77th Venice Film Festival lineup has a distinctly global feel
Frances McDormand in Chloé Zhao’s NOMADLAND (Searchlight Pictures)
The Venice International Film Festival has announced the lineup for the 77th edition of the fest and expectedly it looks very different than previous years.
The impact of the coronavirus pandemic has largely kept North American films at bay so you won’t be seeing any glitzy premieres like Gravity or A Star Is Born this year. But the festival will be the first since Sundance in January to hold a physical festival and will be the testing ground for fall and winter. Chloé Zhao’s in competition road drama Nomadland, starring Academy Award winner Frances McDormand, will screen at Venice and Toronto simultaneously on September 11, which was announced earlier.
Never Gonna Snow Again (Poland, Germany) from Malgorzata Szumowska and Michał Englert and Lovers from Nicole Garcia (France) will also appear in competition.
The out-of-competition opener will be Italian director Daniele Luchetti’s marriage story Lacc starring Alba Rohrwacher (Happy as Lazzaro) and Luigi Lo Cascio (The Traitor) as the couple at the film’s center. Lasciami Andare from Stefano Mordini will be the in competition closer. We’ll also see Frederick Wiseman’s City Hall out of competition in the non-fiction section.
Here is the lineup for the 77th Venice International Film Festival.
IN COMPETITION
“In Between Dying,” Hilal Baydarov (Azerbaijan, U.S.)
“Le Sorelle Macaluso,” Emma Dante (Italy)
“The World to Come,” Mona Fastvold (U.S.)
“Nuevo Orden,” Michel Franco (Mexico, France)
“Lovers,” Nicole Garcia (France)
“Laila in Haifa,” Amos Gitai (Israel, France)
“Dear Comrades,” Andrei Konchalovsky (Russia)
“Wife of a Spy,” Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Japan)
“Sun Children,” Majid Majidi (Iran)
“Pieces of a Woman,” Kornel Mundruczo (Canada, Hungary)
“Miss Marx,” Susanna Nicchiarelli (Italy, Belgium)
“Padrenostro,” Claudio Noce (Italy)
“Never Gonna Snow Again,” Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert (Poland, Germany)
“The Disciple,” Chaitanya Tamhane (India)
“And Tomorrow The Entire World,” Julia Von Heinz (Germany, France)
“Nomadland,” Chloé Zhao (U.S.)
OUT OF COMPETITION – Fiction
“Lacci,” Daniele Luchetti (Italy) – OPENING FILM
“Lasciami Andare,” Stefano Mordini (Italy) CLOSING FILM
“Mandibules,” Quentin Dupieux (France, Belgium)
“Love After Love,” Ann Hui (China)
“Assandira,” Salvatore Mereu (Italy)
“The Duke,” Roger Mitchell (U.K.)
“Night in Paradise,” Park Soon-Jung (South Corea)
“Mosquito State,” Filip Jan Rymsza (Poland)
OUT OF COMPETITION – Non-Fiction
“Sportin’ Life,” Abel Ferrara (Italy)
“Crazy, Not Insane,” Alex Gibney (U.S.)
“Greta,” Nathan Grossman (Sweeden)
“Salvatore – Shoemaker of Dreams,” Luca Guadagnino (Italy)
“Final Account,” Luke Holland (U.K.)
“La Verità Su La Dolce Vita,” Giuseppe Pedersoli (Italy)
“Molecole,” Daniele Segre (Italy) PRE-OPENING TITLE
“Narciso Em Ferias,” Renato Terra, Ricardo Calil (Brazil)
“Paolo Conte, Via Con Me,” Giorgio Verdelli (Italy)
“Hopper/Welles,” Orson Welles (U.S.)
“City Hall,” Frederick Wiseman (U.S.)
OUT OF COMPETITION – Special Screenings
“30 Monedas – Episode 1,” Alex De La Iglesia (Spain)
“Princesse Europe,” Camille Lotteau (France)
“Omelia Contadina,” Alice Rohrwacher, Jr (Italy)
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