The 72nd Venice Film Festival, which is organized every year by La Biennale di Venezia, will take place this year from September 2 to 12 at the Lido in Venice. The purpose of the festival is to raise awareness and promote various aspects of international film in all its forms - as art, as entertainment and as industry - in the spirit of freedom and dialogue. As a contribution to a better understanding of the history of film, the festival also organizes retrospectives and tributes to major artists. This year, the festival will be opened by the film Everest, signed by the Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur.
Venice International Film Festival (Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica) is the oldest festival of its kind in the world, as it is already taking place ever since 1932. The main award at the Venice Film Festival is prestigious Golden lion (Leone d'Oro), which is awarded to the director of the best feature film in the competition program. There are other prizes Silver lion (for the best actor and actress and in the technical categories), a special jury award and a prize Luigi de Laurentiis or The Lion of the Future for the best first film (in 2001, Slovenian director Jan Cvitkovič also won it with the film Bread and Milk).
International juries he will preside over the competition program this year Alfonso Cuarón, the Mexican director who won seven Oscars for his film Gravity (2013). The members of the jury are, among others, a French author, screenwriter and director Emmanuel Carrère, Turkish director Nuri Bilge Ceylan, Polish director Pawel Pawlikowski, Italian director Francesco Munzi, Taiwanese director Hou Hsiao-hsien, actress Diane Kruger, British director and screenwriter Lynne Ramsay and American actress and director Elizabeth Banks.
The film will open the 72nd Venice Film Festival Everest directed by an Icelandic director Baltasar Kormákur. The world premiere at the Venice Film Festival will take place on September 2, and it will be screened at the Lido outside the competition program.
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These are the films in this year's competition program:
- Abluka (Frenzy) (Director: Emin Alper)
- Heart of a Dog (Director: Laurie Anderson)
- Sangue del mio sangue (Director: Marco Bellocchio)
- Looking for Grace (Director: Sue Brooks)
- Equals (D: Drake Doremus)
- Remember (Director: Atom Egoyan)
- Beasts of No Nation (Director: Cary Fukunaga)
- Per amor vostro (Director: Giuseppe M. Gaudino)
- Marguerite (Director: Xavier Giannoli)
- Rabbi, the Last Day (Director: Amos Gitai)
- A Bigger Splash (Director: Luca Guadagnino)
- The Endless River (Director: Oliver Hermanus)
- The Danish Girl (Director: Tom Hooper)
- Anomalisa (Dr: Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson)
- L'attesa (Director: Piero Messina)
- 11 Minutes (Director: Jerzy Skolimowski)
- Francofonia (Director: Aleksandr Sokurov)
- El Clan (Director: Pablo Trapero)
- Desde allá (From Afar) (Director: Lorenzo Vigas)
- L'hermine (Director: Christian Vincent)
- Behemoth (D: Liang Zhao)
More information:
labiennale.org
