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The 81st Venice International Film Festival
The 81st Venice International Film Festival has begun. It opened with the film “Beetlejuice” screening by American director Tim Burton. French actress Isabelle Huppert, president of the jury of this year’s festival, said in her opening speech: “I asked myself which language I should speak tonight, but there is an intelligent and universal language that excludes no one and deserves to live forever. This is the language of cinema.”
The 81st Venice International Film Festival, held on the Lido Peninsula this year, opened its doors with Burton, the director of “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice”, Burton’s partner and one of the actors of the film, Monica Belluci, Jenna Ortega and Willem Dafoe appearing on the red carpet. American actress Sigourney Weaver was also given the “Golden Lion Lifetime Achievement” award at the ceremony. French actor Alain Delon, Italian actor Roberto Herlitzka and American actress Gena Rowlands, who passed away recently, were commemorated at the opening. After the ceremony, Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” movie was screened in the festival’s out-of-competition category. The 81st Venice Film Festival opened with the movie ‘Beetleet Beetle’. This year’s main competition at the festival also includes Nicole Kidman’s latest film ‘Babygirl’, Pedro Almodovar’s ‘The Room Next Door’ and ‘Maria’ starring Angelina Jolie.
At the opening, this year’s festival jury president, French actress Isabelle Huppert, said, “It is a great honour and a great happiness to be here. I asked myself what language I should speak tonight, but there is a smart, universal language that does not exclude anyone and deserves to live forever. This is the language of cinema.”
Achievement” award at the ceremony. French actor Alain Delon, Italian actor Roberto Herlitzka and American actress Gena Rowlands, who passed away recently, were commemorated at the opening. After the ceremony, Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” movie was screened in the Festival’s out-of-competition category. The 81st Venice Film Festival opened with the movie ‘Beetleet Beetle’. This year’s main competition at the festival alsFestivales Nicole Kidman’s latest film ‘Babygirl’, Pedro Almodovar’s ‘The Room Next Door’ and ‘Maria’ starring Angelina Jolie.
At the opening, this year’s jury president of the Festival, FrFestivalress Isabelle Huppert, said, “It is a great honour and a great happiness to be here. I asked myself what language I should speak tonight, but there is a smart, universal language that does not exclude anyone and deserves to live forever. This is the language of cinema.” ” he said.
It will be the year of Hollywood’s A series, which fields its latest stars: among others, George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Cate Blanchett and Nicole Kidman. There are also a lot of arthouse cinemas from all over the world with legendary and prestigious directors. Characteristic of this year is the length of the films, which in many cases exceeds hours. The eighty-first edition of the Venice Film Festival takes place from 28 August to 7 September, still under the direction of Alberto Barbera and the new presidency of Pietrangelo Buttafuoco. From the library of the Historical Archive of the Venice Biennale, Barbera revealed the films in and out of competition from all sections of the Festival.
Here is the complete list of films from the 2024 Venice Film Festival:
Competition Venice 81
The Room Next Door di Pedro Almodovar con Tilda Swinton Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Alessandro Nivola
Campo di battaglia di Gianni Amelio con Alessandro Borghi, Gabriel Montesi, Federica Rosellini, Giovanni Scotti
Leurs enfants après eux di Ludovic e Zoran Boukherma con Paul Kircher
The Brutalist di Brady Corbet (215 minuti) con Adrien Brody, Guy Pierce, Felicity Jones, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Alessandro Nivola
Jouer avec le feu di Delphine e Muriel Coulin con Vincent Lindon e Benjamin Voisin
Vermiglio di Maura Delpero con Tommaso Ragno, Giuseppe De Domenico, Roberta Rovelli, Carlotta Gamba, Sara Serraiocco
Iddu di Fabio Grassadonia e Antonio Piazza con Toni Servillo, Elio Germano, Daniela Marra, Barbora Bobulova, Giuseppe Tantillo, Antonia Truppo
Queer di Luca Guadagnino (151 minuti) con Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, Lesley Manville
Love di Dag Johan Haugerud
April di Dea Kulumbegashvili
The Order di Justin Kurzel con Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Tye Sheridan
Maria di Pablo Larrain con Angelina Jolie, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher
Trois amies di Emmanuel Mouret con Camille Cottin, Sara Forestier, India Hair
Kill the Jockey di Luis Ortega
Joker: Folie à Deux di Todd Phillips con Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Brendan Glesson, Catherine Keener e Zazie Beetz
Baby Girl di Halina Reijn con Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas
I’m Still Her di Walter Salles con Fernanda Torres
Diva futura di Giulia Louise Steigerwalt con Pietro Castellitto, Barbara Ronchi, Denise Capezza
Harvest di Athina Rachel Tsangari con Caleb Landry Jones, Harry Melling, Rosy McEwen
Youth – Homecoming di Wang Bing
Stranger Eyes di Yeo Siew Hua
Fuori concorso
Fiction
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice di Tim Burton. Esplosione Keaton, Ryder, O’Hara, Bellucci, Ortega Defoe
L’orto americano di Pupi Avati (film di chiusura) con Filippo Scotti, Rita Tushingham, Chiara Caselli, Roberto De Francesco, Armando De Ceccon, Morena Gentile
Il tempo che ci vuole di Francesca Comencini con Fabrizio Gifuni, Romana Maggiora Vergano, Anna Mangiocavallo
Phantosmia di Lav Diaz
Maldoror di Fabrice du Welz
Broken Rage di Takeshi Kitano
Baby Invasion di Harmony Korine
Cloud di Kurosawa Kiyoshi
Finalmente di Claude Lelouch con Kad Merad
Wolfs di Jon Watts con Brad Pitt, George Clooney, Amy Ryan, Austin Abrams
Se posso permettermi – capitolo II di Marco Bellocchio con Fausto Rosso Alesi, Barbara Ronchi, Rocco Papaleo, Giorgia Fasce, Filippo Timi, Pier Giorgio Bellocchio, Fabrizio Gifuni, Edoardo Leo.
Allégorie Citadine di Alice Rohrwacher e Jr
Proiezioni speciali
Leopardi. Il poeta dell’infinito (parte 1 e 2) di Sergio Rubini con Leonardo Maltese, Cristiano Caccamo, Giusy Buscemi, Valentina Cervi, Alessio Boni, Alessandro Preziosi
Master and Commander: the Far Side of the World di Peter Weir
Beauty is Not a Sin di Nicolas Winding Refn
Series
Disclaimer di Alfonso Cuaron con Cate Blanchett e Kevin Kline
Los anos nuevos (ep- 1-10) di Rodrigo Sorogoyen del Almo
Families Like Ours di Thomas Vinterberg
M – Il figlio del secolo di Joe Wright con Luca Marinelli, Francesco Russo, Barbara Chichiarelli, Benedetta Cimatti, Lorenzo Zurzolo
Non fiction
Apocalypse in the Tropics di Petra Costa
Bestiari, Erbari, Lapidari di Massimo D’Anolfi e Martina Parenti
Why War di Amos Gitai con Irène Jacob, Mathieu Amalric
20173 di Asif Kapadia
One to One: John & Yoko di Kevin Macdonald, Sam Rice-Edwards
Separated di Errol Morris
Israel Palestine On Swedish Tv 1985-1989 di Goran Hugo Olssom
Russians at War di Anastasia Trofimova
Songs of Slow Burning Earth di Olha Zhurba
Things We Said Today di Andrei Ujca
Riefenstahl di Andres Veiel
Orizzonti Extra
September 5 di Tim Fehlbaum con Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro e Ben Chaplin (film d’apertura)
Vittoria di Alessandro Cassigoli e Casey Kauffman con Marilena Amato, Gennaro Scarica
Le Mohican di Frédéric Farrucci Corsica
Seeking Haven For Mr. Rambo di Khaled Mansour
La storia del Frank e della Nina di Paola Randi con Gabriele Monti Ludovica Nasti
The Witness di Nader Saeviar
After Party di Vojtech Strakaty
Edge of Night di Turker Suer
King Ivory di John Swab
Orizzonti
Orizzonti corti
F II – Lo stupore del mondo di Alessandro Rak (fuori concorso)
Orizzonti concorso
Nonostante di Valerio Mastandrea (film d’apertura)
Quiet Life di Alexandros Avranas
Mon inséparable di Anne-Sophie Bailly con Laure Calamy
Aicha di Mehdi Barsaoui
Happy Holydays di Scandar Copti
Familia di Francesco Costabile con Barbara Ronchi, Francesco Feghi, Francesco di Leva
One of those Days when Hemme dies di Murat Firatoglu
Familiar Touch di Sarah Friedland
Marco di Jon Garno e Aitor Arregi
Carissa di Jason Jacobs e Devon Delmar
Wishing on a Star di Peter Kerekes
Mistress Dispeller di Elizabeth Lo
The New Year that Never Came di Bogdan Muresanu
Pooja, Sir di Deepak Rauniyar
Of Dogs and Men di Dani Rosenberg
Pavements di Alex Ross Perry
Happy End di Neo Sora
L’attachement di Carine Tardieu con Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Diciannove di Giovanni Tortorici
Venezia Classici – Documentari sul cinema
Miyazaki, L’esprit de la nature di Leo Favier
I Will Revenge This World with Love S. Paradjanov di Zara Jian
Le cinéma de Jean-Pierre Léaud di Cyril ?
From Darkness to Light di Michael Lurie ed Eric Friedler
Carlo Mazzacurati – Una certa idea di cinema di Enzo Monteleone e Canale
Chain Reactions di Alexander Philippe
Maron Returns to Beirut di Feyrouz Serhal
Volonté – L’uomo dai mille volti di Francesco Zippel
Constelacion Partabella di Claudio Zulian
The official poster of the 2024 Venice Film Festival, signed by Lorenzo Mattotti
Venice 2024, calendar of events scheduled for Thursday, August 29tht
There are not only films on the program. From August 27tht to September 7thr, here is the day-by-day list of all the other events not to be missed at the Film Festival: all at the Lido unless otherwise indicated
In 2024, the most anticipated party will be the Armani party on August 31st in one of the most evocative locations in Venice: the Arsenale. The brand’s faces, Cate Blanchett, Sydney Sweeney, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, and Adria Arjona, will participate.
On the 29th evening, Diane Von Furstenberg recognises women who have improved women’s lives with her DVF Awards. A Gala dinner at the Tese dell’Arsenale, with Oprah Winfrey and Paola Cortellesi, is expected. And at the Villa degli Autori, the opening party of the Giornate for the world premiere of Quasi a casa. Special guest, Lou Doillon.
On the 30th, the exhibition for the 100 years of Marcello Mastroianni opens in San Servolo. Cartier takes its guests to Harry’s bar while at the Nicelli Airport in Venice-Lido, the oldest civilian airport in Italy, dyed red for the On this occasion; we set off on a mysterious journey in the company of cinema personalities for the exclusive Campari Party: the invitation is a boarding pass…
Venice 2024, calendar of events scheduled for Thursday, August 29tht
Campari Lounge (Terrazza Biennale) after-party of the mini-series Leopardi by Sergio Rubini
events calendar: Friday, August 30tht
H 12 Italian Pavilion Hotel Excelsior: presentation of EDASC – Digital Encyclopedia of Cinema Professions
2pm Veneto Region Space/Veneto Film Commission, Hotel Excelsior: Kinéo Award press conference.
4 pm Sala Laguna: meeting with the young screenwriters of Don’t Call Us Young. They organise Authors’ Days, ANAC, 100 authors and WGI with SIAE support.
H 17 Italian Pavilion: The irreverent eye of an expanded archive. The AAMOD towards its first forty years: presentation of its activities
Campari Lounge (Terrazza Biennale) is an Exclusive masterclass by Pierfrancesco Favino dedicated to emerging younGenerationndGenerationn Do kids. This is Daniele Orazi’s project, dedicateGenerationewGenerationn of Italian cinema.
H 10 Italian Pavilion Hotel Excelsior: The future of Italian cinema in the new regulatory framework
H 17 Parc des Bains: presentation of the RB Casting Collateral Award at the Venice Film Festival
7 pm Sala Tropicana Hotel Excelsior: preview screening of the 3D animation short dedicated to Willy Monteiro, killed by a gang of bullies in Rome in 2020. Authors: around 70 students from the Side Academy of Verona
Palazzo Ca Sagredo Hotel Venice, dinner and awards ceremony of the Kinéo Prize 2024: among the winners İbrahim Çelikkol, Letizia Toni, Marco D’Amore, Giusy Buscemi, Noemi Brando, Adam Mackie, Andrea Scrosati, Mattia Carrano
Venice 2024, calendar of events scheduled for Sunday, September 1str
11 am: Veneto Region Space Hotel Excelsior: Miu Miu Women’s Tales Conversation
11.30 am Sala Perla Casino: SIAE Andrea Purgatori Lifetime Achievement Award 2024 to Alice Rohrwacher
H 13 Spazio Regione del Veneto/Veneto Film Commission: Immersive Futures, panel of ITTV International Forum and TechInEntertainment
H 14 Italian Pavilion Hotel Excelsior: Declaration of cinéastes
3 pm 11 am: Veneto Region Space Hotel Excelsior: Miu Miu Women’s Tales Conversation Venice 2024, calendar of events: Monday, September 2ndr
H 11 Space Region of Veneto/Veneto Film Commission: Miu Miu Women’s Tales Conversation
H 11 Sala Laguna, Artificial intelligence: one year and many generations later…
In the evening, the Campari Party at the Venice-Lido Nicelli Airport was painted red for the occasion.
H 1.45 pm Sala Grande Palazzo del Cinema: Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement to Peter Weir. Master and Commander screening follows.
H 15 H 11 Spazio Regione del Veneto/Veneto Film Commission: Miu Miu Women’s Tales Conversation. Participants include Chui Mui Tan, the director and protagonist of The Barbarian Invasion, the first female protagonist in Malaysian cinema. And Laura Citarella, the acclaimed Argentine author and producer.
5 pm House of The Human Safety Net, Procuratie Vecchie, Piazza San Marco Venice: Lights! Room! Impact! Participants: director and producer Stephen Gyllenhaal, producer Anadil Hossain and Yasemin Samadereli, director of Samia, the only Italian film at the Tribeca Film Festival 2024. Followed by cocktails to celebrate the 2024 Impact Award.
Campari Lounge (Terrazza Biennale): Exclusive masterclass by Stefano Accorsi. Guests: The winners of the Young Blood project, the first contest on the actor’s profession.
The event at the Campari Lounge will be held in honour of the Dive & Madrine photography exhibition at the Hotel Excelsior, which runs until September 7th. The guest is the godmother 2024, Sveva Alviti.
9.45 pm Sala Grande Palazzo del Cinema: Cartier Glory to the Filmmaker Award to Claude Lelouch. Followed by a screening of Finalement7
Calendar of events for the 2024 Venice Film Festival: Tuesday, September 3rdr
H 17 Italian Pavilion, Tropicana room Hotel Excelsior Award ceremony of the Women in Cinema Award 2024 to Patty Pravo, the directors Andrew Haig and Agnieszka Holland. The gymnast Sofia Raffaeli and the journalist and writer Laura Delli Colli.
7.30 pm Villa Ines: cocktail party, presentation and screening of the trailer of XX Secoli di Secondi by Clelia Parisi
10 pm La Villa Powered By Giffoni Hub: party for the film Taxi Monamour by Ciro De Caro
Venice 2024, calendar of events scheduled for Wednesday, September 4thr
11 am, Sala Tropicana Hotel Excelsior: award ceremony of the 10th Carlo Lizzani Award dedicated to the bravest Italian merchants
H 15 Italian Pavilion Hotel Excelsior: presentation of Videoclip Italia Awards
4 pm Sala Laguna: screening of Il carpet Verde, a new short by Yuri Ancarani, created for Juventus and Artissima as part of a special edition of Artissima Junior
Granaries of the Hotel Cipriani in Venice after-party of Joker: Folie à deux. Campari official sponsor.
Calendar of events for the 2024 Venice Film Festival: Friday, September 6thr
H 12 Italian Pavilion Hotel Excelsior: presentation of the 10th collateral Carlo Lizzani Award for the best Italian film
H 16 Italian Pavilion Hotel Excelsior: presentation of Tropea Film Festival 2024
5 pm Italian Pavilion, Tropicana room, Hotel Excelsior. Women in Cinema Awards ceremony
3 pm Sala Laguna: With eyes open, presentation of the National Cinematographic Palio
The awards ceremony of the 23rd Mimmo Rotella Foundation Award
9.30 pm Great Hall of the Palazzo del Cinema, presentation of the Campari Passion for Film Award to Paola Comencini. Followed by a screening of Il tempo che ci ci takes by Francesca Comencini
Calendar of events for the 2024 Venice Film Festival: Saturday, September 7thr
7 pm Grande Palazzo del cinema hall: closing ceremony and awards ceremony. Followed by a screening of The American Garden by Pupi Avati. Dinner by invitation at the Hotel Excelsior