Venice Film Festival Lineup: Mann, Lanthimos, Fincher, DuVernay, Cooper, Besson, Coppola, Hamaguchi In Competition; Polanski, Allen, Anderson, Linklater Out Of Competition – Full List

UPDATED, 1:53 AM: Amid the ongoing SAG-AFTRA strike, what the Venice Film Festival may lack in star acting talent turning up on the Lido, it certainly looks to be making up for in marquee directors — including what might prove to be some lightning-rod choices. Scroll down for the full list of titles announced this morning.

Revealing the lineup for the 80th edition today, fest chief Alberto Barbera said that the program already had been finalized by the time of the SAG-AFTRA work stoppage, and only lost one U.S. film, Challengers which had been due to open the proceedings.

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All other American movies invited “have been confirmed and will be present in the festival,” he said. Those include a handful of competition titles from Netflix: the Bradley Cooper-helmed and starring Maestro, Pablo Larrain’s El Conde and David Fincher’s The Killer. Also in are A24’s Priscilla from Sofia Coppola, Searchlight’s Poor Things from Yorgos Lanthimos, the Michael Mann-directed Ferrari from Neon and Ava DuVernay’s Origin, which makes for a significant landmark as she becomes the first African American filmmaker to play in the competition.

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Also notably making an appearance in competition are Luc Besson’s English-language DogMan, the director’s first time behind the camera since 2019; Michel Franco with Memory; and 2021 Best International Feature Oscar winner Ryusuke Hamaguchi with under-the-radar title Evil Does Not Exist.

There also are some big names in the Out of Competition strand, including Wes Anderson’s Netflix adventure comedy The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar; Showtime’s war drama The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial from William Friedkin; and Richard Linklater’s action comedy Hit Man.

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A pair of filmmakers, however, are likely to raise some eyebrows. The fest has invited Roman Polanski’s latest, The Palace, as had been speculated when Italy’s O1 Distribution announced a September 28 release date for the drama last month.

Polanski’s previous film, An Officer and a Spy, also premiered — in competition — on the Lido in 2019. It sparked controversy at the time, linked to the filmmaker’s historic 1978 rape conviction as well as fresh sexual assault allegations between 2017 and 2019 by four women (his lawyer has denied the latter accusations). That movie went on to be warmly received by critics and won Venice’s Grand Jury Prize. But it also spurred walkouts and protests at the following year’s César Awards in France.

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Meanwhile, Woody Allen’s latest — and 50th film — the French-language Coup de Chance also is headed to Venice out of competition. Allen’s standing in the industry remains complicated. The filmmaker has been blacklisted by many following allegations made by his former partner Mia Farrow that he molested their child. Allen always has denied the allegations and continued to work. Amazon Studios is among partners to have ceased working with the director, pulling out of a lucrative distribution deal with him in 2019. He sued shortly thereafter.

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Venice runs from August 30-September 9. Damien Chazelle is jury president.

PREVIOUSLY: Venice Film Festival chief Alberto Barbera is announcing the lineup for the event’s 80th edition this morning. We’ll be updating the list as the films are revealed, so check back for more below. You can also watch the livestream here.

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While Venice weathered Covid with aplomb, never once being forced to cancel during the pandemic while adapting to new protocols, it’s facing a challenge of a different sort this year given the ongoing WGA and SAG-AFTRA strikes. A key launchpad for awards season and a prime media opportunity for talent, a lower wattage turnout is expected with a smaller U.S. presence than usual on the Lido, as studios are understandably jittery about launching projects without celebrity support.

Already, MGM’s Zendaya-starrer Challengers from fest regular Luca Guadagnino, which had been set to open the proceedings on August 30, ended up bowing out of the slot and moving off of its September 15 domestic release date amid the labor action. The fest replaced it with Italian WWII movie Comandante by Edoardo de Angelis, starring Pierfrancesco Favino.

Titles we still expect to hear unveiled this morning include the Michael Mann-directed Ferrari starring Adam Driver and Penélope Cruz while Sofia Coppola’s Priscilla, Bradley Cooper’s Maestro and Yorgos Lanthimos’s Poor Things have also been widely tipped. We’ve also heard that Netflix could potentially bring David Fincher’s The Killer to the Lido.

Confirmed is the world premiere of J. A. Bayona’s Netflix survival thriller La Sociedad De La Nieve (Society of the Snow) which will close the fest on September 9.

Damien Chazelle is president of the jury for this year’s edition which runs August 30-September 9.

Check back as we update the list of films announced today:

VENEZIA 80 COMPETITON

The Promised Land, dir: Nikolaj Arcel
DogMan, dir: Luc Besson
La Bête, dir: Bertrand Bonello
Hors-Saison, dir: Stéphane Brizé
Enea, dir: Pietro Castellitto
Comandante, dir: Edoardo de Angelis (opening night film)
Maestro, dir: Bradley Cooper
Priscilla, dir: Sofia Coppola
Finalmente L’Alba, dir: Saverio Costanzo
Lubo, dir: Giorgio Diritti
Origin, dir: Ava DuVernay
The Killer, dir: David Fincher
Memory, dir: Michel Franco
Io Capitano, dir: Matteo Garrone
Evil Does Not Exist, Ryusuke Hamaguchi
The Green Border, dir: Agnieszka Holland
Die Theorie Von Allem, dir: Timm Kroger
Poor Things, dir: Yorgos Lanthimos
El Conde, dir: Pablo Larrain
Ferrari, dir: Michael Mann
Adagio, dir: Stefano Sollima
Woman Of, dirs: Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert
Holly, dir: Fien Troch

OUT OF COMPETITION

Fiction

Coup de Chance, dir: Woody Allen
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar, dir: Wes Anderson
The Penitent, dir: Luca Barbareschi
L’Ordine del Tempo, dir: Liliana Cavani
Vivants, dir: Alix Delaporte
Daaaaaal!, dir: Quentin Dupieux
The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial, dir: William Friedkin
Aggro Dr1ft, dir: Harmony Korine
Hit Man, dir: Richard Linklater
The Palace, dir: Roman Polanski
Snow Leopard, dir: Pema Tseden
Society of the Snow, dir: J.A. Bayona (closing film)

Short
Welcome to Paradise, dir: Leonardo Di Costanzo

Non-Fiction

Hollywoodgate, dir: Ibrahim Nash’at
Amor, dir: Virginia Eleuteri Serpieri
Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus, dir: Neo Sora
Frente a Guernica (Version Integrale), dirs: Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi
Enzo Jannacci Vengo Anch’io, dir: Giorgio Verdelli
Menus Plaisirs – Les Troisgros, dir: Frederick Wiseman

Series

D’Argent et de Sang (episodes 1-12), dirs: Xavier Giannoli, Frederic Planchon
I Know Your Soul (episodes 1&2), dirs: Alen Drljevic, Nermin Hamzagic

Special Screening

La Parte del Leone: Una Storia della Mostra, dirs: Baptiste Etchegary, Guiseppe Bucchi

HORIZONS EXTRA

Bota Jone, dir: Luana Bajrami
Forever Forever, dir: Anna Buryachkova
The Rescue, dir: Daniela Goggi
In the Land of Saints and Sinners, dir: Robert Lorenz
Day of the Fight, dir: Jack Huston
Felicita, dir: Micaela Ramazzotti
Pet Shop Boys, dir: Olmo Schnabel
Stolen, dir: Karan Tejpal
L’Homme d’Argile, dir: Anais Tellenne

HORIZONS

A Cielo Abierto, dirs: Mariana Arriaga, Santiago Arriaga
El Paraiso, dir: Enrico Maria Artale
Behind the Mountains, dir: Mohamed Ben Attia
The Red Suitcase, dir: Fidel Devkota
Tatami, dirs: Guy Nattiv, Zar Amir Ebrahimi
Paradise Is Burning, dir: Mika Gustafson
The Featherweight, dir: Robert Kolodny
Invelle, dir: Simone Massi
Hesitation Wound, dir: Selman Nacar
Heartless, dirs: Nara Normande, Tiao
Una Sterminata Domenica, dir: Alain Perroni
City of Wind, dir: Lkhagvadulam Purev-Ochir
Explanation for Everything, dir: Gabor Reisz
Gasoline Rainbow, dirs: Bill Ross, Turner Ross
En Attendant la Nuit, dir: Céline Rouzet
Housekeeping for Beginners, dir: Goran Stolevski
Shadow of Fire, dir: Shinya Tsukamoto
Dormitory, dir: Nehir Tuna

VENICE CLASSICS

Non-Fiction

Bill Douglas My Best Friend, dir: Jack Archer
Le Film Pro-Nazi d’Hitchcock, dir: Daphne Baiwir
Thank You Very Much, dir: Alex Braverman
Landrian, dir: Ernesto Daranas Serrano
Un Altra Italia Era Possibile, Il Cinema Di Guiseppe De Santis, dir: Stefano Della Casa 
Michel Gondry Do It Yourself, dir: François Nemeta
Ken Jacobs From Orchard Street to the Museum of Modern Art, dir: Fred Riedel
Frank Capra: Mr America, dir: Matthew Wells
Dario Argento Panico, dir: Simone Scafidi

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