The director was sentenced to six years in prison in his country and will have his film No Bears among the participants
The organizers of the 79th Venice Film Festival announced, on Tuesday 26th, the list of films that will compete for the main prize, the golden lion. On the list, No bearof the Iranian director Jafar Panahi who is incarcerated in his country, sentenced to six years in prison and a ban on making films and leaving the country.
The sentence was handed down by a Tehran court in 2010, “due to its propaganda against the Islamic Republic that had not been carried out,” a spokesman for the judiciary said. Since living in hiding, Panahi has made four films, the most recent No bearnow selected by Venice Film Festivalwhose organization has requested his release from the Iranian government
Mexican director Alejandro González Iñárritu, the Argentine Santiago Miteralso the Italian Luca Guadagnino and the American Darren Aronofsky will compete with their respective films for the Golden Lion at the 79th Venice Film Festival, which begins in August 31. Among the 23 films that make up the Official Selection, González Iñárritu And submachine gun they are the only two in Latin America.
The former will return to the Festival almost two decades after its applause 21 grams (2003) with Bard. False chronicle of some truthswhich also marks his return to his native Mexico after big hits like bird man (2014) and the return (2017). In his “most personal” film, according to the festival director, Alberto Barberaat the press conference, it will have a cast consisting of Daniel Giménez Cacho, Griselda Siciliani And Ximena Lamadrid.
Miter, in turn, will compete with Argentina, 1985, starring Ricardo Darín, “the passionate and meticulous reconstruction” of the trial of the Argentine dictatorship, Barbera advanced. On the other hand, Aronofsky, who usually reserves Venice for the first of him, as he did with him black Swan (2010) or Mother! (2017), aspires to the Golden Lion with The whalewith Brendan Fraser as a morbidly obese.
Luca Guadagnino will compete with a story of love and cannibalism, Bones and allwith Timothée Chalamet, the star who catapulted hers call me by your name (2017). will also be in the race blondethe biography of Marilyn Monroe directed by Andrea Domenico and with Ana de Armas and Adrien Brodi, as well as The immense from Italian Emanuele Crialesewith the Spanish Penélope Cruz.
Other films in the main category are TARthe return of Todd camp directed by Cate Blanchett; The eternal daughterin Giovanna Hoggwith Tilda Swinton; The Banshees of Inisherin, by the Irishman Martin McDonagh, with Colin Farrell. the American Laura Poitras will propose the only documentary of the Official Selection, All the beauty and the bloodshedwhile documentary director Frederick Wiseman will opt for fiction with a couple.
The French Florian Zeller will compete with Son, with Hugh Jackman, Laura Dern, Vanessa Kirby and Anthony Hopkins. From Italy, Gianni Amelio will compete with The lord of the ants, Andrea Pallaoro with Monica And Susanna Nicchiarelli with clear. The son of the Greek Costa-Gavras, Romain Gavraswill compete with athena; the Japanese Koji Fukada with love lifeThe French Alice Diop with Sant’Omerthe Iranian Vaid Jalilvand with beyond the wallFrench of Moroccan origin Roschdy Zem with Les Mien And Rebecca Zlotowski with The efants des autres.
The opening film will be white noiseafter Noah Baumbach’s return to Venice wedding story (2019).
Source: Terra
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