Alberto Barbera presided over a lengthy press conference Thursday morning, during which he announced the stacked lineup for this year’s Venice Film Festival, which runs from 2-12 September.
The lineup is expansive, with several big names returning to the festival across its many strands.
In competition, Casey Affleck will debut Company, his latest film as a director. Previously described as a “gothic horror”, the film stars Nick Nolte (Cape Fear), Adelaide Clemens (The Great Gatsby), Ben Mendelsohn (The Dark Knight Rises), Scoot McNairy (A Complete Unknown), Emily Alyn Lind (We Were Liars) and Caylee Cowan.
South Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-Dong returns to feature filmmaking with Possible Love, his first film since Burning (2018). Scroll down for the full list of titles.
The festival has already announced that this year’s opening title will be Danny Boyle’s Rupert Murdoch biopic Ink. The film, starring Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce and Claire Foy, will screen on September 2 in the Sala Grande at the Palazzo del Cinema on the Lido.
Boyle directs the feature from a screenplay written by James Graham (Dear England), based on his Tony-nominated play Ink. O’Connell stars as The Sun newspaper editor Larry Lamb with Pearce as Rupert Murdoch. Claire Foy is Jules Davies.
Announcing the title earlier this summer, Barbera described the title as an “account of publisher Rupert Murdoch’s acquisition of the daily newspaper The Sun, which he entrusted to the unscrupulous Larry Lamb, turning it into Britain’s best-selling tabloid at the expense of its rival, The Mirror.”
The festival’s closing title will be Dio ride, written and directed by Giovanni Veronesi (The King’s Musketeers). The film will screen out of competition. Pierfrancesco Favino, Silvio Orlando, Alma Noce, Francesco Gheghi, Maurizio Lombardi, Paolo Rossi and Carlo Cecchi star in the film.
George Clooney and Ellen Burstyn will be the recipients of the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion for lifetime achievement this year. Maggie Gyllenhaal will serve as the competition jury president. She will be joined by Kaouther Ben Hania, Daniel Blumberg, Francesco Casetti, Xavier Giannoli, Shahrbanoo Sadat, and Johnnie To.
Il Fuoco Che Ti Porti DentroDir: Edoardo De Angelis
Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?Dir: Shinya Tsukamoto
La Maison Du VentDir: Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu
A Day In The Life Of Jo: Chapter PhaedraDir: Jacqueline Lentzou
Un Détour Par DianeDir: Ann Sirot, Raphael Balboni
No Paradise If You Are Killed By A WomanDir: Halkawat Mustafa
Venice Open — Out Of Competition, Film on FilmsJuso Per FerieDir: Karen Di Porto
The Pervert’s Guide To UtopiasDir: Sophie Fiennes
Venice Open — Out Of Competition, Non-FictionBe BraveDir: Francesco Carrozzini
Letters From The Silenced CountryDir: Andrei Kutsila
My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 — ExileDir: Julia Loktev
Shumei — The Living Legacy Of KabukiDir: Takashi Miike
Oasis: Don’t Look Back In AngerDir: Dylan Southern, Will Lovelace
Everest: The Other SideDir: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin
From Inside Out — The Architecture Of Peter ZumthorDir: Wim Wenders
Venice Open — Out Of Competition, SeriesPeccatoDir: Valerio Vestoso
Venice Open — Out Of Competition, Short FilmsFlesh ImpactDir: Maggie Gyllenhaal
Special ScreeningDai Nostri InviatiDir: Giuseppe Giannotti, Enrico Salvatori, Nicoletta Berardi
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