Venice Film Festival

Films, Actors and Directors

The 81st Venice International Film Festival 2024 features a diverse and exciting line-up of films.

The Venice Film Festival will be held on Lido di Venezia from 28th of August to 7th of September 2024.

Here are some of the highlights along with their actors and directors:

In Competition

“The Promised Land”

Directed by Nikolaj Arcel, starring Mads Mikkelsen.

“Dogman”

Directed by Luc Besson, starring Caleb Landry Jones.

“La Bête”

Directed by Bertrand Bonello, featuring Léa Seydoux and George MacKay.

“Maestro”

Directed by and starring Bradley Cooper, with Carey Mulligan.

“Poor Things”

Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos, starring Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, and Willem Dafoe.

“Priscilla”

Directed by Sofia Coppola, based on Priscilla Presley’s memoir.

“Ferrari”

Directed by Michael Mann, starring Adam Driver.

“The Killer”

Directed by David Fincher, starring Michael Fassbender and Tilda Swinton.

“Origin”

Directed by Ava DuVernay, inspired by Isabel Wilkerson’s book “Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents”.

“Evil Does Not Exist”

Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi.

Out of Competition

“Coup de Chance”

Directed by Woody Allen.

“The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar”

Directed by Wes Anderson, starring Ralph Fiennes, Benedict Cumberbatch, Dev Patel, and Ben Kingsley.

“The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial”

Directed by William Friedkin, starring Kiefer Sutherland.

“Hit Man”

Directed by Richard Linklater.

“Ryuichi Sakamoto Opus”

Directed by Neo Sora.

Orizzonti

“Nonostante”

Directed by and starring Valerio Mastandrea.

“September 5”

Directed by Tim Fehlbaum.

“After Party”

Directed by Vojtěch Strakatý.

“King Ivory”

Directed by John Swab.

“Seeking Heaven For Mr. Rambo”

Directed by Khaled Mansour.

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The room next door

Director Pedro Almodóvar
Main Cast Tilda Swinton, Julianne Moore, John Turturro, Alessandro Nivola, Juan Diego Botto, Raúl Arévalo, Victoria Luengo, Alex Hogh Andersen, Esther McGregor, Alvise Rigo, Melina Matthews / Spain / 110’

Campo di battaglia

Director Gianni Amelio
Main Cast Alessandro Borghi, Gabriel Montesi, Federica Rosellini, Giovanni Scotti, Vince Vivenzio, Alberto Cracco, Luca Lazzareschi, Maria Grazia Plos, Rita Bosello / Italy / 104’

Leurs enfants après eux

Director Zoran Boukherma, Ludovic Boukherma
Main Cast Paul Kircher, Angélina Woreth, Sayyid El Alami, Gilles Lellouche, Ludivine Sagnier, Louis Memmi / France / 146’

The Brutalist

Director Brady Corbet
Main Cast Adrien Brody, Guy Pearce, Felicity Jones, Joe Alwyn, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Isaach De Bankolé, Alessandro Nivola / United Kingdom / 215’

Jouer avec le feu

Director Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin
Main Cast Vincent Lindon, Benjamin Voisin, Stefan Crepon / France / 110’

Vermiglio

Director Maura Delpero
Main Cast Tommaso Ragno, Giuseppe De Domenico, Roberta Rovelli, Martina Scrinzi, Orietta Notari, Carlotta Gamba, Santiago Fondevila Sancet, Rachele Potrich, Anna Thaler, Patrick Gardener, Enrico Panizza, Luis Thaler, Simone Bendetti, Sara Serraiocco / Italy, France, Belgium / 119’

Iddu (Sicilian Letters)

Director Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza
Main Cast Toni Servillo, Elio Germano, Daniela Marra, Barbora Bobulova, Giuseppe Tantillo, Fausto Russo Alesi, Antonia Truppo, Tommaso Ragno, Betti Pedrazzi, Filippo Luna, Rosario Palazzolo, Roberto De Francesco, Vincenzo Ferrera, Maurizio Marchetti, Gianluca Zaccaria, Lucio Patanè / Italy, France / 122’

Queer

Director Luca Guadagnino
Main Cast Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, Lesley Manville, Michael Borremans, Andra Ursuta, David Lowery / Italy, USA / 135’

Kjærlighet (Love)

Director Dag Johan Haugerud
Main Cast Andrea Bræin Hovig, Tayo Cittadella Jacobsen, Marte Engebrigtsen, Lars Jacob Holm, Thomas Gullestad, Marian Saastad Ottesen, Morten Svartveit / Norway / 119’

April

Director Dea Kulumbegashvili
Main Cast Ia Sukhitashvili, Kakha Kintsurashvili, Merab Ninidze / Georgia, France, Italy / 134’

The Order

Director Justin Kurzel
Main Cast Jude Law, Nicholas Hoult, Jurnee Smollett, Tye Sheridan, Marc Maron / Canada / 120’

Maria

Director Pablo Larraín
Main Cast Angelina Jolie, Pierfrancesco Favino, Alba Rohrwacher, Haluk Bilginer, Kodi Smit-McPhee / Italy, Germany, USA / 124’

Trois amies

Director Emmanuel Mouret
Main Cast Camille Cottin, Sara Forestier, India Hair, Grégoire Ludig, Damien Bonnard, Vincent Macaigne / France / 117’

Kill the Jockey

Director Luis Ortega
Main Cast Nahuel Pérez Biscayart, Úrsula Corberó, Daniel Gimenez Cacho / Argentina, Spain / 96’

Joker: folie à deux

Director Todd Phillips
Main Cast Joaquin Phoenix, Lady Gaga, Brendan Gleeson, Catherine Keener, Zazie Beetz / USA / 138’

Babygirl

Director Halina Reijn
Main Cast Nicole Kidman, Harris Dickinson, Antonio Banderas, Sophie Wilde, Esther McGregor / USA / 114’

Ainda estou aqui (I’m still here)

Director Walter Salles
Main Cast Fernanda Torres, Selton Mello, Fernanda Montenegro / Brazil, France / 135’

Diva futura

Director Giulia Louise Steigerwalt
Main Cast Pietro Castellitto, Tesa Litvan, Barbara Ronchi, Denise Capezza, Davide Iachini, Marco Iermanò / Italy / 120’

Harvest

Director Athina Rachel Tsangari
Main Cast Caleb Landry Jones, Harry Melling, Rosy McEwen, Arinzé Kene, Thalissa Teixeira, Frank Dillane / United Kingdom, Germany, Greece, France, USA / 131’

Qing chun gui (Youth – Homecoming)

Director Bing Wang
Main Cast (Documentary film) / France, Luxembourg, Netherlands / 152’

Stranger eyes

Director Siew Hua Yeo
Main Cast Chien-Ho Wu, Kang-Sheng Lee, Anicca Panna, Vera Chen, Pete Teo, Xenia Tan, Maryanne Ng-Yew / Singapore, Taipei, France, USA / 125’

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