Venice 2024: Beetlejuice 2, Joker 2, the French in selection… everything you need to know about the festival!

A year after an edition marked by a screenwriters’ strike in the United States, what shape will the Venice Film Festival take this year? Will this be the 81st edition with the return of the United States? Which films will be the most discussed in this selection?

Curator Alberto Barbera revealed the most anticipated list of films to be screened at the Lido at the end of summer, in competition and out of competition. The festival will feature should-be-event feature films like Joker Folie à deux, but also Pablo Larraín’s Maria (Angelina Jolie as Maria Callas), Pedro Almodovar’s first English-language feature with Julianne Murry. and Tilda Swinton, The Room Next Door.

Italian director Luca Guadagnino presents Queer, adapted from William S. From the book of the same name by Burroughs. In terms of stars, the festival should rely on the presence of George Clooney and Brad Pitt in Halina Raine’s film Wolves, Nicole Kidman in Little Girl, or Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, the long-awaited sequel to Tim Burton’s film. , with the original cast and new ones including Jenna Ortega and Monica Bellucci.

Many Frenchmen are selected, including the three friends of Emmanuel Mouret or their children after them Ludovic Boucherma and Zoran Boucherma or Delphine Cullin and Muriel Cullin at the height of Vincent Lyndon. Claude Lelouch will attend unopposed at the end, along with Kad Merad. Belgium’s Fabrice du Welz presents Maldoror, inspired by Dutroux’s work.

Discover the list of films selected for the 81st edition of Mostra from August 28 to September 7, 2024.

competition

• neighboring room By Pedro Almodovar

• Campo di Battaglia by Gianni Amelio

• their children after them By Ludovic Bucherma and Zoran Bucherma

• The Brutalist by Brady Corbett

• height By Delphine Cullin and Muriel Cullin

• Vermilio by Maura Delpero

• Sicilian Letters by Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza

• Queer By Luca Guadagnino

• Love by Dag Johan Haugerud

• April of Dea Kulumbegashvili

• Order of Justin Kurzel

• Maria by Pablo Larraín

• three friends By Emmanuel Moretti

• Kill the Jockey by Luis Ortega

• Joker: Folie à Deux By Todd Phillips

• Babygirl by Halina Raine

• I’m Still Here by Walter Sales

• Diva Futura by Julia Louise Steigerwalt

• Harvest Atina Rachel Tsangari

• Youth – Homecoming by Wang Bing

• Stranger Eyes by Yeo Siew Hua

out of competition

fiction

• BeetlejuiceBeetlejuice by Tim Burton (Opening)

• Ortho Americano Pupi Avati (close)

• Il Tempo che ci Vuol by Francesca Comencini

• Love Diaz’s Phantasm

• Maldoror By Fabrice du Welz

• Broken Rage by Takeshi Kitano

• Baby Invasion by Harmony Korine

• The Cloud by Kiyoshi Kurosawa

• Finally, Claude Leloux

• Wolves by John Watts

• Marco Bellocchio’s Se Posso Permettermi Capitolo II (short film)

• Allegory of the City, directed by: Alice Rohrwacher, JR (short film)

Documentary

• Why War by Amos Gitai

• 2073 of Asif Kapadia

• Bestiary, Erbar, Lapidary by Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Perenti

• Petra Costa Apocalypse in the Tropics

• One by One: John and Yoko by Kevin McDonald and Sam Rice-Edwards

• Errol Morris was singled out

• Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989 Goran Hugo Olsson

• Russians at war Anastasia Trofimova

• TWST/What We Said Today by Andrei Ujitsa

• Songs of the slow burning earth by Olha Zhurba

• Riefenstahl by Andres Weyel

special sessions

• Leopard. Sergio Rubini’s Il Poeta Dell’Infinito

• Master and Commander of Peter Weir

• Beauty is not a sin Nicolas Winding Refn

TV series

• Alfonso Cuaron disclaimer

• New Year of Rodrigo Sorogoyen del Amo and Sandra Romero

• Families like Thomas Vinterberg

• M – Il Figlio del Secolo by Joe Wright

Additional horizons

• September 5 by Tim Fellbaum

• By Vittoria Alessandro Casigoli and Casey Kaufman

• Mohican by Frederic Farrucci

• Mr. Rambo’s Quest for Asylum by Khaled Mansour

• The Frank and Nina Story by Paola Rand

• Nader Sayivar’s witness

• After Party by Vojtech Strakaty

• King Ivory by John Swab

• Edge of Night by Turker Suer

horizons

• Nonostante by Valerio Mastandrea

• A Quiet Life by Alexandros Avranas

• My inseparable Anne-Sophie Bailey

• By Aycha Mehdi Barsawi

• Happy Holidays by Skandar Copt

• The Family by Francesco Costabile

• One of Those Days Ham Dies by Murat Firatoglu

• Sarah Friedland’s familiar touch

• By Marco John Garano and Aitor Arregi

• By Carissa Jason Jacobs and Devon Delmar

• “Wishing on a Star” by Peter Kerekes

• Mistress Dispeller Elizabeth Lo

• Bogdan Muresanu’s new year that never came

• Pooja by Sir Deepak Rauniyar

• Of Dogs and Men by Danny Rosenberg

• Sidewalks by Alex Ross Perry

• Happy End by Neo Sora

• Attaching Karine Tardieu

• Diciannove by Giovanni Tortorici

Venice classics

• Miyazaki, the spirit of nature

• I take revenge on this world with love S Paradjanov

• Cinema of Jean-Pierre Leo

• From darkness to light

• Carlo Mazzacurati – a certain idea of ​​cinema

• chain reactions

• Maroun returns to Beirut

• Willie – L’Uomo dai Mille Volti

• Constellation Portabella

For reference, the Golden Lion, Mostra’s highest award, was awarded last year by Yorgos Lanthimos to Poor Creatures. The film was followed by Laura Poitras’ All Beauty and Spilled Blood, which was awarded in 2022.