“Oasis” feels like a bit of a theme at Venice this year, with at least two movies featuring that word in their titles. One is Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern’s Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger, a documentary about the reunion tour of the famous English rock band. But it is the other film that could leave audiences truly rocked. Is a safe place simply a location or something we can create – a state of mind, even? German writer-director Jannis Lenz explores that and the various forms that exclusion and violence take in his feature debut Oasis (Oase). In the film, world-premiering on Sept. 6 in the Horizons section of the 83rd edition of…
