Venice Film Festival Lineup Announced
Refresh for latest…: Venice Film Festival chief Alberto Barbera is announcing the lineup for the event’s 80th edition this morning. We’ll be updating the list as the films are revealed, so check back for more below. You can also watch the livestream here.
While Venice weathered Covid with aplomb, never once being forced to cancel during the pandemic while adapting to new protocols, it’s facing a challenge of a different sort this year given the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. A key launchpad for awards season and a prime media opportunity for talent, a lower wattage turnout is expected with a smaller U.S. presence than usual on the Lido, as studios are understandably jittery about launching projects without celebrity support.
Already, MGM’s Zendaya-starrer Challengers from fest regular Luca Guadagnino, which had been set to open the proceedings on August 30, ended up bowing out of the slot and moving off of its September 15 domestic release date amid the labor action. The fest replaced it with Italian WWII movie Comandante by Edoardo de Angelis, starring Pierfrancesco Favino.
Titles we still expect to hear unveiled this morning include the Michael Mann-directed Ferrari starring Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz while Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, Bradley Cooper’s Maestro and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things have also been widely tipped. We’ve also heard that Netflix could potentially bring David Fincher’s The Killer to the Lido.
Confirmed is the world premiere of J. A. Bayona’s Netflix survival thriller La Sociedad De La Nieve (Society of the Snow) which will close the fest on September 9.
Damien Chazelle is president of the jury for this year’s edition which runs August 30-September 9.
Check back as we update the list of films announced today:
VENEZIA 80 COMPETITON
The Promised Land, dir: Nikolaj Arcel
Dogman, dir: Luc Besson
La Bête, dir: Bertrand Bonello
Hors-Saison, dir: Stéphane Brizé
Enea, dir: Pietro Castellitto
Comandante, dir: Edoardo de Angelis (opening night film)
Maestro, dir: Bradley Cooper
Priscilla, dir: Sofia Coppola
Finalmente L’Alba, dir: Saverio Costanzo
Lubo, dir: Giorgio Diritti
Origin, dir: Ava DuVernay
The Killer, dir: David Fincher
Memory, dir: Michel Franco
Io Capitano, dir: Matteo Garrone
Evil Does Not Exist, Ryusuke Hamaguchi
The Green Border, dir: Agnieszka Holland
Die Theorie Von Allem, dir: Timm Kroger
Poor Things, dir: Yorgos Lanthimos
El Conde, dir: Pablo Larrain
Ferrari, dir: Michael Mann
Adagio, dir: Stefano Sollima
Woman Of, dirs: Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert
Holly, dir: Fien Troch
OUT OF COMPETITION
Fiction
Coup de Chance, dir: Woody Allen
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, dir: Wes Anderson
The Penitent, dir: Luca Barbareschi
L’Ordine del Tempo, dir: Liliana Cavani
Vivants, dir: Alix Delaporte
Daaaaaal!, dir: Quentin Dupieux
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, dir: William Friedkin
Aggro Dr1ft, dir: Harmony Korine
Hit Man, dir: Richard Linklater
The Palace, dir: Roman Polanski
Snow Leopard, dir: Pema Tseden
Short
Welcome to Paradise, dir: Leonardo Di Costanzo
Non-Fiction
Hollywoodgate, dir: Ibrahim Nash’at
Amor, dir: Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri
Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus, dir: Neo Sora
Frente a Guernica (Version Integrale), dirs: Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi
Enzo Jannacci Vengo Anch’io, dir: Giorgio Verdelli
Menus Plaisirs – Les Troisgros, dir: Frederick Wiseman
Series
D’Argent et de Sang (episodes 1-12), dirs: Xavier Giannoli, Frederic Planchon
I Know Your Soul (episodes 1&2), dirs: Alen Drljevic, Nermin Hamzagic
Special Screening
La Parte del Leone: Una Storia della Mostra, dirs: Baptiste Etchegary, Guiseppe Bucchi
HORIZONS EXTRA
Bota Jone, dir: Luana Bajrami
Forever Forever, dir: Anna Buryachkova
The Rescue, dir: Daniela Goggi
In the Land of Saints and Sinners, dir: Robert Lorenz
Day of the Fight, dir: Jack Huston
Felicita, dir: Micaela Ramazzotti
Pet Shop Boys, dir: Olmo Schnabel
Stolen, dir: Karan Tejpal
L’Homme d’Argile, dir: Anais Tellenne
HORIZONS
A Cielo Abierto, dirs: Mariana Arriaga, Santiago Arriaga
El Paraiso, dir: Enrico Maria Artale
Behind the Mountains, dir: Mohamed Ben Attia
The Red Suitcase, dir: Fidel Devkota
Tatami, dirs: Guy Nattiv, Zar Amir Ebrahimi
Paradise Is Burning, dir: Mika Gustafson
The Featherweight, dir: Robert Kolodny
Invelle, dir: Simone Massi
Hesitation Wound, dir: Selman Nacar
Heartless, dirs: Nara Normande, Tiao
Una Sterminata Domenica, dir: Alain Perroni
City of Wind, dir: Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir
Explanation for Everything, dir: Gabor Reisz
Gasoline Rainbow, dirs: Bill Ross, Turner Ross
En Attendant la Nuit, dir: Céline Rouzet
Housekeeping for Beginners, dir: Goran Stolevski
Shadow of Fire, dir: Shinya Tsukamoto
Dormitory, dir: Nehir Tuna
VENICE CLASSICS
Non-Fiction
Bill Douglas My Best Friend, dir: Jack Archer
Le Film Pro-Nazi d’Hitchcock, dir: Daphne Baiwir
Thank You Very Much, dir: Alex Braverman
Landrian, dir: Ernesto Daranas Serrano
Un Altra Italia Era Possibile, Il Cinema Di Guiseppe De Santis, dir: Stefano Della Casa
Michel Gondry Do It Yourself, dir: François Nemeta
Ken Jacobs From Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art, dir: Fred Riedel
Frank Capra: Mr America, dir: Matthew Wells
Dario Argento Panico, dir: Simone Scafidi
Source: Deadline
