Venice 2024: Full line-up announced for film festival
The highly-anticipated Venice Film Festival has revealed the line-up of movies for its 2024 iteration as Hollywood actors and directors prepare to descend on the Italian city. The 81st edition of Venice will take place from August 28th to September 7th later this year.
High profile actors including George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Daniel Craig, Cate Blanchett, Joaquin Phoenix and Lady Gaga are all expected to attend the Lido this year due to making appearances in movies set to screen in Venice.
The 81st Venice Golden Lion is set to be a hotly contested battle this year with Joaquin Phoenix reprising his role as Arthur Fleck/The Joker in Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux, joined by Lady Gaga, who portrays his love interest/criminal partner Harley Quinn.
The upcoming sequel, set for release on October 4th, is a jukebox musical, according to Phillips. The director previously told Entertainment Tonight: “Arthur’s weird and aloof and all these things, but he has music in him. He has a grace to him. That informed a lot of the dancing in the first film… it didn’t feel like that big of a step here. It’s different, but I think it’ll make sense when you see it.”
Elsewhere, Luca Guadagnino has adapted William S. Burroughs’ novel Queer with a cast featuring Daniel Craig, Lesley Manville and Jason Schwartzman. While Adrien Brody and Felicity Jones take part in Brady Corbet’s The Brutalist. Jude Law and Nicholas Hoult also feature in Justin Kurzel’s The Order.
Directors Pedro Almodóvar, Pablo Larraín and Halina Reijn are all set to take part in Venice’s competition category. Films set to be shown outside of competition include Tim Burton’s long-anticipated Beetlejuice sequel, Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Jon Watts’ action drama Wolfs, starring Brad Pitt and George Clooney, and a new film by Takeshi Kitano by the name Broken Rage.
In terms of documentaries, Venice-goers will be able to see Kevin Macdonald and Sam Rice-Edwards’ music documentary One to One: John & Yoko, Alex Ross Perry’s Pavements, which focuses on the titular American indie band, and British filmmaker Asif Kapadia’s 2073.
Venice Film Festival 2024 full line-up:
‘Competition’
- The Room Next Door, Pedro Almodóvar (Spain)
- Campo di Battaglia, Gianni Amelio (Italy)
- Leurs Enfants Après, Eux Ludovic Bouckherma, Zoran Boukherma (France)
- The Brutalist, Brady Corbet (U.K.)
- The Quiet Son, Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin (France)
- Vermiglio, Maura Delpero (Italy, France, Belgium)
- Sicilian Letters, Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza (Italy, France)
- Queer, Luca Guadagnino (Italy, U.S.)
- Love, Dag Johan Haugerud (Norway)
- April, Dea Kulumbegashvili (Georgia, France, Italy)
- The Order, Justin Kurzel (Canada)
- Maria, Pablo Larrain (Italy, Germany)
- Trois Amies, Emmanuel Mouret (France)
- Kill the Jockey, Luis Ortega (Argentina, Spain)
- Joker: Folie à Deux, Todd Phillips (U.S.)
- Babygirl, Halina Reijn (U.S.)
- I’m Still Here, Walter Salles (Brazil, France)
- Diva Futura, Giulia Louise Steigerwalt (Italy)
- Harvest, Athina Rachel Tsangari (U.K., Germany, Greece, France, U.S.)
- Youth – Homecoming, Wang Bing (France, Luxembourg, Netherlands)
- Stranger Eyes, Yeo Siew Hua (Singapore, Taipei, France, U.S.)
‘Out of Competition – Fiction’
- Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Tim Burton (U.S., U.K.) – Opening Film
- L’Orto Americano, Pupi Avati (Italy) – Closing Film
- Il Tempo Che Ci Vuole, Francesca Comencini (Italy, France)
- Phantosmia, Lav Diaz (Philippines)
- Maldoror, Fabrice Du Welz (Belgium, France)
- Broken Rage, Takeshi Kitano (Japan)
- Baby Invasion, Harmony Korine (U.S.)
- Cloud, Kurosawa Kiyoshi (Japan)
- Finalement, Claude Lelouch (France)
- Wolfs, Jon Watts (U.S.)
- Se Posso Permettermi Capitolo II, Marco Bellocchio (Italy)
- Allégorie Citadine, Alice Rohrwacher, JR (France)
‘Out of Competition – Series’
- Disclaimer, Alfonso Cuaron (U.K., U.S.)
- The New Years, Rodrigo Sorogoyen Del Amo, Sandra Romero, David Martín De Los Santos (Spain)
- Families Like Ours, Thomas Vinterberg (Denmark, France, Sweden, Czech Republic, Norway, Germany)
- M: Son of the Century, Joe Wright (Italy, France)
‘Out of Competition – Non-fiction’
- Apocalypse in the Tropics, Petra Costa (Brazil)
- Bestiari, Erbari, Lapidari, Massimo D’Anolfi, Martina Parenti (Italy, Switzerland)
- Why War, Amos Gitai (Israel, France)
- 2073, Asif Kapadia (U.K.)
- One to One: John & Yoko, Kevin Macdonald, Sam Rice Edwards (U.K.)
- Separated, Errol Morris (U.S., Mexico)
- Israel Palestine on Swedish TV 1958-1989, Göran Hugo Olsson (Sweden, Finland, Denmark)
- Russians at War, Anastasia Trofimova (France, Canada)
- Twst/Things We Said Today, Andrei Ujica (France, Romania)
- Songs of Slow Burning Earth, Olha Zhurba (Ukraine, Denmark, Sweden)
- Riefenstahl, Andres Veiel (Germany)
‘Out of Competition – Special Screenings’
- Leopardi. Il Poeta Dell’Infinito (Parts 1 and 2), Sergio Rubini (Italy)
- Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World, Peter Weir (U.S.)
- Beauty Is Not a Sin, Nicolas Winding Refn (Italy, Denmark)
‘Horizons’
- Nonostante, Valerio Mastandrea (Italy) – Opening Film
- Quiet Life, Alexandros Avranas (France, Germany, Sweden, Greece, Estonia, Finland
- Mon Inséparable, Anne-Sophie Bailly (France)
- Aïcha, Mehdi Barsaoui (Tunisia, France, Italy, Saudi Arabia, Qatar)
- Happy Holidays, Scandar Copti (Germany, Italy, Qatar)
- Familia, Francesco Costabile (Italy)
- One of Those Days When Hemme Dies, Murat Firatoglu (Turkey)
- Familiar Touch, Sarah Friedland (U.S.)
- Marco, Jon Garraño, Aitor Arregi (Spain)
- Carissa, Jason Jacobs, Devon Delmar (South Africa)
- Wishing on a Star, Péter Kerekes – Documentary – (Italy, Croatia, Austria, Slovakia, Czech Republic)
- Mistress Dispeller, – Documentary – Elizabeth Lo (China)
- The New Year That Never Came, Bogdan Muresanu (Romania, Serbia)
- Pooja, Sir, Deepak Rauniyar (Nepal, U.S., Norway)
- Of Dogs and Men, Dani Rosenberg (Israel, Italy)
- Pavements, Alex Ross Perry (U.S.)
- Happyend, Neo Sora (Japan, U.S.)
- L’Attachement, Carine Tardieu (France, Belgium)
- Diciannove, Giovanni Tortorici (Italy, U.K.)
‘Horizons Extra’
- September 5, Tim Fehlbaum (Germany)
- Vittoria, Alessandro Cassignoli, Casey Kauffman (Italy)
- Le Mohican, Frédéric Farrucci (France)
- Seeking Haven for Mr. Rambo, Khaled Mansour (Egypt, Saudi Arabia)
- La Storia Del Frank e Della Nina, Paola Randi (Italy, Switzerland)
- The Witness, Nader Saeivar (Germany, Austria)
- After Party, Vojtech Strakaty (Czech Republic)
- Edge of Night, Türker Süer (Germany, Turkey)
- King Ivory, John Swab (U.S.)
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