The 72nd Venice International Film Festival, organized by la Biennale di Venezia, held on the Lido of Venice from September 2nd to September 12th, 2015, unveiled the official film lineup.

The Official Selection includes the sections Venezia 72, Out of Competition, Orizzonti, and Venice Classics, as well as the three feature films in the project, Biennale College – Cinema.  The Independent and Parallel Sections include the SIC – International Critics’ Week, and the Giornate degli Autori – Venice Days.

Venezia 72

EMIN ALPER – ABLUKA (FRENZY)
Turkey, France, Qatar, 114′
Mehmet Özgür, Berkay Ates

LAURIE ANDERSON – HEART OF A DOG
USA, 75′
Laurie Anderson

MARCO BELLOCCHIO – SANGUE DEL MIO SANGUE
Italy, France, Switzerland, 106′
Roberto Herlitzka, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Lydiya Liberman, Fausto Russo Alesi, Alba Rohrwacher, Federica Fracassi, Filippo Timi

SUE BROOKS – LOOKING FOR GRACE
Australia, 97′
Richard Roxburgh, Radha Mitchell, Odessa Young, Terry Norris, Harry Richardson

DRAKE DOREMUS – EQUALS
USA, 101′
Kristen Stewart, Nicholas Hoult, Guy Pearce, Jacki Weaver

ATOM EGOYAN – REMEMBER
Canada, Germany, 95′
Christopher Plummer, Martin Landau, Dean Norris, Bruno Ganz, Jürgen Prochnow, Heinz Lieven

CARY FUKUNAGA – BEASTS OF NO NATION
USA, 133′
Idris Elba

GIUSEPPE M. GAUDINO – PER AMOR VOSTRO
Italy, France, 110′
Valeria Golino, Massimiliano Gallo, Adriano Giannini

XAVIER GIANNOLI – MARGUERITE
France, Czech Republic, Belgium, 127′
Catherine Frot, André Marcon, Michel Fau, Christa Théret, Denis Mpunga, Sylvain Dieuaide

AMOS GITAI – RABIN, THE LAST DAY
Israel, France, 153′
Ischac Hiskiya, Pini Mitelman, Michael Warshaviak, Einat Weizman, Rotem Keinan, Yogev Yefet, Yael Abecassis

LUCA GUADAGNINO – A BIGGER SPLASH
Italy, France, 120′
Tilda Swinton, Ralph Fiennes, Matthias Schoenaerts, Dakota Johnson, Corrado Guzzanti

OLIVER HERMANUS – THE ENDLESS RIVER
South Africa, France, 108′
Nicolas Duvauchelle, Crystal-Donna Roberts, Clayton Evertson, Darren Kelfkens, Denise Newman

TOM HOOPER – THE DANISH GIRL
UK, USA, 120′
Eddie Redmayne, Alicia Vikander, Amber Heard, Sebastian Koch, Ben Whishaw, Matthias Schoenaerts

CHARLIE KAUFMAN, DUKE JOHNSON – ANOMALISA
USA, 90′
(Animation)
Jennifer Jason Leigh, David Thewlis, Tom Noonan

ZHAO LIANG – BEHEMOTH
China, France, 95′
(Documentary)

PIERO MESSINA – L’ATTESA
Italy, France, 100′
Juliette Binoche, Lou de Laâge, Giorgio Colangeli, Domenico Diele, Antonio Folletto, Giovanni Anzaldo

JERZY SKOLIMOWSKI – 11 MINUT (11 MINUTES)
Poland, Ireland, 81′
Richard Dormer, Paulina Chapko, Wojciech Mecwaldowski, Dawid Ogrodnik, Andrzej Chyra

ALEKSANDR SOKUROV – FRANCOFONIA
France, Germany, Netherlands, 87′
Louis-Do de Lencquesaing, Benjamin Utzerath

PABLO TRAPERO – EL CLAN
Argentina, Spain, 108′
Guillermo Francella, Peter Lanzani

LORENZO VIGAS – DESDE ALLÁ
Venezuela, 93′
Alfredo Castro, Luis Silva

CHRISTIAN VINCENT – L’HERMINE
France, 98′
Fabrice Luchini, Sidse Babett Knudsen

Out of Competition

EVGENY AFINEEVSKY – WINTER ON FIRE
Ukraine, 85′
(documentary)

DANIEL ALFREDSON – GO WITH ME
USA, Canada, Sweden, 90′
Anthony Hopkins, Julia Stiles, Ray Liotta, Alexander Ludwig, Hal Holbrook, Steve Bacic, Lochlyn Munro

YANN ARTHUS-BERTRAND – HUMAN
France, 188′
(documentary)

NOAH BAUMBACH, JAKE PALTROW – DE PALMA
USA, 109′
(documentary)

AMY BERG – JANIS
USA, 115′
(documentary)

CLAUDIO CALIGARI – NON ESSERE CATTIVO
Italy, 100′
Luca Marinelli, Alessandro Borghi, Silvia D’Amico, Roberta Mattei

SCOTT COOPER – BLACK MASS
USA, 122′
Johnny Depp, Joel Edgerton, Benedict Cumberbatch, Rory Cochrane, Jesse Plemons, Dakota Johnson, Peter Sarsgaard, Kevin Bacon

GUAN HU – LAO PAO ER (MR SIX)
China, 135′
Feng Xiaogang

BALTASAR KORMÁKUR – EVEREST [OPENING FILM]
United Kingdom, USA, 122′
Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, John Hawkes, Robin Wright, Michael Kelly, Sam Worthington, Keira Knightley, Emily Watson, Jake Gyllenhaal

SERGEI LOZNITSA – SOBYTIE (THE EVENT)
Netherlands, Belgium, 74′
(documentary)

FRANCO MARESCO – GLI UOMINI DI QUESTA CITTÀ IO NON LI CONOSCO
Italy, 115′
(documentary)

THOMAS MCCARTHY – SPOTLIGHT
USA, 123′
Michael Keaton, Mark Ruffalo, Rachel McAdams, Stanley Tucci, Liev Schreiber, Brian d’Arcy James

TSAI MING-LIANG – NA RI XIAWU (AFTERNOON)
Chinese Taipei, 137′
Tsai Ming-liang, Lee Kang-sheng

GIANFRANCO PANNONE – L’ESERCITO PIÙ PICCOLO DEL MONDO
Vatican City, Italy, Switzerland, 80′
(documentary)

ARTURO RIPSTEIN – LA CALLE DE LA AMARGURA
Mexico, Spain, 99′
Patricia Reyes Spíndola, Nora Velázquez, Sylvia Pasquel, Arcelia Ramírez, Alejandro Suárez, Alberto Estrella

MARTIN SCORSESE – THE AUDITION
USA, 16′
Robert De Niro, Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, Martin Scorsese

BERTRAND TAVERNIER – LA VIE ET RIEN D’AUTRE
France, 135′
Philippe Noiret, Sabine Azéma

FREDERICK WISEMAN – IN JACKSON HEIGHTS
USA, 190′
(documentary)

Check out the LINE-UP of the 72nd Venice Film Festival