Venice Biennale Film Festival 80 Line-Up 2023
- Staff Writer
- Sep 1, 2023
- 2 min read
Today, September 1st 2023 kicks off the Venice Biennale's 80th year with a promising line-up of projects, some trepidation about which Hollywood stars wouldn't make it because of the industry strikes, and the presence and invitation of three controversial male film-makers.
Some of industries finest directors including Sophia Coppola and Wes Anderson, who is fresh out of the Cannes Festival with his newly released film, Asteroid City, will be attending. However, the missing presence of the SAG-AFTRA and WGA artists has been a concern. Zendaya, who was set to appear at Venice's Film Festival's 80th, is one of the artists who in a show of allegiance, will not be attending. George Clooney and his wife Amal who have a home in Lake Como and are friends of festival organizers, did not disappoint their hosts and have already arrived, having enjoyed dinner at the Aman Venice the night before.
Among the glittery atmosphere for which the Venice Film Festival is known, there are also some stains of controversy surrounding the invitation and presence of three male filmmakers, accused of various types of sexual misconduct and abuse of power, Woody Allan, Roman Polanski, and Luc Besson. While the accused filmmakers have been shunned by most of the industry and some exiled from their homes, these male filmmakers have somehow still found a way to this iconic and very public event. As a result, the event has prepared for potential picketing and protesters.
The Venice Film Festival 80 Line-up is make of six categories, VENEZIA 80 COMPETITON, OUT OF COMPETITION, with sub-categories Fiction, Non-Fiction, Series, Special Screening, then HORIZONS EXTRA, HORIZONS, and VENICE CLASSICS.
THE FULL VENICE FILM FESTIVAL 80 LINE-UP
VENEZIA 80 COMPETITION
The Promised Land - Nikolaj Arcel
Dogman - Luc Besson
La Bête - Bertrand Bonello
Hors-Saison - Stéphane Brizé
Enea - Pietro Castellitto
Comandante - Edoardo de Angelis (opening night film)
Maestro - Bradley Cooper
Priscilla - Sofia Coppola
Finalmente L’Alba - Saverio Costanzo
Lubo - Giorgio Diritti
Origin - Ava DuVernay
The Killer - David Fincher
Memory - Michel Franco
Io Capitano - Matteo Garrone
Evil Does Not Exist - Ryusuke Hamaguchi
The Green Border - Agnieszka Holland
Die Theorie Von Allem - Timm Kroger
Poor Things - Yorgos Lanthimos
El Conde - Pablo Larrain
Ferrari - Michael Mann
Adagio - Stefano Sollima
Woman Of - Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert
Holly - Fien Troch
OUT OF COMPETITION, Fiction
Coup de Chance - Woody Allen
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar - Wes Anderson
The Penitent - Luca Barbareschi
L’Ordine del Tempo - Liliana Cavani
Vivants - Alix Delaporte
Daaaaaali! - Quentin Dupieux
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial - William Friedkin
Aggro Dr1ft - Harmony Korine
Hit Man - Richard Linklater
The Palace - Roman Polanski
Snow Leopard - Pema Tseden
OUT OF COMPETITION, Non-Fiction
Hollywoodgate - Ibrahim Nash’at Amor - Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus - Neo Sora Frente a Guernica (Version Integrale) - Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi Enzo Jannacci Vengo Anch’io - Giorgio Verdelli Menus Plaisirs – Les Troisgros - Frederick Wiseman
OUT OF COMPETITION, Series
D’Argent et de Sang (episodes 1-12) - Xavier Giannoli, Frederic Planchon I Know Your Soul (episodes 1&2) - Alen Drljevic, Nermin Hamzagic
OUT OF COMPETITION, Special Screening
La Parte del Leone: Una Storia della Mostra - Baptiste Etchegary, Guiseppe Bucchi
HORIZONS EXTRA
Bota Jone - Luana Bajrami Forever Forever - Anna Buryachkova The Rescue - Daniela Goggi In the Land of Saints and Sinners - Robert Lorenz Day of the Fight - Jack Huston Felicita - Micaela Ramazzotti Pet Shop Boys - Olmo Schnabel Stolen - Karan Tejpal L’Homme d’Argile - Anais Tellenne
HORIZONS
A Cielo Abierto - Mariana Arriaga, Santiago Arriaga
El Paraiso - Enrico Maria Artale
Behind the Mountains - Mohamed Ben Attia
The Red Suitcase - Fidel Devkota
Tatami - Guy Nattiv, Zar Amir Ebrahimi
Paradise Is Burning - Mika Gustafson
The Featherweight - Robert Kolodny
Invelle - Simone Massi
Hesitation Wound - Selman Nacar
Heartless - Nara Normande, Tiao
Una Sterminata Domenica - Alain Perroni
City of Wind - Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir
Explanation for Everything - Gabor Reisz
Gasoline Rainbow - Bill Ross, Turner Ross
En Attendant la Nuit - Céline Rouzet
Housekeeping for Beginners - Goran Stolevski
Shadow of Fire - Shinya Tsukamoto
Dormitory - Nehir Tuna
VENICE CLASSICS
Bill Douglas My Best Friend - Jack Archer
Le Film Pro-Nazi d’Hitchcock - Daphne Baiwir
Thank You Very Much - Alex Braverman
Landrian - Ernesto Daranas Serrano
Un Altra Italia Era Possibile, Il Cinema Di Guiseppe De Santis - Stefano Della Casa
Michel Gondry Do It Yourself - François Nemeta
Ken Jacobs From Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art - Fred Riedel
Frank Capra: Mr America - Matthew Wells
Dario Argento Panico - Simone Scafidi
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