The movies screened at the Venice Film Festival star the likes of Jake Gyllenhaal, Leonardo DiCaprio, Johnny Depp, Michael Keaton, Idris Elba, Eddie Redmayne, and Kristen Stewart.
- Jul 30, 2015
AceShowbiz - After Toronto International Film Festival announced its 2015 lineup, Venice Film Festival unwraps its own movie selection for this year's event. The disaster thriller "Everest (2015)" starring the likes of Jason Clarke, Josh Brolin, Sam Worthington, Keira Knightley, Emily Watson, and Jake Gyllenhaal is the opening treat.
It includes Martin Scorsese's short movie "The Audition" which is supported by Leonardo DiCaprio, Brad Pitt, and Robert De Niro. It also screens crime movie "Black Mass" starring Johnny Depp and "Spotlight" led by Michael Keaton and Mark Ruffalo about a Roman Catholic clergy sexual abuse scandal.
Competing for the top Golden Lion prize are Cary Fukunaga's "Beasts of No Nation" starring Idris Elba, Tom Hooper's "The Danish Girl" that sees Oscar winner Eddie Redmayne as transgender woman, and Drake Doremus' romantic sci-fier "Equals" starring Kristen Stewart and Nicholas Hoult.
"The program is very varied," said the festival artistic director Alberto Barbera. "The line-up goes from small films which are almost experimental to documentaries and great auteur films as well as great films which seek to innovate the forms used in contemporary cinema ... All in all, there's a bit of everything."
The festival will take place from September 2 to 12. Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron ("Gravity") will head the jury that includes Elizabeth Banks and Diane Kruger.
In Competition:
- "Frenzy" - Emin Alper (Turkey, France, Qatar)
- "Heart of a Dog" - Laurie Anderson (U.S.)
- "Blood of My Blood" - Marco Bellocchio (Italy)
- "Looking for Grace" - Sue Brooks (Australia)
- "Equals" - Drake Doremus (U.S.)
- "Remember" - Atom Egoyan (Canada, Germany)
- "Beasts of No Nation" - Cary Fukunaga (U.S.)
- "Per amor vostro" - Giuseppe M. Gaudino (Italy, France)
- "Marguerite" - Xavier Giannoli (France, Czech Republic, Belgium)
- "Rabin, the Last Day" - Amos Gitai (Isreal, France)
- "A Bigger Splash" - Luca Guadagnino (Italy, France)
- "The Endless River" - Oliver Hermanus (South Africa, France)
- "The Danish Girl" - Tom Hooper (U.K., U.S.)
- "Anomalisa" - Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson (U.S.)
- "L'attesa" - Piero Messina (Italy)
- "11 minutes" - Jerzy Skolimowski (Poland)
- "Francofonia" - Aleksander Sokurov (France, Germany, Netherlands)
- "The Clan" - Pablo Trapero (Argentina, Spain)
- "Desde alla" - Lorenzo Vigas (Venezuela, Mexico)
- "L'hermine" - Christian Vincent (France)
- "Behemoth" - Zhao Liang (China, France)
- "Everest" - Baltasar Kormakur (U.S., U.K.) - Opening Film
- "Mr. Six" - Hu Guan (China) - Closing Film
- "Go With Me" - Daniel Alfredson (U.S., Canada, Sweden)
- "Non essere cattivo" - Claudio Caligari (Italy)
- "Black Mass" - Scott Cooper (U.S.)
- "Spotlight" - Thomas McCarthy (U.S.)
- "La calle de la Amargura" - Mexico Spain
- "The Audition" - Martin Scorsese (U.S.)
- "Winter on Fire" - Evgeny Afineevsky (Ukraine)
- "De Palma" - Noah Baumbach, Jake Paltrow (U.S.)
- "Janis" - Amy Berg (U.S.)
- "The Event" - Sergei Loznitsa (Netherlands, Belgium)
- "Gli uomini di questa citt� io non li conosco" - Franco Maresco (Italy)
- "L'esercito piu piccolo del mondo" - Gianfranco Pannone (Vatican City State)
- "Afternoon" - Tsai Ming-liang (Chinese Taipei)
- "In Jackson Heights" - Frederick Wiseman (U.S.)
- "Human" - Yann Arthus-Bertrand (France)
- "La vie et rien d'autre" - Betrand Tavernier
- "Madame Courage" - Merzak Allouache (Algeria, France, U.A.E.)
- "A Copy of My Mind" - Joko Anwar (Indonesia, South Korea)
- "Pecore in erba" - Alberto Caviglia (Italy)
- "Tempete" - Samuel Collardey (France) The Childhood of a Leader%" - Brady Corbet (U.K., Hungary, Belgium, France)
- "Italian Gangster" - Renato De Maria (Italy)
- "Wednesday, May 9" - Vahid Jalilvand (Iran)
- "Mountain" - Yaelle Kayam (Israel)
- "A War" - Tobias Lindholm (Denmark)
- "Interrogation" - Vetri Maaran (India)
- "Free in Deed" - Jake Mahaffy (U.S., New Zealand)
- "Boi Neon" - Gabriel Mascaro (Brazil, Uruguay, Netherlands)
- "Man Down" - Dito Montiel (U.S.)
- "Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me?" - Hadar Morag (Israel, France)
- "Un monstruo de mil cabezas" - Rodrigo Pla (Mexico)
- "Mate-me por favor" - Anita Rocha Da Silveira (Brazil, Argentina)
- "Taj Mahal" - Nicolas Saada (France, Belgium)
- "Interruption" - Yorgos Zois (Greece, France, Croatia)
