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 Weeping Woman – Jayro Bustamante (Guatemala/France) 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)
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)
Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).
