2026 Venice: Gibney, Kopple, Kossakovsky, Loktev, Lorentzen, Dweck/Kershaw & Mariano Llinás in S-tier Level Docs Line-Up!

This is not hyperbole. The Venice Film Festival have unveiled perhaps the most stacked Out-of-Competition Non-Fiction line-up in decades. It’s a who’s who list of some of the best working docu filmmakers in the business – they’re all shoring up in 2026 and some with punishing (in the context of a film festival) runtimes.