The Venerable W. (French: Le vénérable W.) is a 2016 documentary film by Swiss director Barbet Schroeder.

It is his last film in his "Trilogy of Evil" which already consists of General Idi Amin Dada: A Self Portrait (1974) and Terror's Advocate (2007).

[1] Schroeder explores the daily occurrences of racism and Islamophobia within Burmese society and how Buddhist monk Ashin Wirathu inflames the hatred within Myanmar's Buddhist majority population towards its Muslim minority through his rhetoric, which has catalysed riots and religious tensions.

Through his rhetoric, he has inflamed Myanmar's Buddhist majority population to commit acts of violence and persecutions towards the country's Muslim minority.

[4] The Guardian's Peter Bradshaw wrote that some of the scenes in the film reminded him of similar scenes in Joshua Oppenheimer's documentaries on Indonesian genocide The Act of Killing and The Look of Silence as well as Matthew Heineman's documentary on ISIS brutality in Raqqa, Syria City of Ghosts.