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The line-up of the 74th Venice Film Festival has been revealed.

As previously announced, Alexander Payne’s latest film Downsizing will open the 2017 festival and is in competition.

Competition

  • Downsizing, Alexander Payne (opening film)
  • Human Flow, Al Weiwei
  • mother!, Darren Aronofsky
  • Suburbicon, George Clooney
  • The Shape Of Water, Guillermo del Toro
  • L’insulte, Ziad Doueiri
  • La Villa, Robert Guediguian
  • Lean On Pete, Andrew Haigh
  • Mektoub, My Love: Canto Uno, Abdellatif Kechiche
  • Sandome No Satsujin (The Third Murder), Hirokazu Koreeda
  • Custody (Jusqu’a La Garde), Xavier Legrand
  • Ammore e Malavita, Manetti Bros
  • Foxtrot, Samuel Maoz
  • Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonagh
  • Hannah, Andrea Pallaoro
  • Jia Nian Hua (Angels Wear White), Vivian Qu
  • Una Famiglia, Sebastiano Rosa
  • First Reformed, Paul Schrader
  • Sweet Country, Warwick Thornton
  • The Leisure Seeker, Paolo Virzi
  • Ex Libris – New York Public Library, Frederick Wiseman

Out Of Competition (fiction)

  • Our Souls At Night, Ritesh Batra
  • Victoria And Abdul, Stephen Frears
  • La Melodie, Rachid Hami
  • Outrage Coda, Takeshi Kitano (closing film)
  • Loving Pablo, Fernando León de Aranoa
  • Il Signor Rotpeter, Antonietta de Lillo
  • Diva!, Francesco Patierno
  • Racer And The Jailbird, Michael R Roskam
  • Zama, Lucrecia Martel
  • Wormwood, Errol Morris
  • The Private Life Of A Modern Woman, James Toback
  • Brawl In Cell Block 99, S. Craig Zahler
  • Il Colore Nascosto Delle Cose, Silvio Soldini

Out Of Competition (non-fiction)

  • Cuba And The Cameraman, Jon Alpert
  • My Generation, David Batty
  • The Devil And Father Amorth, William Friedkin
  • Ryuichi Sakamoto: Coda - Stephen Nomura Schible
  • Piazza Vittorio, Abel Ferrara
  • This Is Congo, Daniel McCabe
  • Jim & Andy: The Great Beyond: The Story Of Jim Carrey, Andy Kaufman And Tony Clifton,Chris Smith
  • Happy Winter, Giovanni Totaro

Special events

  • Casa d’Altri, Gianni Amelio
  • Michael Jackson’s Thriller 3D, John Landis
  • Making Of Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Jerry Kramer

Orizzonti

  • Disappearance, Ali Asgari
  • Especes Menacees, Gilles Bourdos
  • The Rape Of Recy Taylor, Nancy Buirski
  • Caniba, Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel
  • Les Bienheureux, Sofia Djama
  • Marvin, Anne Fontaine
  • Invisible, Pablo Giorgelli
  • Brutti e Cattivi, Cosimo Gomez
  • The Cousin, Tzahi Grad
  • The Testament, Amichai Greenberg
  • No Date, No Signature, Vahid Jalilvand
  • Los Versos Del Olvido, Alireza Khatami
  • The Night I Swam, Damien Manivel, Igarashi Kohei
  • Nico, 1988, Susanna Nicchiarelli
  • Krieg, Rick Ostermann
  • West Of Sunshine, Jason Raftopoulos
  • Gatta Cenerentola, Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri, Dario Sansone
  • Under The Tree, Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson
  • La Vita in Comune, Edoardo Winspeare

Cinema In The Garden

  • Manuel - Dario Albertini
  • Controfigura - Rä Di Martino
  • Woodshock - Kate Mulleavy, Laura Mulleavy
  • Nato a Casal di Principe - Bruno Oliviero
  • Suburra – La serie - Michele Placido, Andre Molaili, Guiseppe Capotondi
  • Tuers - François Troukens, Jean-François Hensgens

Special Documentary Screenings

  • La Lunga Strada del Ritorno, Alessandro Blasetti
  • Barbiana ’65 La Lezione di Don Milani, Alessandro G. A. D’Alessandro
  • Lievito Madre, Le Ragazze del Secolo Scorso, Concita de Gregorio, Esmeralda Calabria

Annette Bening will preside over this year’s international jury. Edgar Wright, Rebecca Hall, and John Landis are also on festival juries this year.

The Venice Critics’ Week and Venice Days line-ups have also been announced.

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