The curtain rises on the Venice 2021 Exhibition: the program of the 78th edition of the lagoon festival, scheduled for the Lido from 1 to 11 September, has been unveiled.
It is a truly rich program, which confirms the increasing importance of the Venice International Film Festival in recent years.
At the opening, the already announced «Madres paralelas», a new film by Pedro Almodóvar which will be among the most important titles of the event.
The other great feature film, which had already been anticipated in recent weeks, is “Dune” by Denis Villeneuve, a science fiction blockbuster inserted out of competition: in the cast Timothée Chalamet, Rebecca Ferguson, Oscar Isaac, Josh Brolin, Zendaya and many other stars of the contemporary cinema.
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Italians and women in competition
Five Italian titles are competing for the Golden Lion: “It was the hand of God” by Paolo Sorrentino, “Latin America” by the D’Innocenzo brothers, “Il buco” by Michelangelo Frammartino, “Freaks Out” by Gabriele Mainetti and Mario Martone’s «Here I laugh». Five women in competition: New Zealander Jane Campion with “The Power of the Dog”, English Ana Lily Amirpour with “Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon”, French Audrey Diwan with “L’événement”, Russian Natasha Merkulova (together with Aleksey Chupov) with “Captain Volkonogov Escaped” and the American Maggie Gyllenhaal with “The Lost Daughter”, based on the novel by Elena Ferrante with Olivia Colman. The other big names in competition The jury, headed by South Korean director Bong Joon-ho , will also have to evaluate, among others, the latest feature films by Chilean Pablo Larraín with “Spencer” (focusing on Princess Diana), by the American Paul Schrader with “The Card Counter”, by the French Stéphane Brizé with “Un autre monde”, by the Argentine duo Mariano Cohn-Gaston Duprát with “Competencia oficial”, by the Mexican Michel Franco with “Sundown”, by the French Xavier Giannoli with “Illusions perdues” and by the Venezuelan Lorenzo Vigas with “La caja”.
Out of competition
Far from the spotlight of the main competition, out of competition we find among the non-fiction titles “Journey into the twilight” by Augusto Contento, “De André # DeAndré story of an employee” by Roberta Lena, “Django & Django” by Luca Rea and “Ezio Boxwood. The things that remain “by Giorgio Verdelli. As regards the fictional films out of competition, note” The hidden child “by Roberto Andò with Silvio Orlando,” Les choses humaines “by Yvan Attal,” Ariaferma “by Leonardo Di Costanzo with Toni Servillo, “Halloween Kills” by David Gordon Green with Jamie Lee Curtis (the actress will be honored with the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement during the presentation of the film), “The Catholic School” by Stefano Mordini, “Last Night In Soho” by Edgar Wright with Anya Taylor-Joy and the highly anticipated “The Last Duel” by Ridley Scott, with Matt Damon, Adam Driver and Ben Affleck. Also noteworthy is the presentation of the “Scenes From a Marriage” series, a rewrite of Ingmar Bergman’s masterpiece with Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac.
Horizons and the other sections
In the Horizons section, dedicated to experimental cinema and innovation, titles such as «Les promesses», with Isabelle Huppert and Reda Kateb, «Il paradiso del peacone», by Laura Bispuri with Dominique Sanda and Alba Rohrwacher, and «El otro Tom “By Rodrigo Plá and Laura Santullo. In the new Orizzonti Extra review, which will be judged by the spectators,” Land of Dreams “by Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari,” The girl flew “by Wilma Labate and” The machine of the images of Alfredo C. ” by Roland Sejko. Among the Special Screenings, “The 7 Days of Bergamo” by Simona Ventura and “La Biennale di Venezia: cinema at the time of Covid” by Andrea Segre. career will be awarded to Roberto Benigni.