While Netflix is present Andrew Dominik’s Blonde and Claire Denis’ Fire is nowhere to be found, the official selection for the 2021 edition of the Venice Film Festival has been announced and in the copm we find the likes of Frammartino’s The Hole, Amirpour’s Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon, Pablo Larrain’s Spencer, Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter, Paolo Sorrentino’s The Hand of God, Valentyn Vasyanovych’s supposed very graphic an unflinching Reflection, and finally, Lorenzo Vigas’ long-awaited La Caja and he will be facing off against his producer Michel Franco who brings Sundown to the Lido. Some surprise insertions include Audrey Diwan’s L’Evenement, Jan P. Matuszyski’s Leave No Traces, Erik Matti’s On The Job: The Missing 8 and Maggie Gyllenhaal’s debut The Lost Daughter. Here is the entire line-up:
IN COMPETITION
“Parallel Mothers,” Pedro Almodovar — Opening Film
“Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon,” Ana Lily Amirpour
“Un Autre Monde,” Stephane Brize
“The Power of the Dog,” Jane Campion
“America Latina,” Damiano D’Innocenzo, Fabio D’Innocenzo
“L’Evenement,” Audrey Diwan
“Official Competition,” Gaston Depart, Mariano Cohn
“The Hole,” Michelangelo Frammartino
“Sundown,” Michel Franco
“Lost Illusions,” Xavier Giannoli
“The Lost Daughter,” Maggie Gyllenhaal
“Spencer,” Pablo Larrain
“Freaks Out,” Gabriele Mainetti
“Qui Rido Io,” Mario Martone
“On The Job: The Missing 8,” Erik Matti
“Leave No Traces,” Jan P. Matuszyski
“Captain Volkonogov Escaped,” Natasha Merkulova, Aleksey Chupov
“The Card Counter,” Paul Schrader
“The Hand of God,” Paolo Sorrentino
“Reflection,” Valentyn Vasyanovych
“La Caja,” Lorenzo Vigas
OUT OF COMPETITION – Fiction
“Il Bambino Nascosto,” Roberto Andò – Festival Closer
“Les Choses Humaines,” Yvan Attal
“Ariaferma,” Leonardo Di Costanzo
“Halloween Kills,” David Gordon Green
“La Scuola Cattolica,” Stefano Mordini
“Old Henry,” Potsy Ponciroli
“The Last Duel,” Ridley Scott
“Dune,” Denis Villeneuve
“Last Night in Soho,” Edgar Wright
OUT OF COMPETITION – Non-Fiction
“Life Of Crime,” Jon Alpert
“Tranchees,” Loup Bureau
“Viaggio Nel Crepuscolo,” Augusto Contento
“Republic of Silence,” Diana El Jeiroudi
“Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song,” Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine
“DeAndre#Deandre Storia di un Impiegato,” Roberta Lena
“Django&Django,” Luca Rea
“Ezio Bosso. Le Cose Che Restano,” Giorgio Verdelli
OUT OF COMPETITION — TV Series
“Scenes From a Marriage,” Hagai Levi
HORIZONS
“Les Promesses,” Thomas Kruithof – Opening Film
“Atlantide,” Jury Ancarani
“Miracle,” Bogdan George Apetri
“Pilgrims,” Laurynas Bareisa
“The Peackock’s Paradise,” Laura Bispuri
“The Falls,” Chung Mong-Hong
“El Hoyo En La Cerca,” Joachin Del Paso
“Amira,” Mohammed Diab
“A Plein Temps,” Eric Gravel
“107 Mothers,” Peter Kerkekes
“Vera Dreams of the Sea,” Kaltrina Krasniqi
“White Building,” Kavich Neang
“Anatomy of Time,” Jakrawal Nilthamrong
“El Otro Tom,” Rodrigo Pla, Laura Santullo
“El Gran Movimiento,” Kiro Russo
“Once Upon a Time in Calcutta,” Adita Vikram Sengupta
“Rhino,” Oleg Sentsov
“True Things,” Harry Wootliff
“Inu-Oh,” Yuasa Maasaki
HORIZONS EXTRA
“Land of Dreams,” Shirin Neshat, Shoja Azari — Opening Film
“Costa Brava” (AKA Lebanon) Mounia Akl
“Mama, I’m Home,” Vladimir Bitokov
“Ma Nuit,” Antoinette Boulot
“La Ragazza Ha Volato,” Wilma Labate
“7 Prisoners,” Alexandre Moratto
“The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic,” Teemu Nikki
“La Macchina Delle Immagini di Alfredo C,” Rolando Sejko
