Venezia 79 Lineup Unveiled
by KM, Movie Lightbox
The lineup of films selected for the 79th Venice International Film Festival has been unveiled today by Festival Director Alberto Barbera. This year coincides with the 90th anniversary of its foundation in 1932 and marks the importance of the oldest film festival in the world, an event that made cinema history and officially recognized film as the seventh art.
A total of 73 new feature films will be in the Official Selection, with 23 films in Competition vying for the coveted Golden Lion, the festival’s top prize and 18 films in the Orizzonti, a section that represents the latest aesthetic and expressive trends. New features by Darren Aronofsky, Alejandro G. Iñarritu, Todd Field, Andrew Dominik and Luca Guadagnino will be competing in the main section. Directors who are participating for the first time in the Competition section include Alice Diop, Koji Fukuda, Romain Gavras, Joanna Hogg and Santiago Mitre. Noah Baumbach’s White Noise starring Adam Driver and Greta Gerwig is set to open the festival. This is Baumbach’s return to the Lido after he premiered Marriage Story in 2019.
The international jury for the Venezia 79 Competition will be presided by Actress Julianne Moore. Last year’s Golden Lion winner Audrey Diwan will also be part of the jury that will award the official prizes to the feature films in Competition. The Orrizonti section will be headed by director and screenwriter Isabel Coixet. The Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement will be awarded to American writer and screenwriter Paul Schrader (The Card Counter, First Reformed, American Gigolo) and iconic French actress Catherine Deneuve.
“The short-sighted debate over so-called “windows” and the predominance of algorithms have little real effect, while the majority of movies that aspire toward distribution in cinemas are suspended in a limbo that is destined to last forever. But more and more people go to festivals, and the desire to earn a place in the sun in the ever-feared and much-respected agon seems to indicate a future that is anything but free of expectations and wide appeal.”, said Alberto Barbera, Festival Director.
Here’s the full lineup for the 79th Venice International Film Festival:
VENEZIA 79
In Competition
WHITE NOISE - OPENING FILM
by NOAH BAUMBACH
with Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith, André L. Benjamin and Lars Eidinger/ USA / 136’
IL SIGNORE DELLE FORMICHE
by GIANNI AMELIO
with Luigi Lo Cascio, Elio Germano, Leonardo Maltese, Sara Serraiocco / Italy / 134’
THE WHALE
by DARREN ARONOFSKY
with Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Samantha Morton, Ty Simpkins / USA / 117’
L'IMMENSITÀ
by EMANUELE CRIALESE
with Penélope Cruz, Luana Giuliani, Vincenzo Amato, Patrizio Francioni / Italy, France / 97’
SAINT OMER
by ALICE DIOP
with Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valérie Dréville, Aurélia Petit / France / 122’
BLONDE
by ANDREW DOMINIK
with Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Xavier Samuel, Julianne Nicholson, Lily Fisher / USA / 165’
TÁR
by TODD FIELD
with Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer, Julian Glover, Allan Corduner, Mark Strong / USA / 158’
LOVE LIFE
by KÔJI FUKADA
with Fumino Kimura, Kento Nagayama, Atom Sunada / Japan, France / 123’
BARDO, FALSA CRÓNICA DE UNAS CUANTAS VERDADES (BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS)
by ALEJANDRO G. IÑÁRRITU
with Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Iker Sanchez Solano, Andrés Almeida, Francisco Rubio / Mexico
ATHENA
by ROMAIN GAVRAS
with Dali Benssalah, Sami Slimane, Anthony Bajon, Ouassini Embarek, Alexis Manenti / France / 97’
BONES AND ALL
by LUCA GUADAGNINO
with Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, Mark Rylance, André Holland, Chloë Sevigny, Jessica Harper, David Gordon Green, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jake Horowitz / USA / 130’
THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER
by JOANNA HOGG
with Tilda Swinton, Joseph Mydell, Carly-Sophia Davies / UK, USA / 96’
SHAB, DAKHELI, DIVAR (BEYOND THE WALL)
by VAHID JALILVAND
with Navid Mohammadzadeh, Diana Habibi, Amir Aghaee / Iran / 126’
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
by MARTIN MCDONAGH
with Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan / Ireland, UK, USA / 109’
ARGENTINA, 1985
by SANTIAGO MITRE
with Ricardo Darín, Peter Lanzani, Alejandra Flechner, Norman Briski / Argentina, USA / 140’
CHIARA
by SUSANNA NICCHIARELLI
with Margherita Mazzucco, Andrea Carpenzano, Carlotta Natoli, Paola Tiziana Cruciani, Luigi Lo Cascio / Italy, Belgium / 106’
MONICA
by ANDREA PALLAORO
with Trace Lysette, Patricia Clarkson, Adriana Barraza, Emily Browning, Joshua Close / USA, Italy / 106’
KHERS NIST (NO BEARS)
by JAFAR PANAHI
with Jafar Panahi, Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobaseri, Bakhtiar Panjeei, Mina Kavani, Reza Heydari / Iran / 106’
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED
by LAURA POITRAS
USA / 113’
UN COUPLE (A COUPLE)
by FREDERICK WISEMAN
with Nathalie Boutefeu / France, USA / 63’
THE SON
by FLORIAN ZELLER
with Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Zen McGrath, Anthony Hopkins, Hugh Quarshie / UK / 123’
LES MIENS (OUR TIES)
by ROSCHDY ZEM
with Sami Bouajila, Roschdy Zem, Meriem Serbah, Maïwenn, Rachid Bouchareb, Abel Jafrei, Nina Zem / France / 85’
LES ENFANTS DES AUTRES (OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDREN)
by REBECCA ZLOTOWSKI
with Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroianni, Callie Ferreira / France / 104’
OUT OF COMPETITION
FICTION
THE HANGING SUN – CLOSING FILM
by FRANCESCO CARROZZINI
with Alessandro Borghi, Jessica Brown Findlay, Sam Spruell, Frederick Schmidt, Raphael Vicas, Peter Mullan, Charles Dance / Italy, UK / 93’
KAPAG WALA NANG MGA ALON (WHEN THE WAVES ARE GONE)
by LAV DIAZ
with John Lloyd Cruz, Ronnie Lazaro, Shamaine Centenera-Buencamino, Dms Boongaling / Philippines, France, Portugal, Denmark / 187’
LIVING
by OLIVER HERMANUS
with Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, Tom Burke / UK / 102’
DEAD FOR A DOLLAR
by WALTER HILL
with Christoph Waltz, Willem Dafoe, Rachel Brosnahan, Warren Burke, Benjamin Bratt / USA, Canada / 114’
KÕNE TAEVAST (CALL OF GOD)
by KIM KI-DUK
with Zhanel Sergazina, Abylai Maratov / Estonia, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia / 81’
DREAMIN' WILD
by BILL POHLAD
with Casey Affleck, Noah Jupe, Zooey Deschanel, Chris Messina, Jack Dylan Grazer, Walton Goggins, Beau Bridges / USA / 110’
MASTER GARDENER
by PAUL SCHRADER
with Joel Edgerton, Sigourney Weaver, Quintessa Swindell / USA / 107’
SICCITÁ
by PAOLO VIRZÌ
with Claudia Pandolfi , Silvio Orlando , Valerio Mastrandrea , Sara Serraiocco, Elena Lietti, Gabriel Montesi, Tommaso Ragno, Max Tortora, Monica Bellucci, Diego Ribon , Vinicio Marchioni, Emanuela Fanelli / Italy
PEARL
by TI WEST
with Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland, Emma Jenkins-Purro / USA / 102’
DON'T WORRY DARLING
by OLIVIA WILDE
with Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Olivia Wilde, KiKi Layne, Gemma Chan / USA / 122’
NON FICTION
FREEDOM ON FIRE: UKRAINE'S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
by EVGENY AFINEEVSKY
Ukraine, UK, USA / 118’
THE MATCHMAKER
by BENEDETTA ARGENTIERI
Italy / 90’
GLI ULTIMI GIORNI DELL’UMANITÀ
by ENRICO GHEZZI, ALESSANDRO GAGLIARDO
Italy / 200’
A COMPASSIONATE SPY
by STEVE JAMES
USA / 101’
MUSIC FOR BLACK PIGEONS
by JØRGEN LETH, ANDREAS KOEFOED
Denmark / 90’
THE KIEV TRIAL
by SERGEI LOZNITSA
Netherlands, Ukraine / 106’
IN VIAGGIO
by GIANFRANCO ROSI
Italy / 80’
BOBI WINE GHETTO PRESIDENT
by CHRISTOPHER SHARP, MOSES BWAYO
Uganda, UK, USA / 121’
NUCLEAR
by OLIVER STONE
USA / 119’
ORIZZONTI
PRINCESS – OPENING FILM
by ROBERTO DE PAOLIS
with Glory Kevin, Lino Musella, Sandra Osagie, Salvatore Striano, Maurizio Lombardi / Italy / 111’
OBET’ (VICTIM)
by MICHAL BLAŠKO
with Vita Smachelyuk, Gleb Kuchuk, Igor Chmela, Viktor Zavadil, Inna Zhulina, Alena Mihulová / Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany / 91’
EN LOS MÁRGENES (ON THE FRINGE)
by JUAN DIEGO BOTTO
with Penélope Cruz, Luis Tosar / Spain, UK / 105’
TRENQUE LAUQUEN
by LAURA CITARELLA
with Laura Paredes, Ezequiel Pierri, Rafael Spregelburd, Elisa Carricajo, Juliana Muras, Verónica Llinás, Cecilia Rainero / Argentina, Germany / Part 1: 120' / Part 2: 120'
VERA
by TIZZA COVI, RAINER FRIMMEL
with Vera Gemma, Daniel De Palma, Sebastian Dascalu, Annamaria Ciancamerla, Walter Saabel / Austria / 115’
INNOCENCE
by GUY DAVIDI
Denmark, Israel, Finland, Iceland / 100’
BLANQUITA
by FERNANDO GUZZONI
with Laura López, Alejandro Goic, Amparo Noguera, Marcelo Alonso, Daniela Ramírez, Ariel Grandón / Chile, Mexico / 94’
POUR LA FRANCE (FOR MY COUNTRY)
by RACHID HAMI
with Karim Leklou, Shaïn Boumedine, Lubna Azabal, Samir Guesmi, Laurent Lafitte, Vivian Sung / France, Taipei / 113’
ARU OTOKO (A MAN)
by KEI ISHIKAWA
with Satoshi Tsumabuki, Sakura Andô, Masataka Kubota, Nana Seino / Japan / 121’
CHLEB I SOL (BREAD AND SALT)
by DAMIAN KOCUR
with Tymoteusz Bies, Jacek Bies, Dawid Piejko,Nikola Raczko, Nadim Suleiman, Nadeem Shalave / Poland / 100’
LUXEMBOURG, LUXEMBOURG
by ANTONIO LUKICH
with Amil Nasirov, Ramil Nasirov, Lyudmyla Sachenko / Ukraine/ 105’
TI MANGIO IL CUORE
by PIPPO MEZZAPESA
with Elodie, Francesco Patanè, Francesco Di Leva, Lidia Vitale, Brenno Placido, Tommaso Ragno, Michele Placido / Italy / 115’
SPRE NORD (TO THE NORTH)
by MIHAI MINCAN
with Soliman Cruz, Nikolai Becker, Bartholome Guingona, Emmanuel Sto. Domingo, Olivier Ho Hio Heen, Alexandre NGuyen / Romania, France, Greece, Bulgaria, Czech Republic / 122’
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
by MAKBUL MUBARAK
with Kevin Ardilova, Arswendy Bening Swara, Haru Sandra, Rukman Rosadi / Indonesia, France, Germany, Poland, Singapore, Philippines, Qatar/ 116’
LA SYNDICALISTE (THE SITTING DUCK)
by JEAN-PAUL SALOMÉ
with Isabelle Huppert, Grégory Gadebois, Marina Foïs, Yvan Attal, François-Xavier Demaison, Pierre Deladonchamps / France, Germany / 122’
JANG-E JAHANI SEVOM (WORLD WAR III)
by HOUMAN SEYIEDI
with Mohsen Tanabandeh, Neda Jebreili, Mahsa Hejazi, Navid Nosrati/ Iran / 117’
NAJSREЌNIOT ČOVEK NA SVETOT (THE HAPPIEST MAN IN THE WORLD)
by TEONA STRUGAR MITEVSKA
with Jelena Kordić Kuret, Adnan Omerović, Labina Mitevska, Ana Kostovska, Ksenija Marinković, Izudin Bajrović / North Macedonia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Slovenia / 95’
A NOIVA (THE BRIDE)
by SÉRGIO TRÉFAUT
with Joana Bernardo, Lola Dueñas, Hugo Bentes / Portugal / 81’
ORIZZONTI EXTRA
L'ORIGINE DU MAL (ORIGIN OF EVIL) – OPENING FILM
by SÉBASTIEN MARNIER
with Laure Calamy, Doria Tillier, Jacques Weber, Dominique Blanc, Suzanne Clément, Céleste Brunnquell / France, Canada / 125’
HANGING GARDENS
by AHMED YASSIN AL DARADJI
with Wissam Diyaa, Jawad Al Shakarji, Hussain Muhammad Jalil, Akram Mazen Ali / Iraq, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UK / 117’
AMANDA
by CAROLINA CAVALLI
with Benedetta Porcaroli, Galatéa Bellugi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Michele Bravi / Italy / 93’
ZAPATOS ROJOS (RED SHOES)
by CARLOS EICHELMANN KAISER
with Eustacio Ascacio, Natalia Solián / Mexico, Italy / 82’
NEZOUH
by SOUDADE KAADAN
with Hala Zein, Kinda Aloush, Nizar Alani, Samer Almasri / UK, Syria, France / 100’
NOTTE FANTASMA
by FULVIO RISULEO
with Edoardo Pesce, Yothin Clavenzani / Italy / 83’
BI ROYA (WITHOUT HER)
by ARIAN VAZIRDAFTARI
with Tannaz Tabatabaei, Saber Abar, Shadi Karamroudi, Reza Davoudnezhad, Maedeh Tahmasbi, Faranak Kalantar / Iran / 110’
VALERIA MITHATENET (VALERIA IS GETTING MARRIED)
by MICHAL VINIK
with Lena Fraifeld, Dasha Tvoronovich, Yaakov Zada Daniel, Avraham Shalom Levi / Israel, Ukraine / 76’
GOLIATH
by ADILKHAN YERZHANOV
with Berik Aytzhanov, Daniyar Alshinov, Dmitrij Chebotarev, Alexandra Revenko, Rabiya Abish, Yerken Gubashev / Kazakhstan, Russia / 92’
The 79th edition of Venice International Film Festival runs August 31 - September 10.
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