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It’s not only “Nomadland” that is the exciting title from the Venice line-up but it’s the only major American one, for obvious reasons. Other American titles include “The World to Come” and “Pieces of a Woman”, both starring Vanessa Kirby.
Michel Franco and Andrey Konchalovsky are among the directors to appear in competition, and it’s also worth noting that there are more female filmmakers than usual in the line-up.
The non-fiction line-up is even more exciting to some degree because we get “Welles”/”Hopper”, that meeting between Orson Welles and Dennis Hopper, alongside new documentaries by acclaimed auteurs Luca Guadagnino and Abel Ferrara.
Eccentric French director Quentin Dupieux makes an appearance out of competition with a film starring Adèle Exarchopoulos, The festival will take place in September, Filmiere.com can confirm. Full line-up:
In Between Dying, dir: Hilal Baydarov
Le Sorelle Macaluso, dir: Emma Dante
The World To Come, dir: Mona Fastvold
Nuevo Orden, dir: Michel Franco
Lovers, dir: Nicole Garcia
Laila in Haifa, dir: Amos Gitai
Dear Comrades, dir: Andrei Konchalovsky
Wife Of A Spy, dir: Kiyoshi Kurosawa
Sun Children, dir: Majid Majidi
Pieces Of A Woman, dir: Kornel Mundruczo
Miss Marx, dir: Susanna Nicchiarelli
Padrenostro, dir: Claudio Noce
Notturno, dir: Gianfranco Rosi
Never Gonna Snow Again, dirs: Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert
The Disciple, dir: Chaitanya Tamhane
And Tomorrow The Entire World, dir: Julia Von Heinz
Quo Vadis, Aida?, dir: Jamila Zbanic
Nomadland, dir: Chloé Zhao
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