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.