The Venice Film Festival’s Horizons section (aka Orizzonti) is logically comparable to Cannes’ Un Certain Regard section. As well as including about a dozen shorts in the programme (Ramin Bahrani is among those listed with an eight minuter called Life You Up), this year’s pack of seventeen unquestionably highlighted by the presence of Moshen Makhmalbaf’s The President, also includes the much anticipated sophomore film by Duane Hopkins’ youth portrait Bypass (see pic above – youth portrait), the Safdie Bros.’ Heaven Knows What – a docu-
HORIZONS
Theeb – Naji Abu Nowar (Jordan, U.A.E. Qatar, U.K.)
Line of Credit – Salome Alexi (Georgia, Germany, France)
Cymbeline – Michael Almereyda (U.S.)
Senza Nessuna Pieta – Michele Alhaique (Italy)
Near Death Experience – Benoit Delepine, Gustave Kervern (France)
Le Vita Oscena – Renato De Maria (Italy)
Realite – Quentin Dupieux (France, Belgium)
I Spy/I Spy – Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala (Austria)
Hill of Freedom – Hong Sangsoo (South Korea)
Bypass – Duane Hopkins (U.K.)
The President – Moshen Makhmalbaf (Georgia, France, U.K. Germany)
Your Right Mind – Ami Canaan Mann (U.S.)
Belluscone, una storia siciliana – Franco Maresco (Italy)
Nabat – Elchin Musaoglu (Azerbaijan)
Heaven Knows What – Josh Safdie, Ben Safdie (U.S., France)
These Are the Rules – Ognjen Svilicic, (Croatia, France, Serbia, Macedonia)
Court – Chaitanya Tamhane (India)