Screen profiles all the films in the Venice Film Festival’s official selection and parallel sections.
Some of the world’s leading actors and directors are heading to the Lido for for the 82nd Venice Film Festival (August 27-September 6) including Oscar winners Guillermo del Toro, Kathryn Bigelow, George Clooney and Julia Roberts. The question is: Can Venice regain its crown as the key launchpad for awards glory following last year’s Cannes-dominated season? The last best picture Oscar winner to launch at Venice was Nomadland in 2020.
Screen previews all the titles playing across the main sections of the Venice, plus guides to the events’ principal sidebars. We hope our comprehensive coverage will help readers — whether attending or not — navigate what may seem rather sprawling line-ups of new films- and the odd series.
Click on the links to each section for the profiles.
Competition
- At Work (Valérie Donzelli)
- Below The Clouds (Gianfranco Rosi)
- Bravo Bene! (Franco Maresco)
- Bugonia (Yorgos Lanthimos)
- Duse (Pietro Marcello)
- Elisa (Leonardo Di Costanzo)
- Father Mother Sister Brother (Jim Jarmusch)
- Frankenstein (Guillermo del Toro)
- Girl (Shu Qi)
- A House Of Dynamite (Kathryn Bigelow)
- Jay Kelly (Noah Baumbach)
- La Grazia (Paolo Sorrentino)
- No Other Choice (Park Chan-wook)
- Orphan (Laszlo Nemes)
- Silent Friend (Ildiko Enyedi)
- The Smashing Machine (Benny Safdie)
- The Stranger (Francois Ozon)
- The Sun Rises On Us All (Cai Shangjun)
- The Testament Of Ann Lee (Mona Fastvold)
- The Voice Of Hind Rajab (Kaouther Ben Hania)
- The Wizard Of The Kremlin (Olivier Assayas)
Out of competition
- After The Hunt (Luca Guadagnino)
- Andrea’s Island (Antonio Capuano)
- Angela’s Diaries — Two Filmmakers Part Three (Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi)
- Back Home (Tsai Ming-liang)
- Broken English (Jane Pollard, Iain Forsyth)
- Cover-Up (Laura Poitras, Mark Obenhaus)
- Dead Man’s Wire (Gus Van Sant)
- Director’s Diary (Aleksandr Sokurov)
- Dog 51 (Cédric Jimenez)
- Ferdinando Scianna — The Photographer Of Shadows (Roberto Ando)
- Ghost Elephants (Werner Herzog)
- The Holy Boy (Paolo Strippoli)
- In The Hand Of Dante (Julian Schnabel)
- Kabul, Between Prayers (Aboozar Amini)
- Kim Novak’s Vertigo (Alexandre Philippe)
- Landmarks (Lucrecia Martel)
- The Last Viking (Anders Thomas Jensen)
- Marc By Sofia (Sofia Coppola)
- My Father And Qaddafi (Jihan K)
- My Tennis Maestro (Andrea Di Stefano)
- Notes Of A True Criminal (Alexander Rodnyansky, Andriy Alferov)
- Orfeo (Virgilio Villoresi)
- Remake (Ross McElwee)
- Scarlet (Mamoru Hosoda)
- Sermon To The Void (Hilal Baydarov)
- The Tale Of Silyan (Tamara Kotevska)
Out Of Competition - film and music
- Nino. 18 Giorni (Toni D’Angelo)
- Piero Pelu. Rumore Dentro (Francesco Fei)
- Newport And The Great Folk Dream (Robert Gordon)
- Francesco de Gregori Nevergreen (Stefano Pistolini)
Out Of Competition - series
- Portobello (Marco Bellocchio)
- Un Prophete (Enrico Maria Artale)
- Etty (Hagai Levi)
- Il Mostro (Stefano Sollima)
Horizons
- Barrio Triste (Stillz)
- Divine Comedy (Ali Asgari)
- Father (Tereza Nvotova)
- Funeral Casino Blues (Roderick Warich)
- Human Resource (Nawapol Thamrongrattanarit)
- The Ivy (Ana Cristina Barragan)
- The Kidnapping Of Arabella (Carolina Cavalli)
- Late Fame (Kent Jones)
- Lost Land (Akio Fujimoto)
- Milk Teeth (Mihai Mincan)
- Mother (Teona Strugar Mitevska)
- On The Road (David Pablos)
- One Year Of School (Laura Samani)
- Pin De Fartie (Alejo Moguillansky)
- Rose Of Nevada (Mark Jenkin)
- The Site (Akihiro Hata)
- Songs Of Forgotten Trees (Anuparna Roy)
- The Souffleur (Gaston Solnicki)
- Strange River (Jaume Claret Muxart)
Giornate degli Autori competition
- Bearcave (Stergios Dinopoulos, Krysianna Papadakis)
- Gioia (Nicolangelo Gelormini)
- Inside Amir (Amir Azizi)
- Last Night I Conquered The City Of Thebes (Gabriel Azorin)
- Memory (Vladlena Sandu)
- Memory Of Princess Mumbi (Damien Hauser)
- Past Future Continuous (Firouzeh Khosrovani, Morteza Ahmadvand)
- A Sad And Beautiful World (Cyril Aris)
- Short Summer (Nastia Korkia)
- Vainilla (Mayra Hermosillo)
Spotlight
- Calle Malaga (Maryam Touzani)
- Hijra (Shahad Ameen)
- It Would Be Night In Caracas (Mariana Rondon, Marité Ugas)
- A Loose End (Daniel Hendler)
- Made In EU (Stephan Komandarev)
- Motor City (Potsy Ponciroli)
- Silent Rebellion (Marie-Elsa Sgualdo)
- Tired Of Killing (Daniele Vicari)
Critics’ Week
- 100 Nights Of Hero (Julia Jackman)
- Agon (Giulio Bertelli)
- Cotton Queen (Suzannah Mirghani)
- Gorgonà (Evi Kalogiropoulou)
- Ish (Imran Perretta)
- Roqia (Yanis Koussim)
- Stereo Girls (Caroline Deruas Peano)
- Straight Circle (Oscar Hudson)
- Waking Hours (Federico Cammarata, Filippo Foscarini)
Profiles by Ben Dalton, Tim Dams, Charles Gant, Nadiya Jackson, Jeremy Kay, Rebecca Leffler, Lee Marshall, Tara Nimmoneser, Orlando Parfitt, Jonathan Romney, Michael Rosser, Matt Schley, Mona Tabbara, Silvia Wong
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