The Venice Film Festival's Venice Classics program is presenting 19 newly restored films spanning decades of international filmmaking. The curated selection includes works by acclaimed directors such as Andrej Wajda, Roberto Rossellini, Luis Buñuel, Roger Corman, John Cassavetes, and Ann Hui, showcasing the breadth of cinema history from European postwar dramas to genre experiments.

Key restorations in the lineup feature Wajda's "Ashes and Diamonds," a postwar political drama that Martin Scorsese has ranked among his ten favourite films, alongside Rossellini's "Journey to Italy," Corman's "The Wild Angels," and Dev Benegal's "English, August." The program also highlights Roman Polanski's British-shot "Cul-de-sac" (1966) and Tinto Brass's 1967 pop thriller "Deadly Sweet," both recently restored and starring Jean-Louis Trintignant and Ewa Aulin.