Oasis Documentary to Receive World Premiere at the Venice Film Festival

The Oasis reunion, the defining British music story of the decade, is heading to the Lido. It was announced on Thursday that "Oasis: Don't Look Back In Anger", the feature documentary charting the band's triumphant 2025 reunion tour, will receive its world premiere at the 83rd Venice International Film Festival.

The film, created by Steven Knight, the writer behind Peaky Blinders, and directed by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace, follows the band across the 41 dates that reunited Noel and Liam Gallagher on stage and turned stadiums around the world into vast, joyful singalongs.

Its centrepiece is the thing fans once believed they would never see: the first joint interviews with Noel and Liam Gallagher in more than 20 years, the brothers reflecting on the feud, the reunion and the songs that outlasted both.

Thursday's announcement confirms weeks of speculation about where the film would surface, and the answer could hardly be more prestigious. A Venice premiere places the documentary on one of cinema's grandest stages and guarantees it a first wave of attention no ordinary release could buy, with the world's press already gathered on the Lido.

From Knebworth to the Lido

Venice is a statement of intent. The world's oldest film festival has become the premier launching pad for prestige cinema, and a world premiere on the Lido places the Oasis film in the company of the year's most serious releases. For a music documentary, it is an endorsement of the highest order, and a guarantee that the film will be reviewed as cinema rather than merchandise.

The choice of filmmakers explains the confidence. Knight brings the narrative instincts of one of Britain's most successful screenwriters, while Southern and Lovelace have built their reputations on music films of unusual craft. Between them, the promise is of something more ambitious than a tour film: a portrait of a band, a brotherhood and a country that never stopped singing the songs.

Fans will not have long to wait after Venice. The film opens in select IMAX and cinemas on 9 September, before streaming on Disney+ in the UK and Ireland, a release pattern that gives the big screen experience pride of place before the film reaches the small screen.

The reunion that refused to fade

The 2025 tour exceeded even the most extravagant expectations. Forty one dates sold out in minutes, ticket demand crashed websites, and crowds spanning three generations turned every show into a communal celebration. A new audience discovered what their parents had never stopped telling them.

What the film adds is access. The cameras were there for the rehearsals, the nerves and the nights themselves, and the joint interviews promise the candid Gallagher commentary that has been part of the band's appeal for three decades, conducted, for once, with both men in the same room.

There is a cultural weight here that transcends music. The reunion was a national event, covered on news bulletins as much as in the music press, and its passage to the world's oldest film festival confirms what last summer suggested: that Oasis, in 2026, are less a band than a shared British memory made flesh.

The festival will confirm the premiere date in due course. Whether the brothers walk the red carpet together will be a story in itself; either way, the singalongs are certain to follow the film all the way to the Sala Grande, where the world's critics will deliver the first verdicts.