2015 VENICE COMPETITION TITLES ANNOUNCED

Festival season is fast approaching, as yesterday's TIFF lineup announcement is followed up by today's Venice announcement! It's a lengthy list, as several slates are unveiled at once, with many of the year's most hotly-anticipated titles present. It looks to be yet another strong year for La Biennale di Venezia, after a recent shake-up in the selection process, with major international films joining lesser-known ones to make for a particularly promising lineup. Check it out in full below:

Venezia 72

• 11 Minutes (Jerzy Skolimowski)
• Anomalisa (Duke Johnson and Charlie Kaufman)
• l'Attesa (Piero Messina)
• Beasts of No Nation (Cary Fukunaga)
• Behemoth (Zhao Liang)
• A Bigger Splash (Luca Guadagnino)
• El Clan (Pablo Trapero)
• The Danish Girl (Tom Hooper)
• Desde Alla (Lorenzo Vigas)
• The Endless River (Oliver Hermanus)
• Equals (Drake Doremus)
• Francofonia (Aleksandr Sokurov)
• Frenzy (Emin Alper)
• Heart of a Dog (Laurie Anderson)
• l'Hermine (Christian Vincent)
• Looking for Grace (Sue Brooks)
• Marguerite (Xavier Giannoli)
• Per Amor Vostro (Giuseppe M. Gaudino)
• Rabin, The Last Day (Amos Gitai)
• Remember (Atom Egoyan)
• Sangue del Mio Sangue (Marco Bellocchio)

More selections after the cut:

Out of Competition

• Afternoon (Tsai Ming Liang)
• Black Mass (Scott Cooper)
• La Calle de la Amargura (Arturo Ripstein)
• de Palma (Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow)
• l'Esercito Piu Piccolo del Mondo (Gianfranco Pannone)
• The Event (Sergei Loznitsa)
• Everest (Baltasar Kormakur)
• Gli Uomini di Questa Citta Io Non Li Conosco (Franco Maresco)
• Go with Me (Daniel Alfredson)
• Human (Yann Arthus-Bertrand)
• In Jackson Heights (Frederick Wiseman)
• Janis (Amy Berg)
• Life and Nothing But (Bertrand Tavernier)
• Mr. Six (Hu Guan)
• Non Essere Cattivo (Claudio Caligari)
• Spotlight (Thomas McCarthy)
• Winter on Fire (Evgeny Afineevsky)

Out of Competition Short Films

• The Audition (Martin Scorsese)

Orizzonti

• Boi Neon (Gabriel Mascaro)
• The Childhood of a Leader (Brady Corbet)
• A Copy of My Mind (Joko Anwar)
• Free in Deed (Jake Mahaffy)
• Interrogation (Vetri Maaran)
• Interruption (Yorgos Zois)
• Italian Gangster (Renato de Maria)
• Madame Courage (Merzak Allouache)
• Man Down (Dito Montiel)
• Mate-Me Por Favor (Anita Rocha da Silveira)
• Un Monstruo de Mil Cabezas (Rodrigo Pla)
• Mountain (Yaelle Kayam)
• Pecore in Erba (Alberto Caviglia)
• Taj Mahal (Nicolas Saada)
• Tempete (Samuel Collardey)
• A War (Tobias Lindholm)
• Wednesday, May 9th (Vahid Jalilvand)
• Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? (Hadar Morag)

Orizzonti - Short Films

• 55 Pastillas (Sebastian Muro)
• Backyards (Ivan Salatic)
• Belladonna (Dubravka Turic)
• Champ des Possibles (Cristin Picchi)
• En Defensa Propia (Mariana Arriaga)
• E.T.E.R.N.I.T. (Giovanni Aloi)
• It Seems to Hang On (Kevin Jerome Everson)
• Monkey (Shen Jie)
• New Eyes (Hiwot Admasu Getaneh)
• Oh Gallow Lay (Julian Wayser)
• Seide (Elnura Osmonalieva)
• Tarantula (Marja Calafange and Aly Muritiba)
• Violence en Reunion (Karim Boukercha)
• The Young Man Who Came from the Chee River (Wichanon Somumjarn)

Orizzonti - Short Films (Out of Competition)

• Zero (David Victori)

International Critics' Week

• The Black Hen (Min Bahadur Bham)
• The Journey (Adriano Valerio)
• Light Years (Esther May Campbell)
• Motherland (Senem Tuzen)
• Mountain (Joao Salaviza)
• The Return (Green Zeng)
• Tanna (Martin Butler and Bentley Dean)

International Critics' Week (Out of Competition)

• Bagnoli Jungle (Antonio Capuano)
• The Family (Liu Shu Min)
• Orphans (Peter Mullan)

Venice Days - Official Selection

• Arianna (Carlo Lavagna)
• As I Open My Eyes (Leyla Bouzid)
• The Daughter (Simon Stone)
• Early Winter (Michael Rowe)
• First Light (Vincenzo Marra)
• Island City (Ruchika Oberoi)
• Klezmer (Piotr Chrzan)
• Long Live the Bride (Ascanio Celestini)
• The Memory of Water (Matias Bize)
• Retribution (Dani de la Torre)
• Underground Fragrance (Song Peng Fei)

Venice Days - Special Events

• Argentina (Carlos Saura)
• Harry's Bar (Carlotta Cerquetti)
• Innocence of Memories - Orhan Pamuk's Museum and Istanbul (Grant Gee)
• Ma (Celia Rowlson Hall)
• Milano 2015 (Roberto Bolle, Cristiana Capotondi, Giorgio Diritti, Elio, Silvio Soldini and Walter Veltroni)
• Viva Ingrid! (Alessandro Rossellini)

Venice Days - Special Projects

• Bangland (Lorenzo Berghella)
• Il Paese Dove gli Alberi Volano - Eugenio Barba e i Giorni dell'Odin (Davide Barletti and Jacopo Quadri)
• I Sogni del Lago Salato (Andrea Segre)

Venice Days - Lux Prize

• Mediterranea (Jonas Carpignano)
• Mustang (Deniz Gamze Erguven)
• Urok (Kristina Grozeva and Petar Valchanov)

Venice Days - Miu Miu Women's Tales

• De Djess (Alice Rohrwacher)
• Les 3 Boutons (Agnes Varda)

Venice Classics

• Aleksander Nevsky (Sergei M. Eisenstein)
• Amarcord (Federico Fellini)
• Bitter Reunion (Claude Chabrol)
• The Boys from Feng Kuei (Hou Hsiao Hsien)
• Hardly a Criminal (Hugo Fregonese)
• Heaven Can Wait (Ernst Lubitsch)
• Hope (Yilmaz Guney)
• Leon Morin, Priest (Jean-Pierre Melville)
• A Matter of Life and Death (Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger)
• I Mostri (Dino Risi)
• The Power and the Glory (William K. Howard)
• Ray of Sunshine (Pal Fejos)
• Red Beard (Kurosawa Akira)
• Salo, or the 120 Days of Sodom (Pier Paolo Pasolini)
• She Wolf (Alberto Lattuada)
• The Thirsty One (Guru Dutt)
• The Trial of Vivienne Ware (William K. Howard)
• To Sleep with Anger (Charles Burnett)
• Venise
• We Want the Colonels (Mario Monicelli)
• White Paws (Jean Gremillon)

Venice Classics - Documentaries

• The 1,000 Eyes of Dr. Maddin (Yves Montmayeur)
• Alfredo Bini, The Unexpected Guest (Simone Isola)
• Dietro gli Occhiali Bianchi (Valerio Ruiz)
• A Flickering Truth (Pietra Brettkelly)
• For the Love of a Man (Rinku Kalsy)
• Helmut Berger, Actor (Andreas Horvath)
• Jacques Tourneur Le Medium (Filmer l'Invisible) (Alain Mazars)
• Mifune: The Last Samurai (Steven Okazaki)

Biennale College - Cinema

• Baby Bump (Kuba Czekaj)
• Blanka (Hasei Kohki)
• The Fits (Anna Rose Holmer)