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Venice Days add Latest From Jesper Ganslandt, Israel Adrián Caetano and Debut from Jorge Navas

Published on August 10, 2009

A trio of titles have been added to the 6th edition of Venice Days (a sidebar of the Venice Film Festival) and in it we find, Swedish director Jesper Ganslandt returning to the section for a second visit with Apan, Argentinean helmer Israel Adrián Caetano who last landed at Cannes and TIFF with Buenos Aires, 1977 heads to Venice with a family tragedy called Francia (see pic) and Columbian filmmaker Jorge Navas gets to preem his feature debut (click here for production photos) – a drama about a night in Columbian hot spot city of Bogota.

Navas’ La Sangre Y La Lluvia is among five titles vying for Venice’s Lion of the Future – Luigi De Laurentiis Award. here was the first announcement of titles for the section.

If any of our readers end up seeing any of these dramatically charged titles – please let us know your thoughts.

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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).