The Orizzonti competition of the 83rd Venice Film Festival opens with *La ragazza con la Leica* by Alina Marazzi, an adaptation about photojournalist Gerda Taro, while Anna Foglietta makes her directorial debut with *Una storia* and Tommaso Landucci explores Riccardo Scamarcio’s role as a father with *I figli della scimmia*. International titles address subjects such as student protest by Jelena Maksimović, drug crime by Jérôme Pierrat, and migration by Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu. The Spotlight section features, among others, *Serpenti* by Roberto De Paolis, written with the D'Innocenzo brothers, *Ground Floor* by Gábor Reisz as a metaphor for Orbán-Hungary, and Gael García Bernal’s third directorial work, *Hombre al agua*.