Venice International Film Festival

Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance, directed by Alejandro G. Iñárritu (Amores Perros, 21 Grams, Babel, Biutiful), starring Michael Keaton, has been selected as the opening film of the 71st Venice Film Festival (August 27th – September 6th 2014). Along with Michael Keaton the film also stars Zach Galifianakis, Edward Norton, Andrea Riseborough, Amy Ryan, Emma Stone and Naomi Watts. 

 The world premiere of Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance will be screened in competition on August 27th in the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema at the Lido, following the opening ceremony hosted by Luisa Ranieri.

The film is a black comedy that tells the story of an actor (Michael Keaton) – famous for portraying an iconic superhero – as he struggles to mount a Broadway play. In the days leading up to opening night, he battles his ego and attempts to recover his family, his career, and himself.

The screenplay is written by Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Nicolás Giacobone, Alexander Dinelaris Jr. and Armando Bo. The producers are Alejandro G. Iñárritu, John Lesher, Arnon Milchan and James W. Skotchdopole. The credits also include Director of Photography Emmanuel Lubezki (Gravity, The Tree of Life, Children of Men), production designer Kevin Thompson (The Bourne Legacy, Michael Clayton) and music composed by Antonio Sanchez.

In 2000, Alejandro G. Iñárritu made his breakthrough with Amores Perros which received an Oscar nomination for best foreign film and won the Semaine de la Critique prize at the Cannes Film Festival. In 2003 Iñárritu directed his next feature film 21 Grams starring Sean Penn, Benicio Del Toro and Naomi Watts. The film participated in the 60th Venice Film Festival where Penn won the Coppa Volpi for Best Actor, and both Watts and Del Toro received Oscar nominations for their performances. In 2006, Iñárritu directed Babel, the last film of his trilogy starring Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal and introducing new actors such as Adriana Barraza, Rinko Kikuchi and several non-actors around the world. 

For Babel, he was awarded the prize for best director at the 59th Cannes Film Festival. The film garnered seven Oscar nominations including Best Picture and Director and won the Oscar for best original soundtrack. It also received seven Golden Globes nominations and won the prize for Best Motion Picture – Drama.  In 2007 Iñárritu was a member of the International Jury of the 64th Venice Film Festival’s Competition. In 2010 he presented Biutiful in Competition at the Cannes Film Festival, where Javier Bardem won the prize for Best Actor (tied with Elio Germano for La Nostra Vita).  The film received an Oscar nomination for best foreign film, and Bardem was nominated for best actor as well.

Birdman or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance will release in North America on October 17th and in international territories at the beginning of 2015. 

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Gianfranco Rosi was awarded the GOLDEN LION for Best Film for SACRO GRA at the 70th Venice Film Festival

The documentary SACRO GRA by Gianfranco Rosi (Italy, France) was awarded the GOLDEN LION for Best Film at the 70th Venice Film Festival, and the GRAND JURY PRIZE went to JIAOYOU  by Tsai Ming-liang (Chinese Taipei, France).  In SACRO GRA, Gianfranco Rosi travelled over two years in a minivan and filmed life on Rome’s giant ring road—the Grande Raccordo Anulare, or GRA, to discover the invisible worlds and possible futures harbored in this area of constant turmoil.

Official Awards of the 70th Venice Film Festival

GOLDEN LION for Best Film to:
SACRO GRA by Gianfranco Rosi (Italy, France)

SILVER LION for Best Director to:
Alexandros Avranas for the film MISS VIOLENCE (Greece)

GRAND JURY PRIZE to:
JIAOYOU  by Tsai Ming-liang (Chinese Taipei, France)

COPPA VOLPI 
for Best Actor:
Themis Panou
in the film MISS VIOLENCE by Alexandros Avranas (Greece)

COPPA VOLPI
for Best Actress:
Elena Cotta
in the film VIA CASTELLANA BANDIERA by Emma Dante (Italy, Switzerland, France)

MARCELLO MASTROIANNI AWARD
for Best Young Actor or Actress to:
Tye Sheridan
in the film JOE by David Gordon Green (US)

AWARD FOR BEST SCREENPLAY to:
Steve Coogan and Jeff Pope
for the film PHILOMENA by Stephen Frears (United Kingdom)

SPECIAL JURY PRIZE to:
DIE FRAU DES POLIZISTEN by Philip Gröning (Germany)

LION OF THE FUTURE – “LUIGI DE LAURENTIIS” VENICE AWARD FOR A DEBUT FILM to:
WHITE SHADOW by Noaz Deshe(Italy, Germany, Tanzania)
VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM CRITICS’ WEEK

ORIZZONTI AWARDS

the ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST FILM to:
EASTERN BOYS by Robin Campillo (France)

the ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST DIRECTOR to:
Uberto Pasolini for the film STILL LIFE (United Kingdom, Italy)

the SPECIAL ORIZZONTI JURY PRIZE to:
RUIN by Michael Cody and Amiel Courtin-Wilson (Australia)

the SPECIAL ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR INNOVATIVE CONTENT to:
MAHI VA GORBEH by Shahram Mokri (Iran)

the ORIZZONTI AWARD FOR BEST SHORT FILM to:
KUSH by Shubhashish Bhutiani (India)

VENEZIA CLASSICI AWARDS

the VENEZIA CLASSICI AWARD FOR BEST DOCUMENTARY ON CINEMA to:
DOUBLE PLAY: JAMES BENNING AND RICHARD LINKLATER by Gabe Klinger (USA, Portugal, France) 

the VENEZIA CLASSICI AWARD FOR BEST RESTORED FILM to:
LA PROPRIETÀ NON È PIÙ UN FURTOby Elio Petri (Italy, France)

EUROPEAN SHORT FILM 2013 – EFA AWARD to:
HOUSES WITH SMALL WINDOWSby Bülent Öztürk (Belgium)

GOLDEN LION FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT 2013
William Friedkin

JAEGER-LECOULTRE GLORY TO THE FILMMAKER
Ettore Scola

PERSOL AWARD
Andrzej Wajda

L’ORÉAL PARIS PER IL CINEMA AWARD
Eugenia Costantini

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Judi Dench, Steve Coogan and Stephen Frears, stars of PHILOMENA, in the Venice Movie Stars Lounge at the 70th Venice Film Festival. 

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JIGOKU DE NAZE WARUI (WHY DON’T YOU PLAY IN HELL?) by Sono Sion

12 feature-length films from the Orizzonti section and 3 feature-length films from the brand-new Biennale College – Cinema from the 70th Venice International Film Festival will be available online as part of the Web Theatre program, at the same time as they are screening at the festival which runs 28 August – 7 September 2013.

The films at the Web Theatre

Orizzonti

WOLFSKINDER (WOLFSCHILDREN) by Rick Ostermann (Germany, 91’)
Germany, World War II. Several orphans from Eastern Prussia organize their survival, hiding from the Soviet occupiers, living in abandoned sites. One of thesewolf children is Hans, who is searching for his lost little brother. Rick Ostermann is a German director who made his debut in 2009 with the short film Still,but has brought his first feature-length film here to the 70th Venice International Film Festival. He has been an assistant director for many years in both television and film productions.

JIGOKU DE NAZE WARUI (WHY DON’T YOU PLAY IN HELL?) by Sono Sion (Japan, 126’)
Muto is a gangster who wants to make his daughter Mitsuko’s dream come true: to act in a movie. Ikegami is Muto’s rival and enemy, but he falls in love with Mitsuko thereby triggering a series of violent and bizarre situations for an action movie reminiscent of Kill Bill, written by the director when he was barely fifteen years old. Sono Sion is a Japanese director, poet and composer. He has made important films and in 2010 came to the 67th Venice International Film Festival for the first time with Tsumetai nettaigyo (Cold Fish). The following year he returned to present Himizu, which won the “Marcello Mastroianni” prize, awarded to Fumi Nikaidô and Shôta Sometani.

ALGUNAS CHICAS by Santiago Palavecino (Argentina, 100’)
With her marriage on the rocks, Celina goes to visit an old friend. Her attention immediately shifts to Paula, the friend’s adopted daughter, who apparently attempted suicide and nothing has been heard from her since… A mystery, suspended between reality and nightmare. SantiagoPalavecino, born in 1974, made several short films before shooting his first feature-length film, Otra vuelta, in 2002, which was presented in the Atelier section of the Cannes Film Festival. In 2011 he made La vida nueva. Algunas Chicas is his fourth feature-length film.

PICCOLA PATRIA by Alessandro Rossetto (Italy, 100’)
In the ambitious and petty atmosphere of north-eastern Italy, young Luisa blackmails Menon on sexual grounds. The situation is further complicated by the friendship between Menon and Luisa’s father, forever ruining the relationship between the protagonists. Alessandro Rossetto was born in Padua, and studied documentary filmmaking in Paris. He is known for his film Chiusura dedicated to the people that drift around his mother’s hairdresser’s shop and The Colony.

JE M’APPELLE HMMM… by Agnès B. (France, 120’)
Céline is eleven years old and has run away from an incestuous father. In her wanderings she meets Peter, 45 years old, a man deeply hurt by the loss of his wife and daughter. He will give himself completely to Céline, restoring the girl’s will to live and her carefree childhood. Agnes B. is a French fashion designer, artist and director. In 2012 she was one of the producers of Spring Breakersin competition at the 69th Venice International Film Festival. Her debut film was the short film Une sorte de journal video. In Venice this year she is presenting her first feature-length film.

MEDEAS by Andrea Pallaoro (USA, Italy, 98’)
The film is a lyrical exploration of a particular family situation and the human relationships within it. Devoid of any moral judgment, the eye of the director studies the boundaries of human behaviour and explores how far an inpidual can go, driven by love and the spirit of survival. AndreaPallaoro was born in Trento but at the age of 17 moved to California to study filmmaking. His short film Wunderkammer was presented at the Sundance Film Festival. This year he brings his first feature-length film to the Orizzonti section.

RUIN by Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Michael Cody (Australia, 90’)
Phirun is 19 years old and lives in Phnom Penh. One day he is accused of theft and involuntarily injures his employer. Phirun escapes and during his flight, he meets Sovanna; a powerful bond grows between the two of them, and develops into love. Amiel Courtin-Wilson is Australian, and made his debut at the Sundance Film Festival in 2000 with Chasing Buddha; since then he has made many films, screened at the major film festivals. In 2011 he directed Hail, presented at the 68th Venice International Film Festival in the Orizzonti section. Michael Cody, producer, director and screenwriter, has often collaborated with Courtin-Wilson and now they are back together with Ruin.

LA VIDA DESPUÉS by David Pablos (Mexico, 90’)
Two brothers, Samuel and Rodrigo, live with their mother in a suburban town. One day the mother, who has mental health problems, disappears leaving nothing behind but a note. David Pablos is a young Mexican filmmaker, born in 1982. His first short film, El mundo al atardecer, was made in 2007. La canción de los niños muertos (2008) was his second short film; he presented his first feature-length film Una frontera, todas las fronteras (2010) at the Berlinale Talent Campus before coming to Venice with his second film, La vida despues, for the 70th Venice International Film Festival.

EASTERN BOYS by Robin Campillo (France, 128’)
Gare du Nord, Paris. Young men from Eastern Europe spend all day at the station where it appears that they engage in prostitution. A fifty-year old man, Muller, sets his eyes on one of them, Marek, and invites him to his home the next day. A trap has been set for him there. Robin Campillo is a French filmmaker who has collaborated for years, first as an editor and then as a co-author for the screenplay, with director Laurent Cantet. He made his debut as a director in 2005 with Les revenants and he now brings his second feature-length film to the Venice Film Festival.

BAUYR (LITTLE BROTHER) by Serik Aprymov (Kazakhstan, 95’)
Yerken is nine years old and lives alone in a remote village in the mountains. When his older brother returns after a long absence, the young boy’s heart leaps with joy. But it doesn’t last long, his older brother has become a cold and heartless person… Serik Aprymov was born in 1960 in Kazakhstan and studied film at the Moscow Film School (VGIK). Along with other young directors from his country, he became part of the “new wave” of Kazakh cinema. At the Locarno Film Festival in 2004, he presented Okhotnik (The Hunter), in which a young boy suffers the contrast between the traditions of his people now on the decline and the progress of an increasingly urbanized new society.

LA PRIMA NEVE by Andrea Segre (Italy, 104’)
Michele is eleven years old and lives in a small town in the mountains of Trento, with his mother and his paternal grandfather Pietro; his father has recently died. The boy’s pain meets that of Dani, a boy from Togo, who is a total ‘stranger’ to that place covered in snow which he has never seen before in his life.Andrea Segre, born in 1976, is a director who has made many prestigious works. He has participated several times in the Venice Film Festival, in particular in the 68th Festival with Io son Li (2011) and in the 69th Festival with Mare Chiuso (2012), a Special Event.

MAHI VA GORBEH (FISH & CAT) by Shahram Mokri (Iran, 134’)
While camping in the Caspian region, some students end up sharing a cabin with three cooks. The latter are looking for meat for their restaurant, but the only meat there is on the students themselves. This film is shot in a single long take based on a true story. Shahram Mokri is a young Iranian director, born in 1977. He studied filmmaking at Teheran’s Soureh College. He made his directorial debut in 2009 with Ashkan, angoshtar-e motebarek va dastan-haye digar (Ashkan, the Charmed Ring and Other Stories), a film in which two blind men plan a robbery with the help of Ashkan, who wants to kill himself.

Biennale College – Cinema

YURI ESPOSITO by Alessio Fava (director) and Max Chicco (producer) (Italiy, 73’)
Yuri Esposito is a man whose slowness pervades every action in his life and comes to constitute its essence, but his perennial lethargy is challenged by a surprise paternity. Alessio Fava was born in 1976 in Turin where he studied at the Accademia Internazionale di Arti e Media before attending the Scuola d’Arte Cinematografica in Genoa. In 2012 he made his first short film Project Genesis, an ironic film set in the future in which, reversing the stereotypes of this genre, the machines give life to human beings, whom they use for their own personal enjoyment.

MEMPHIS byTim Sutton (director) and John Baker (producer) (USA, 84’)
Ezra Jack is a soul-blues singer looking for spiritual salvation. He lives in Memphis, a decadent city immersed in music. This is where Ezra hopes to bring his personal renaissance to term. Timothy Sutton is a filmmaker from Brooklyn. He made his directorial debut in 2012 with Pavilion, which follows a laconic adolescent as he travels from a peaceful lakefront town to his father’s home in the arid state of Arizona. A film that describes adolescence as a period of great creativity, while underlining the fragility that goes with it.

MARY IS HAPPY, MARY IS HAPPY by Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit (director) and Aditya Assarat (producer) (Thailand, 125’)
Mary is a student in her last year of high school. She will be graduating in a few months, and must address the changes in her life, love and friendships. In the meantime, strange things start to happen without any apparent reason. The girl tries to make sense of it all at a moment in which her life seems to be spiraling out of control. NawapolThamrongrattanarit is from Thailand but studied filmmaking in China. In 2002 he made his first feature-length film 36,and this year presents his second film at the 70th Venice International Film Festival, thanks to the first edition of Biennale College – Cinema.

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A PROMISE (UNE PROMESSE), by French director and scriptwriter Patrice Leconte, starring Rebecca Hall, Alan Rickman, and Richard Madden, as well as 4 new films in the Out of Competition and Venezia Classici sections, will complete the program of the 70th Venice International Film Festival, taking place 28 August to 7 September 2013.

In addition, American actress, scriptwriter and author Carrie Fisher will complete the International Jury of the Venezia 70 Competition, while Mexican director Amat Escalante will complete the international Jury for the “Luigi De Laurentiis” Venice Award for a Debut Film.

Finally, the collective film “Venezia 70 – Future Reloaded”, composed of 70short films lasting between 60 and 90 seconds, made by 70 directors from all over the world to celebrate the 70th anniversary of the Festival, will be the second opening film at the inaugural ceremony.

UNE PROMESSE, written (with Jérôme Tonnerre) and directed by Patrice Leconte, will have its world premiere screening at the 70th Venice Film Festival. Based on a novel by Stefan Zweig, the film takes place in Germany, in the period preceding World War I, and hinges on a woman who falls in love with the young assistant to her husband, a rich and powerful industrialist. Earlier films by Patrice Leconte include Monsieur Hire (1989), based on a novel by George Simenon, the well-known Le mari de la coiffeuse (The Hairdresser’s Husband, 1990), starring Jean Rochefort and Anna Galiena, Ridicule (1996), which received an Oscar nomination for Best Foreign Film, L’homme du train (The Man on the Train), which earned public acclaim at the Venice Film Festival in 2002, and Confidences trop intimes (Intimate Strangers, 2004).

Three new documentaries have been added to the programme of the 70th Venice International Film Festival:

· Double Play: James Benning and Richard Linklater by Gabe Klinger (Venezia Classici – Film History Documentaries)

· Donne nel mito: Anna Magnani by Marco Spagnoli (Venezia Classici – Film History Documentaries)

· Dai nostri inviati – La Rai racconta la Mostra del Cinema 1980 – 1989 by Enrico Salvatori, Giuseppe Giannotti, Davide Savelli (Out of Competition – Special Events).

Finally, Gideon Bachmann presents (and comments, live) Dietro le quinte di 8 e ½, 170 snapshots he personally took during the making of Fellini’s masterpiece (Out of Competition – Special Events), thus ideally completing the one-day tribute to Fellini (Friday, September 6), which will feature the world premiere of the new film by Ettore Scola Che strano chiamarsi Federico.

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The world premiere of GRAVITY, the new film from director Alfonso Cuarón (Y tu mamá también, Children of Men), and starring Sandra Bullock and George Clooney, will be screened in 3D as the opening film (Out of Competition) of the 70th Venice International Film Festival (August 28 – September 7, 2013).

GRAVITY, from Warner Bros. Pictures, is a heart-pounding thriller that pulls you into the infinite and unforgiving realm of deep space. In the film, Sandra Bullock plays Dr. Ryan Stone, a brilliant medical engineer on her first shuttle mission, with veteran astronaut Matt Kowalsky (George Clooney). But on a seemingly routine spacewalk, disaster strikes. The shuttle is destroyed, leaving Stone and Kowalsky completely alone – tethered to nothing but each other and spiraling out into the blackness. The deafening silence tells them they have lost any link to Earth… and any chance for rescue. As fear turns to panic, every gulp of air eats away at what little oxygen is left. But the only way home may be to go further out into the terrifying expanse of space.

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[caption id="attachment_2133" align="alignnone"]David Chipperfield was named Director of the Architecture Sector[/caption]

The new Board of La Biennale di Venezia, the organization behind the Venice International Film Festival, chaired by Paolo Baratta and composed of Giorgio Orsoni (Vice-President), Luca Zaia, Francesca Zaccariotto and Emmanuele Francesco Maria Emanuele, met for the first time on 27th December 2011 in the Biennale offices at Ca’ Giustinian and appointed the Directors of the Architecture and Cinema sectors.

David Chipperfield was named Director of the Architecture Sector with the specific responsibility of curating the 13th International Architecture Exhibition, which will be held in Venice, at the institutional venues of Giardini and Arsenale, from August 29th to November 25th 2012 (preview on August 27th-28th).

Alberto Barbera was named Director of the Cinema Sector for a four-year term. The 69th Venice International Film Festival will be held at the Lido di Venezia from August 29th to September 8th 2012.

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Damsels in Distress, the new comedy film from American director Whit Stillman (Metropolitan, Barcelona, The Last Days of Disco) is the Closing night film (Out of Competition) at the 68th Venice International Film Festival to run August 31 thru September 10, 2011.

Damsels in Distress, written, produced and directed by Whit Stillman, stars Greta Gerwig, Carrie MacLemore, Megalyn Echikunwoke, Analeigh Tipton, Hugo Becker, Ryan Metcalf, and Billy Magnussen.

Distributed by Sony Pictures Classics and produced by Westerly Film Production, Damsels in Distress is a comedy about a trio of beautiful girls as they set out to revolutionize life at a grungy American university – the dynamic leader Violet Wister (Greta Gerwig), principled Rose (Megalyn Echikunwoke) and sexy Heather (Carrie MacLemore). They welcome transfer student Lily (Analeigh Tipton) into their group which seeks to help severely depressed students with a program of good hygiene and musical dance numbers. The girls become romantically entangled with a series of men—including smooth Charlie (Adam Brody), dreamboat Xavier (Hugo Becker) and the mad frat pack of Frank (Ryan Metcalf) and Thor (Billy Magnussen)—who threaten the girls’ friendship and sanity.

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[caption id="attachment_1571" align="alignnone" width="454"]2010 Venice Film Festival – GOLDEN LION FOR LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT CEREMONY – John Woo[/caption]

The official line-up of the 68th Venice Film Festival was announced earlier today Thursday July 28th. The official selection of the festival includes the sections, Venezia 68 (In Competition), Out of Competition, Orizzonti and Controcampo Italiano, alongide a retrospective section and two autonomous sections (International Critics’ Week and Venice Days). The 68th Venice International Film Festival will take place from August 31st to September 10, 2011.

In addition to George Clooney’s “The Ides of March”, other filmmakers screening within the ‘In Competition’ section include Steve McQueen, Roman Polanski and David Cronenberg. Madonna’s WE did make the lineup but in the ‘Out of Competition’ section.

Venezia 68
International competition of feature films, presented as world premieres

TOMAS ALFREDSON – TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, SPY
UK, Germany, 127′
Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Tom Hardy, John Hurt

ANDREA ARNOLD – WUTHERING HEIGHTS
UK, 128′
Kaya Scodelario, Nichola Burley, Steve Evets, Oliver Milburn

AMI CANAAN MANN – TEXAS KILLING FIELDS
USA, 109′
Sam Worthington, Jessica Chastain, Chloe Grace Moretz, Jeffrey Dean Morgan

GEORGE CLOONEY – THE IDES OF MARCH [OPENING FILM]
USA, 98′
Ryan Gosling, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Paul Giamatti, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood

CRISTINA COMENCINI – QUANDO LA NOTTE
Italy, 116′
Claudia Pandolfi, Filippo Timi, Michela Cescon, Thomas Trabacchi

EMANUELE CRIALESE – TERRAFERMA
Italy, France, 88′
Filippo Pucillo, Donatella Finocchiaro, Giuseppe Fiorello, Claudio Santamaria

DAVID CRONENBERG – A DANGEROUS METHOD
Germany, Canada, 99′
Keira Knightley, Viggo Mortensen, Michael Fassbender, Vincent Cassel

ABEL FERRARA – 4:44 LAST DAY ON EARTH
USA, 82′
Willem Dafoe, Shanyn Leigh, Paz de la Huerta, Natasha Lyonne

WILLIAM FRIEDKIN – KILLER JOE
USA, 103′
Matthew McConaughey, Emile Hirsch, Juno Temple, Gina Gershon

PHILIPPE GARREL – UN ÉTÉ BRULANT
France, Italy, Switzerland, 95′
Monica Bellucci, Louis Garrel, Céline Sallette, Jérôme Robart

ANN HUI – TAOJIE (A SIMPLE LIFE)
China-Hong Kong, China, 117′
Andy Lau, Deanie Yip, Anthony Wong, Tsui Hark

ERAN KOLIRIN – HAHITHALFUT (THE EXCHANGE)
Israel, Germany, 94′
Rotem Keinan, Sharon Tal, Dov Navon, Shirili Deshe

YORGOS LANTHIMOS – ALPEIS (ALPS)
Greece, 93′
Ariane Labed, Aggeliki Papoulia, Aris Servetalis, Johnny Vekris

STEVE MCQUEEN – SHAME
United Kingdom, 99′
Michael Fassbender, Carey Mulligan, James Badge, Nicole Beharie

GIAN ALFONSO PACINOTTI [GIPI] – L’ULTIMO TERRESTRE
Italy, 100′
Gabriele Spinelli, Anna Bellato, Roberto Herlitzka, Teco Celio

ROMAN POLANSKI – CARNAGE
France, Germany, Spain, Poland, 79′
Jodie Foster, Kate Winslet, Christoph Waltz, John C. Reilly

MARJANE SATRAPI, VINCENT PARONNAUD – POULET AUX PRUNES
France, Belgium, Germany, 90′
Mathieu Amalric, Maria De Medeiros, Golshifteh Farahani, Isabella Rossellini, Chiara Mastroianni

ALEKSANDER SOKUROV – FAUST
Russia, 134′
Johannes Zeiler, Anton Adasinskiy, Isolda Dychauk, Hanna Schygulla

TODD SOLONDZ – DARK HORSE
USA, 84′
Mia Farrow, Christopher Walken, Justin Bartha, Selma Blair

SION SONO – HIMIZU
Japan, 129′
Shôta Sometani, Fumi Nikaidô, Tetsu Watanabe, Mitsuru Fukikoshi

TE-SHENG WEI – SEEDIQ BALE
China, Taiwan, 135′
Da-Ching, Umin Boya, Landy Wen, Lo Mei-ling

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