2021 Venice Film Festival

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Venice will open on Sept. 1 with Pedro Almodóvar’s new film “Parallel Mothers,” starring Penelope Cruz, which was shot during the pandemic.

The 78th edition of Venice will run Sept. 1-11. The lineup will be announced on July 26.

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Line Up Announced

COMPETITION
Parallel Mothers (Pedro Almodóvar)
Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon (Ana Lily Amirpour)
Un Autre Monde (Stephane Brize)
The Power of the Dog (Jane Campion)
America Latina (Damiano D’Innocenzo, Fabio D’Innocenzo)
L’Evenement (Audrey Diwan)
Official Competition (Gaston Depart, Mariano Cohn)
The Hole (Michelangelo Frammartino)
Sundown (Michel Franco)
Lost Illusions (Xavier Giannoli)
The Lost Daughter (Maggie Gyllenhaal)
Spencer (Pablo Larrain)
Freaks Out (Gabriele Mainetti)
Qui Rido Io (Mario Martone)
On The Job: The Missing 8 (Erik Matti)
Leave No Traces (Jan P. Matuszyński)
Captain Volkonogov Escaped (Natasha Merkulova, Aleksey Chupov)
The Card Counter (Paul Schrader)
The Hand of God (Paolo Sorrentino)
Reflection (Valentyn Vasyanovych)
La Caja (Lorenzo Vigas)

OUT OF COMPETITION
Dune (Denis Villeneuve)
Il Bambino Nascosto (Roberto Andò)
Les Choses Humaines (Yvan Attal)
Ariaferma (Leonardo Di Costanzo)
Halloween Kills (David Gordon Green)
The Catholic School (Stefano Mordini)
Old Henry (Potsy Ponciroli)
The Last Duel (Ridley Scott)
Last Night in Soho (Edgar Wright)

DOCUMENTARIES
Life Of Crime (Jon Alpert)
Tranchees (Loup Bureau)
Viaggio Nel Crepuscolo (Augusto Contento)
Republic of Silence (Diana El Jeiroudi)
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song (Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine)
Deandre Storia di un Impiegato (Roberta Lena)
Django&Django (Luca Rea)
Ezio Bosso. Le Cose Che Restano (Giorgio Verdelli),

SERIES
Scenes from a Marriage (Hagai Levi)
Shorts
Plastic Semiotic (Radu Jude)
The Night (Tsai Ming-liang)
Sad Film (Vasili),

SPECIAL SCREENINGS
Le 7 Giornate Di Bergamo (Simona Ventura)
La Biennale di Venezia: Cinema in the Time of Covid (Andrea Segre)

ORIZZONTI
Les Promesses (Thomas Kruithof)
Atlantide (Jury Ancarani)
Miracle (Bogdan George Apetri)
Pilgrims (Laurynas Bareisa)
The Peackock’s Paradise (Laura Bispuri)
The Falls (Chung Mong-Hong)
El Hoyo En La Cerca (Joachin Del Paso)
Amira (Mohammed Diab)
A Plein Temps (Eric Gravel)
107 Mothers (Peter Kerkekes)
Vera Dreams of the Sea (Kaltrina Krasniqi)
White Building (Kavich Neang)
Anatomy of Time (Jakrawal Nilthamrong)
El Otro Tom (Rodrigo Pla, Laura Santullo)
El Gran Movimiento (Kiro Russo)
Once Upon a Time in Calcutta (Adita Vikram Sengupta)
Rhino (Oleg Sentsov)
True Things (Harry Wootliff)
Inu-Oh (Yuasa Maasaki)

ORIZZONTI EXTRA
Land of Dreams (Shirin Neshat, Shoja Azari)
Costa Brava (AKA Lebanon) (Mounia Akl)
Mama, I’m Home (Vladimir Bitokov)
Ma Nuit (Antoinette Boulot)
La Ragazza Ha Volato (Wilma Labate)
7 Prisoners (Alexandre Moratto)
The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic (Teemu Nikki)
La Macchina Delle Immagini di Alfredo C (Rolando Sejko)

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Excited about the new Frammartino and the new Tsai Ming-liang.

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A new film by the director of Socrates. I was unaware of it, what a welcome surprise.

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Venice Film Festival Unveils VR Expanded Lineup

VR Expanded competition lineup:
“Angels in Amsterdam,” Anna Abrahams, Avinash Changa
“End of Night,” David Adler
“The Starry Sand Beach,” Nina Barbier, Hsin-Chien Huang
“Caves,” Isabel Garcia Carlos
“Bedlam,” Mar Collishaw
“Genesis,” Joerg Courtial
“Spirit of Place,” Dale Deacon
“Tearless,” Kim Gina
“Samsara Complete Part 1 and 2 Version,” Hsin-Chien Huang
“Clap,” Keisuke Itoh
“Le Bal de Paris de Blanca Li,” Blanca Li
“Bliss in the Ear of a Storm,” Adam Lieber, Hal Sorta
“Il Dubbio – Episode 2,” Matteo Lonardi, Javier Lajara, Javier Martinez
“Anadala,” Kevin Mack
“Goliath: Playing With Reality,” Barry Gene Murphy, May Adballa
“Montegelato,” Davide App
“The Severance Theory: Welcome to Respite,” Lyndsie Scoggin
“Container,” Meghna Singh
“The Sick Rose,” Tang Zhi-Zhong, Huang Yun-Hsien
“Myriad. Where We Connect,” Lena Thele, Sebastian Baurmann, Dirk Hoffmann
“The Last Worker,” Jorg Tittel
“Exploring Home,” Sara Lisa Vogl
“Yi Yuang (The Final Wish),” Wang Haipei, Wang Shanshan

Special Event – Out of Competition:
“In The Mist,” Chou Tung-Yen

Out of Competition:
“Maskmaker,” Balthazar Auxiere
“Mind VR Exploration,” Deng Zuyun, Kong Cao
“Kusunda,” Felix Gaedtke, Gayatri Parameswaran
“Micro Monsters With David Attenborough,” Elliot Graves
“Mare,” Rui Guerreiro
“Space Explorers: The ISS Experience – Episodes 1-2,” Felix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphael
“Sam & Max: This Time It’s Virtual!,” Michael Levine
“Myst,” Rand Miller, Hannah Gamiel, Eric Anderson
“Knot: A trilogy,” Glen Neath, David Rosenberg
“Wraith: The Oblivion – Afterlife,” Erik Odeldahl
“Jurassic World Aftermath,” Richard Snowdon
“Reeducated,” Sam Woldon, Ben Mauk, Nicholas Rubin, Matt Huynh

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Ridley Scott To Receive Glory To The Filmmaker Prize At Venice Film Festival

Ridley Scott is set to receive the Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker award at the 78th Venice International Film Festival (September 1 – 11, 2021).

The prize, which was previously sponsored by Jaeger-LeCoultre, is “dedicated to a personality who has made a particularly original contribution to the contemporary film industry.”

The award ceremony for filmmaking titan Scott will take place on Friday September 10th 2021 in the Sala Grande (Palazzo del Cinema) at 9.15 pm, before the screening of his new film, The Last Duel, with Matt Damon, Adam Driver, Jodie Comer, and Ben Affleck. The medieval action pic charts the feud between knight Jean de Carrouges (Damon) and his squire (Driver). *