Venice 2019 Cheat Sheet
The 76th Venice International Film Festival opens tomorrow! To preview the festival, we’ve put together one of our patented “cheat sheets” for the films screening in Venice: a survey of all the titles that will be generating excitement for the next month and beyond. Also, don’t miss our daily Venice edition of The Film Comment Podcast. You’ll find essential recaps and informed discussions on each day’s movies, alongside other coverage from our intrepid Venice correspondents.
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Venezia 76 Competition

Haifaa Al-Mansour, The Perfect Candidate

Roy Andersson, About Endlessness

Olivier Assayas, Wasp Network
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Noah Baumbach, Marriage Story
Atom Egoyan, Guest of Honour
James Gray, Ad Astra
Tiago Guedes, A Herdade

Robert Guediguian, Gloria Mundi

Ciro Guerra, Waiting for the Barbarians

Hirokazu Kore-eda (Opening Night), The Truth

Pablo Larraín, Ema

Lou Ye, Saturday Fiction

Pietro Marcello, Martin Eden

Franco Maresco, The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be
Vaclav Marhoul, The Painted Bird

Mario Martone, The Mayor of the Rione Sanità

Shannon Murphy, Babyteeth
Todd Phillips, Joker

Roman Polanski, An Officer and a Spy

Steven Soderbergh, The Laundromat
Yonfan, No. 7 Cherry Lane
Out of Competition
Fiction

Benedict Andrews, Seberg

Francesca Archibugi, Vivere

Giuseppe Capotondi (Closing Night), The Burnt Orange Heresy

Matthew Michael Carnahan, Mosul

Costa-Gavras, Adults in the Room

David Michod, The King

Gabriele Salvatores, Tutto Il Mio Folle Amore
Non-Fiction

Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Anastasia Mikova, Woman
Sean Evans, Roger Waters, Roger Waters Us + Them

Yervant Gianikian, I Diari Di Angela – Noi Due Cineasti. Capitolo Secondo

Alex Gibney, Citizen K

Didi Gnocchi, Carolina Rosi, Citizen Rosi

Lauren Greenfield, The Kingmaker

Sergei Loznitsa, State Funeral

Alexander Nanau, Collective

Tim Robbins, 45 Seconds of Laughter
Out of Competition – Special Screenings
Guillermo Arriaga, No One Left Behind

Andrea Segre, Il Pianeta in Mare
Konstantina Kotzamani, Electric Swan

Gaspar Noé, Irreversible

Stefano Sollima, Zerozerozero

Paolo Sorrentino, The New Pope

Matt Wells, Never Just a Dream: Stanley Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut

Stanley Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut
Orizzonti (Horizons)

Oskar Alegria, Zumiriki

Theo Court, Blanco En Blanco

Antoine de Bary, Mes Jours De Gloire

Katrin Gebbe, Pelican Blood

Mehdi M Barsaouli, Bik einech — Un fils
Nunzia de Stefano, Nevia

Oliver Hermanus, Moffie

Sahraa Karimi, Hava, Maryam, Ayesha

Peter Mackie Burns, Rialto

Dmitry Mamuliya, The Criminal Man

Jessica Palud, Revenir

Grear Patterson, Giants Being Lonely
Raymund Ribay Gutierrez, Verdict

Pema Tseden, Balloon

Saeed Roustaee, Just 6.5

Sasidharan Sanal Kumar, Shadow of Water
Carlo Sironi, Sole
Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Madre

Valentyn Vasyanovych, Atlantis
Venice Days

Dominik Moll, Seules Les Bêtes

Jayro Bustamante, La llorona

Joe Odagiri, They Say Nothing Stays the Same
Fabienne Berthaud, Un Monde Plus Grand

Jan Komasa, Corpus Christi
Dag Johan Haugerud, Beware Of Children

Manele Labidi, Un Divan à Tunis

Mattie Do, The Long Walk
Isabel Sandoval, Lingua Franca
Igort, 5 è Il Numero Perfetto

Bartabas, Les Chevaux Voyageurs
Stefano Cipriani, Mio Fratello Rincorre I Dinosauri