The line-up of the 78th Venice Film Festival has been announced by festival president Roberto Cicutto and artistic director Alberto Barbera. The festival will begin from September 1 to 11 this year.
This year the festivals include some high profile films like Pablo Larrain’s Spencer; Paolo Sorrentino’s The Hand Of God; Michel Franco’s Sundown; Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter; Gaston Duprat and Mariano Cohn’s Official Competition; Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog; Stephane Brize’s Un Autre Monde and Ana Lily Amirpour’s Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon.
- With the previously announced Dune (Warner Bros), Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter (Focus), and Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel (Disney), Barbera also beat the return of major US projects.
- This year the festival took a step for gender balance, with five female directors selected in the main competition, down from last year’s eight. 26% of films in the overall line-up are directed by women, down from 28% in 2020.
- Horizons Extra as a new section was also announced which will be held by a public-facing offshoot of the Horizons sidebar with an audience award.
- Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers will open the festival in competition.
- Bong Joon Ho, Chloé Zhao, Cynthia Erivo, and some more will preside over the competition jury.
- The Giornate degli Autori line-up will be announced at a later date.
Let’s see the full Venice line-up:
Competition
Parallel Mothers (Sp) – Opening Film
Dir. Pedro Almodóvar
La Caja (Mex-US)
Dir. Lorenzo Vigas
Reflection (Ukr)
Dir. Valentyn Vasyanovych
The Hand Of God (It)
Dir. Paolo Sorrentino
The Card Counter (US-UK-China)
Dir. Paul Schrader
Captain Volkonogov Escaped (Rus-Est-Fr)
Dirs. Natasha Merkulova, Aleksey Chupov
Leave No Traces (Pol-Fr-Czech)
Dir. Jan P. Matuszynski
On The Job: The Missing 8 (Phil)
Dir. Erik Matti
Oui Rido Io (It-Sp)
Dir. Mario Martone
Freaks Out (It-Bel)
Dir. Gabriele Mainetti
Spencer (Ger)
Dir. Pablo LarraÃn
The Lost Daughter (Greece-US-UK-Isr)
Dir. Maggie Gyllenhaal
Illusions Perdues (Fr)
Dir. Xavier Giannoli
Sundown (Mex-Fr-Swe)
Dir. Michel Franco
Il Buco (It-Fr)
Dir. Michelangelo Frammartino
Official Competition (Sp-Arg)
Dirs. Gastón Duprat, Mariano Cohn
L’Événement (Fr)
Dir. Audrey Diwan
America Latina (It-Fr)
Dirs. Damian and Fabio D’Innocenzo
Un Autre Monde (Fr)
Dir. Stephane Brize
The Power Of The Dog (Australia-NZ)
Dir. Jane Campion
Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon (USA)
Dir. Ana Lily Amirpour
Out Of Competition – fiction
Last Night In Soho (UK)
Dir. Edgar Wright
The Last Duel (US-UK)
Dir. Ridley Scott
Old Henry (US)
Dir. Potsy Ponciroli
La Scuola Cattolica (It)
Dir. Stefano Mordini
Halloween Kills (US)
Dir. David Gordon Green
Ariaferma (It-Switz)
Dir. Leonardo Di Constanzo
Les Choses Humaines – (Fr)
Dir. Yvan Attal
Il Bambino Nascosto (It-Fr)
Dir. Roberto Ando
Dune (US-Hun-Jor-UAE-Nor-Can)
Dir. Denis Villeneuve
Out Of Competition – non-fiction
Ezio Bosso, Le Cose Che Restano (It)
Dir. Giorgio Verdelli
Django & Django (It)
Dir. Luca Rea
Deandre#deandre (It)
Dir. Roberta Lena
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song (US)
Dirs. Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
Republic Of Silence (Ger-Fr-Syria-Qat)
Dir. Diana El Jeiroudi
Viaggio Nel Crepuscolo (It)
Dir. Augusto Contento
Tranchees (Fr)
Dir. Loup Bureau
Life Of Crime 1984-2020 (US)
Dir. Jon Alpert
Out Of Competition – Special Screenings
La Biennale Di Venezia: Il Cinema Al Tempo Del Covid (It)
Dir. Andrea Segre
Le 7 Giornate Di Bergamo (It)
Dir. Simona Ventura
Out Of Competition – series
Scenes From A Marriage (US)
Creator: Hagai Levi
Horizons
Inu-Oh (Jap-China)
Dir. Yuasa Masaaki
True Things (UK)
Dir. Harry Wootliff
Rhino (Ukr-Pol-Ger) – closing film
Dir. Oleg Sentsov
Once Upon A Time In Calcutta (India-Fr-Nor)
Dir. Aditya Vikram Sengupta
El Gran Movimiento (Bol-Fr-Qat-Switz)
Dir. Kiro Russo
El Otro Tom (Mex-US)
Dirs. Rodrigo Pla, Laura Santullo
Anatomy Of Time (Thai-Fr-Neth-Sing-Ger)
Dir. Jakrawal Nilthamrong
White Building (Camb-Fr-China-Qat)
Dir. Kavich Neang
Vera Dreams Of The Sea (Kosovo-Alb-North Macedonia)
Dir. Kaltrina Krasniqi
107 Mothers (Slovak-Czech-Ukr)
Dir. Peter Kerekes
A Plein Temps (Fr)
Dir. Eric Gravel
Amira (Egy-Jor-UAE-Saudi Arabia)
Dir. Mohamed Diab
El Hoyo En La Cerca (Mex-Pol)
Dir. Joaquin Del Paso
The Falls (Tai)
Dir. Chung Mong-Hong
Il Paradiso Del Pavone (It-Ger)
Dir. Laura Bispuri
Pilgrims (Lithuania)
Dir. Laurynas Bareisa
Atlantide (It-Fr-US-Qat)
Dir. Yuri Ancarani
Miracle (Rom-Czech-Latvia)
Dir. Bogdan George Apetri
Les Promesses (Fr) – Opening film
Dir. Thomas Kruithof
Horizons Extra (new section)
La Macchina Delle Immagini Di Alfredo C. (It)
Dir. Roland Sejko
The Blind Man Who Did Not Want To See Titanic (Fin)
Dir. Teemu Nikki
7 Prisioneiros (Bra)
Dir. Alexandre Moratto
La Ragazza Ha Volato (It-Slovenia)
Dir. Wilma Labate
Ma Nuit (Fr-Bel)
Dir. Antoinette Boulat
Mama, I’m Home (Rus)
Dir. Vladimir Bitokov
Costa Brava (Leb-Fr-Sp-Swe-Den-Nor-Qat)
Dir. Mounia Akl
Land Of Dreams (US-Ger-Qat)
Dir. Shirin Neshat, Soja Azari
