72nd Venice Film Festival Lineup: A Bigger Splash, Danish Girl and Kristen Stewart Set for the Fest
Just on the heels of Toronto’s announcement yesterday, the 72nd Venice International Film Festival, which takes place Sept. 2-12, has announced their lineup. The Danish Girl marks 2/2 now and clearly looks to be a film to be reckoned with this season as it hits festival after festival on its way to awards season. We’ll be seeing A Bigger Splash for the first time and with Fox Searchlight’s #1 film still up in the air (is it Youth? Brooklyn?) this could be it. Beasts of No Nation also looks to be a major player this season (as we’ve known for a while) and Netflix has enough money in its pockets right now to mount a serious campaign for it. Drake Doremus’s Equals, a futuristic love story starring Kristen Stewart also hits the fest. Could Stewart find herself with a Volpi Cup to add to her César?
Here is the complete Venice lineup:
COMPETITION
Emin Alper, Abluka (Frenzy)
Laurie Anderson, Heart of a Dog
Marco Bellocchio, Sangue del mio sangue
Sue Brooks, Looking for Grace
Drake Doremus, Equals
Atom Egoyan, Remember
Cary Fukunaga, Beasts of No Nation
Giuseppe M. Gaudino, Per amor vostro
Xavier Giannol,i Marguerite
Amos Gitai Rabin, the Last Day
Luca Guadagnino, A Bigger Splash
Oliver Hermanus, The Endless River
Tom Hooper, The Danish Girl
Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson Anomalisa
Piero Messina, L’attesa
Jerzy Skolimowski, 11 minut (11 Minutes)
Aleksandr Sokurov, Francofonia
Pablo Trapero, El Clan
Christian Vincent, L’hermine
Zhao Liang, Behemoth
OUT OF COMPETITION
Baltasar Kormakur, Everest (opening film)
Hu Guan Lao, pao er (Mr Six) (closing film)
Daniel Alfredson, Go with Me
Claudio Caligari, Non essere cattivo
Scott Cooper, Black Mass
Thomas McCarthy, Spotlight
Martin Scorsese, The Audition
Evgeny Afineevsky, Winter on Fire
Noah Baumbach & Jake Paltrow, De Palma
Amy Berg, Janis
Sergei Loznitsa, Sobytie (The Event)
Franco Maresco, Gli uomini di questa città io non li conosco
Gianfranco Pannone, L’esercito più piccolo del mondo
Tsai Ming-liang, Na ri xiawu (Afternoon)
Frederick Wiseman, In Jackson Heights
SPECIAL SCREENING OUT OF COMPETITION
Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Human
HORIZONS
Merzak Allouache, Madame Courage
Joko Anwar, A Copy of My Mind
Alberto Caviglia, Pecore in erba
Samuel Collardey, Tempete
Brady Corbet, The Childhood of a Leader
Renato De Maria, Italian Gangster
Vahid Jalilvand, Wednesday
Yaelle Kayam, Mountain
Tobias Lindholm, A War
Vetri Maaran, Interrogation
Jake Mahaffy, Free in Deed
Gabriel Mascaro, Boi Neon
Dito Montiel, Man Down
Hadar Morag, Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?
Rodrigo Pla, Un monstruo de mil cabezas
Anita Rocha Da Silveira, Mate-me por favor
Nicolas Saada, Taj Mahal
Yorgos Zois, Interruption
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