LIDO DI VENEZIA, 1.09 – 11.09 2021
The president of the Venice Film Festival Roberto Cicutto and Director Alberto Barbera have presented this morning, July 26, the official selection of the 78th Venice International Film Festival due to take place on September 1-11, 2021.
The festival announced its jury members for the feature films in Competition, with the Academy Award-winning director and screenwriter, as well as Palme d’Or winner, South Korean director Bong Joon Ho as president of the jury. The jury members will consist of Italian director and screenwriter Saverio Costanza, Belgian actress Virginie Efira, British actress Cynthia Erivo, Canadian actress and producer Sarah Gadon, Romanian director Alexander Nanau and Chinese director, screenwriter, editor and producer Chloé Zhao (last year’s Golden Lion winner as well Academy Award-winner).
Bong Joon Ho
The jury for the Orizzonti section will be presided by Bosnian director and screenwriter Jasmila Žbanić, with the jury members consisting of Norwegian director and screenwriter Mona Fastvold, Iranian director, screenwriter and film critic Sharam Mokri, curator of the film department at the MoMA Josh Siegel, and Italian author Nadia Terranova.
Today, Cicutto and Barbera have announced the films selected for the Venezia 78 Competition, as well as those Out-of-Competition and the Orizzonti section. According to Barbera, the quality of the films they saw for this year was much higher than usual, which makes him optimistic about the state of health of the film industry. Fifty-nine countries are represented in this year’s selection. Only 5 female directors have been selected for the main competition this year, a decrease from last year, which had only 8. Overall, 26% of the films selected are directed by women, compared to 28% last year.
Ridley Scott’s
Amongst the most anticipated movies selected to screen at the Venice Film Festival, Denis Villeneuve’s Dune will have its world premiere Out-of-Competition. Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel, from a script by Matt Damon and Ben Affleck, starring Jodie Comer, and Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho, starring Anya Taylor-Joy, will both also screen Out-of-Competition. Episodes from Hagai Levi’s series based on Ingmar Bergman’s film Scenes from a Marriage, starring Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac, will be presented.
Penélope Cruz
As was announced on July 19, Pedro Almodóvar’s Madres paralelas, starring Penélope Cruz, Milena Smit, Julieta Serrano and Rossy De Palma, will open the 78th Venice Film Festival, and is one of the films in Competition. Maggie Gyllenhaal’s debut feature The Lost Daughter, starring Olivia Coleman is also in Competition, as well as, Pablo Larraín’s Spencer with Kristen Stewart, Jane Campion’s The Power of the Dog, Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter with Oscar Isaac and Willem Dafoe, Michel Franco’s Sundown with Charlotte Gainsbourg and Tim Roth. In Competition also is Xavier Giannoli’s adaptation of Honoré de Balzac’s Illusions Perdues with Gérard Depardieu, Cécile de France, Xavier Dolan, Benjamin Voisin.
Jamie Lee Curtis
Jamie Lee Curtis will be receiving the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to honor the career of the iconic American actress on September 8, 2021, in the Palazzo del Cinema. Halloween Kills, directed by David Gordon-Green, the 12th episode from the saga, will be screening Out-of-Competition.
Below is the full list of films selected.
Venezia 78 COMPETITION
MADRES PARALELAS – Pedro Almodovar – Opening film
MONA LISA AND THE BLOOD MOON – Ana Lily Amarpour
UN AUTRE MONDE – Stéphane Brizet
THE POWER OF THE DOG – Jane Campion
AMERICA LATINA – the D’Innocenzo brothers
L’ÉVÉNEMENT – Audrey Diwan
COMPETENCIA OFICIAL –Gaston Duprat and Mariano Cohn
IL BUCO – Michelangelo Frammartino
SUNDOWN – Michel Franco
ILLUSIONS PERDUES – Xavier Giannoli
THE LOST DAUGHTER – Maggie Gyllenhaal
SPENCER – Pablo Larraín
FREAKS OUT – Gabriele Mainetti
QUI RIDO IO – Mario Martone
ON THE JOB: THE MISSING 8 –Erik Matti
LEAVE NO TRACES – Jan P. Matuszynski
CAPTAIN VOLKONOGOV ESCAPED – Natasha Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov
THE CARD COUNTER – Paul Schrader
THE HAND OF GOD (E STATA LA MANO DI DIO) – Paolo Sorrentino produced by Netflix NFLX -0.5%
VIDBLYSK (REFLECTION) – Valentyn Vasyanovych
LA CAJA – Lorenzo Vigas
Out-of-COMPETITION – Fiction
IL BAMBINO NASCOSTO – Roberto Ando
LES CHOSES HUMAINES – Yvan Attal
ARIAFERMA – Leonardo di Costanza
HALLOWEEN KILLS – David Gordon-Green
LA SCUOLA CATTOLICA – Stefano Mordini
OLD HENRY – Potsy Ponciroli
THE LAST DUEL – Ridley Scott
DUNE – Denis Villeneuve
LAST NIGHT IN SOHO – Edgar Wright
Out-of-COMPETITION – Non-Fiction
EZIO BOSSO, LE COSE CHE RESTANO – Giorgio Verdelli
DJANGO & DJANGO— Luca Rea
DEANDRE#DEANDRE – Roberta Lena
HALLELUJAH: LEONARD COHEN, A JOURNEY, A SONG – Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
REPUBLIC OF SILENCE – Diana El Jeiroudi
VIAGGIO NEL CREPUSCOLO – Augusto Contento
TRANCHEES – Loup Bureau
LIFE OF CRIME 1984-2020 – Jon Alpert
Out-of-COMPETITION – Series
SCENES FROM A MARRIAGE — Hagai Levi
Out Of Competition – Special Screenings
LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA: IL CINEMA AL TEMPO DEL COVID – Andrea Segre
LE 7 GIORNATE DI BERGAMO – Simona Ventura
Orizzonti Competition
LES PROMESSES – Thomas Kruithof – Opening film
ATLANTIDE – Yuri Ancarani
MIRACLE (MIRACOL) – Bogdan George Apetri
PILGRIMS — Laurynas Bareisa
IL PARADISO DEL PAVONE – Laura Bispuri
THE FALLS (PU BU) – Chung Mong-Hong
EL HOYO EN LA CERCA – Joaquin Del Paso
AMIRA – Mohamed Diab
A PLEIN TEMPS – Eric Gravel
107 MOTHERS – Peter Kerekes
VERA DREAMS OF THE SEA – Kaltrina Krasniqi
WHITE BUILDING – Kavich Neang
ANATOMY OF TIME – Jakrawal Nilthamrong
EL OTRO TOM – Rodrigo Pla and Laura Santullo
EL GRAN MOVIMIENTO – Kiro Russo
ONCE UPON A TIME IN CALCUTTA – Aditya Vikram Sengupta
RHINO – Oleg Sentsov – Closing film
TRUE THINGS – Harry Wootliff
INU-OH – Yuasa Masaaki – only animation showing at festival
Orizzonti Extra – A New Section
LAND OF DREAMS — Shirin Neshat and Soja Azari
COSTA BRAVA — Mounia Akl
MAMA, I’M HOME — Vladimir Bitokov
MA NUIT —Antoinette Boulat
LA RAGAZZA HA VOLATO — Wlma Labate
7 PRISIONEIROS — Alexandre Moratto
THE BLIND MAN WHO DID NOT WANT TO SEE TITANIC — Teemu Nikki
LA MACCHINA DELLE IMMAGINI DI ALFREDO C. — Roland Sejko
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