81st Venice International Film Festival

2024 film festival event

81th Venice International Film Festival
Venice Film Festival chronology
Opening film	Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Location	Venice, Italy
Founded	1932
Awards	Golden Lion
Hosted by	Sveva Alviti
Artistic director	Alberto Barbera
Festival date	28 August – 7 September 2024
Website	www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/2024
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The 81st annual Venice International Film Festival will be held from 28 August to 7 September 2024, at Venice Lido in Italy. Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will open the festival on 28 August 2024.^[1]

French actress Isabelle Huppert will serve as Jury President for the main competition.^[2] Italian actress and model Sveva Alviti will host the opening and closing ceremony.^[3]

Australian filmmaker Peter Weir and American actress Sigourney Weaver will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement during the festival.^[4]^[5]

Juries

Main Competition (Venezia 81)

Isabelle Huppert, French Actress - Jury President^[6]

Venice Classics

Renato De Maria, Italian filmmaker - Jury President^[7]

Background

Expected world premieres, in competition or in sidebars sections, includes:^[8] Luca Guadagnino's Queer, Ron Howard's Eden, Pedro Almodovar's The Room Next Door, Pablo Larrain's Maria, Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux, Lucrecia Martel's Chocobar, Mike Leigh's Hard Truths, Walter Salles' I’m Still Here,^[9] Julian Schnabel's In the Hand of Dante, Brady Corbet's The Brutalist, Justin Kurzel's The Order, François Ozon's When Fall Is Coming, Pietro Marcello's Duse, Abdellatif Kechiche's Mektoub: Canto Duo, Sebastian Lelio's The Wave, Tom Tykwer's The Light, Emmanuel Mouret's Une Chose et Son Contraire, Dea Kulumbegashvili's Those Who Find Me, Zoran and Ludovic Boukherma's Leurs Enfants Apres Eux, Maura Delpero's The Mountain Bride, Yeo Siew Hua's Stranger Eyes, Gianni Amelio's Battlefield, Gabriele Salvatores’ Napoli, Marco Tullio Giordana's The Life Apart, Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza's Iddu, Uberto Pasolini's The Return, Paolo Gep Cucco and Davide Livermore's The Opera!, Joshua Oppenheimer's The End, Kiyoshi Kurosawa's Cloud and Athina Rachel Tsangari's Harvest.^[10]^[11]

Official Selection

Out of Competition

The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:^[12]

English title	Original title	Director(s)	Production country
Fiction
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (opening film)		Tim Burton	United States

Venice Classics

Venice Classics is the section that since 2012 has presented world premiere screenings at the Venice Film Festival of restorations of film classics carried out over the past year by film archives, cultural institutions and production companies around the world. The section usually also presents a selection of documentaries about cinema. Director and screenwriter Renato De Maria will chair the Jury of Film Students which – for the eleventh year – will award the Venice Classics prizes for the respective competitions for Best Restored Film and for the Best Documentary About Cinema. The Jury chaired will be composed of 24 students. The following films were selected to the Venice Classics section:^[7]

English Title	Original Title	Director(s)	Production Country	Restored By
Restored Films - Main Competition
The Big Heat (1953)		Fritz Lang	United States	Sony Pictures Entertainment
Bend of the River (1952)		Anthony Mann		Universal Pictures / The Film Foundation
Blood and Sand (1941)		Rouben Mamoulian		Walt Disney Studios / The Film Foundation
Ecce Bombo (1978)		Nanni Moretti	Italy	Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
Forbidden Games (1952)	Jeux Interdits	René Clément	France	StudioCanal
Ghatashraddha (1977)		Girish Kasaravalli	India	The Film Foundation
Goldflocken (1976)	Flocons d'or	Werner Schroeter	Germany, France	Filmmuseum Düsseldorf / Filmmuseum München
The Gold of Naples (1954)	L'Oro di Napoli	Vittorio de Sica	Italy	Cinecittà / Filmauro
His Girl Friday (1940)		Howard Hawks	United States	Sony Pictures Entertainment
The Hour and Turn of Augusto Matraga (1965)	A Hora e a Vez de Augusto Matraga	Roberto Santos	Brazil	LC Barreto Produções Cinematográficas
Manji (1964)	卍	Yasuzô Masumura	Japan	Kadokawa Corporation
The Man Who Left His Will on Film (1970)	東京戦争戦後秘話	Nagisa Ôshima	Japan	Oshima Productions LTD
Model (1980)		Frederick Wiseman	United States	Zipporah Films
La Notte (1961)		Michelangelo Antonioni	Italy, France	Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia
The Mahabharata (1989)		Peter Brook	France, United Kingdom, United States	Brook Productions
The Soft Skin (1964)	La Peau Douce	François Truffaut	France	mk2 Films
Swept Away... by an Unsual Destiny in the Blue Sea of August (1974)	Travolti da un Insolito Destino Nell'azzurro Mare d'Agosto	Lina Wertmüller	Italy	Fondazione Cineteca di Bologna / Minerva Pictures
Pusher (1996)		Nicolas Winding Refn	Denmark	byNWR

Official Awards

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

References

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