The 79th Venice Film Festival set to take place from August 31-September 10, unveiled the lineup of films including, competition and non-competition titles.
Films in In Competition include The Whale, directed by Darren Aronofsky; Saint Omer, directed by Alice Diop; Bones And All, directed by Luca Guadagnino; Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths, directed by Alejandro G. Inarritu; All The Beauty And The Bloodshed, directed by Laura Poitras; The Eternal Daughter, directed by Joanna Hogg and No Bears, directed by Jafar Panahi
Films in Out of Competition include Don’t Worry Darling, directed by Olivia Wilde; Master Gardener, directed by Paul Schrader; Pearl, directed by Ti West; In Viaggio, directed by Gianfranco Rosi; and Nuclear, directed by Oliver Stone.
In Competition
WHITE NOISE – OPENING FILM
by NOAH BAUMBACH
with Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig, Don Cheadle, Raffey Cassidy, Sam Nivola, May Nivola, Jodie Turner-Smith, André L. Benjamin and Lars Eidinger/ USA / 136’
IL SIGNORE DELLE FORMICHE
by GIANNI AMELIO
with Luigi Lo Cascio, Elio Germano, Leonardo Maltese, Sara Serraiocco / Italy / 134’
THE WHALE
by DARREN ARONOFSKY
with Brendan Fraser, Sadie Sink, Hong Chau, Samantha Morton, Ty Simpkins / USA / 117’
L’IMMENSITÀ
by EMANUELE CRIALESE
with Penélope Cruz, Luana Giuliani, Vincenzo Amato, Patrizio Francioni / Italy, France / 97’
SAINT OMER
by ALICE DIOP
with Kayije Kagame, Guslagie Malanda, Valérie Dréville, Aurélia Petit / France / 122’
BLONDE
by ANDREW DOMINIK
with Ana de Armas, Adrien Brody, Bobby Cannavale, Xavier Samuel, Julianne Nicholson, Lily Fisher / USA / 165’
TÁR
by TODD FIELD
with Cate Blanchett, Noémie Merlant, Nina Hoss, Sophie Kauer, Julian Glover, Allan Corduner, Mark Strong / USA / 158’
LOVE LIFE
by KÔJI FUKADA
with Fumino Kimura, Kento Nagayama, Atom Sunada / Japan, France / 123’
BARDO, FALSA CRÓNICA DE UNAS CUANTAS VERDADES (BARDO, FALSE CHRONICLE OF A HANDFUL OF TRUTHS)
by ALEJANDRO G. IÑÁRRITU
with Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani, Ximena Lamadrid, Iker Sanchez Solano, Andrés Almeida, Francisco Rubio / Mexico
ATHENA
by ROMAIN GAVRAS
with Dali Benssalah, Sami Slimane, Anthony Bajon, Ouassini Embarek, Alexis Manenti / France / 97’
BONES AND ALL
by LUCA GUADAGNINO
with Taylor Russell, Timothée Chalamet, Mark Rylance, André Holland, Chloë Sevigny, Jessica Harper, David Gordon Green, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jake Horowitz / USA / 130’
THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER
by JOANNA HOGG
with Tilda Swinton, Joseph Mydell, Carly-Sophia Davies / UK, USA / 96’
SHAB, DAKHELI, DIVAR (BEYOND THE WALL)
by VAHID JALILVAND
with Navid Mohammadzadeh, Diana Habibi, Amir Aghaee / Iran / 126’
THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN
by MARTIN MCDONAGH
with Colin Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, Kerry Condon, Barry Keoghan / Ireland, UK, USA / 109’
ARGENTINA, 1985
by SANTIAGO MITRE
with Ricardo Darín, Peter Lanzani, Alejandra Flechner, Norman Briski / Argentina, USA / 140’
CHIARA
by SUSANNA NICCHIARELLI
with Margherita Mazzucco, Andrea Carpenzano, Carlotta Natoli, Paola Tiziana Cruciani, Luigi Lo Cascio / Italy, Belgium / 106’
MONICA
by ANDREA PALLAORO
with Trace Lysette, Patricia Clarkson, Adriana Barraza, Emily Browning, Joshua Close / USA, Italy / 106’
KHERS NIST (NO BEARS)
by JAFAR PANAHI
with Jafar Panahi, Naser Hashemi, Vahid Mobaseri, Bakhtiar Panjeei, Mina Kavani, Reza Heydari / Iran / 106’
ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED
by LAURA POITRAS
USA / 113’
UN COUPLE (A COUPLE)
by FREDERICK WISEMAN
with Nathalie Boutefeu / France, USA / 63’
THE SON
by FLORIAN ZELLER
with Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby, Zen McGrath, Anthony Hopkins, Hugh Quarshie / UK / 123’
LES MIENS (OUR TIES)
by ROSCHDY ZEM
with Sami Bouajila, Roschdy Zem, Meriem Serbah, Maïwenn, Rachid Bouchareb, Abel Jafrei, Nina Zem / France / 85’
LES ENFANTS DES AUTRES (OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDREN)
by REBECCA ZLOTOWSKI with Virginie Efira, Roschdy Zem, Chiara Mastroianni, Callie Ferreira / France / 104’
OUT OF COMPETITION
FICTION
THE HANGING SUN – CLOSING FILM
by FRANCESCO CARROZZINI
with Alessandro Borghi, Jessica Brown Findlay, Sam Spruell, Frederick Schmidt, Raphael Vicas, Peter Mullan, Charles Dance / Italy, UK / 93’
KAPAG WALA NANG MGA ALON (WHEN THE WAVES ARE GONE)
by LAV DIAZ
with John Lloyd Cruz, Ronnie Lazaro, Shamaine Centenera-Buencamino, Dms Boongaling / Philippines, France, Portugal, Denmark / 187’
LIVING
by OLIVER HERMANUS
with Bill Nighy, Aimee Lou Wood, Alex Sharp, Tom Burke / UK / 102’
DEAD FOR A DOLLAR
by WALTER HILL
with Christoph Waltz, Willem Dafoe, Rachel Brosnahan, Warren Burke, Benjamin Bratt / USA, Canada / 114’
KÕNE TAEVAST (CALL OF GOD)
by KIM KI-DUK
with Zhanel Sergazina, Abylai Maratov / Estonia, Kyrgyzstan, Latvia / 81’
DREAMIN’ WILD
by BILL POHLAD
with Casey Affleck, Noah Jupe, Zooey Deschanel, Chris Messina, Jack Dylan Grazer, Walton Goggins, Beau Bridges/ USA / 110’
MASTER GARDENER
by PAUL SCHRADER
with Joel Edgerton, Sigourney Weaver, Quintessa Swindell / USA / 107’
SICCITÁ
by PAOLO VIRZÌ
with Claudia Pandolfi, Silvio Orlando, Valerio Mastrandrea, Sara Serraiocco, Elena Lietti, Gabriel Montesi, Tommaso Ragno, Max Tortora, Monica Bellucci, Diego Ribon, Vinicio Marchioni, Emanuela Fanelli / Italy
PEARL
by TI WEST
with Mia Goth, David Corenswet, Tandi Wright, Matthew Sunderland, Emma Jenkins-Purro / USA / 102’
DON’T WORRY DARLING
by OLIVIA WILDE
with Florence Pugh, Harry Styles, Chris Pine, Olivia Wilde, KiKi Layne, Gemma Chan / USA / 122’
NON FICTION
FREEDOM ON FIRE: UKRAINE’S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM
by EVGENY AFINEEVSKY
Ukraine, UK, USA / 118’
THE MATCHMAKER
by BENEDETTA ARGENTIERI
Italy / 90’
GLI ULTIMI GIORNI DELL’UMANITÀ
by ENRICO GHEZZI, ALESSANDRO GAGLIARDO
Italy / 200’
A COMPASSIONATE SPY
by STEVE JAMES
USA / 101’
MUSIC FOR BLACK PIGEONS
by JØRGEN LETH, ANDREAS KOEFOED
Denmark / 90’
THE KIEV TRIAL
by SERGEI LOZNITSA
Netherlands, Ukraine / 106’
IN VIAGGIO
by GIANFRANCO ROSI
Italy / 80’
BOBI WINE GHETTO PRESIDENT
by CHRISTOPHER SHARP, MOSES BWAYO
Uganda, UK, USA / 121’
NUCLEAR
by OLIVER STONE
USA / 119’
OUT OF COMPETITION – SERIES
RIGET EXODUS (THE KINGDOM EXODUS) (EPISODES 1-5)
by LARS VON TRIER
with Bodil Jørgensen, Mikael Persbrandt, Tuva Novotny, Lars Mikkelsen, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Nicolas Bro, Alexander Skarsgård / Denmark / 291’
COPENHAGEN COWBOY (EPISODES 1-6)
by NICOLAS WINDING REFN
with Angela Bundalovic, Andreas Lykke Jorgensen, Li li Zhang, Zlatko Buric, Ramadan Huseini, Dragana Milutinovic / Denmark / 292’
OUT OF COMPETITION – SHORT FILMS
CAMARERA DE PISO (MAID)
by LUCRECIA MARTEL
with Jorgelina Contreras, Daniel Valenzuela, Anavelí Acero, Ariel Gigena / Argentina, Mexico / 11’
A GUERRA FINITA
by SIMONE MASSI
voice: Gino Strada / animation film / Italy / 4’
IN QUANTO A NOI
by SIMONE MASSI
voice: Wim Wenders / animation film / Italy / 5’
LOOK AT ME
by SALLY POTTER
with Javier Bardem, Chris Rock / UK, USA / 16’
ORIZZONTI
PRINCESS – OPENING FILM
by ROBERTO DE PAOLIS
with Glory Kevin, Lino Musella, Sandra Osagie, Salvatore Striano, Maurizio Lombardi / Italy / 111’
OBET’ (VICTIM)
by MICHAL BLAŠKO
with Vita Smachelyuk, Gleb Kuchuk, Igor Chmela, Viktor Zavadil, Inna Zhulina, Alena Mihulová / Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany / 91’
EN LOS MÁRGENES (ON THE FRINGE)
by JUAN DIEGO BOTTO
with Penélope Cruz, Luis Tosar / Spain, UK / 105’
TRENQUE LAUQUEN
by LAURA CITARELLA
with Laura Paredes, Ezequiel Pierri, Rafael Spregelburd, Elisa Carricajo, Juliana Muras, Verónica Llinás, Cecilia Rainero / Argentina, Germany / Part 1: 120′ / Part 2: 120′
VERA
by TIZZA COVI, RAINER FRIMMEL
with Vera Gemma, Daniel De Palma, Sebastian Dascalu, Annamaria Ciancamerla, Walter Saabel / Austria / 115’
INNOCENCE
by GUY DAVIDI
Denmark, Israel, Finland, Iceland / 100’
BLANQUITA
by FERNANDO GUZZONI
with Laura López, Alejandro Goic, Amparo Noguera, Marcelo Alonso, Daniela Ramírez, Ariel Grandón / Chile, Mexico / 94’
POUR LA FRANCE (FOR MY COUNTRY)
by RACHID HAMI
with Karim Leklou, Shaïn Boumedine, Lubna Azabal, Samir Guesmi, Laurent Lafitte, Vivian Sung / France, Taipei / 113’
ARU OTOKO (A MAN)
by KEI ISHIKAWA
with Satoshi Tsumabuki, Sakura Andô, Masataka Kubota, Nana Seino / Japan / 121’
CHLEB I SOL (BREAD AND SALT)
by DAMIAN KOCUR
with Tymoteusz Bies, Jacek Bies, Dawid Piejko,Nikola Raczko, Nadim Suleiman, Nadeem Shalave / Poland / 100’
LUXEMBOURG, LUXEMBOURG
by ANTONIO LUKICH
with Amil Nasirov, Ramil Nasirov, Lyudmyla Sachenko / Ukraine / 105’
TI MANGIO IL CUORE
by PIPPO MEZZAPESA
with Elodie, Francesco Patanè, Francesco Di Leva, Lidia Vitale, Brenno Placido, Tommaso Ragno, Michele Placido / Italy / 115’
SPRE NORD (TO THE NORTH)
by MIHAI MINCAN
with Soliman Cruz, Nikolai Becker, Bartholome Guingona, Emmanuel Sto. Domingo, Olivier Ho Hio Heen, Alexandre NGuyen / Romania, France, Greece, Bulgaria, Czech Republic / 122’
AUTOBIOGRAPHY
by MAKBUL MUBARAK
with Kevin Ardilova, Arswendy Bening Swara, Haru Sandra, Rukman Rosadi / Indonesia, France, Germany, Poland, Singapore, Philippines, Qatar/ 116’
LA SYNDICALISTE (THE SITTING DUCK)
by JEAN-PAUL SALOMÉ
with Isabelle Huppert, Grégory Gadebois, Marina Foïs, Yvan Attal, François-Xavier Demaison, Pierre Deladonchamps / France, Germany / 122’
JANG-E JAHANI SEVOM (WORLD WAR III)
by HOUMAN SEYIEDI
with Mohsen Tanabandeh, Neda Jebreili, Mahsa Hejazi, Navid Nosrati/ Iran / 117’
NAJSREЌNIOT ČOVEK NA SVETOT (THE HAPPIEST MAN IN THE WORLD)
by TEONA STRUGAR MITEVSKA
with Jelena Kordić Kuret, Adnan Omerović, Labina Mitevska, Ana Kostovska, Ksenija Marinković, Izudin Bajrović / North Macedonia, Bosnia Herzegovina, Belgium, Croatia, Denmark, Slovenia / 95’
A NOIVA (THE BRIDE)
by SÉRGIO TRÉFAUT
with Joana Bernardo, Lola Dueñas, Hugo Bentes / Portugal / 81’
ORIZZONTI – SHORT FILMS – IN COMPETITION
CHRISTOPHER AT SEA
by TOM CJ BROWN
Animazione / France, USA / 20’
MANUALE DI CINEMATOGRAFIA PER DILETTANTI – VOL. I
by FEDERICO DI CORATO
Italy / 20’
ALT PÅN EN GANG (EVERYTHING AT ONCE)
by HENRIK DYB ZWART
with Steinar Kloumann Hallert, Elisabeth Aschehoug, Sondre Larsen / Norway / 8’
TRIA – DEL SENTIMENTO DEL TRADIRE
by GIULIA GRANDINETTI
with Irene Casagrande, Anastasia Almo, Sofia Almo, Laura Giannatiempo / Italy / 17’
NOCOMODO
by LOLA HALIFA-LEGRAND
with Tissem Boukchem, Gaspard Caens, Bastien Bouillon, Esther Garrel / France / 13’
RUTUBET (THE MOISTURE)
by TURAN HASTE
with Mucahit Kocak, Okan Selvi, Muhammed Mayda, Baran Salman / Turkey / 20’
SNOW IN SEPTEMBER
by LKHAGVADULAM PUREV-OCHIR
with Sukhbat Munkhbaatar, Nomin Erdene Ariunbyamba, Enkhgerel Baasjanav, Odgerel Bat-Orshikh / France, Mongolia / 20’
QING BIE GUA DUAN (PLEASE HOLD THE LINE)
by TAN CE DING
with Kendra Sow, Puie Heng Chen, Billy Ng, Ruby Faye / Malaysia / 19’
THE FRUIT TREE
by ISABELLE TOLLENAERE
with Sharleece Bourne, Alexis Bolden / Belgium / 14’
III
by SALOMÉ VILLENEUVE
with Anne Florence Lavigne-Desjardins, Eliott Desjardins Gauthier, Alexandre Dupras / Canada / 12’
LOVE FOREVER
by CLARE YOUNG
with Hannah McKenzie, Beau Cram / Australia / 12’
SAHBETY (MY GIRLFRIEND)
by KAWTHAR YOUNIS
with Marc Haggar, Elham Safieddine, Fadel El Garhy, Sonia Farid / Egypt / 16’
ORIZZONTI EXTRA
L’ORIGINE DU MAL (ORIGIN OF EVIL) – OPENING FILM
by SÉBASTIEN MARNIER
with Laure Calamy, Doria Tillier, Jacques Weber, Dominique Blanc, Suzanne Clément, Céleste Brunnquell / France, Canada / 125’
HANGING GARDENS
by AHMED YASSIN AL DARADJI
with Wissam Diyaa, Jawad Al Shakarji, Hussain Muhammad Jalil, Akram Mazen Ali / Iraq, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, UK / 117’
AMANDA
by CAROLINA CAVALLI
with Benedetta Porcaroli, Galatéa Bellugi, Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Michele Bravi / Italy / 93’
ZAPATOS ROJOS (RED SHOES)
by CARLOS EICHELMANN KAISER
with Eustacio Ascacio, Natalia Solián / Mexico, Italy / 82’
NEZOUH
by SOUDADE KAADAN
with Hala Zein, Kinda Aloush, Nizar Alani, Samer Almasri / UK, Syria, France / 100’
NOTTE FANTASMA
by FULVIO RISULEO
with Edoardo Pesce, Yothin Clavenzani / Italy / 83’
BI ROYA (WITHOUT HER)
by ARIAN VAZIRDAFTARI
with Tannaz Tabatabaei, Saber Abar, Shadi Karamroudi, Reza Davoudnezhad, Maedeh Tahmasbi, Faranak Kalantar / Iran / 110’
VALERIA MITHATENET (VALERIA IS GETTING MARRIED)
by MICHAL VINIK
with Lena Fraifeld, Dasha Tvoronovich, Yaakov Zada Daniel, Avraham Shalom Levi / Israel, Ukraine / 76’
GOLIATH
by ADILKHAN YERZHANOV
with Berik Aytzhanov, Daniyar Alshinov, Dmitrij Chebotarev, Alexandra Revenko, Rabiya Abish, Yerken Gubashev / Kazakhstan, Russia / 92’
Biennale College – Cinema and Biennale College Cinema – Virtual Reality
Biennale College – Cinema
Four of the feature films which will be screened at the 79th Venice Film Festival have been selected, developed, and produced during the tenth edition (2021/2022) of Biennale College – Cinema, an advanced training laboratory, launched at the 2012 Venice Film Festival, which is open to filmmakers from all over the world for the production of low-budget films. The four films are:
COME LE TARTARUGHE [LIKE TURTLES]
by MONICA DUGO, producer: CINZIA RUTSON
with Monica Dugo, Romana Maggiora Vergano , Edoardo Boschetti, Francesco Gheghi, Angelo Libri, Sandra Collodel, Annalisa Insardà / Italy / 82‘
BANU
by TAHMINA RAFAELLA, producer: KATAYOON SHAHABI
with Tahmina Rafaella, Melek Abbaszadeh, Zaur Shafiyev, Jafar Hasan, Kabira Hashimli, Emin Asgarov / Azerbaijan, Italy, France, Iran / 90‘
GORNYI LUK (MOUNTAIN ONION)
by ELDAR SHIBANOV, producers: YULIYA LEVITSKAYA, DIAS SHIBANOV
with Esil Amantay, Amina Gaziyeva, Zhazira Kaskey, Kuantay Abdimadi, Laura Tursunkanova, Sanzhar Madi / Kazakhstan / 90‘
PALIMPSEST
by HANNA VÄSTINSALO, producer: CYRIL ABRAHAM
with Riitta Havukainen, Emma Kilpimaa, Krista Kosonen, Kaisu Mäkelä, Leo Sjöman, Antti Virmavirta / Finland / 109‘
Biennale College – Cinema, created by La Biennale di Venezia,is supported by the Ministry of Culture – Cinema Head Office. The sponsor of the initiative is the Multiversity Group, which operates the Pegaso Online University. Academic collaboration is provided to Biennale College – Cinema by The Gotham Film & Media Institute and TorinoFilmLab. The Director is Alberto Barbera andthe Head of Programme is Savina Neirotti.
Biennale College Cinema – Virtual Reality
The project, selected for the sixth edition (2021/2022) of Biennale College Cinema – Virtual Reality, which received a production grant of €60,000 from La Biennale di Venezia and which will be screened at the 79th Venice Film Festival (Venice Immersive) is:
ELELE
by SJOERD VAN ACKER, producers: FIRAT SEZGIN, ECEGÜL BAYRAM
Netherlands / 6’
produced with a grant from Biennale College Cinema VR, 6th edition (2021/2022)
The Biennale College Cinema – Virtual Reality projects have received generous funding from the MEDIA – Creative Europe Programme of the European Commission – General Direction Connect. This funding is in addition to the support received from the MEDIA Programme for the development of the Venice Production Bridge.
The same section will also feature two projects that participated in the development workshops offered by past editions of the programme, and were later produced independently:
MONO
by CHIARA TROISI, producers: FEDERICO LAGNA, ALICE DRAGO, MATTEO FRESI
Italy / 14’
developed during the Biennale College Cinema VR, , 4th edition (2019/2020)
CHROMA 11
by TSANG TSUI-SHAN, producers: KATTIE FAN, TERESA KWONG
Hong Kong SAR / 13’
developed during the Biennale College Cinema VR, 4th edition (2019/2020)
All the teams received support for everything involving the creative process, production, audiences of reference, and analysis of financial aspects.
The Venice Classics restored films
Director, screenwriter and actor Giulio Base (Crack, Il banchiere anarchico, A Starry Sky Above the Roman Ghetto) will chair the Jury of Film Students which will award the VENICE CLASSICS prizes for the respective competitions for BEST RESTORED FILM and for the BEST DOCUMENTARY ABOUT CINEMA. The following is the complete line-up of the restorations in the section Venice Classics, selected for the 79th Venice Film Festival:
VENICE CLASSICS
TERESA LA LADRA (TERESA THE THIEF)
by CARLO DI PALMA (Italy, 1973, 125’, colour)
restored by: Cineteca Nazionale
MES PETITES AMOUREUSES (MY LITTLE LOVES)
by JEAN EUSTACHE (France, 1974, 123’, colour)
restored by: Les Films du Losange
THE DRAUGHTSMAN’S CONTRACT
by PETER GREENAWAY (UK, 1982, 104’, colour)
restored by: BFI NATIONAL ARCHIVE
KAMIGAMI NO FUKAKI YOKUBO (PROFOUND DESIRES OF THE GODS)
by SHÔHEI IMAMURA (Japan, 1968, 173’, colour)
restored by: Nikkatsu
UCHO (THE EAR)
by KAREL KACHYNA (Czechoslovakia, 1969, 97’, B/W)
restored by: Národní Filmový Archiv / National Film Archive
BRATAN (THE LITTLE BROTHER)
by BAKHTYAR KHUDOJNAZAROV (USSR, 1991, 97’, B/W)
restored by: Veit Helmer-Filmproduktion
CAVALCADE
by FRANK LLOYD (USA, 1933, 112’, B/W)
restored by: The Film Foundation / Walt Disney Picture
THERESE AND ISABELLE
by RADLEY METZGER (France, USA, Germany, Netherlands, 1968, 119’, B/W)
restored by: NWR-Denmark / Cinema Preservation Alliance-U.S.
KAZE NO NAKA NO MENDORI (A HEN IN THE WIND)
by YASUJIRÔ OZU (Japan, 1948, 84’, B/W)
restored by: Shochiku
TEOREMA (THEOREM)
by PIER PAOLO PASOLINI (Italy, 1968, 98’, B/W)
restored by: Cineteca di Bologna
SHATRANJ KE KHILARI (THE CHESS PLAYERS)
by SATYAJIT RAY (India, 1977, 129’, colour)
restored by: The National Film Archive of India
LE CAPORAL ÉPINGLÉ (THE ELUSIVE CORPORAL)
by JEAN RENOIR (France, 1962, 107’, B/W)
restored by: StudioCanal
LA MARCIA SU ROMA (MARCH ON ROME)
by DINO RISI (Italy, 1962, 94’, B/W)
restored by: Cineteca Nazionale
LA VOGLIA MATTA (CRAZY DESIRE)
by LUCIANO SALCE (Italy, 1962, 110’, B/W)
restored by: Cineteca Nazionale
KOROSHI NO RAKUIN (BRANDED TO KILL)
by SEIJUN SUZUKI (Japan, 1967, 91’, B/W)
restored by: Nikkatsu
CANYON PASSAGE
by JACQUES TOURNEUR (USA, 1946, 92’, colour)
restored by: Universal Pictures / The Film Foundation
THE BLACK CAT
by EDGAR G. ULMER (USA, 1934, 65’, B/W)
restored by: Universal Pictures
DULI SHIDAI [A CONFUCIAN CONFUSION]
by EDWARD YANG (Taiwan, 1994, 128’, colour)
restored by: Taiwan Film and Audiovisual Institute
The Venice Classics section will also feature the presentation of a selection of documentaries about cinema and its filmmakers.
VENICE CLASSICS – DOCUMENTARIES ABOUT CINEMA
In Competition
RAGTAG
by GIUSEPPE BOCCASSINI
Germany, France, Italy / 84’
DESPERATE SOULS, DARK CITY AND THE LEGEND OF MIDNIGHT COWBOY
by NANCY BUIRSKI
USA / 101’
FRAGMENTS OF PARADISE
by K.D. DAVISON
USA / 97’
FRANCO ZEFFIRELLI, CONFORMISTA RIBELLE
by ANSELMA DELL’OLIO
Italy / 90’
JERRY SCHATZBERG, PORTRAIT PAYSAGE (JERRY SCHATZBERG, LANDSCAPE PORTRAIT)
by PIERRE FILMON
France / 46’
GODARD SEUL LE CINÉMA (GODARD CINEMA)
by CYRIL LEUTHY
France / 90’
THE GHOST OF RICHARD HARRIS
by ADRIAN SIBLEY
Irlanda, UK / 109’
BONNIE
by SIMON WALLON
USA / 90
SERGIO LEONE – L’ITALIANO CHE INVENTÒ L’AMERICA
by FRANCESCO ZIPPEL
Italy / 120’
Debut films competing for the Lion of the Future “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film
Venezia 78
SAINT OMER by ALICE DIOP (France)
Orizzonti
OBET’ (VICTIM) by MICHAL BLAŠKO (Slovakia, Czech Republic, Germany)
EN LOS MÁRGENES by JUAN DIEGO BOTTO (Spain, Belgium, Luxembourg, Netherlands, UK)
CHLEB I SÓL (BREAD AND SALT) by DAMIAN KOCUR (Poland)
SPRE NORD (TO THE NORTH) by MIHAI MINCAN (Romania, Czech Republic)
AUTOBIOGRAPHY by MAKBUL MUBARAK (Indonesia, France, Germany, PHILIPPINES, Poland, Qatar, Singapore)
Orizzonti Extra
HANGING GARDENS by AHMED YASSIN ALDARADJI (Iraq, Palestine, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Uk)
AMANDA by CAROLINA CAVALLI (Italy, France)
ZAPATOS ROJOS by CARLOS EICHELMANN KAISER (Mexico, Italy)
BI ROYA (WITHOUT HER) by ARIAN VAZIRDAFTARI (Iran)
Settimana Internazionale della Critica – SIC
DOGBORN by ISABELLA CARBONELL (Sweden)
ANHELL69 by THEO MONTOYA (Colombia)
TANT QUE LE SOLEIL FRAPPE (BEATING SUN) by PHILIPPE PETIT (France)
AUS MEINER HAUT (SKIN DEEP) by ALEX SCHAAD (Germany)
EISMAYER by DAVID WAGNER (Austria)
DA LI STE VIDELI OVU ŽENU? (HAVE YOU SEEN THIS WOMAN?) by DUŠAN ZORIĆ, MATIJA GLUSCEVIC (Serbia, Croatia)