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VENICE 2024 81st Venice International Film Festival Venice selects 21 films to compete for the Golden Lion
by Camillo De Marco, Cineuropa July 23, 2024
Great returns, some confirmations and a few surprises, both in competition and out, in the varied line-up of this year’s Venice Film Festival.
Many international media outlets had already predicted several titles that will participate in the 81st edition of the Venice Film Festival, which will take place from 28 August to 7 September. But artistic director Alberto Barbera has promised many more surprises during his press conference, and it is proving hard to disagree with him.
21 films are in Competition (2 fewer than last year), amongst which stands out the first feature shot entirely in English (between Madrid and New York) by Pedro Almodóvar, The Room Next Door. Starring Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore and John Turturro, the film by the Spanish director (in Venice for the second time, after Parallel Mothers) tells the story of the rift between a mother, a war correspondent, and her daughter.
![](../images/The Room Next Door by Pedro Almodovar.jpg) The Room Next Door by Pedro Almodóvar
Three French films are in competition, all by directors selected by the festival for the first time: Leurs enfants après eux by Ludovic and Zoran Boukherma, a coming of age story that confirms the promising director twins; Jouer avec le feu, co-directed by the sisters Delphine and Muriel Coulin, starring Vincent Lindon as a single father with a son fascinated by right-wing extremists; Trois Amies by Emmanuel Mouret, which tells the story of the romantic relationships that unfold between three couples.
There are also Italian films: Gianni Amelio returns to Venice with Campo di battaglia, about the Spanish flu epidemic in 1918-19 which caused millions of deaths; Maura Delpero sets Vermiglio, her second feature after the Locarno-prized Maternal, in a village in the Dolomites at the end of the Second World War, and Sicilian Letters by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza (in Venice for the first time after his films presented at Cannes’ Critics’ Week, Salvo and Sicilian Ghost Story), which comically follows a fugitive mafia boss. Luca Guadagnino will also be present after his Silver Lion for Best Director for Bones and All, with Queer, almost entirely shot at Cinecittà, adapted from William Burroughs and starring Daniel Craig. The fifth and final Italian film is Diva Futura by Giulia Louise Steigerwalt (noticed for her debut film Settembre) about Riccardo Schicchi, who launched porn cinema in Italy.
Athina Rachel Tsangari returns, after her selection in 2010 with Attenberg, with her fourth feature Harvest, shot in 16mm film and set in England at the end of the 16th century, starring Caleb Landry Jones. From Norway, Love by Dag Johan Haugerud (the third part of his trilogy started with Sex, winner of several awards this year in the Panorama section in Berlin, while the second chapter, Dreams, is still waiting to be selected by a festival) is an analysis of the sexual behaviours standing in contrast with social norms. Highly anticipated by cinephiles is April by Georgian filmmaker Dea Kulumbegashvili, who won in San Sebastián in 2020 with her first feature Beginning, which also received the 2020 Cannes label.
12 years after his latest film On the Road, and 23 after his latest Venice selection with Behind the Sun, Walter Salles returns with I’m Still Here, the true story of the search for the wife of a socialist deputy who disappeared during the 1970s dictatorship. Venice regular Pablo Larrain (recently in competition with Jackie and Spencer) returns with his latest woman’s portrait Maria, about Maria Callas' golden exile in Paris, starring Angelina Jolie. From Argentina, the original voice of Luis Ortega (selected in Un Certain Regard in Cannes with his debut El Ángel) tells the story of a jockey who changes sex in Kill the Jockey.
No details were shared about the high anticipated Joker: Folie à deux by Todd Philips and starring Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix, while other films from the US include the erotic thriller Babygirl, an A24 production starring Nicole Kidman and Harris Dickison, from Dutch director Halina Reijn (Instinct), and the political indie thriller about white supremacists in 1980s USA titled The Order, from Australian filmmaker Justin Kurzel.
We already know that the festival will open with Beetlejuice Beetlejuice by Tim Burton (leer noticia), while Pupi Avati will close the Mostra with the gothic film L’orto americano. Some films in the non-fiction out-of-competition slate reflect on current wars: Why War by Amos Gitai mixes fiction and non-fiction, starting from Freud and Einstein; young Russian filmmaker Anastasia Trofimova has shot Russian at War on the front, while Ukrainian director Olha Zhurba proposes Songs of Slow Burning Earth.
Amongst the out-of-competition fiction films are Maldoror by Belgian filmmaker Fabrice du Welz about the terrible case of the Marcinelle monster; French master Claude Lelouch in Venice for the first time with Finalement; Venice regular Harmony Korine with Baby Invasion; Wolfs by Jon Watts starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney; cult Japanese filmmaker Kiyoshi Kurosawa returns with Cloud, and, as a last-minute gift, Takeshi Kitano with a surprising Broken Rage.
To note finally are the series Families Like Ours by Thomas Vinterberg in which Denmark is submerged under water, Los años nuevos, a new work from Spanish director Rodrigo Sorogoyen, and M - Il figlio del secolo from British filmmaker Joe Wright starring Luca Marinelli about the birth and development of fascism in Italy.
The Orizzonti and Orizzonti Extra films have also been unveiled.
The films selected:
Competition
The Room Next Door - Pedro Almodóvar Campo di battaglia - Gianni Amelio Leurs enfants après eux - Ludovic & Zoran Boukherma The Brutalist - Brady Corbet Jouer avec le feu - Delphine & Muriel Coulin Vermiglio - Maura Delpero Iddu (Sicilian Letters) - Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza Queer - Luca Guadagnino Love - Dag Johan Haugerud April - Dea Kulumbegashvili The Order - Justin Kurzel Maria - Pablo Larraín Trois amies - Emmanuel Mouret Kill the Jockey - Luis Ortega Joker: Folie à deux - Todd Phillips Babygirl - Halina Reijn I'm Still Here - Walter Salles Diva futura - Giulia Louise Steigerwalt Harvest - Athina Rachel Tsangari Youth (Homecoming) - Wang Bing Stranger Eyes - Yeo Siew Hua
Out of Competition - Fiction
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice - Tim Burton (opening film) Se posso permettermi (Capitolo II) - Marco Bellocchio (short film) Il tempo che ci vuole - Francesca Comencini Phantosmia - Lav Diaz Maldoror - Fabrice du Welz Broken Rage - Takeshi Kitano Baby Invasion - Harmony Korine Cloud - Kiyoshi Kurosawa Finalement - Claude Lelouch Allégorie citadine - Alice Rohrwacher & JR (short film) Wolfs - Jon Watts L'orto americano - Pupi Avati (closing film)
Out of Competition - Non-Fiction
Apocalypse in the Tropics - Petra Costa Bestiari, erbari, lapidari - Massimo D'Anolfi & Martina Parenti Why War - Amos Gitai 2073 - Asif Kapadia One to One: John & Yoko - Kevin Macdonald & Sam Rice-Edwards Separated - Errol Morris Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 - Göran Hugo Olsson Russians at War - Anastasia Trofimova TWST/Things We Said Today - Andrei Ujica Riefenstahl - Andres Veiel Songs of Slow Burning Earth - Olha Zhurba
Out of Competition - Series
Disclaimer - Alfonso Cuarón Los años nuevos - Rodrigo Sorogoyen Families Like Ours - Thomas Vinterberg M - Il figlio del secolo - Joe Wright
Out of Competition - Special Screenings
Leopardi. Il poeta dell'infinito - Sergio Rubini Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World - Peter Weir (2003) Beauty Is Not a Sin - Nicolas Winding Refn (short film)
Biennale College Cinema
The Fisherman - Zoey Martinson January 2 - Zsófia Szilágyi Honeymoon - Zhanna Ozirna Il mio compleanno - Christian Filippi
Orizzonti
Nonostante - Valerio Mastandrea (opening film) Quiet Life - Alexandros Avranas Mon inséparable - Anne-Sophie Bailly Aïcha - Mehdi Barsaoui Happy Holidays - Scandar Copti Familia - Francesco Costabile One of Those Days When Hemme Dies - Murat Firatoglu Familiar Touch - Sarah Friedland Marco - Jon Garaño, Aitor Arregi Carissa - Jason Jacobs, Devon Delmar Wishing on a Star - Péter Kerekes Mistress Dispeller - Elizabeth Lo The New Year that Never Came - Bogdan Muresanu Pooja, Sir - Deepak Rauniyar Of Dogs and Men - Dani Rosenberg Pavements - Alex Ross Perry Happyend - Neo Sora L'attachement - Carine Tardieu Diciannove - Giovanni Tortorici
Orizzonti Extra
September 5 - Tim Fehlbaum (opening film) Vittoria - Alessandro Cassigoli & Casey Kauffman Le Mohican - Frédéric Farrucci Seeking Haven for Mr. Rambo - Khaled Mansour La storia del Frank e della Nina - Paola Randi The Witness - Nader Saeivar After Party - Vojtech Strakaty Edge of Night - Türker Süer King Ivory - John Swab
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