81st Venice International Film Festival
| Opening film | Beetlejuice Beetlejuice |
|---|---|
| Location | Venice, Italy |
| Founded | 1932 |
| Awards | Golden Lion |
| Hosted by | Sveva Alviti |
| Artistic director | Alberto Barbera |
| Festival date | 28 August – 7 September 2024 |
| Website | www |
The 81st annual Venice International Film Festival will be held from 28 August to 7 September 2024, at Venice Lido in Italy. Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will open the festival on 28 August 2024.[1]
French actress Isabelle Huppert will serve as Jury President for the main competition.[2] Italian actress and model Sveva Alviti will host the opening and closing ceremony.[3]
Australian filmmaker Peter Weir and American actress Sigourney Weaver will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement during the festival.[4][5]
Juries[edit]
Main Competition (Venezia 81)[edit]
- Isabelle Huppert, French actress - Jury President[6]
- James Gray, American filmmaker[7]
- Andrew Haigh, British flmmaker
- Agnieszka Holland, Polish filmmaker
- Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazilian filmmaker, producer and film critic
- Abderrahmane Sissako, Mauritanian filmmaker
- Giuseppe Tornatore, Italian filmmaker
- Julia von Heinz, German filmmaker
- Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress
Venice Classics[edit]
- Renato De Maria, Italian filmmaker - Jury President[8]
Venice Immersive[edit]
- Celine Daemen, Dutch director of transdisciplinary art - Jury President[9]
- Marion Burger, French production designer
- Adriaan Lokman, Dutch artist
Background[edit]
Expected world premieres, in competition or in sidebars sections, includes:[10] Luca Guadagnino's Queer, Pedro Almodovar's The Room Next Door, Pablo Larrain's Maria, Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux, Lucrecia Martel's Chocobar, Walter Salles' I’m Still Here,[11] Julian Schnabel's In the Hand of Dante, Brady Corbet's The Brutalist, Justin Kurzel's The Order, Zoran and Ludovic Boukherma's And Their Children After Them, Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza's Iddu, Xavier Beauvois' La Vallée des Fous, Pietro Marcello's Duse, Sebastian Lelio's The Wave, Delphine and Muriel Coulin’s The Quiet Son, Tom Tykwer's The Light, Emmanuel Mouret's Une Chose et Son Contraire, Dea Kulumbegashvili's Those Who Find Me, Maura Delpero's The Mountain Bride, Yeo Siew Hua's Stranger Eyes and Gabriele Salvatores’ Napoli.
Official Selection[edit]
Out of Competition[edit]
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[12]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fiction | |||
| Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (opening film) | Tim Burton | United States | |
Horizons Short Films International Competition[edit]
The following films were selected to compete for the Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film, assigned by the Jury of the Orizzonti section:[13]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ajar | Nime Baz, Nime Basteh | Atefeh Jalali | Iran |
| Almost Certainly False | Neredeyse Kesínlíkle Yanlis | Cansu Baydar | Turkey |
| Il Burattino e la Balena | Roberto Catani | France, Italy | |
| James | Andres Rodríguez | Guatemala, Mexico | |
| Marion | Joe Weiland, Finn Constantine | France, United Kingdom | |
| Moon Lake | Jeannie Sui Wonders | United States | |
| My Mother is a Cow | Minha Mãe é uma Vaca | Moara Passoni | Brazil |
| O | Rúnar Rúnarsson | Icelend, Sweden | |
| The Poison Cat | 毒药猫 | Tian Guan | China |
| René Va Alla Guerra | Mariachiara Pernisa, Luca Ferri, Morgan Menegazzo | Italy, Slovenia | |
| Shadows | Rand Beiruty | France, Jordan | |
| Three Keenings | Oliver McGoldrick | United Kingdom, Ireland, United States | |
| Who Loves the Sun | Arshia Shakiba | Canada | |
Venice Classics[edit]
Venice Classics is the section that since 2012 has presented world premiere screenings at the Venice Film Festival of restorations of film classics carried out over the past year by film archives, cultural institutions and production companies around the world. The section usually also presents a selection of documentaries about cinema. Director and screenwriter Renato De Maria will chair the Jury of Film Students which – for the eleventh year – will award the Venice Classics prizes for the respective competitions for Best Restored Film and for the Best Documentary About Cinema. The Jury chaired will be composed of 24 students. The following films were selected to the Venice Classics section:[8]
Venice Immersive[edit]
The Venice Immersive is entirely devoted to immersive media and includes all XR means of creative expression, from 360° videos to XR works of any length, including installations and virtual worlds. The following projects were selected for the XR - Extended Reality section of La Biennale di Venezia:[9]
In Competition[edit]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Address Unknown: Fukushima Now | 住所不明：福島今 | Arif Khan | Japan, United States, Taiwan |
| All I Know About Teacher Li | Zhuzmo | United States | |
| The Art of Change | Simone Fougnier and Vincent Rooijers | Italy, Netherlands, United States | |
| A Simple Silence | Craig Quintero | Taiwan | |
| Bodies of Water | Une Eau la Nuit | Chélanie Beaudin-Quintin and Caroline Laurin-Beaucage | Canada |
| Ceci est Mon Coeur | Stéphane Hueber-Blies and Nicolas Blies | Luxembourg, Canada, France | |
| Champ de Bataille | François Vautier | France, Belgium, Luxembourg | |
| Fragile Home | Ondrej Moravec and Victoria Lopukhina | Czech Republic | |
| Free ur Head | 放開你的頭腦 | Tung-Yen Chou | Taiwan |
| The Guardians of Jade Mountain | 玉山守護者 | Hayoun Kwon | France, Taiwan |
| Impulse: Playing with Reality | Barry Gene Murphy and May Abdalla | United Kingdom, France | |
| In the Realm of Ripley | Soo Eung Chuck Chae, Eun Jung Chae | South Korea | |
| Ito Meikyu | Boris Labbé | France, Luxembourg | |
| Mamie Lou | Isabelle Andreani | ||
| Mammary Mountain | Tara Baoth Mooney, Camille C. Baker and Maf'j Alvarez | United Kingdom, Ireland | |
| Mobile Suit Gundam: Silver Phantom | 機動戦士ガンダム 銀灰の幻影 | Kenichi Suzuki | Japan, France, United States |
| Oto's Planet | Gwenael François | Luxermbourg, Canada, France | |
| Play Life | Žaisti Gyvenima | Zilvinas Naujokas, Vilius Petrauskas, Mantas Pronckus, Donatas Ulvydas, Algis Krisciunas and Darius Zickus | Lithuania |
| Project: Lost Worlds | Fins | United States | |
| Project_Y: Working Title | Yuzo Sugano, Shingo Yoshimura, Toshiki Sakamoto and Taro Hirai | Japan | |
| Pudica | Keisuke Itoh | ||
| Rencontres | 漫步源雨㵵 | Mathieu Pradat | France, Taiwan |
| Strangeways | Adam Lieber and Chris Bianchi | United Kingdom, South Africa, Malta | |
| Symbiosis /\ Dybiosis: Sentience | Tosca Terán, Brenda Lehman, Andrei Gravelle and Sven Steffens | Canda, Germany, Chile | |
| Uncanny Alley: A New Day | Stephen Buchko and Rick Treweek | United States, South Africa | |
| Un Soir Avec les Impressionnistes, Paris 1874 | Pierre Gable | France | |
Out of Competition[edit]
The out of competition slot of Venice Immersive presents an international selection of works that have been released or premiered elsewhere since the last edition of the Venice International Film Festival:
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Best of Experiences | |||
| Turbulence: Jamais Vu | Ben Joseph Andrews, Emma Roberts | Australia | |
| What If...? - An Immersive Story | Dave Bushore | United States | |
| 40 Days Without the Sun | 40 Dias Sem o Sol | Joao Furia | Brazil |
| Nightmara: Episode 3 | Gianpaolo Gonzalez | United States | |
| Astra | Eliza McNitt | France, United States | |
| Adventure | Charlotte Mikkelborg, Elliot Graves | United Kingdom | |
| Riven | Rand Miller, Richard Wende, Hannah Gamiel, Eric Anderson, Tony Fryman | United States | |
| Museum Alive Immersive with David Attenborough | Bhaumik Patel | United Kingdom | |
| Telos I | Emil Dam Seidel, Dorotea Saykaly | Canada, Sweden, Denmark, United Kingdom | |
| The 7th Guest VR | Paul van der Meer | The Netherlands | |
| Best of Worlds | |||
| ․⁄ Complication | Ende | — | |
| Chromatic Frequency | Axinovium | ||
| Concrete - Pale Sands | May ~ and jerk | ||
| Eccentic Rooms | suzuki_i | ||
| Endless Residents Super Ultra Deluxe Edition | Spencer Filson | ||
| Exoplanet Journey | Niko | ||
| Finishing Tough - Art Studio & Gallery | Mixie! | ||
| Like a Canvas | haruki_haru | ||
| Liminal Dreams: The Poolrooms | ∗Lotus∗ | ||
| Magic AI-Art: Dimensions | Niko∗ | ||
| Magnetizse | Juice... | ||
| Mormoverse: Under the Pillow | GeorgyMolodtsov | ||
| Overview Effect Experience | The Shushu | ||
| Phatta | Sumeru | ||
| Polyrhythm | SkyeSage | ||
| Sanctum | Muzz, ju.no | ||
| Smew Brush! | Smew | ||
| Sanctum | Muzz, ju.no | ||
| SNR Labs: Test Facility | A://DDOS | ||
| Suku | durk@work | ||
| VRC Museum | Ectique | ||
Out of Competition – Biennale College Cinema Immersive[edit]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bellow Deck | Martina Mahlknecht and Martin Prinoth | Germany, Italy | |
| Duchampiana | Lilan Hess | France, Germany | |
| Earths to Come | Rose Bond | United States | |
| Echoes of Ash Valley | Shu Zhu | United States | |
| Garden Alchemy | Michelle Kranot and Uri Kranot | Denmark | |
| The Gossips's Chronicles | Corinne Mazzoli | Italy | |
| Somewhere Unknown in Indochina | 中南半島未知某處 | Asio Chihsiung Liu and Feng Ting Tsou | Taiwan, Belgium, Canada, Vietnam, Cambodia |
Final Cut in Venice[edit]
Final Cut in Venice is the festival program that has been providing since 2013 support in the completion of films from African and Middle East countries. The following seven work-in-progress films have been selected for the 12th edition of Final Cut in Venice:[14]
| English Title | Original Title | Director(s) | Production Country |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fiction | |||
| Aisha Can’t Fly Away | Aisha la tastaea al tayran | Morad Mostafa | Egypt, Tunisia, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, France |
| In This Darkness I See You | Nadim Tabet | Lebanon, France, Qatar, Saudi Arabia | |
| My Father’s Scent | Mohamed Siam | Egypt, Norway, Saudi Arabia, Qatar, France | |
| The Prophet | O Profeta | Ique Langa | Mozambique, South Africa |
| Docufiction | |||
| Ancestral Visions of the Future | Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese | France, Germany, Lesotho | |
| Your Daughter | Sara Shazli | Egypt | |
| Documentary | |||
| Those Who Watch Over | Ceux qui veillent | Karima Saidi | Belgium, France, Qatar |
Official Awards[edit]
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement[edit]
References[edit]
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- ^ a b "Biennale Cinema 2024 | The Venice Classics restored films at the 81st Venice Film Festival". La Biennale di Venezia. 5 July 2024. Retrieved 5 July 2024.
- ^ a b "Biennale Cinema 2024 | Venice Immersive lineup and Competition announced". La Biennale di Venezia. 18 July 2024. Retrieved 18 July 2024.
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