Newcomers and renowned filmmakers head to the Lido for Venice Film Festival’s 83rd festival edition (September 2-12).
Venice opens with Danny Boyle’s Rupert Murdoch bio-drama Ink, while its main Competition also contains films from Werner Herzog (Bucking Fastard), Florian Zeller (Bunker), Lee Chang-dong (Possible Love) and Martin McDonagh (Wild Horse Nine). And artistic director Alberto Barbera’s attempted own goal in programming a single film directed by a woman — May el-Toukhy’s Woman Unknown — received an 11th-hour reprieve when he added the documentary NAZA, co-directed by Rachel Szor, to the final lineup.
If at first glance Venice lacks the oomph of recent editions, it also allows more space for surprises to emerge. Below, Screen previews all the titles playing across the main sections at Venice, plus previews to the festival’s main sidebars.
Click on the links to each section for the profiles.
Competition
- Back To Buenos Aires (Marco Bechis)
- A Bit Of Light (Ali Asgari)
- Bucking Fastard (Werner Herzog)
- Bunker (Florian Zeller)
- Company (Casey Affleck)
- Dau (Ilya Khrzhanovsky)
- The Echo Chamber (Andrea Pallaoro)
- The Fire Within You (Edoardo De Angelis)
- A Good Little Soldier (Stéphane Brizé)
- Ink (Danny Boyle)
- It Will Happen Tonight (Nanni Moretti)
- Look Back (Hirokazu Koreeda)
- Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People? (Shinya Tsukamoto)
- NAZA (Yuval Abraham, Rachel Szor)
- One Minute To Midnight (Nicolas Pariser)
- A Place To Heal (Cédric Kahn)
- Possible Love (Lee Chang-dong)
- Primetime (Lance Oppenheim)
- The Spiral (Paolo Strippoli)
- Wild Horse Nine (Martin McDonagh)
- Woman Unknown (May el-Toukhy)
Horizons
- Big Little Things (Michelle Zhou)
- The Burning Giants (Phuttiphong Aroonpheng)
- Children Of The Monkey (Tommaso Landucci)
- The City Of The Living (Edoardo Gabbriellini)
- The Color Of The Sun (Xavier Tera)
- A Common Story (Anna Foglietta)
- A Day In The Life Of Jo: Chapter Phaedra (Jacqueline Lentzou)
- Diane In The Loop (Ann Sirot, Raphaël Balboni)
- The Difficult Bride (Rubaiyat Hossain)
- Eklipse (Manuel Wetscher)
- Falling House (Mohsen Gharaei)
- The Girl With The Leica (Alina Marazzi)
- House Of The Wind (Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu)
- Lovers In The Blue Night (Anuparna Roy)
- Moolah (Jérôme Pierrat)
- Oasis (Jannis Lenz)
- Too Much Sugar (Robert Greene)
- Until The Day Ends (Jelena Maksimovic)
- What Belongs To Others (Grzegorz Debowski)
Venice Open – Fiction
- Arrested Memory (Sabu)
- The Basics Of Philosophy (Paul Schrader)
- Father Joe (Barthélémy Grossmann)
- God Laughs (Giovanni Veronesi)
- The Good Lawyer (Tristan Seguela)
- Jupiter (Alexandre Smia)
- Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors (Lav Diaz)
- No Pain (Gianni Amelio)
- No Paradise If You Are Killed By A Woman (Halkawt Mustafa)
- Place To Be (Kornel Mundruczo)
- Trick (Mario Martone)
Venice Open – Non Fiction
- Be Brave (Francesco Carrozzini)
- Boatbuilders (Luke Lorentzen)
- Burgundy (Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw)
- Citizen Osama (Ahmed Hassouna)
- Dust (Tsai Ming-Liang)
- Everest: The Other Side (Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin)
- From Inside Out - The Architecture Of Peter Zumthor (Wim Wenders)
- Holy Wood Dust (Victor Kossakovsky)
- Imperium (Sergei Loznitsa)
- Life Of Jose Luis Borges (Mariano Llinas)
- Listy (Letters From The Silenced Country) (Andrei Kutsila)
- My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile (Julia Loktev)
- Musk (Alex Gibney)
- Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger (Dylan Southern, Will Lovelace)
- Queer Edward II (Theo Rollason)
- The Road To Jericho (Amos Gitai)
- Shumei: The Living Legacy Of Kabuki (Takashi Miike)
- Union Town (Barbara Kopple)
- What Love Builds (Russell Crowe)
Venice Open - Film On Films
- Intermission (Yonfan)
- Joie De Vivre (Luca Guadagnino)
- Juso Per Ferie (Karen Di Porto)
- Nino (Walter Fasano)
- The Pervert’s Guide To Utopias (Sophie Fiennes)
- Twist And Shoot Mister Suzuki (Yves Montmayeur)
Venice Open - Shorts
- Flesh Impact (Maggie Gylenhaal)
- They’re Here (Laura Poitras, Rachel Mueller)
- Wild Asparagus (Avi Mograbi)
Venice Open - Series
Spotlight
- Conversation With The Sea (Muayad Alayan)
- Furies (Rami Kodeih)
- Ground Floor (Gabor Reisz)
- Guria (Levan Koguashvili)
- Hombre Al Agua (Gael Garcia Bernal)
- I Matter (Alina Serban)
- Serpenti (Roberto De Paolis Maino)
- Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing (Erik Shirai)
Critics’ Week
- Before The War (Tommaso Usberti)
- The End Of Times (Bibiana Rojas Gomez, Juan David Cardenas)
- Giaffa The Great (Marco Santi)
- The H@llow Man (Kamel Laaridhi)
- London (Victor Di Marco, Marcio Picoli)
- Meteorite (Sebastian Martinez)
- Our Share Of Sand (Shalini Adnani)
- Rider (Roan Johnson, Davide Pavanello)
- Zoom In, Zoom Out (Dong Jie)
Giornate Degli Autori Competition
- A Man’s Skin (Léa Domenach)
- A Woman Today (Robert Guédiguian)
- Agata The Writer (Kuba Dorabialski)
- Balcanica (Nicola Sorcinelli)
- Camouflage (Mykyta Gibalenko)
- Dear Ajayi (Damilola Orimogunje)
- I Plant My Hand In The Garden (Boris Hadzija, Hoda Taheri)
- Les Indes (Pauline Julier, Nicolas Chapoulier)
- My Notes On Mars (Lili Horvat
- Sálon De Belleza (Nathalia Acevedo)
- Sometimes Sadness, Sometimes Rebellion (Maria Aparicio)
Words by: Ben Dalton, Tim Dams, Elaine Guerini, Jeremy Kay, Rebecca Leffler, Geoffrey Macnab, Lee Marshall, Thea Middleton, David Opie, Michael Rosser, Matt Schley, Mona Tabbara, Silvia Wong
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