72nd Venice Film Festival Lineup: A Bigger Splash, Danish Girl and Kristen Stewart Set for the Fest

Erik Anderson July 29, 2015

bigger-splash-swinton-fiennes-shoenaerts-johnson — ‘A Bigger Splash,’ starring Matthias Shoenaerts, Tilda Swinton, Dakota Johnson and Ralph Fiennes is set to make a splash a Venice

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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Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013.

He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Hollywood Critics Association (HCA) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.