The Venice film Festival has unveiled the lineup for the 79th edition which runs from August 31-September 10 on the Lido. Please Scroll down to see the full list of Competition titles which include latest works from such directors as Darren Aronofsky, Alejandro G Inarritu, Todd Field, Andrew Dominik, Luca Guadagnino, Koji Fukada and Jafar Panahi.
Julianne Moore is president of the jury this year. Special Lifetime Achievement Golden Lions will be presented to Catherine Deneuve and Paul Schrader. It was previously announced that Noah Baumbach’s Don DeLillo adaptation “White Nose” will be the opening night film, the first time a Netflix movie has had that honor.
COMPETITION
White Noise (Noah Baumbach)
Ill Signore Delle formiche (Gianni Amelio)
The Whale (Darren Aronofsky)
L’lmmensita (Emanuele Crialese)
Saint Omer (Alice Diop)
Blonde (Andrew Dominik)
TÁR (Todd Field)
Love Life (Koji Fukada)
Bardo, False Chronicle of A Handful of Truths (Alejandro G. Inarritu)
Athena (Romain Gavras)
Bones & All (Luca Guadagnino)
The Eternal Daughter (Joanna Hogg)
Beyond The Wall (Vahid Jalilvand)
The Banshees of Inisherin (Martin McDonagh)
Argentina, 1985 (Santiago Mitre)
Chiara (Susanna Nicchiarelli)
Monica (Andrea Pallaoro)
No Bears (Jafar Panahi)
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed (Laura Poitras)
A Couple (Frederick Wiseman)
The Son (Florian Zeller)
Our Ties (Roschdy Zem)
Other People’s Children (Rebecca Zlotowski)
OUT OF COMPETITION
Fiction
The Hanging Sun (Francesco Carrozzini)
When the Waves are Gone(Lav Diaz)
Living (Oliver Hermanus)
Dead for a Dollar (Walter Hill)
Call Of God (Kim Ki-duk)
Dreaming’ Wild (Bill Pohlad)
Master Gardener (Paul Schrader)
Siccità (Paolo Virzi)
Pearl (Ti West)
Don’t Worry Darling (Olivia Wilde)
Non-fiction
Freedom On Fire: Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom (Evgeny Afineevsky)
The Matchmaker (Benedetta Argentieri)
Gli Ultimi Giorni Dell’umanita (Enrico Ghezzi, Alessandro Gagliardo)
A Compassionate Spy (Steve James)
Music For Black Pigeons (Jorgen Leth, Andreas Koefoed)
The Kiev Trial (Sergei Loznitsa)
In Viaggio (Gianfranco Rosi)
Bobi Wine Ghetto President (Christopher Sharp, Moses Bwayo)
Nuclear (Oliver Stone)
Series
The Kingdom : ExodusLars von Trier)
Copenhagen Cowboy (Nicolas Winding Refn)
ORIZZONTI
Princess (Roberto De Paolis)
Victim (Michal Blasko)
On The Fringe (Juan Diego Botto)
Trenque Lauquen (Laura Citarella)
Vera (Tizza Covi, Rainer Frimmel)
Innocence (Guy Davidi)
Blanquita (Fernando Guzzoni)
For My Country (Rachid Hami)
A Man (Kei Ishikawa)
Bread And Salt (Damian Kocur)
Luxembourg, Luxembourg (Antonio Lukich)
Ti Mangio Il Cuore (Pippo Mezzapesa)
To The North (Mihai Mincan)
Autobiography (Makbul Mubarak)
The Sitting Duck (Jean-Paul Salome)
World War III (Houman Seyedi)
The Happiest Man In The World (Teona Strugar Mitevska)
The Bride (Sergio Trefaut)
ORIZZONTI EXTRA
Origin Of Evil (Sebastien Marnier)
Hanging Gardens (Ahmed Yassin Al Daradji)
Amanda (Carolina Cavalli)
Red Shoes (Carlos Eichelmann Kaiser)
Nezouh (Soudade Kaadan)
Notte Fantasma (Fulvio Risuleo)
Without Her (Arian Vazirdaftari)
Valeria Is Getting Married (Michal Vinik)
Goliath (Adilkhan Yerzhanov)
INTERNATIONAL CRITICS’ WEEK
Competition
Anhell69 (Theo Montoya)
Beating Sun (Philippe Petit)
Dogborn (Isabella Carbonell)
Eismayer (David Wagner)
Have You Seen This Woman? (Dusan Zoric, Matija Gluscevic)
Margini (Niccolo Falsetti)
Skin Deep (Alex Schaad)
Out of Competition
Three Nights A Week (Florent Gouelou)
Queens (Yasmine Benkiran)
Blood (Pedro Costa)
VENICE CLASSICS
Teresa the Thief (Carlo Di Palma)
My little loves (Jean Eustache)
The Draughtsman’s Contract (Peter Greenaway)
Profound Desire of the Gods (Shōhei Imamura)
The Ear (Karel Kachyna)
The little Brother (Bakhtyar Khudojnazarov)
Cavalcade (Frank Lloyd)
Therese and Isabelle (Radley Metzger)
A Hen in the Wind (Yasujirō Ozu)
Theorem (Paolo Pasolini)
The Chess Players (Satyajit Ray)
The Elusive Corporal (Jean Renoir)
March of Rome (Dino Risi)
Crazy Desire (Luciano Salce)
Branded to kill (Seijun Suzuki)
Canyon Passage (Jacques Tourneur)
The Black Cat (Edgar G. Ulmer)
A Confucian Confusion (Edward Yang)