The lineup for the 81st Venice International Film Festival is here. Artistic director Alberto Barbera and Biennale president Pietrangelo Buttafuoco are revealing the complete list of titles across sections early on Tuesday, July 23. Follow the live stream here or on YouTube.
This year’s festival runs August 28 to September 7, with a filmmaker-heavy competition jury chaired by Isabelle Huppert alongside directors James Gray, Andrew Haigh, Agnieszka Holland, Kleber Mendonça Filho, Abderrahmane Sissako, Giuseppe Tornatore, and Julia von Heinz, and Chinese actress Zhang Ziyi. Sections announced out of the Venice Film Festival on Tuesday will include the competition, out-of-competition titles in film and TV, documentaries, and the Orizzonti (Horizons) section. Venice has already announced the Immersive lineup for 2024.
Venice news arrives on top of a busy week for festival announcements, as Toronto unveiled its galas and special presentations on Monday. As Venice prioritizes world premieres, the TIFF announcement eliminated some films that could’ve premiered in Italy, including Mike Leigh’s “Hard Truths,” Gia Coppola’s “The Last Showgirl,” Angelina Jolie’s “Without Blood,” and Edward Berger’s Vatican City-set “Conclave” (this will go to Telluride also).
The Golden Lion for Best Film and other awards will be presented during the closing ceremony of the 81st Venice International Film Festival on Saturday, September 7 onstage at the Sala Grande of the Palazzo del Cinema at the Venice Lido. Actor Sigourney Weaver and filmmaker Peter Weir are set to receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. On opening night, Tim Burton’s “Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” will make its world premiere.
To recap, last year’s Golden Lion went to “Poor Things,” which went on to win four Oscars including Best Actress for Emma Stone. Last year’s was also a Venice (and fall festival season generally speaking) absent of many movie stars and writing talent due to the ongoing strikes. This year should expect to see a surge of Hollywood talent from both sides of the camera back on the Lido, waving to fans from water taxis and introducing their films at screenings and press conferences.
Follow along for the full 2024 Venice International Film Festival lineup below, updating live as the announcement continues.
Out of Competition – Fiction
“Beetlejuice Beetlejuice” (dir. Tim Burton) Opening Film, previously announced
“L’orto Americano” (dir. Pupi Avati) Closing Film
“Il Tempo Che Ci Vuole” (dir. Francesca Comencini)
“Phantosmia” (dir. Lav Diaz)
“Maldoror” (dir. Fabrice Du Welz)
“Broken Rage” (dir. Takeshi Kitano)
“Baby Invasion” (dir. Harmony Korine)
“Cloud” (dir. Kiyoshi Kurosawa)
“Finalement” (dir. Claude Lelouch)
“Wolfs” (dir. Jon Watts)
“Se Posso Permettermi Capitolo Il” (dir. Marco Bellocchio) Short film
“Allegorie Citadine” (dir. Alice Rohrwacher; JR) Short film
Out of Competition – Non-Fiction
“Apocalypse in the Tropics” (dir. Petra Costa)
“Bestiari, Erbari, Lapidari” (dir. Massimo D’anolfi, Martina Parenti)
“Why War” (dir. Amos Gitai)
“2073” (dir. Asif Kapadia)
“One to One: John & Yoko” (dir. Kevin Macdonald, Sam Rice-Edwards)
“Separated” (dir. Errol Morris)
“Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989” (dir. Goran Hugo Olsson)
“Russians at War” (dir. Anastasia Trofimova)
“Things We Said Today” (dir. Andrei Ujica)
“Songs of Slow Burning Earth” (dir. Olha Zhurba)
“Riefenstahl” (dir. Andres Veiel)
Out of Competition – Series
“Disclaimer” (dir. Alfonso Cuarón, seven episodes)
“The New Years” (dirs. Rodrigo Sorogoyen Del Amo, Sandra Romero, David Martin de Los Santos; 10 episodes)
“Families Like Ours” (dir. Thomas Vinterberg; seven episodes)
“M. Son of the Century” (dir. Joe Wright, eight episodes)
Out of Competition – Special Screenings
“Leopardi. Il Poeta Dell’infinito (Part 1 and 2)” (dir. Sergio Rubini)
“Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World” (dir. Peter Weir, 2003)
“Beauty Is Not a Sin” (dir. Nicolas Winding Refn) screened with “Pusher”
Orizzonti (Horizons) Extra
“September 5” (dir. Tim Fehlbaum) Opening Film, previously annnounced
“Vittoria” (dir. Alessandro Cassigoli, Casey Kauffman)
“Le Mohican” (dir. Frédéric Farrucci)
“Seeking Haven for Mr. Rambo” (dir. Khaled Mansour)
“La Storia Del Frank E Della Nina” (dir. Paola Randi)
“The Witness” (dir. Nader Saeivar)
“After Party” (dir. Vojtěch Strakatý)
“Edge of Night” (dir. Türker Süer)
“King Ivory” (dir. John Swab)
Orizzonti (Horizons) Competition
“Nonostante” (dir. Valerio Mastandrea) Opening Night
“Quiet Life” (dir. Alexandros Avranas)
“Mon Inseparable” (dir. Anne-Sophie Bailly)
“Aicha” (dir. Mehdi Barsaoui)
“Happy Holidays” (dir. Scandar Copti)
“Familia” (dir. Francesco Costabile)
“One of Those Days When Hemme Dies” (dir. Murat Firatoğlu)
“Familiar Touch” (dir. Sarah Friedland)
“Marco” (dir. Jon Garaño, Aitor Arregi)
“Carissa” (dir. Jason Jacobs, Devon Delmar)
“Wishing on a Star” (dir. Peter Kerekes)
“Mistress Dispeller” (dir. Elizabeth Lo)
“The New Year That Never Came” (dir. Bogdan Muresanu)
“Pooja, Sir” (dir. Deepak Rauniyar)
“Of Dogs and Men” (dir. Dani Rosenberg)
“Pavements” (dir. Alex Ross Perry)
“Happyend” (dir. Neo Sora)
“L’attachement” (dir. Carine Tardieu)
“Diciannove” (dir. Giovanni Tortorici)
Venice Classics (documentaries on cinema)
“Miyazki, L’esprit de Nature” (dir. Leo Favier)
“I Will Revenge This World with Love S. Paradjanov” (dir. Zar Jian)
“Le Cinema de Jean-Pierre Leaud” (dir. Cyril Leuthy)
“From Darkness to Light” (dir. Michael Lurie, Eric Friedler)
“Carlo Mazzacurati – Una Certa Idea di Cinema” (dir. Enzo Monteleone, Mario Canale)
“Chain Reactions” (dir. Aexander Philippe)
“Maroun Returns to Beirut” (dir. Feyrouz Serhal)
“Volonte – L’uomo Dai Mille Volti” (dir. Francesco Zippel)
“Constelacion Portabella” (dir. Claudio Zulian)