
Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door starring Tilda Swinton and Julianne Moore won the top prize, the Golden Lion for for Best Film at 81st Venice International Film Festival.

Emilia Pérez, which earned Jacques Audiard the Jury Prize at Cannes Film Festival, will open the Perlak competition of the 2024 San Sebastian International Film Festival. The female protagonists featuring Zoe Saldaña, Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez and Adriana Paz also jointly won the Best Actress Award Cannes Film Festival for this film in which a Mexican cartel leader decides to change sex in a cast also starring Edgar Ramírez.

Literary adaptations, portraits of musical artists, Cannes award winners, works dealing with political and historical realities, and the final film of Jean-Luc Godard plus more comprise the Spotlight films of the 62nd New York Film Festival taking place September 27 – October 14, 2024.