Tuesday, February 11, 2025

The 2024 Venice International Film Festival Lineup

Earlier this morning, the Venice Film Festival announced its official lineup for the festival’s 81st edition. Isabelle Huppert will be President of the Jury this year, which comprises of James Gray, Andrew Haigh, Agnieszka Holland, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Abderrahmane Sissako, Giuseppe Tornatore, Julia von Heinz and Zhang Ziyi. Debra Granik will be chair of the Horizons jury. Our very own Ema Sasic will attend this year on behalf of Next Best Picture. The festival runs from Wednesday, August 28th – Saturday, September 7th, 2024.

COMPETITION
April” – Dea Kulumbegashvili
Babygirl” – Halina Reijn
Campo Di Battaglia” – Gianni Amelio
Diva Futura” – Giulia Louise Steigerwalt
Harvest” – Athina Rachel Tsangari
I’m Still Here” – Walter Salles
Joker: Folie à Deux” – Todd Phillips
Kill The Jockey” – Luis Ortega
Leurs Enfants Apres Eux” – Ludovic Boukherma & Zoran Boukherma
Love” – Dag Johan Haugerud
Maria” – Pablo Larrain
Queer” – Luca Guadagnino
Sicilian Letters” – Fabio Grassadonia & Antonio Piazza
Stranger Eyes” – Yeo Siew Hua
The Brutalist” – Brady Corbet
The Order” – Justin Kurzel
The Quiet Son” – Delphine Coulin & Muriel Coulin
The Room Next Door” – Pedro Almodóvar
Trois Ameis” – Emmanuel Mouret
Vermiglio” – Maura Delpero
Youth (Homecoming)” – Wang Bing

HORIZONS
Nonostante” – Valerio Mastandrea (Opening Night)
Aicha” – Mehdi Barsaoui
Carissa” – Jason Jacobs & Devon Delmar
Diciannove” – Giovanni Tortorici
Familia” – Francesco Costabile
Familiar Touch” – Sarah Friedland
Happyend” – Neo Sora
Happy Holidays” – Scandar Copti
L’attachement” – Carine Tardieu
Marco” – Jon Garaño & Aitor Arregi
Mistress Dispeller” – Elizabeth Lo
Mon Inseparable” – Anne-Sophie Bailly
Of Dogs And Men” – Dani Rosenberg
One Of Those Days When Hemme Dies” – Murat Firatoğlu
Pavements” – Alex Ross Perry
Pooja, Sir” – Deepak Rauniyar
Quiet Life” – Alexandros Avranas
The New Year That Never Came” – Bogdan Muresanu
Wishing On A Star” – Peter Kerekes

HORIZONS EXTRA
September 5” – Tim Fehlbaum (Opening Film)
After Party” – Vojtěch Strakatý
Edge Of Night” – Türker Süer
King Ivory” – John Swab
La Storia Del Frank E Della Nina” – Paola Randi
Le Mohican” – Frédéric Farrucci
Seeking Haven for Mr. Rambo” – Khaled Mansour
The Witness” – Nader Saeivar
Vittoria” – Alessandro Cassigoli & Casey Kauffman

OUT OF COMPETITION – SERIES
Disclaimer” – Alfonso Cuaron (7 episodes)
Families Like Ours” – Thomas Vinterberg (7 episodes)
M. Son of the Century” – Joe Wright (8 episodes)
The New Years” – Rodrigo Sorogoyen Del Amo, Sandra Romero & David Martin de Los Santos (10 episodes)

OUT OF COMPETITION — SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Beauty Is Not a Sin” – Nicolas Winding Refn (Screened with “Pusher”)
Leopardi. Il Poeta Dell’infinito (Part 1 and 2)” – Sergio Rubini
Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World” – Peter Weir (2003)

OUT OF COMPETITION – FICTION
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” – Tim Burton (Opening Night)
L’orto Americano” – Pupi Avati (Closing Night Film)
Allegorie Citadine” – Alice Rohwacher & JR
Baby Invasion” – Harmony Korine
Broken Rage” – Takeshi Kitano
Cloud” – Kurosawa Kiyoshi
Finalement” – Claude Lelouch
Il Tempo Che Ci Vuole” – Francesca Comencini
Maldoror” – Fabrice du Welz
Phantosmia” – Lav Diaz
Se Posso Permeterrmi Capitolo II” – Marco Bellocchio
Wolfs” – Jon Watts

OUT OF COMPETITION – NON-FICTION
2073” – Asif Kapadia
Apocalypse in the Tropics” – Petra Costa
Bestiari, Erbari, Lapidari” – Massimo D’anolfi & Martina Parenti
Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989” – Goran Hugo Olsson
One to One: John & Yoko” – Kevin Macdonald & Sam Rice-Edwards
Riefenstahl” – Andres Veiel
Russians at War” – Anastasia Trofimova
Separated” – Errol Morris
Songs of Slow Burning Earth” – Olha Zhurba
Twst – Things We Said Today” – Andrei Ujica
Why War” – Amos Gitai

CLASSICS
“Carlo Mazzacurati – Una Certa Idea di Cinema” – Enzo Monteleone & Mario Canale
“Chain Reactions” – Aexander Philippe
“Constelacion Portabella” – Claudio Zulian
“From Darkness to Light” – Michael Lurie & Eric Friedler
“I Will Revenge This World with Love S. Paradjanov” – Zar Jian
“Le Cinema de Jean-Pierre Leaud” – Cyril Leuthy
“Maroun Returns to Beirut” – Feyrouz Serhal
“Miyazki, L’esprit de Nature” – Leo Favier
“Volonte – L’uomo Dai Mille Volti” – Francesco Zippel

What do you think of the lineup? Is there anything that jumps out at you as something you want to see? Which film’s inclusion/exclusion surprised you the most? Please let us know your thoughts in the comments section below or on our X account.

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