Venice International Film Festival announced the lineup for the 77th edition taking place from September 2 – 12, 2020. The festival will open with the Italian film Lacci, directed by Daniele Luchetti (La nostra vita, Mio fratello è figlio unico, Il portaborse).
In his Introduction, Alberto Barbera, Director of the 77th Venice International Film Festival, remarked, “…the decision to hold the 77th edition of the Venice Film Festival is experienced like a sign of confidence in – and concrete support of – the world of film and the audiovisual industry, which were so deeply affected by the propagation of the virus and its dramatic consequences.”
VENEZIA 77 COMPETITION
IN BETWEEN DYING
Director Hilal Baydarov
Main Cast Orkhan Iskandarli, Rana Asgarova, Maryam Naghiyeva, Murvat Abdulazizov, Kamran Huseynov, Samir Abbasov / Azerbaijan, USA / 88’
LE SORELLE MACALUSO
Director Emma Dante
Main Cast Viola Pusateri, Eleonora De Luca, Simona Malato, Susanna Piraino, Serena Barone, Maria Rosaria Alati, Anita Pomario, Donatella Finocchiaro, Ileana Rigano, Alissa Maria Orlando, Laura Giordani, Rosalba Bologna / Italy / 94’
THE WORLD TO COME
Director Mona Fastvold
Main Cast Katherine Waterston, Vanessa Kirby, Christopher Abbott, Casey Affleck / USA / 98’
NUEVO ORDEN
Director Michel Franco
Main Cast Naián González Norvind, Diego Boneta, Mónica Del Carmen, Fernando Cuautle, Darío Yazbek, Eligio Meléndez / Mexico, France / 88’
AMANTS (LOVERS)
Director Nicole Garcia
Main Cast Pierre Niney, Stacy Martin, Benoît Magimel / France / 102’
LAILA IN HAIFA
Director Amos Gitai
Main Cast Maria Zreik, Khawla Ibraheem, Bahira Ablassi, Naama Preis, Tsahi Halevi, Makram J. Khoury / Israel, France / 99’
UND MORGEN DIE GANZE WELT
Director Julia von Heinz
Main Cast Mala Emde, Noah Saavedra, Tonio Schneider, Luisa-Céline Gaffron, Andreas Lust / Germany, France / 101’
DOROGIE TOVARISCHI (DEAR COMRADES)
Director Andrei Konchalovsky
Main Cast Julia Vysotskaya, Vladislav Komarov, Andrei Gusev, Yulia Burova, Sergei Erlish / Russia / 116’
SPY NO TSUMA (WIFE OF A SPY)
Director Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Main Cast Yu Aoi, Issey Takahashi / Japan / 115’
KHORSHID (SUN CHILDREN)
Director Majid Majidi
Main Cast Ali Nasirian, Javad Ezzati, Tannaz Tabatabaie, Rouhollah Zamani, Seyed Mohammad Mehdi Mousavi Fard, Shamila Shirzad / Iran / 99’
PIECES OF A WOMAN
Director Kornél Mundruczó
Main Cast Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, Ellen Burstyn, Jimmie Fails, Molly Parker, Sarah Snook, Iliza Shlesinger, Benny Safdie / Canada, Hungary / 115’
PIECES OF A WOMAN
Director Kornél Mundruczó
Main Cast Vanessa Kirby, Shia LaBeouf, Ellen Burstyn, Jimmie Fails, Molly Parker, Sarah Snook, Iliza Shlesinger, Benny Safdie / Canada, Hungary / 115’
PADRENOSTRO
Director Claudio Noce
Main Cast Pierfrancesco Favino, Mattia Garaci, Barbara Ronchi, Francesco Gheghi, Francesco Colella, Antonio Gerardi / Italy / 120’
NOTTURNO
Director Gianfranco Rosi
Italy, France, Germany / 100’
ŚNIEGU JUŻ NIGDY NIE BĘDZIE (NEVER GONNA SNOW AGAIN)
Director Małgorzata Szumowska, Michał Englert
Main Cast Alec Utgoff, Maja Ostaszewska, Agata Kulesza, Weronika Rosati, Katarzyna Figura, Andrzej Chyra / Poland, Germany / 113’
THE DISCIPLE
Director Chaitanya Tamhane
Main Cast Aditya Modak, Arun Dravid, Sumitra Bhave, Kiran Yadnyopavit / India / 127’
QUO VADIS, AIDA?
Director Jasmila Zbanic
Main Cast Jasna Ðuričić, Izudin Bajrović, Boris Ler, Dino Bajrović, Boris Isaković / Bosnia and Herzegovina, Austria, Romania, Netherlands, Germany, Poland, France, Norway / 101’
NOMADLAND
Director Chloé Zhao
Main Cast Frances McDormand, David Strathairn, Linda May, Charlene Swankie / USA / 108’
OUT OF COMPETITION
FICTION
MANDIBULES
Director Quentin Dupieux
Main Cast David Marsais, Grégoire Ludig, Adèle Exarchopoulos, India Hair, Roméo Elvis, Coralie Russier / France, Belgium / 77’
DI YI LU XIANG (LOVE AFTER LOVE)
Director Ann Hui
Main Cast Sandra Ma, Faye Yu Eddie Peng, Ning Chang, Wei Fan, Isabella Leong / China / 144’
LACCI
Director Daniele Luchetti
Main Cast Alba Rohrwacher, Luigi Lo Cascio, Laura Morante, Silvio Orlando, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Adriano Giannini, Linda Caridi / Italy / 100’
ASSANDIRA
Director Salvatore Mereu
Main Cast Gavino Ledda, Anna Koenig, Marco Zucca, Corrado Giannetti / Italy
THE DUKE
Director Roger Michell
Main Cast Jim Broadbent, Helen Mirren, Fionn Whitehead, Matthew Goode, Anna Maxwell Martin / United Kingdom / 96’
LASCIAMI ANDARE
Director Stefano Mordini
Main Cast Stefano Accorsi, Valeria Golino, Maya Sansa, Serena Rossi, Antonia Truppo, Lino Musella / Italy / 98’
NAK WON EUI BAM (NIGHT IN PARADISE)
Director Hoon-jung Park
Main Cast Tae-goo Eom, Yeo-been Jeon, Seoung-won Cha, Ki-young Lee, Ho-san Park / South Korea / 131’
MOSQUITO STATE
Director Filip Jan Rymsza
Main Cast Beau Knapp, Charlotte Vega, Jack Kesy, Olivier Martinez / Poland / 100’
NON FICTION
SPORTIN’ LIFE
Director Abel Ferrara
Main Cast Abel Ferrara, Willem Dafoe, Cristina Chiriac, Anna Ferrara, Paul Hipp, Joe Delia / Italia / 65’
CRAZY NOT INSANE
Director Alex Gibney
117’
GRETA
Director Nathan Grossman
Main Cast Greta Thunberg / Svezia / 97’
SALVATORE – SHOEMAKER OF DREAMS
Director Luca Guadagnino
120’
FINAL ACCOUNT
Director Luke Holland
United Kingdom / 90’
LA VERITÀ SU LA DOLCE VITA
Director Giuseppe Pedersoli
Italy / 83’
MOLECOLE
Director Andrea Segre
68’
NARCISO EM FÉRIAS
Director Renato Terra, Ricardo Calil
Main Cast Caetano Veloso / Brazil / 84’
PAOLO CONTE, VIA CON ME
Director Giorgio Verdelli
Main Cast Luca Zingaretti, Roberto Benigni, Caterina Caselli, Isabella Rossellini, Francesco De Gregori, Patrice Leconte / Italy / 100’
HOPPER / WELLES
Director Orson Welles
Main Cast Dennis Hopper, Orson Welles / USA / 130’
CITY HALL
Director Frederick Wiseman
USA / 272’
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
30 MONEDAS – EPISODE 1
Director Álex de la Iglesia
Main Cast Eduard Fernández, Megan Montaner, Miguel Ángel Silvestre, Macarena Gómez, Pepón Nieto, Manolo Solo / Spain / 78’
PRINCESSE EUROPE
Director Camille Lotteau
Main Cast Bernard-Henri Lévy / France / 108’
OMELIA CONTADINA
Director Alice Rohrwacher
Main Cast Luciano Vergaro, Dario Sforza, Iris Pulvano, Emanuele La Barbera, Elisa Cortese, and the farm workers of the Altopiano dell’Alfina / Italy, France / 9’
ORIZZONTI
LA TROISIÈME GUERRE
Director Giovanni Aloi
Main Cast Anthony Bajon, Karim Leklou, Leïla Bekhti / France / 92’
MEEL PATTHAR (MILESTONE)
Director Ivan Ayr
Main Cast Suvinder Vicky, Lakshvir Saran / India / 98’
DASHTE KHAMOUSH (THE WASTELAND)
Director Ahmad Bahrami
Main Cast Ali Bagheri, Farrokh Nemati, Majid Farhang, Mahdieh Nassaj, Touraj Alvand / Iran / 102’
THE MAN WHO SOLD HIS SKIN
Director Kaouther Ben Hania
Main Cast Yahya Mahayni, Dea Liane, Monica Bellucci, Koen de Bouw, Darina Al Joundi, Christian Vadim / Tunisia, France, Germany, Belgium, Sweden / 100’
I PREDATORI
Director Pietro Castellitto
Main Cast Massimo Popolizio, Manuela Mandracchia, Pietro Castellitto, Giorgio Montanini, Dario Cassini, Anita Caprioli / Italy / 109’
MAINSTREAM
Director Gia Coppola
Main Cast Andrew Garfield, Maya Hawke, Nat Wolff, Jason Schwartzman / USA / 94’
LAHI, HAYOP (GENUS PAN)
Director Lav Diaz
Main Cast Bart Guingona, DMs Boongaling, Nanding Josef, Hazel Orencio, Joel Saracho, Noel Sto. Domingo / Philippines / 150’
ZANKA CONTACT
Director Ismaël el Iraki
Main Cast Khansa Batma, Ahmed Hammoud, Saïd Bey, Abderrahmane Oubihem, Mourad Zaoui / France, Morocco, Belgium / 125’
LA NUIT DES ROIS
Director Philippe Lacôte
Main Cast Koné Bakary, Steve Tientcheu, Rasmané Ouédraogo, Issaka Sawadogo, Digbeu Jean Cyrille, Abdoul Karim Konaté / Ivory Coast, France, Canada / 92’
THE FURNACE
Director Roderick MacKay
Main Cast Ahmed Malek, David Wenham / Australia / 116’
JENAYAT-E BI DEGHAT (CARELESS CRIME)
Director Shahram Mokri
Main Cast Babak Karimi, Razieh Mansouri, Abolfazl Kahani, Mohammad Sareban, Adel Yaraghi, Mahmoud Behraznia / Iran / 139’
GAZA MON AMOUR
Director Tarzan Nasser, Arab Nasser
Main Cast Salim Daw, Hiam Abbass, Maisa Abd Elhadi, George Iskandar, Hitham Al Omai, Manal Awad / Palestine, France, Germany, Portugal, Qatar / 87’
MILA (APPLES)
Director Christos Nikou
Main Cast Aris Servetalis, Sofia Georgovasili / Greece, Poland, Slovenia / 90’
SELVA TRÁGICA
Director Yulene Olaizola
Main Cast Indira Andrewin, Gilberto Barraza, Mariano Tun Xool, Lázaro Gabino Rodríguez, Eligio Meléndez / Mexico, France, Colombia / 96’
GUERRA E PACE
Director Martina Parenti, Massimo D’Anolfi
Italy, Switzerland / 128’
NOWHERE SPECIAL
Director Uberto Pasolini
Main Cast James Norton, Daniel Lamont / Italy, Romania, United Kingdom / 96’
LISTEN
Director Ana Rocha de Sousa
Main Cast Lúcia Moniz, Sophia Myles, Ruben Garcia, Maisie Sly, Kiran Sonia Sawar, James Felner / United Kingdom, Portugal / 73’
BU ZHI BU XIU (THE BEST IS YET TO COME)
Director Jing Wang
Main Cast Bai Ke, Miao Miao, Song Wenzhang, Fu Kesi, Jia Zhangke, Qin Hailu, Song Yang / China / 114’
ZHELTAYA KOSHKA (YELLOW CAT)
Director Adilkhan Yerzhanov
Main Cast Azamat Nigmanov, Kamila Nugmanova, Sanjar Madi, Yerzhan Zhamankulov, Yerken Gubashev, Nurbek Mukushev / Kazakhstan, France / 90’
ORIZZONTI SHORT FILMS
NATTÅGET (THE NIGHT TRAIN)
Director Jerry Carlsson
Main Cast Erik Nilsson, Khalil Ben Gharbia / Sweden / 15’
THE SHIFT
Director Laura Carreira
Main Cast Anna Russell-Martin / United Kingdom, Portugal / 9’
WORKSHOP
Director Judah Finnigan
Main Cast Elizabeth Winders, TJ Snow, Richard Crouchley, Danielle Meldrum, Rasmus Wessman, Zechariah Julius-Donnelly / New Zealand / 16’
SOGNI AL CAMPO
Director Magda Guidi, Mara Cerri
Main Cast (Animation) / France, Italy / 9’
WAS WAHRSCHEINLICH PASSIERT WÄRE, WÄRE ICH NICHT ZUHAUSE GEBLIEBEN
Director Willy Hans
Main Cast Anne Rohde, Hauke Heumann, Victoria Schulz, Felix Maria Zeppenfeld, Rabea Schubert, Anthoula Bourna / Germany / 21’
DAS SPIEL (THE GAME)
Director Roman Hodel
Switzerland / 17’
MIEGAMASIS RAJONAS (PLACES)
Director Vytautas Katkus
Main Cast Vygantas Bachmackij, Karolis Kasperavicius, Vismante Ruzgaite, Emilija Ruzgaite, Aiste Zavotkaite / Lithuania / 13’
ANITA
Director Sushma Khadepaun
Main Cast Aditi Vasudev, Mitra Gadhvi, Sanjivani Sathe, Nikhil Dave, Bhakti Maniar, Deep Seth / India, USA / 17’
À FLEUR DE PEAU
Director Meriem Mesraoua
Main Cast Amina Hilal, Salima Abada, Mohammed Benameur, Hayem Delfi / France, Qatar, Algeria / 15’
ENTRE TÚ Y MILAGROS
Director Mariana Saffon
Main Cast Sofía Paz, Marcela Mar, Maria Fernanda Giraldo, Olga Cecilia Tablorda Vélez, Pedro Fernandez, Jimi Alejandro Jaramillo / Colombia / 20’
BEING MY MOM
Director Jasmine Trinca
Main Cast Alba Rohrwacher, Maayane Conti / Italy / 12’
MÂY NHU’NG KHÔNG MU’A (LIVE IN CLOUD CUCKOO LAND)
Director Nghia Vu Minh, Thy Pham Hoang Minh
Main Cast Giang Le Binh, Huong Phung, Vy Vu Chau Khanh, Trung Tran / Vietnam, South Korea / 19’
ORIZZONTI SHORT FILMS OUT OF COMPETITION
SÌ
Director Luca Ferri
Italy / 19’
THE RETURN OF TRAGEDY
Director Bertrand Mandico
Main Cast David Patrick Kelly, Elina Löwensohn, Juliana Francis, Peter McCabe, Oleg Dubson, Thomas Jay Ryan / France / 24’
BIENNALE COLLEGE CINEMA
EL ARTE DE VOLVER
Director Pedro Collantes
Main Cast Macarena García, Nacho Sánchez, Ingrid García-Jonsson, Mireia Oriol, Luka Peros, Lucía Juárez / Spain / 91’
FUCKING WITH NOBODY
Director Hannaleena Hauru
Main Cast Hannaleena Hauru, Lasse Poser, Samuel Kujala, Pietu Wikström, Sara Melleri, Hanna-Kaisa Tiainen / Finland / 95’