Venice Film Festival unleashed a star studded lineup filled with films featuring Jude Law, Jurnee Smollett, Tye Sheridan, Nicole Kidman, Antonio Banderas, Sophie Wilde, and Caleb Landry Jones.
Films in competition for the prestigious Golden Lion include The Room Next Door by Pedro Almodóvar, with Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore, John Turturro; The Brutalist by Brady Corbet, with Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones; Queer by Luca Guadagnino, with Daniel Craig, Jason Schwartzman; Maria by Pablo Larraín, with Angelina Jolie; and Babygirl by Halina Reijn, with Nicole Kidman, Antonio Banderas.
The festival opens with the world premiere of Beetlejuice Beetlejuice by Tim Burton starring Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, Arthur Conti, Jenna Ortega, and Willem Dafoe.
The 81st edition of Venice Film Festival takes place from August 28 to September 7, 2024.
VENEZIA 81 In Competition
(in alphabetical order by director)
THE ROOM NEXT DOOR
by PEDRO ALMODÓVAR
with Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Alessandro Nivola, Juan Diego Botto, Raúl Arévalo, Victoria Luengo, Alex Hogh Andersen, Esther McGregor, Alvise Rigo, Melina Matthews / Spain / 110’
CAMPO DI BATTAGLIA (BATTLEGROUND)
by GIANNI AMELIO
with Alessandro Borghi, Gabriel Montesi, Federica Rosellini, Giovanni Scotti, Vincenzo Vivenzo, Alberto Cracco, Luca Lazzareschi, Maria Grazia Plos, Rita Bosello / Italy / 104’
LEURS ENFANTS APRÈS EUX (AND THEIR CHILDREN AFTER THEM)
by LUDOVIC BOUKHERMA, ZORAN BOUKHERMA
with Paul Kircher, Angélina Woreth, Sayyid El Alami, Gilles Lellouche, Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Memmi / France / 146’
THE BRUTALIST
by BRADY CORBET
with Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Isaach De Bankolé, Alessandro Nivola / UK / 215’
JOUER AVEC LE FEU (THE QUIET SON)
by DELPHINE COULIN, MURIEL COULIN
with Vincent Lindon, Benjamin Voisin, Stefan Crepon / France / 110’
VERMIGLIO
by MAURA DELPERO
with Tommaso Ragno, Giuseppe De Domenico, Roberta Rovelli, Martina Scrinzi, Orietta Notari, Carlotta Gamba, Santiago Fondevila Sancet, Rachele Potrich, Anna Thaler, Patrick Gardener, Enrico Panizza, Luis Thaler, Simone Benedetti, Sara Serraiocco / Italy, France, Belgium / 119’
IDDU (SICILIAN LETTERS)
by FABIO GRASSADONIA, ANTONIO PIAZZA
with Toni Servillo, Elio Germano, Daniela Marra, Barbora Bobulova, Giuseppe Tantillo, Fausto Russo Alesi, Antonia Truppo, Tommaso Ragno, Betti Pedrazzi, Filippo Luna, Rosario Palazzolo, Roberto De Francesco, Vincenzo Ferrera, Maurizio Marchetti, Gianluca Zaccaria, Lucio Patanè / Italy, France / 122’
QUEER
by LUCA GUADAGNINO
with Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, Lesley Manville, Michael Borremans, Andra Ursuta, David Lowery / Italy, USA / 151’
KJÆRLIGHET (LOVE)
by DAG JOHAN HAUGERUD
with Andrea Bræin Hovig, Tayo Cittadella Jacobsen, Marte Engebrigtsen, Lars Jacob Holm, Thomas Gullestad, Marian Saastad Ottesen, Morten Svartveit / Norway / 119’
APRIL
by DEA KULUMBEGASHVILI
with Ia Sukhitashvili, Kakha Kintsurashvili, Merab Ninidze / Georgia, France, Italy / 143’
THE ORDER
by JUSTIN KURZEL
with Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Jurnee Smollett, Tye Sheridan, Marc Maron / Canada / 120’
MARIA
by PABLO LARRAÍN
with Angelina Jolie, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Haluk Bilginer, Kodi Smit-McPhee / Italy, Germany / 124’
TROIS AMIES (THREE FRIENDS)
by EMMANUEL MOURET
with Camille Cottin, Sara Forestier, India Hair, Grégoire Ludig, Damien Bonnard, Vincent Macaigne / France / 117’
KILL THE JOCKEY
by LUIS ORTEGA
with Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Úrsula Corberó, Daniel Gimenez Cacho / Argentina, Spain / 96’
JOKER: FOLIE À DEUX
by TODD PHILLIPS
with Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Zazie Beetz / USA / 138’
BABYGIRL
by HALINA REIJN
with Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas, Sophie Wilde, Esther McGregor / USA / 114’
AINDA ESTOU AQUI (I’M STILL HERE)
by WALTER SALLES
with Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello, Fernanda Montenegro / Brazil, France / 135’
DIVA FUTURA
by GIULIA LOUISE STEIGERWALT
with Pietro Castellitto, Barbara Ronchi, Denise Capezza, Tesa Litvan, Lidija Kordić / Italy / 120’
HARVEST
by ATHINA RACHEL TSANGARI
with Caleb Landry Jones, Harry Melling, Rosy McEwen, Arinzé Kene, Thalissa Teixeira, Frank Dillane / UK, Germany, Greece, France, USA / 131’
QING CHUN GUI (YOUTH – HOMECOMING)
by WANG BING
Documentary / France, Luxembourg, The Netherlands / 152’
STRANGER EYES
by YEO SIEW HUA
with Chien-Ho Wu, Kang-Sheng Lee, Anicca Panna, Vera Chen, Pete Teo, Xenia Tan, Maryanne Ng-Yew / Singapore, Taipei, France, USA / 125’
VENEZIA 81 OUT OF COMPETITION
(in alphabetical order by director)
FICTION
BEETLEJUICE BEETLEJUICE – OPENING FILM
by TIM BURTON
with Michael Keaton, Winona Ryder, Catherine O’Hara, Justin Theroux, Monica Bellucci, Arthur Conti, Jenna Ortega, Willem Dafoe / USA, UK / 104’
L’ORTO AMERICANO (THE AMERICAN BACKYARD) – CLOSING FILM
by PUPI AVATI
with Filippo Scotti, Rita Tushingham, Chiara Caselli, Roberto De Francesco, Armando De Ceccon, Morena Gentile, Mildred Gustafsson / Italy / 107’
IL TEMPO CHE CI VUOLE
by FRANCESCA COMENCINI
with Fabrizio Gifuni, Romana Maggiora Vergano, Anna Mangiocavallo / Italy, France / 110’
PHANTOSMIA
by LAV DIAZ
with Ronnie Lazaro, Janine Gutierrez, Paul Jake Paule, Hazel Orencio / Philippines / 245’
MALDOROR
by FABRICE DU WELZ
with Anthony Bajon, Alba Gaïa Bellugi, Alexis Manenti, Sergi López, Laurent Lucas, David Murgia, Béatrice Dalle, Lubna Azabal, Jackie Berroyer, Mélanie Doutey, Félix Maritaud / Belgium, France / 155’
BROKEN RAGE
by TAKESHI KITANO
with Beat Takeshi, Tadanobu Asano, Nao Ômori / Japan / 62’
BABY INVASION
by HARMONY KORINE
USA / 80’
CLOUD
by KUROSAWA KIYOSHI
with Masaki Suda, Kotone Furukawa, Masataka Kubota / Japan / 123’
FINALEMENT (FINALLY)
by CLAUDE LELOUCH
with Kad Merad, Elsa Zylberstain, Michel Boujenah, Sandrine Bonnaire, Barbara Pravi, Françoise Gillard / France / 127’
WOLFS
by JON WATTS
with Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Amy Ryan, Austin Abrams, Poorna Jagannathan, Zlatko Burić, Richard Kind / USA / 108’
SE POSSO PERMETTERMI CAPITOLO II
by MARCO BELLOCCHIO
with Fausto Russo Alesi, Barbara Ronchi, Rocco Papaleo, Giorgia Fasce, Filippo Timi, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Fabrizio Gifuni, Edoardo Leo / Italy / 20’
ALLÉGORIE CITADINE (AN URBAN ALLEGORY)
by ALICE ROHRWACHER, JR
with Lyna Khoudri, Naïm El Kaldaoui, Leos Carax / France / 21’
NON FICTION
APOCALIPSE NOS TRÓPICOS (APOCALYPSE IN THE TROPICS)
by PETRA COSTA
Brazil / 110’
BESTIARI, ERBARI, LAPIDARI (BESTIARIES, HERBARIA, LAPIDARIES)
by MASSIMO D’ANOLFI, MARTINA PARENTI
Italy, Switzerland / 205’
WHY WAR
by AMOS GITAI
with Irène Jacob, Mathieu Amalric, Micha Lescot, Jerome Kircher, Yael Abecassis / Israel, France / 90’
2073
by ASIF KAPADIA
with Samantha Morton, Naomi Ackie, Hector Hewer / UK / 85’
ONE TO ONE: JOHN & YOKO
by KEVIN MACDONALD, SAM RICE-EDWARDS
UK / 100’
SEPARATED
by ERROL MORRIS
USA, Mexico / 93’
ISRAEL PALESTINA PÅ SVENSK TV 1958-1989 (ISRAEL PALESTINE ON SWEDISH TV 1958-1989)
by GÖRAN HUGO OLSSON
Sweden, Finland, Denmark / 202’
RUSSIANS AT WAR
by ANASTASIA TROFIMOVA
France, Canada / 129’
TWST / THINGS WE SAID TODAY
by ANDREI UJICĂ
France, Romania / 91’
RIEFENSTAHL
by ANDRES VEIEL
Germany / 116’
PISNI ZEMLI, SHCHO POVILNO (SONGS OF SLOW BURNING EARTH)
by OLHA ZHURBA
Ukraine, Denmark, Sweden / 95’
OUT OF COMPETITION – SERIES
DISCLAIMER (CHAPTERS 1 – 7)
by ALFONSO CUARÓN
with Cate Blanchett, Kevin Kline, Sacha Baron Cohen, Lesley Manville, Louis Partridge, Leila George, Indira Varma, Kodi Smit-McPhee / UK, USA / 343’
LOS AÑOS NUEVOS (THE NEW YEARS) (EP. 1 – 10)
by RODRIGO SOROGOYEN DEL AMO, SANDRA ROMERO, DAVID MARTÍN DE LOS SANTOS
with Iria del Río, Francesco Carril / Spain / 448’
FAMILIER SOM VORES (FAMILIES LIKE OURS) (EP. 1 – 7)
by THOMAS VINTERBERG
with Amaryllis August, Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt, Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Paprika Steen, Helene Reingaard Neumann, Magnus Millang, Esben Smed, David Dencik, Thomas Bo Larsen, Asta Kamma August / Denmark, France, Sweden, Czech Republic, Belgium, Norwey, Germany / 345’
M – IL FIGLIO DEL SECOLO (M – SON OF THE CENTURY) (EP. 1 – 8)
by JOE WRIGHT
with Luca Marinelli, Francesco Russo, Barbara Chichiarelli, Benedetta Cimatti, Lorenzo Zurzolo, Gaetano Bruno, Paolo Pierobon, Vincenzo Nemolato / Italy, France / 412’
OUT OF COMPETITION – SPECIAL SCREENINGS
LEOPARDI. THE POET OF THE INFINITY (PART 1 & 2)
by SERGIO RUBINI
with Leonardo Maltese, Cristiano Caccamo, Giusy Buscemi, Valentina Cervi, Fausto Russo Alesi, Bruno Orlando, Serena Iansiti, Maria Vittoria Dallasta, Andrea Pennacchi, Roberta Lista, Alessandro Preziosi, Alessio Boni / Italy / 245’
MASTER AND COMMANDER: THE FAR SIDE OF THE WORLD (2003)
by PETER WEIR
with Russell Crowe, Paul Bettany, James D’Arcy / USA / 138’
BEAUTY IS NOT A SIN
by NICOLAS WINDING REFN
with Laura Grassi, Stefano Gaeta / Italy, Denmark / 7’
ORIZZONTI
NONOSTANTE – OPENING FILM
by VALERIO MASTANDREA
with Valerio Mastandrea, Dolores Fonzi, Lino Musella, Giorgio Montanini, Justin Alexandre Korovkin, Barbara Ronchi, Luca Lionello, Laura Morante / Italy / 93’
QUIET LIFE
by ALEXANDROS AVRANAS
with Chulpan Khamatova, Grigory Dobrygin, Naomi Lamp, Miroslava Pashutina, Eleni Roussinou / France, Germany, Sweden, Greece, Estonia, Finland / 99’
MON INSÉPARABLE (MY EVERYTHING)
by ANNE-SOPHIE BAILLY
with Laure Calamy, Charles Peccia Galletto, Julie Froger / France / 95’
AÏCHA
by MEHDI BARSAOUI
with Fatma Sfar, Nidhal Saadi, Yasmine Dimassi, Hela Ayed / Tunisia, France, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Qatar / 123’
YIN’ĀD ‘ALĪKU (HAPPY HOLIDAYS)
by SCANDAR COPTI
with Manar Shehab, Wafaa Aoun, Toufic Danial, Meirav Memoresky / Palestine, France, Germany, Italy, Qatar / 120’
FAMILIA
by FRANCESCO COSTABILE
with Francesco Gheghi, Barbara Ronchi, Francesco Di Leva, Marco Cicalese, Francesco De Lucia, Stefano Valentini / Italy / 120’
HEMME NIN ÖLDÜĞÜ GÜNLERDEN BIRI (ONE OF THOSE DAYS WHEN HEMME DIES)
by MURAT FIRATOĞLU
with Salih Taşçı, Murat Fıratoğlu, Sefer Fıratoğlu, Güneş Sayın, Ali Barkın Birkan, Fırat Bozan, Çetin Fıratoğlu / Turkey / 83’
FAMILIAR TOUCH
by SARAH FRIEDLAND
with Kathleen Chalfant, Carolyn Michelle, Andy McQueen, H. Jon Benjamin / USA / 90’
MARCO
by JON GARAÑO, AITOR ARREGI
with Eduard Fernández, Nathalie Poza / Spain / 108’
CARISSA
by JASON JACOBS, DEVON DELMAR
with Gretchen Ramsden, Wilhelmiena Hesselman, Hendrik Kriel, Elton Landrew / South Africa / 88’
WISHING ON A STAR
by PÉTER KEREKES
Documentary / Italy, Croatia, Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic / 99’
MISTRESS DISPELLER
by ELIZABETH LO
Documentary / China, USA / 94’
ANUL NOU CARE N-A FOST (THE NEW YEAR THAT NEVER CAME)
by BOGDAN MUREŞANU
with Adrian Vancica, Iulian Postelnicu, Emilia Dobrin, Nicoleta Hancu, Andrei Miercure / Romania, Serbia / 138’
POOJA, SIR
by DEEPAK RAUNIYAR
with Asha Magrati, Nikita Chandak, Dayahang Rai, Reecha Sharma, Bijay Baral, Gaumaya Gurung, Aarti Karna, Ghanashyam Mishra, Prameshwar Kumar Jha, Pashupati Rai, Niraj Shrestha / Nepal, USA, Norway / 115’
AL KLAVIM VEANASHIM (OF DOGS AND MEN)
by DANI ROSENBERG
with Ori Avinoam, Natan Bahat, Nora Lifshitz, Yamit Avital / Israel, Italy / 82’
PAVEMENTS
by ALEX ROSS PERRY
with Joe Keery, Jason Schwartzman, Nat Wolff, Fred Hechinger, Logan Miller, Griffin Newman, Tim Heidecker, Michael Esper, Zoe Lister-Jones, Kathryn Gallagher / USA / 128’
HAPPYEND
by NEO SORA
with Hayato Kurihara, HIDAKA, Yuta Hayashi, Shina Peng, Arazi, Kilala Inori, PUSHIM, Ayumu Nakajima, Makiko Watanabe / Japan, USA / 112’
L’ATTACHEMENT (THE TIES THAT BIND US)
by CARINE TARDIEU
with Pio Marmaï, Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Vimala Pons, Raphaël Quenard, César Botti / France, Belgium / 106’
DICIANNOVE (NINETEEN)
by GIOVANNI TORTORICI
with Manfredi Marini, Vittoria Planeta, Dana Giuliano, Zackari Delmas, Luca Lazzareschi, Sergio Benvenuto / Italy, UK / 109’
ORIZZONTI – SHORT FILMS
NEREDEYSE KESİNLİKLE YANLIŞ (ALMOST CERTAINLY FALSE)
by CANSU BAYDAR
with Rahaf Armanazi, İsa Karataş, Ferhat Akgün, Büşra Albayrak, Ubey Gül / Turkey / 20’
SHADOWS
by RAND BEIRUTY
Animation / France, Giordania / 12’
IL BURATTINO E LA BALENA
by ROBERTO CATANI
Animation / France, Italy / 8’
DUYAO MAO (THE POISON CAT)
by TIAN GUAN
with Liguo Yuan, Yanxi Li / China / 17’
NIME BAZ, NIME BASTEH (AJAR)
by ATEFEH JALALI
with Ebrahim Azizi, Masoomeh Iranshahi / Iran / 12’
THREE KEENINGS
by OLIVER MCGOLDRICK
with Seamus O’Hara, Sean Kearns, Carol Moore, Caitriona Hinds, Niall Cusack, Olivia Nash, Aidan McCaughey, Colin Carnegie, Conor O’Donnell / UK, Ireland, USA / 10’
MINHA MÃE É UMA VACA (MY MOTHER IS A COW)
by MOARA PASSONI
with Luísa Bastos, Helena Albergaria, Amorosa No, Ana Carolina Guztazazky, Claudio Rodrigues da Silva / Brazil / 15’
RENÉ VA ALLA GUERRA (RENÉ GOES TO WAR)
by MARIACHIARA PERNISA, LUCA FERRI, MORGAN MENEGAZZO
with René Mlinar, Anka Mlinar, Andrej Mlinar / Italy, Slovenia / 18’
JAMES
by ANDRES RODRÍGUEZ
with James Maldonado, Jose Poz, Erick Maldonado / Guatemala, Mexico / 20’
O
by RÚNAR RÚNARSSON
with Ingvar E. Sigurðsson / Iceland, Sweden / 20’
WHO LOVES THE SUN
by ARSHIA SHAKIBA
Documentary / Canada / 19’
MOON LAKE
by JEANNIE SUI WONDERS
with Grace Hunt Sui, Chase Sui Wonders, Riley Downey, Valeria Embarcadero Perez, Daphne Williams, Sophie Watson / USA / 12’
MARION
by JOE WEILAND, CONSTANTINE FINN
with Caroline Noguès-Larbère, Radouan Leflahi, Laurent Fernandez, Manuel Severi, Chloé Bugard / UK, France, Serbia / 13’
ORIZZONTI – SHORT FILMS – OUT OF COMPETITION
F II – LO STUPORE DEL MONDO
by ALESSANDRO RAK
with Massimiliano Gallo, Alessandro Rak, Gianmaria Fresa / Italy / 6’
ORIZZONTI EXTRA
SEPTEMBER 5 – OPENING FILM
by TIM FEHLBAUM
with Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro, Ben Chaplin, Leonie Benesch / Germany / 90’
VITTORIA
by ALESSANDRO CASSIGOLI, CASEY KAUFFMAN
With Marilena Amato, Gennaro Scarica, Vincenzo Scarica, Anna Amato, Nina Lorenza Ciano / Italy / 89’
LE MOHICAN (THE MOHICAN)
by FRÉDÉRIC FARRUCCI
with Alexis Manenti, Mara Taquin / France / 87’
AL BAHS AN MANFAZ I KHOROUG AL SAYED RAMBO (SEEKING HAVEN FOR MR. RAMBO)
by KHALED MANSOUR
with Essam Omar, Rakeen Saad, Ahmed Bahaa, Sama Ibrahim / Egypt, Saudi Arabia / 100’
LA STORIA DEL FRANK E DELLA NINA
by PAOLA RANDI
with Gabriele Monti, Ludovica Nasti, Samuele Teneggi, Bruno Bozzetto, Dave Giuseppe Seke, Anna Ferzetti / Italy, Switzerland / 105’
SHAHED (THE WITNESS)
by NADER SAEIVAR
with Maryam Bobani, Nader Naderpour, Hana Kamkar, Abbas Imani, Ghazal Shojaei / Germany, Austria / 100’
AFTER PARTY
by VOJTĚCH STRAKATÝ
with Eliška Bašusová, Anna Tomanová, Jan Zadražil / Czech Republic / 89’
EDGE OF NIGHT
by TÜRKER SÜER
with Ahmet Rıfat Şungar, Berk Hakman / Germany, Turkey / 85’
KING IVORY
by JOHN SWAB
with Ben Foster, James Badge Dale, Michael Mando, Melissa Leo, Graham Greene, Rory Cochrane, Ritchie Coster, George Carroll / USA / 130’
VENICE CLASSICS
LA NOTTE (THE NIGHT)
by MICHELANGELO ANTONIONI (Italy / France, 1961, 125’, B/W)
restored by: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Cineteca Nazionale / Compass Film
THE MAHABHARATA
by PETER BROOK (France / UK / USA, 1989, 173’, Colour)
restored by: Brook Productions
JEUX INTERDITS (FORBIDDEN GAMES)
by RENÉ CLÉMENT (France, 1952, 102’, B/W)
restored by: StudioCanal
L’ORO DI NAPOLI (THE GOLD OF NAPLES)
by VITTORIO DE SICA (Italy, 1954, 137’, B/W)
restored by: Cinecittà / Filmauro
HIS GIRL FRIDAY
by HOWARD HAWKS (USA, 1940, 92’, B/W)
restored by: Sony Pictures Entertainment
GHATASHRADDHA (THE RITUAL)
by GIRISH KASARAVALLI (India, 1977, 108’, B/W)
restored by: The Film Foundation World Cinema / Film Heritage Foundation
THE BIG HEAT
by FRITZ LANG (USA, 1953, 90’, B/W)
restored by: Sony Pictures Entertainment
BLOOD AND SAND
by ROUBEN MAMOULIAN (USA, 1941, 125’, Colour)
restored by: Walt Disney Studios / The Film Foundation
BEND OF THE RIVER
by ANTHONY MANN (USA, 1952, 91’, Colour)
restored by: Universal Pictures / The Film Foundation
MANJI (ALL MIXED UP)
by YASUZÔ MASUMURA (Japan, 1964, 90’, Colour)
restored by: Kadokawa Corporation
ECCE BOMBO
by NANNI MORETTI (Italy, 1978, 104’, Colour)
restored by: Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia – Cineteca Nazionale / Sacher Film
TÔKYÔ SENSÔ SENGO HIWA – EIGA DE ISHO WO NOKOSHITE SHINDA (THE MAN WHO LEFT HIS WILL ON FILM)
by NAGISA ÔSHIMA (Japan, 1970, 94’, B/W)
restored by: Oshima Productions LTD
A HORA E VEZ DE AUGUSTO MATRAGA (THE TIME AND THE CHANGE OF AUGUSTO MATRAGA)
by ROBERTO SANTOS (Brazil, 1965, 114’, B/W)
restored by: LC Barreto Produções Cinematográficas
LES FLOCONS D’OR (GOLDFLAKES)
by WERNER SCHROETER (Germany / France, 1976, 163’, Colour)
restored by: Filmmuseum Düsseldorf / Filmmuseum München
LA PEAU DOUCE (SOFT SKIN)
by FRANÇOIS TRUFFAUT (France, 1964, 117’, B/W)
restored by: mk2 Films
TRAVOLTI DA UN INSOLITO DESTINO NELL’AZZURRO MARE D’AGOSTO (SWEPT AWAY BY AN UNUSUAL DESTINY IN THE BLUE SEA OF AUGUST)
by LINA WERTMÜLLER (Italy, 1974, 114’, Colour)
restored by: Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna / Minerva Pictures
PUSHER
by NICOLAS WINDING REFN (Denmark, 1996, 109’, Colour)
restored by: byNWR
MODEL
by FREDERICK WISEMAN (USA, 1980, 129’, B/W)
restored by: Zipporah Films
VENICE CLASSICS – DOCUMENTARIES ABOUT CINEMA
In Competition
MIYAZAKI, L’ESPRIT DE LA NATURE (MIYAZAKI, SPIRIT OF NATURE)
by LEO FAVIER
France / 84’
I WILL REVENGE THIS WORLD WITH LOVE S. PARADJANOV
by ZARA JIAN
Armenia, France / 105’
LE CINÉMA DE JEAN-PIERRE LÉAUD
by CYRIL LEUTHY
France / 64’
VENICE IMMERSIVE
In Competition
MAMIE LOU
by ISABELLE ANDREANI
France, Luxembourg / 25’ / virtual reality
MAMMARY MOUNTAIN
by TARA BAOTH MOONEY, CAMILLE C. BAKER, MAF’J ALVAREZ
UK, Ireland / 23’ / installation, haptic, virtual reality
UNE EAU LA NUIT (BODIES OF WATER)
by CHÉLANIE BEAUDIN-QUINTIN, CAROLINE LAURIN-BEAUCAGE
Canada / 10’ / virtual reality
UNCANNY ALLEY: A NEW DAY
by STEPHEN BUTCHKO, RICK TREWEEK
USA, South Africa / 75’ / world, virtual reality, immersive theatre
IN THE REALM OF RIPLEY
by SOO EUNG CHUCK CHAE, EUN JUNG CHAE
South Korea / 50’ / installation, virtual reality, interactive film
FREE UR HEAD
by TUNG-YEN CHOU
Taipei / 30’ / installation, virtual reality, live performance
PROJECT: LOST WORLDS
by FINS
USA / 60’ / world, virtual reality
THE ART OF CHANGE
by SIMONE FOUGNIER, VINCENT ROOIJERS
Italy, The Netherlands, USA / 10’ / virtual reality
OTO’S PLANET
by GWENAEL FRANÇOIS
Luxembourg, Canada, France / 28’ / virtual reality
UN SOIR AVEC LES IMPRESSIONNISTES, PARIS 1874
by PIERRE GABLE
France / 42’ / installation, virtual reality
CECI EST MON CŒUR
by STÉPHANE HUEBER-BLIES, NICOLAS BLIES
Luxembourg, Canada, France / 35’ / installation, haptic, projection
PUDICA
by KEISUKE ITOH
Japan / 15’ / installation, mixed reality
ADDRESS UNKNOWN: FUKUSHIMA NOW
by ARIF KHAN
Japan, USA, Taipei / 25’ / virtual reality
THE GUARDIANS OF JADE MOUNTAIN
by HAYOUN KWON
France, Taipei / 18’ / installation, virtual reality
ITO MEIKYU
by BORIS LABBÉ
France, Luxembourg / 15’ / virtual reality
STRANGEWAYS
by ADAM LIEBER, CHRIS BIANCHI
UK, South Africa, Malta / 30’ / world, virtual reality
FRAGILE HOME
by ONDŘEJ MORAVEC, VICTORIA LOPUKHINA
Czech Republic / 30’ / installation, mixed reality
IMPULSE: PLAYING WITH REALITY
by BARRY GENE MURPHY, MAY ABDALLA
UK, France / 35’ / installation, mixed reality
ŽAISTI GYVENIMĄ (PLAY LIFE)
by ZILVINAS NAUJOKAS, VILIUS PETRAUSKAS, MANTAS PRONCKUS, DONATAS ULVYDAS, ALGIS KRISCIUNAS, DARIUS ZICKUS
Lithuania / 26’ / virtual reality
RENCONTRES
by MATHIEU PRADAT
France, Taipei / 50’ / installation, virtual reality
A SIMPLE SILENCE
by CRAIG QUINTERO
Taipei / 12’ / virtual reality
PROJECT_Y: WORKING TITLE
by YUZO SUGANO, SHINGO YOSHIMURA, TOSHIKI SAKAMOTO, TARO HIRAI
Japan / 90’ / virtual reality
MOBILE SUIT GUNDAM: SILVER PHANTOM
by KENICHI SUZUKI
Japan, France, USA / 90’ / virtual reality
SYMBIOSIS/\DYSBIOSIS: SENTIENCE
by TOSCA TERÁN, BRENDAN LEHMAN, ANDREI GRAVELLE, SVEN STEFFENS
Canada, Germany, Chile / 90’ / installation, virtual reality, live performance
CHAMP DE BATAILLE
by FRANÇOIS VAUTIER
France, Belgium, Luxembourg / 21’ / virtual reality
ALL I KNOW ABOUT TEACHER LI
by ZHUZMO
USA / 20’ / virtual reality
Out of Competition
(international selection of the best works that have been released or premiered elsewhere since the last edition of the Venice International Film Festival)
Best of Experiences
TURBULENCE: JAMAIS VU
by BEN JOSEPH ANDREWS, EMMA ROBERTS
Australia / 10’ / installation, virtual reality
WHAT IF…? – AN IMMERSIVE STORY
by DAVE BUSHORE
USA / 50’ / mixed reality
40 DIAS SEM O SOL (40 DAYS WITHOUT THE SUN)
by JOAO FURIA
Brazil / 15’ / virtual reality
NIGHTMARA: EPISODE 3
by GIANPAOLO GONZALEZ
USA / 14’ / virtual reality
ASTRA
by ELIZA MCNITT
France, USA / 60’ / mixed reality
ADVENTURE
by CHARLOTTE MIKKELBORG, ELLIOT GRAVES
UK / 25’ / virtual reality
RIVEN
by RAND MILLER, RICHARD WENDE, HANNAH GAMIEL, ERIC ANDERSON, TONY FRYMAN
USA / 45’ / virtual reality
MUSEUM ALIVE IMMERSIVE WITH DAVID ATTENBOROUGH
by BHAUMIK PATEL
UK / 10’/ mixed reality
TELOS I
by EMIL DAM SEIDEL, DOROTEA SAYKALY
Canada, Sweden, Denmark, UK / 23’/ installation
THE 7TH GUEST VR
by PAUL VAN DER MEER
The Netherlands / virtual reality
Best of Worlds
․⁄ COMPLICATION by Ende
CHROMATIC FREQUENCY by Axinovium
CONCRETE – PALE SANDS by May ~ and jerk．
ECCENTRIC ROOMS by suzuki_i
ENDLESS RESIDENTS SUPER ULTRA DELUXE EDITION by Spencer Filson
EXOPLANET JOURNEY by Niko
FINISHING TOUCH – ART STUDIO ＆ GALLERY by Mixieǃ
LIKE A CANVAS by haruki_haru
LIMINAL DREAMS˸ THE POOLROOMS by ∗Lotus∗
MAGIC AI-ART˸ DIMENSIONS by Niko∗
MAGNETIZE by Juice…and DeltaNeverUsed
MORMOVERSE˸ UNDER THE PILLOW by GeorgyMolodtsov
OVERVIEW EFFECT EXPERIENCE by THE SHUSHU
PHATTA by Sumeru
POLYRHYTHM by SkyeSage
SANCTUM by Muzz, ju.no
SMEW BRUSHǃ by Smew
SNR Labs: Test Facility by A://DDOS
SUKU by durk＠work
VRC MUSEUM by Ectique
Biennale College Cinema – Immersive – Out of Competition
EARTHS TO COME
by ROSE BOND producer: MELANIE COOMBS
USA / 13’ / installation, virtual reality
Developed during Biennale College Cinema Immersive, 8th edition (2023/2024)
DUCHAMPIANA
by LILIAN HESS producer: SARAH ARNAUD, KATHRIN BRUNNER, OLIVER CZESLIK
France, Germany / 10’ / installation, virtual reality
Developed during Biennale College Cinema VR, 5th edition (2020/2021)
GARDEN ALCHEMY
by MICHELLE KRANOT, URI KRANOT producer: URI KRANOT, PETER FISHER, SIMON LAJBOSCHITZ
Denmark / 45’ / installation, virtual reality
Developed during Biennale College Cinema VR, 7th edition (2022/2023)
CHUNG-NAN-PAN-TAO WEI-CHIH-MOU-CHU (SOMEWHERE UNKNOWN IN INDOCHINA)
by ASIO CHIHSIUNG LIU, FENG TING TSOU producer: FENG TING TSOU, ASIO CHIHSIUNG LIU
Taipei, Belgium, Canada, Vietnam, Cambodia / 38’ / virtual reality
Developed during Biennale College Cinema VR, 6th edition (2021/2022)
BELOW DECK
by MARTINA MAHLKNECHT, MARTIN PRINOTH producer: MARTINA MAHLKNECHT, MARTIN PRINOTH
Germany, Italy / 23’ / installation, virtual reality
Developed during Biennale College Cinema VR, 7th edition (2022/2023)
THE GOSSIPS’ CHRONICLES
by CORINNE MAZZOLI producer: MARTA BIANCHI
Italy / 30’/ installation, mixed reality
Produced with the grant from Biennale College Cinema Immersive, 8th edition (2023/2024)
ECHOS OF ASH VALLEY
by SHU ZHU producer: SULTAN PIRZHAN, JONATHAN WARNER, ZEMO ZHENG
USA / 17’ / installation, virtual reality
Developed during Biennale College Cinema Immersive, 8th edition (2023/2024)
Biennale College – Cinema e
Biennale College Cinema – Immersive
Biennale College – Cinema
Four of the feature films which will be screened at the 81st Venice Film Festival have been selected, developed, and produced during the twelfth edition (2023/2024) 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 three micro-budget feature films have been realized with a production grant of €200.000 each by La Biennale di Venezia. The four films are:
IL MIO COMPLEANNO (MY BIRTHDAY)
by CHRISTIAN FILIPPI, producer: LEONARDO BARALDI
with Zackari Delmas, Silvia D’Amico, Giulia Galassi, Simone Liberati, Federico Pacifici, Nicolò Medori, Carlo De Ruggieri / Italy / 90’
MEDOVYI MISIATS (HONEYMOON)
by ZHANNA OZIRNA, producer: DMYTRO SUKHANOV
with Ira Nirsha, Roman Lutskyi / Ukraine / 84’
JANUÁR 2 (JANUARY 2)
by ZSÓFIA SZILÁGYI, producers: DÓRA CSERNÁTONY, LILI HORVÁT
with Csenge Jóvári, Zsuzsanna Konrád / Hungary / 86’
THE FISHERMAN
by ZOEY MARTINSON, producers: KOFI OWUSU AFRIYIE, KOREY JACKSON
with Ricky Adelayitar, Endurance Dedzo, William Lamptey, Kiki Romi, Dulo Harris / Ghana / 105’
Biennale College Cinema, organized by La Biennale di Venezia, is supported by the Ministry of Culture – General Directorate Cinema. The main sponsor of the initiative is Vivendi. Biennale College Cinema si avvale della collaborazione accademica di Gotham Film & Media Institute e del TorinoFilmLab. Biennale College Cinema relies on the academic collaboration of the Gotham Film & Media Institute and the TorinoFilmLab. The educational activities are made possible by the Creative Europe – Media programme. The Director is Alberto Barbera, Head of Programme is Savina Neirotti.
Biennale College Cinema – Immersive
The project, selected for the eighth edition (2023/2024) of Biennale College Cinema – Immersive, which received a production grant of €75,000 from La Biennale di Venezia and which will be screened at the 81st Venice Film Festival (Venice Immersive) is:
THE GOSSIPS’ CHRONICLES
by CORINNE MAZZOLI producer: MARTA BIANCHI
Italy / 30’/ installation, mixed reality
Biennale College Cinema – Immersive is supported by the Ministry of Culture. The Biennale College Cinema – Immersive 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 five projects that participated in the development workshops offered by past editions of the programme, and were later produced independently:
EARTHS TO COME
by ROSE BOND producer: MELANIE COOMBS
USA / 13’ / installation, virtual reality
Developed during Biennale College Cinema Immersive, 8th edition (2023/2024)
DUCHAMPIANA
by LILIAN HESS producer: SARAH ARNAUD, KATHRIN BRUNNER, OLIVER CZESLIK
France, Germany / 10’ / installation, virtual reality
Developed during Biennale College Cinema VR, 5th edition (2020/2021)
GARDEN ALCHEMY
by MICHELLE KRANOT, URI KRANOT producer: URI KRANOT, PETER FISHER, SIMON LAJBOSCHITZ
Denmark / 45’ / installation, virtual reality
Developed during Biennale College Cinema VR, 7th edition (2022/2023)
CHUNG-NAN-PAN-TAO WEI-CHIH-MOU-CHU (SOMEWHERE UNKNOWN IN INDOCHINA)
by ASIO CHIHSIUNG LIU, FENG TING TSOU producer: FENG TING TSOU, ASIO CHIHSIUNG LIU
Taipei, Belgium, Canada, Vietnam, Cambodia / 38’ / virtual reality
Developed during Biennale College Cinema VR, 6th edition (2021/2022)
BELOW DECK
by MARTINA MAHLKNECHT, MARTIN PRINOTH producer: MARTINA MAHLKNECHT, MARTIN PRINOTH
Germany, Italy / 23’ / installation, virtual reality
Developed during Biennale College Cinema VR, 7th edition (2022/2023)
ECHOS OF ASH VALLEY
by SHU ZHU producer: SULTAN PIRZHAN, JONATHAN WARNER, ZEMO ZHENG
USA / 17’ / installation, virtual reality
Developed during Biennale College Cinema Immersive, 8th edition (2023/2024)