Alberto Barbera presided over a lengthy press conference this morning, where he announced the stacked lineup for this year’s Venice Film Festival, which runs from August 27 to September 6.
The lineup is expansive with big names and arthouse darlings sprinkled across the festival’s strands, even including the shorts programme.
High-profile titles include Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt, starring Julia Roberts, Ayo Edebiri, Andrew Garfield, Michael Stuhlbarg, and Chloë Sevigny. Roberts leads the cast as a college professor who finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star student (Edebiri) levels an accusation against one of her colleagues (Garfield), and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come into the light. The film will screen Out Of Competition on Guadagnino and Amazon’s request, Barbera explained during the presser.
Elsewhere, in Competition, we have Jay Kelly, the latest film Noah Baumbach has made for Netflix. The feature stars George Clooney and Adam Sandler and is slated for release in theaters on November 14. The film will hit Netflix on December 5. Baumbach wrote the script for the pic — marking his fourth outing with Netflix — with Emily Mortimer.
Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, starring Jacob Elordi and Oscar Isaac, will also screen in Competition alongside Kathryn Bigelow’s return to feature filmmaking with A House Of Dynamite, and Jim Jarmusch debuts a film in the Venice Competition for the first time in decades with Father Mother Sister Brother.
Julian Schnabel will debut his long-awaited feature, In The Hand Of Dante, Out Of Competition. The film stars Oscar Isaac, Martin Scorsese, Gerard Butler, Gal Gadot. While announcing the film, Barbera confirmed that the film had been delayed due to a dispute between the filmmakers and the film’s funders. We also have new films by Werner Herzog, Lucrecia Martel, Laura Poitras, and Sofia Coppola, Out of Competition.
In the Venice documentary sidebar, the Mike Figgis feature Megadoc, a documentary about the making of Francis Ford Coppola’s last feature, Megalopolis, will screen. Charlie Kaufman will show a short titled How To Shoot A Ghost Out Of Comp and Hagai Levi (Scenes From A Marriage) will debut a new show titled Etty.
The festival will open with La Grazia, the latest feature from Italian filmmaker Paolo Sorrentino. The film starring Toni Servillo and Anna Ferzetti will have its world premiere screening on Wednesday, 27 August in the Sala Grande. La Grazia, written and directed by Sorrentino. Very little about the film’s plot is known, but sources close to the film have told Deadline that the film follows the final days of a fictional Italian Presidency.
Kim Novak will receive the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion for lifetime achievement. Alexander Payne heads the Competition jury. He is joined by Stéphane Brizé, Maura Delpero, Cristian Mungiu, Mohammad Rasoulof, Fernanda Torres, and Zhao Tao.
See the full lineup below.
Competition
La Grazia, Paolo Sorrentino,
This Wizard Of The Kremlin, Olivier Assayas
Jay Kelly, Noah Baumbach
The Voice Of Hind Rajab, Kaouther Ben Hania
A House Of Dynamite, Kathryn Bigelow
The Sun Rises On Us All, Cai Shangjun
Frankenstein, Guillermo del Toro
Elisa, Leonardo Di Constanzo
A Pied D’Oeuvre, Valerie Donzelli
Silent Friend, Ildiko Enyedi
The Testament of Anne Lee, Mona Fastvold
Father Mother Sister Brother, Jim Jarmusch
Bugonia, Yorgos Lanthimos
Duse, Pietro Marcello
Un Film Fatto Per Bene, Franco Maresco
Orphan, Laszlo Nemes
L’Etranger, François Ozon
No Other Choice, Park Chan-Wook
Sotto Le Nuvole, Gianfranco Rosi
The Smashing Machine, Benny Safdie
Girl, Shu Qi
Origin, Yann Arthus-Bertrand (Short)
Boomerang Atomic, Rachid Bouchareb (Short)
How To Shoot A Ghost, Charlie Kaufman (Short)
Portobello, Marco Bellocchio (Series)
Un Prophete, Enrico Maria Artale (Series)
Etty, Hagai Levi (Series)
IL Mostro, Stefano Sollima (Series)
Nino. 18 Giorni, Toni D’ Angelo
Piero Pelú Rumore Deentro, Francesco Dei
Newport And The Great Folk Dream, Robert Gordon
Franceso De Gregori Nevergreen, Stefano Pistolini
Kabul, Between Prayers, Aboozar Amini
Ferdinando Scianna — Il Fotografo Dell’Ombra, Roberto Andó
Marc By Sofia, Sofia Coppola
I Diari Di Angela — Noi Due Cineasti. Capitolo Terzo, Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi
Ghost Elephants, Werner Herzog
Baba Wa Al—Qadhafi (My Father And Qaddafi), Jihan K
The Tale Of Sylian, Tamara Kotevska
Nuestra Tierra, Lucrecia Martel
Remake, Ross McElwee
Kim Novak’s Vertigo, Alexandre Philippe
Cover Up, Laura Poitras and Mark Obenhaus
Broken English, Jane Pollard and Iain Forsyth
Notes Of A True Criminal, Alexander Rodnyansky and Andriy Alferov
Director’s Diary, Alexandr Sokurov
Hui Jia (Back Home), Tsai Ming-Liang
Chien 51, Cedric Jimenez
Sermon To The Void, Hilal Baydarov
L’Isola Di Andrea, Antonio Capuano
Il Maestro, Andrea Di Stefano
After The Hunt, Luca Guadagnino
Hateshinaki Scarlet, Mamoru Hosoda
The Last Viking, Anders Thomas Jensen
In The Hand Of Dante, Julian Schnabel
Le Valle Dei Sorrisi, Paolo Strippoli
Dead Man’s Wire, Gus Van Sant
Orfeo, Virgilio Villoresi
Rose of Nevada, Mark Jenkin
Divine Comedy, Ali Asgari
Mother, Teona Strugar Mitevska
Hiedra, Ana Cristina Barragan
Il Rapimento di Arabella, Carolina Cavalli
Strange River, Jaume Claret Muxart
Lost Land, Akio Fujimoto
Grand Ciel, Akihiro Hata
Hijra, Shahad Ameen
Un Cabo Suelto, Daniel Hendler
Motor City, Potsy Ponciroli
Made in EU, Stephan Komandarev
Ammazzare Stanca, Daniele Vicari
La Hija de la Española, Mariana Rondón and Marité Ugás
À Bras-Le-Corps, Marie-Elsa Sgualdo
Calle Malaga, Maryam Touzani