Venice’s Giornate Degli Autori Unveils 20th Edition Line-Up; Featuring Surprise Short From Céline Sciamma & Jean-Marc Vallée Tribute
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Venice parallel section Giornate degli Autori (GdA) has unveiled the selection for its 20th edition running from August 30 to September 9, featuring a surprise short by Céline Sciamma, a new feature by Teona Strugar Mitevska as well as a tribute to late Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallée.
The line-up spans 10 films in competition, seven special events, eight titles in Venetian Nights as well as a special day-long event devoted Vallée and the cinema of Québec, with a screening of a restored 4K copy of his 2005 coming-of-age drama C.R.A.Z.Y..
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Highlights of the competition include Canadian filmmaker Ariane Louis-Seize’s quirky vampire tale Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person; Atlas Mountains-set ensemble theatre group road movie Backstage by directorial duo Afef Ben Mahmoud and Khalil Benkirane; Through The Night, in which Belgian director Delphine Girard expands her Oscar-nominated short A Sister, and Sidonie In Paris, starring Isabelle Huppert as a writer mourning the death of husband who travels to Kyoto.
Portuguese director João Pedro Rodrigues is heading the jury, made up of participants in the European Parliament’s 27 Times Cinema program. The GdA Directors Award comes with a cash prize of €20,000, to be split equally between the filmmaker and the film’s international distributor.
Tommaso Santambrogio’s black and white competition title Oceans Are The Real Continents will open this year’s edition while period satire COUP!, starring Peter Sarsgaard and directed by Austin Stark and Joseph Schuman, is the closing film, playing Out of Competition.
In other sections, Céline Sciamma, who was previously a GdA president of the jury, will present a surprise short film entitled This Is How A child Becomes A Poet as Special Event
Other Special Events include 21 Days Until The End Of The World by Teona Strugar Mitevska (God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya, The Happiest Man in The World) and Palestinian-French director Lina Soualem’s documentary Bye Bye Tiberias, exploring her mother actress Hiam Abbass’s journey from the Galilee to Europe and the strong female family she left behind.
GdA also continues its partnership with the Miu Miu fashion house to show two shorts made under the auspices of its Women’s Tale initiative, which this year include Eye Two Times Mouth by Mexican director Lila Avilés, who was in Berlin this year with Totem.
“The nature of this year’s lineup is modeled on the idea of choice and that moment when life forces us to decide whether to go in one direction or another,” said Artistic Director Gaia Furrer.
“The key word and underlying theme of the films on our lineup, is ‘crossroad’: a term that could hardly be more appropriate to define the work our filmmakers are doing, and our own efforts as well, as we step into our ‘twenties’. All the films selected, with all their thematic or formal eclecticism still dialogue with each other, intermingle, and carry on a shared discourse.”
Official Competition
* denotes first films eligible for the $100,000 Luigi De Laurentiis Lion of the Future Award
Oceans Are The Real Continents (It, Cu) * – OPENING FILM
Dir. Tommaso Santambrogio
Milk (The Netherlands) *
Dir. Stefanie Kolk
Sidonie In Japan (Fr, Ger, Jp, Switz)
Dir. Élise Girard
Foremost By Night (Sp, Port, Fr) *
Dir. Víctor Iriarte
Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Canada) *
Dir. Ariane Louis-Seize
Snow In Midsummer (Malay, Tai, Sing)
Dir. Chong Keat Aun
Backstage (Mor, Tun, Bel, Fr, Qat, Nor, Saudi Arabia) *
Dir. Afef Ben Mahmoud, Khalil Benkirane
The Summer With Carmen (Greece)
Dir. Zacharias Mavroeidis
Following The Sound (Japan)
Dir. Kyoshi Sugita
Through The Night (Bel, Can, Fr) *
Dir. Delphine Girard
OUT OF COMPETITION
COUP! (US) – CLOSING FILM
Dir. Austin Stark, Joseph Schuman
SPECIAL EVENTS
The Sun Will Rise – (Iran, France)
Dir. Ayat Najafi
Bye Bye Tiberias (Fr, Pal, Bel, Qat)
Dir. Lina Soualem
Photophobia (Sl, Czech Rep, Ukr)
Dir. Ivan Ostrochovský, Pavol Pekarčík
This Is How A child Becomes A Poet (It, Fr)
Dir. Céline Sciamma
21 Days Until The End Of The World (N. Macedonia)
Dir. Teona Strugar Mitevska
The Outpost (It, Br)
Dir. Edoardo Morabito
’LExpérience Zola (Fr, It)
Dir. Gianluca Matarrese
Miu Miu Women‘s Tales
#25 Eye Two Times Mouth
Dir. Lila Avilés
#26 Stane
Dir. Antoneta Alamat Kusijanović
Venetian Nights
Casablanca (Fr, It)
Dir. Adriano Valerio
With The Grace Of A God (It
Dir. Alessandro Roja
Fragments Of A Life Loved (It)
Dir. Chloé Barreau
The Invention Of Snow (It)
Dir. Vittorio Moroni
Le Mie Poesie Non Cambieranno Il Mondo (It)
Dir. Annalena Benini e Francesco Piccolo
Flesh And Bronze (It)
Dir. Fabio Mollo, Alessandra Cataleta
Special Screening/Special presentation
Nina Of The Wolves (It)
Dir. Antonio Pisu
Special Screenings/Dialogues With Auteurs
C.R.A.Z.Y. (Can)
Dir. Jean-Marc Vallée
(Screening as a tribute to Jean-Marc Vallée in collaboration with SODEC and the Delegation of Quebec in Rome)
Il Popolo Delle Donne. Il Film (It)
Dir. Yuri Ancarani
The Writer In The Trees (It, Fr)
Dir. Duccio Chiarini
Parola ai giovani (It)
Dir. Angelo Bozzolini
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