Shinya Tsukamoto's Zan(Killing) Premieres at Venice Film Festival Day 9

On the ninth day of the 75th Venice International Film Festival, Shinya Tsukamoto's film Zan(Killing) premiered in competition, earning applause from the audience at Sala Darsena. Set in 19th-century Japan during the era of ronin, the film follows a young samurai skilled with a wooden sword but unable to use a metal one against enemies. The protagonist, a romantic and somewhat clumsy hero, tries to resolve conflicts with smiles but faints and sweats at the moment of armed confrontation, crying out 'I cannot kill.' The film presents a pacifist statement full of poetry, separating the elegance of samurai art from blood and death. Also screening was Gli Anni by Sara Fgaier, a short film in the Orizzonti section produced by Dugong and Rai Cinema, born from the Re-framing home movies / Residenze in archivio call. It juxtaposes mostly unseen family home movies with fragments of Annie Ernaux's text Gli Anni, creating a delicate, intimate, and personal narrative that becomes collective and epochal.