Published on, Sept. 4 -- September 4, 2025 2:12 AM

The world needs to be "much more informed" and reduce its nuclear stockpile, US director Kathryn Bigelow said on Tuesday as the Oscar winner's latest film about an imminent strike on the United States was set to premiere at the Venice Film Festival.

The first woman to win the Academy Award for best director, Bigelow will showcase her first movie in eight years, White House political thriller "A House of Dynamite", later Tuesday in Venice.

Arguing for nuclear disarmament, the director of "The Hurt Locker" and "Zero Dark Thirty" said human survival was at stake.

"Hope against hope maybe we reduce the global stockpile someday, but in the meantime we are really living in a house of dynami...