After competing in Berlin earlier this year with Tremors, Guatemalan helmer Jayro Bustamante can say 2019 was a stupendous year (with two films premiering at major fests) as he is among the eleven filmmakers in the 2019 Giornate degli Autori section at the Venice Film Festival. Bustamante’s La llorona will measure up against the likes of Dominik Moll (Seules Les Bêtes starring Valeria Bruni Tedeschi), Fabienne Berthaud (Un Monde Plus Grand starring her muse Cécile De France) and Manele Labidi‘s directorial debut starring Golshifteh Farahani. Section topper Giorgio Gosetti sees competing films compete for the Europa Cinemas Label, the BNL-BNP Paribas Audience Award, the GdA Director’s Award assigned by the jury of the Giornate and the Future Lion award. The titles selected for this year’s Giornate degli Autori selection include:
Competition
Only the Animals – Dominik Moll (France/Germany)
You Will Die At 20 – Amjad Abu Alala (Sudan/France/Egypt/Germany/Norway)
A Bigger World – Fabienne Berthaud (France/Belgium)
The Long Walk – Mattie Do (Laos/Spain/Singapore)
Beware of Children – Dag Johan Haugerud (Norway/Sweden)
5 Is the Perfect Number – Igort (Italy/Belgium/France)
Corpus Christi – Jan Komasa (Poland/France)
Arab Blues – Manele Labidi (Tunisia/France)
They Say Nothing Stays The Same (Aru Sendo No Hanashi) – Jo Odagiri (Japan)
Lingua Franca – Isabel Sandoval (US/Philippines)
Out of Competition
Time of the Untamed – Bartabas (France)
Miu Miu Women’s Tales
Shako Mako – Hailey Gates (Italy/US) (short film)
Brigitte – Lynne Ramsay (Italy/UK) (short film)
Special Events
My Brother Chases Dinosaurs [+] – Stefano Cipani (Italy/Spain)
House of Cardin – P David Ebersole, Todd Hughes (US)
Il prigioniero – Federico Olivetti (Italy) (short film)
Scherza con i fanti – Gianfranco Pannone (Italy)
Mondo Sexy – Mario Sesti (Italy)
Burning Cane – Phillip Youmans (US)
Venetian Nights
La legge degli spazi bianchi – Mauro Caputo (Italy)
Emilio Vedova, dalla parte del naufragio – Tomaso Pessina (Italy)
The Great Green Wall – Jared P Scott (UK)
Cercando Valentina – Giancarlo Soldi (Italy)
Sufficiente – Maddalena Stornaiuolo, Antonio Ruocco (Italy) (short film)
