChat-based immersive environment by Glory Nya, selected for the Best of Worlds showcase at Venice Immersive 2025. This atmospheric world invites users into a digital domestic space, a single apartment unit, where subtle tonal shifts and interactive elements conjure an uncanny sense of isolation, memory, and uncanny familiarity. Quiet details like lighting changes, ambient sound, and user-triggered effects transform the flat into a living narrative capsule, encouraging exploration of presence, home, and the fragility of recollection in virtual realms.
As Ayaan cares for his frail grandmother, specters from a colonial past pierce the silence of their language barrier and unsettle his comfortably assimilated life.
Sidney Pythias is a bumbling janitor picked up by cop Mike Damon as a teenage gang member worth saving from delinquency. With Damon's help, Sidney works his way through the Police Academy to become a cop too.
A young woman living in quiet suburban isolation forms a silent, complex bond with her mysterious new neighbor. As fleeting glances and shared routines blur the line between curiosity and longing, she begins to question the stability of her inner world. Haunted by fragments of past memories and unrealized desires, her sense of time and reality slowly unravels. The neighbor becomes both a mirror and a catalyst, stirring unresolved emotions she thought she had buried. In this introspective journey, the ordinary becomes uncanny, and the space between two apartments transforms into a threshold of transformation.
Three moody geraniums take control over their fate and plan their escape from the windowsill they spent their entire boring life on.
An AI-born former TV preacher, known as The Great Orator, guides visitors through a nonlinear VR world shaped by shifting memories and current events. As you explore, her consciousness evolves through your interactions, questioning the nature of reality and identity. Spaces like a preserved house, mainframe storage, and an infinite parking lot serve as allegorical backdrops to her speeches. She speaks poetically about ordinary objects, inviting intimacy yet maintaining eerie detachment. Ultimately, the experience probes populism, misinformation, and the fragility of truth in a synthetic society.
A mysterious burned survivor and their luminous companion Potboy journey through dangerous lands. Together they face monsters and solve the mystery of the vanished sun while discovering their true purpose.
For cinephiles and newcomers alike, THE OZU DIARIES offers an intimate window into the world of Yasujiro Ozu, the Japanese master whose family dramas have moved audiences for generations. Through a rich collection of rare materials from the Ozu family and Shochiku Studio Archive—including personal diaries, letters, drawings, and photographs—Academy Award-nominee Daniel Raim traces Ozu's journey from a rebellious young cinephile in Tokyo's rapidly modernizing 1920s to the cinematic poet behind masterworks like Tokyo Story and An Autumn Afternoon.
A gritty, emotionally charged biopic, The Smashing Machine chronicles the rise and fall of legendary MMA fighter Mark Kerr through the lens of his most triumphant and troubled moments. Dwayne Johnson transforms into Kerr, capturing both his ferocious power inside the octagon and his personal struggles with addiction and relationships. The film delves into Kerr's tumultuous relationship with his wife Dawn Staples (Emily Blunt), as well as his friendships and rifts with fellow fighters and mentors. Shot on 16 mm film by cinematographer Maceo Bishop, its visual texture evokes the raw, visceral reality of the early UFC era. As much a character study as a sports drama, it explores themes of fame, recovery, and identity.
Lucius Glantz, a veteran hotel manager in Vienna, fights to save his beloved establishment from a scheming realtor's plan to demolish it, leading to a clash of wills that even affects the hotel's renowned soufflé recipe.
In The Tale of Silyan, Tamara Kotevska crafts an intimate documentary portrait of Silyan, a rural Macedonian farmer whose quiet life is transformed by an unexpected bond with a stray dog. Against the backdrop of changing landscapes and shifting demographics, Silyan's simple routines become deeply poetic: tending fields, greeting neighbors, worrying for wildlife. As his relationship with the animal deepens, the film gently explores themes of solitude, belonging, and the human-animal connection. Subtle humor and lyrical imagery evoke a timeless rural existence touched by fleeting gestures of kindness. Ultimately, the story becomes a meditation on aging, memory, and quiet resilience.
Ann Lee, the founding leader of the Shaker Movement, proclaimed as the female Christ by her followers. Depicts her establishment of a utopian society and the Shakers' worship through song and dance, based on real events.
Haunted by unanswered questions about himself, Olly journeys through his past. His story unfolds in two starkly contrasting realms: the raw simplicity of his childhood, captured in his own drawings, and the fluid, surreal world of his dreams. We glimpse the fractured memories of his early years: an abusive father, a mother lost in the haze of the past, and his sister Sally, a beacon who urged him to find escape and control within his own imagination, transforming nightmares into refuges from reality.
Red Crescent volunteers receive an emergency call. A 6-year old girl is trapped in a car under fire in Gaza, pleading for rescue. While trying to keep her on the line, they do everything they can to get an ambulance to her.
Pietro is a bourgeois young lawyer who married Giuliana, a pretty but slightly unbalanced girl he met at a party full of artists. Despite the premises, everything between the two seems to work best.
Fred, a daring and exuberant seventeen-year-old from Sweden, arrives in Trieste in September 2007 to attend her final year at a technical high school. As the only girl in an all‑male class, she quickly disrupts the intimate friendship of three local boys—Antero, Pasini, and Mitis—each of whom secretly desires her. Fred yearns to be accepted but finds that belonging requires increasingly painful personal compromises. Her presence forces the boys to confront loyalty, rivalry, and adolescent vulnerability. Set against the shifting cultural moment of Trieste just after its entry into Schengen, the film becomes a poignant coming‑of‑age tale about identity, desire, and transformation.
The shooting of Franco Maresco's film on Carmelo Bene is interrupted. Maresco accuses the production of "filmicide" before vanishing. A friend steps in, investigating as a chance to explore one of Italian cinema's most corrosive authors.
Based on the Academy Award nominated film by EMILIA PÉREZ's director Jacques Audiard, A PROPHET is a visceral, riveting crime drama about a young African immigrant's rise to power in Marseille's brutal underworld.
Uncanny Lounge is a live immersive theater experience set within the Uncanny Alley VRChat universe, created by Christopher Lane Davis (aka Soft Center) and Rick Treweek. Drawing from the aesthetic of noir jazz bars and experimental stagecraft, the piece allows participants to explore a virtual lounge filled with surreal performances, layered character interactions, and spontaneous improvisations. It blends VR worldbuilding, music, and embodied storytelling to explore themes of digital identity and emotional connection in uncanny virtual spaces.
Forced to leave her baby daughter with the child's father, young mother Esther is caught in desperation and longing. Through the night she chases touch and comfort, seeking ways to hold on to who she loves the most.
A minimalistic, brutalist VRChat world created in under 50 hours and dubbed Emo Brutalism. The environment comprises raw concrete corridors, geometric vaulted ceilings with exposed rebar, climbing vines, and a striking central red-leafed tree—evoking both confinement and strange melancholy. Selected for the "Best of Worlds" showcase at Venice Immersive 2025
Wall Town Wonders is a cozy mixed-reality game where you build a miniature town right in your living room. Using hand tracking, you place buildings, customise your town and interact with quirky characters. Build your town's economy, explore adventures and unlock new wonders, all blending seamlessly with your real-world space.
"What Is Virtual Art – Volume 1" is a fully virtual museum and immersive art exhibition curated and directed by Jessien Huang. Available as a world in VRChat during Raindance Immersive 2025 (and continuing beyond), the experience features a 60–90 minute self‑guided tour through four distinct virtual art installations. Each piece reinterprets a traditional art form—shadow play, theatrical scenery, pop‑up book, collage—through digital, spatial storytelling by visionary artists.
Yorutouge is a psychedelic, non‑stop 20‑minute VRChat rave world built around the music of Vocaloid producer Kikuo, directed by mikkabouzu. Beginning in a dreamlike cave, the experience evolves into a surreal audiovisual rave featuring shifting particle environments, vibrant lighting, and Kikuo's tracks sequenced as an immersive DJ set. Designed to serve as a "manic stopping point" for emotional or sensory overload.
A poetic portrait of connection to land, culture, and river, as expressed through the life of Zezhi Long, exploring the relationships between soil, heritage, water, and identity across landscapes spanning Germany, Belgium, and China.
A bold, non-fiction documentary feature exploring personal and historical crimes, identity, and confession, crafted by Ukrainian filmmaker Alexander Rodnyansky with Andriy Alferov. The film reflects on the act of culpability, surveillance, and the moral weight of truth-telling in contemporary and archival contexts.