The line-up of the 76th Venice Film Festival (August 28 – September 7) has been announced.
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This year features some high-profile projects including Todd Phillips’ Joker and James Gray’s Ad Astra, a lack of female directors in competition once again, and the controversial selection of Roman Polanski’s latest film.
Australian title Babyteeth, from first-time director Shannon Murphy, and Saudi filmmaker Haifaa Al-Mansour’s The Perfect Candidate are the two films in the 21-strong competition from female filmmakers. Last year festival chief Alberto Barbera was heavily criticised for including just one woman director in competition; Jennifer Kent with The Nightingale.
An even bigger talking point than this however will be the inclusion of Roman Polanski’s J’Accuse, previously titled An Officer And A Spy, based on the novel by Robert Harris and starring Louis Garrel, Jean Dujardin, Mathieu Amalric and Emmanuelle Seigner. Polanski’s well-documented legal problems don’t seem to have stopped his films being selected for major European festivals – his previous effort Based On A True Story played out of competition in Cannes in 2017.
On the US side, as expected two high profile Netflix titles made the cut in competition; Steven Soderbergh’s Panama Papers project The Laundromat with Meryl Streep and Gary Oldman, and Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story starring Scarlett Johansson, Laura Dern and Adam Driver. They are joined by James Gray’s Fox sci-fi Ad Astra starring Brad Pitt, also hotly tipped for the festival. Warner Bros are premiering Joker (also selected for Toronto) starring Joaquin Phoenix on the Lido. The same studio debuted A Star Is Born in Venice last year, and have secured a competition berth for their DC Comics drama.
Competition
No. 7 Cherry Lane (HK)
Dir. Yonfan
The Laundromat (US)
Dir. Steven Soderbergh
J’Accuse (Fr-It)
Dir. Roman Polanski
Joker (US)
Dir. Todd Phillips
Babyteeth (Aus)
Dir. Shannon Murphy
Marriage Story (US)
Dir. Noah Baumbach
Il Sindaco Del Rione Sanità (It)
Dir. Mario Martone
The Painted Bird (Cze-Ukr-Slovakia)
Dir. Václav Marhoul
La Mafia Non È Più Quella Di Una Volta (It)
Dir. Franco Maresco
Martin Eden (It-Fr)
Dir. Pietro Marcello
Saturday Fiction (China)
Dir. Lou Ye
Ema (Chile)
Dir. Pablo Larraín
Waiting For The Barbarians (It)
Dir. Ciro Guerra
GloriaMundi (Fr-It)
Dir. Robert Guéndiguian
Ad Astra (US)
Dir. James Gray
Guest OfHonour (Can)
Dir.Atom Egoyan
Wasp Network (Fr-Bel)
Dir. Olivier Assayas
About Endlessness (Swe-Ger-Nor)
Dir. Roy Andersson
The Perfect Candidate (S. Arabia-Ger)
Dir. Haifaa Al-Mansour
A Herdade (Por-Fr)
Dir. Tiago Guedes
The Truth (Jap-Fr) - OPENING FILM
Dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
Out Of Competition (fiction)
The King (UK-Hun)
Dir. David Michod
Seberg (US)
Dir. Benedict Andrews
Vivere (It)
Dir. Francesca Archibugi
The Burnt Orange Heresy (US-It) - CLOSING FILM
Dir. Giuseppe Capotondi
Mosul (US)
Dir. Matthew Michael Carnahan
Adults In The Room (Fr-Gre)
Dir. Costa-Gavras
Tutto Il Mio Folle Amore (It)
Dir. Gabriele Salvatores
Out of Competition (non-fiction)
Il Pianeta In Mare (It)
Dir. Andrea Segre
Citizen K (UK-US)
Dir. Alex Gibney
Woman (Fr)
Dir. Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Anastasia Mikova
Roger Waters Us + Them (UK)
Dir. Sean Evans, Roger Waters
I Diari Di Angela - Noi Due Cineasti. Secondo Capitolo. (It)
Dir. Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi
Citizen Rosi (It)
Dir. Didi Gnocchi, Carolina Rosi
The Kingmaker (US)
Dir. Lauren Greenfield
State Funeral (Neth-Lith)
Dir. Sergei Loznitsa
Collective (Rom-Lux)
Dir. Alexander Nanau
45 Seconds Of Laughter (US)
Dir. Tim Robbins
Out of competition (special screenings)
No-One Left Behind (Mex)
Dir. Guillermo Arriaga
Zerozerozero - Episodes 1 & 2 (It)
Dir. Stefano Sollima
Electric Swan (Fr-Gre-Arg)
Dir. Konstantina Kotzamani
Irréversible - Inversion Intégrale (Fr)
Dir. Gaspar Noé
The New Pope - Episodes 2 & 7 (It-Fr-Spa)
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino
Never Just A Dream: Stanley Kubrick And Eyes Wide Shut (UK)
Dir. Matt Wells
Eyes Wide Shut (US-UK)
Dir. Stanley Kubrick
Horizons
Zumiriki (It)
Dir. Oskar Alegria
Pelican Blood (Ger-Bul)
Dir. Katrin Gebbe
Bik Eneich - Un Fils (Tun-Fr-Leb-Qat)
Dir. Mehdi M. Barsaoui
Blanco En Blanco (Sp-China-Fr-Ger)
Dir. Théo Court
My Days Of Glory (Fr)
Dir. Antoine de Bary
Nevia (It)
Dir. Nunzia di Stefano
Moffie (SA)
Dir. Oliver Hermanus
Hava, Maryam, Ayesha (Afg)
Dir. Sahraa Karimi
Rialto (Ire-UK)
Dir. Peter Mackie Burns
The Criminal Man (Geo-Rus)
Dir. Dmitry Mamuliya
Revenir (Fr)
Dir. Jessica Palud
Giants Being Lonely (US)
Dir. Grear Patterson
Verdict (Phil)
Dir. Raymond Ribay Gutierrez
Balloon (China)
Dir. Pema Tseden
Just 6.5 (Ir)
Dir. Saeed Rouastaee
Shadow Of Water (India)
Dir. Sasidharan Sanal Kumar
Sole (It-Pol)
Dir. Carlo Sironi
Madre (Sp-Fr)
Dir. Rodrigo Sorogoyen
Atlantis (Ukr)
Dir. Valentyn Vasyanovych
Sconfini (formerly Cinema in the Garden)
Unposted (Chiara Ferragni)
Dir. Elisa Amoruso
The Scarecrows
Dir. Nouri Bouzid
The Gap
Dir. Federico Ferrone, Michele Manzolini
Domino Effect
Dir. Alessandro Rossetto
As previously announced, Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth will open the festival in competition. Giuseppe Capotondi’s The Burnt Orange Heresy starring Claes Bang and Elizabeth Debicki will close the festival on September 7.
Director Lucrecia Martel will preside over the International Jury of the Competition this year.
The Venice Critics’ Week and Venice Days line-ups were anounced earlier this month.
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