Overview

• Screening in competition at Venice’s International Film Critics’ Week, the film centers on a fictional Olympics called Ludoj 2024.
• Three intertwined stories track a fencer, a judoka and a rifle shooter, led by Yile Vianello, real-life champion Alice Bellandi and Sofjia Zobina.
• Giulio Bertelli employs a fragmented, quasi‑experimental approach that blends staged interviews, intimate observation and TV‑style coverage.
• Cineuropa highlights clinical, alienating craft—Mauro Chiarello’s cool-toned cinematography and Tom Wheatley’s escalating score—while noting emotional distance and an abrupt finish.
• An Italy–US–France co‑production from Guerra Olimpica, Art+Vibes, Big Red Films and Mia Film, the feature cites Rosi, Coppola and Glazer as touchstones, and “Ludoj” derives from Esperanto.