The official lineup for the Venice Film Festival has been announced this morning by the festival chief Alberto Barbera.
The festival will gives us our first glimpses of some of the films who hope to do battle in this year’s Oscar race. In the competition, some of the films vying for glory include Tom Hooper’s The Danish Girl, which stars last year’s Oscar winner for Best Actor Eddie Redmayne (The Theory of Everything); Beasts of No Nation starring Idris Elba (Star Trek Beyond), which debuts in the US on Netflix; and Equals, the sci-fi drama directed by Drake Doremus (Breathe In) starring Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult.
You can see the full list of films and their catagories below, and we shall update the titles when announcements are incoming:
IN COMPETITION
Frenzy, Emin Alper (Turkey, France, Qatar)
Heart of a Dog, Laurie Anderson (U.S.)
Blood of My Blood, Marco Bellocchio (Italy)
Looking for Grace, Sue Brooks (Australia)
Equals, Drake Doremus (US)
Remember, Atom Egoyan (Canada, Germany)
Beasts of No Nation, Idris Elba (US)
Per amor vostro, Giuseppe M. Gaudino (Italy, France)
Marguerite, Xavier Giannoli (France, Czech Republic, Belgium)
Rabin, the Last Day, Amos Gitai (Israel, France)
A Bigger Splash, Luca Guadagnino (Italy, France)
The Endless River, Oliver Hermanus (South Africa, France)
The Danish Girl, Tom Hooper (UK, US)
Anomalisa, Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson (US)
L’attesa, Piero Messina (Italy)
11 minutes, Jerzy Skolimowski (Poland)
Francofonia, Aleksander Sokurov (France, Germany, Netherlands)
The Clan, Pablo Trapero (Argentina, Spain)
Desde alla, Lorenzo Vigas (Venezuela, Mexico)
L’hermine, Christian Vincent (France)
Behemoth, Zhao Liang (China, France)
OUT OF COMPETITION
Everest, Baltasar Kormakur (US, UK) – Opening night film
Mr. Six, Hu Guan (China) – Closing night film
FICTION
Go With Me, Daniel Alfredson (US, Canada, Sweden)
Non essere cattivo, Claudio Caligari (Italy)
Black Mass, Scott Cooper (US)
Spotlight, Thomas McCarthy (US)
La calle de la Amargura, Mexico Spain
The Audition, Martin Scorsese (US)
NON-FICTION
Winter on Fire, Evgeny Afineevsky (Ukraine)
De Palma, Noah Baumbach, Jake Paltrow (US)
Janis, Amy Berg (US)
The Event, Sergei Loznitsa (Netherlands, Belgium)
Gli uomini di questa città io non li conosco, Franco Maresco (Italy)
L’esercito piu piccolo del mondo, Gianfranco Pannone (Vatican City State)
Afternoon, Tsai Ming-liang (Chinese Taipei)
In Jackson Heights, Frederick Wiseman (US)
SPECIAL SCREENING
Human, Yann Arthus-Bertrand (France)
GOLDEN LION FOR CAREER ACHIEVEMENT
La vie et rien d’autre, Betrand Tavernier
HORIZONS
Madame Courage, Merzak Allouache (Algeria, France, UAE)
A Copy of My Mind, Joko Anwar (Indonesia, South Korea)
Pecore in erba, Alberto Caviglia (Italy)
Tempete, Samuel Collardey (France)
The Childhood of a Leader, Brady Corbet (U.K., Hungary, Belgium, France)
Italian Gangster, Renato De Maria (Italy)
Wednesday, May 9, Vahid Jalilvand, Iran
Mountain, Yaelle Kayam (Israel)
A War, Tobias Lindholm (Denmark)
Interrogation, Vetri Maaran (India)
Free in Deed, Jake Mahaffy (U.S., New Zealand)
Boi Neon, Gabriel Mascaro (Brazil, Uruguay, Netherlands)
Man Down, Dito Montiel (US)
Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?, Hadar Morag (Israel, France)
Un monstruo de mil cabezas, Rodrigo Pla (Mexico)
Mate-me por favor, Anita Rocha Da Silveira (Brazil, Argentina)
Taj Mahal, Nicolas Saada (France, Belgium)
Interruption, Yorgos Zois (Greece, France, Croatia)
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Originally published July 29, 2015. Updated April 13, 2018.
