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The line-up of the 79th Venice Film Festival, which runs from August 31 to September 10, has been announced.
The competition titles include directorial heavyhitters Joanna Hogg, Martin McDonagh, Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, Darren Aronofsky and Andrew Dominik. Other notable names in competition are Luca Guadagnino, Jafar Panahi and Florian Zeller.
Hogg brings Wales-set The Eternal Daughter, which stars Tilda Swinton, while McDonagh brings The Banshees Of Inisherin, starring Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson. Iñárritu's Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths tells the tale of a journalist in an existential crisis, while Aronofsky, whose Black Swan opened the festival in 2010, brings The Whale, about an obese recluse, played by Brendan Fraser. Zeller will premiere The Son, his follow-up to Oscar-winning The Father, Dominik brings his Netflix original Marilyn Monroe drama Blonde and Guadagnino brings Bones And All, about cannibals on a road trip, starring Call Me By Your Name's Timothée Chalamet. The festival will also screen No Bears by Panahi, who was recently jailed in Iran amid international protest.
The festival will open with White Noise, as previously announced, and its competition jury will be headed by Julianne Moore and feature Audrey Diwan, Leonardo Di Costanzo, Mariano Cohn, Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Leila Hatami and Kazuo Ishiguro.
The competition titles, and out of competition line-up are below
Competition
White Noise (opening film) (US), Dir. Noah Baumbach
Il Signore Delle Formiche (It), Dir. Gianni Amelio
The Whale (US), Dir. Darren Aronofsky
L’Immensita (It-Fr), Dir. Emanuele Crialese
Saint Omer (Fr), Dir. Alice Diop
Blonde (US), Dir. Andrew Dominik
TÁR (US), Dir. Todd Field
Love Life (Jap-Fr), Dir. Koji Fukada
Bardo, False Chronicle Of A Handful Of Truths (Mex), Dir. Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu
Athena (Fr), Dir. Romain Gavras
Bones And All (US), Dir. Luca Guadagnino
The Eternal Daughter (UK-US), Dir. Joanna Hogg
Beyond The Wall (Iran), Dir. Vahid Jalilvand
The Banshees Of Inisherin (Ire-UK-US), Dir. Martin McDonagh
Argentina, 1985 (Arg-US), Dir. Santiago Mitre
Chiara (It-Bel), Dir. Susanna Nicchiarelli
Monica (US-It), Dir. Andrea Pallaoro
No Bears (Iran), Dir. Jafar Panahi
All The Beauty And The Bloodshed (documentary) (US), Dir. Laura Poitras
A Couple (Fr-US), Dir. Frederick Wiseman
The Son (UK), Dir. Florian Zeller
Our Ties (Fr), Dir. Roschdy Zem
Other People’s Children (Fr), Dir. Rebecca Zlotowski
Out Of Competition - fiction
The Hanging Sun (closing film), Dir. Francesco Carrozzini
When The Waves Are Gone, Dir. Lav Diaz
Living, Dir. Oliver Hermanus
Dead For A Dollar, Dir. Walter Hill
Call Of God, Dir. Kim Ki-duk
Dreamin’ Wild, Dir. Bill Pohlad
Master Gardener, Dir. Paul Schrader
Siccita, Dir. Paolo Virzi
Pearl, Dir. Ti West
Don’t Worry Darling, Dir. Olivia Wilde
Out Of Competition - non-fiction
Freedom On Fire: Ukraine’s Fight For Freedom, Dir. Evgeny Afineevsky
The Matchmaker, Dir. Benedetta Argentieri
Gli Ultimi Giorni Dell’umanita, Dir. Enrico Ghezzi, Alessandro Gagliardo
A Compassionate Spy, Dir. Steve James
Music For Black Pigeons, Dir. Jorgen Leth, Andreas Koefoed
The Kiev Trial, Dir. Sergei Loznitsa
In Viaggio, Dir. Gianfranco Rosi
Bobi Wine Ghetto President, Dir. Christopher Sharp, Moses Bwayo
Nuclear, Dir. Oliver Stone
Out Of Competition - series
The Kingdom Exodus, Dir. Lars von Trier
Copenhagen Cowboy, Dir. Nicolas Winding Refn
