Screening at Venice: May El-Toukhy’s ‘Woman Unknown’

Screening at Venice: May el-Toukhy’s ‘Woman Unknown’

The only film by a woman director in this year's Venice competition, it shoulders the burden of representing a feminine point of view, whether it wants to or not.

Woman Unknown — May el-Toukhy [Venice '26 Review]

There is a striking early scene with an unknown woman that cuts deep into the sensory motif embedded in the title of May el-Toukhy’s latest film. In the street noise of a Danish town just days after the liberation, a gang of Resistance men carries out its vigilante justice over, in their words, a “Nazi [...]