| 76th Venice International Film Festival | |
| Opening: | The Truth |
| Closing: | The Burnt Orange Heresy |
| Location: | Venice, Italy |
| Founded: | 1932 |
| Awards: | Golden Lion |
| Host: | Alessandra Mastronardi[1] |
| Date: | 28 August – 7 September 2019 |
| Chronology: | Venice Film Festival |
| Preceded By: | 75th |
| Followed By: | 77th |
The 76th annual Venice International Film Festival was held from 28 August to 7 September 2019.[2]
Argentine filmmaker Lucrecia Martel was the Jury President of the main competition.[3] The Truth, directed by Hirokazu Kore-eda, was the festival's opening film.[4]
The Golden Lion was awarded to Joker, directed by Todd Phillips.[5]
The following films were selected for the main international competition:[4] [7] [8]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| About Endlessness | Om det oändliga | data-sort-value="Andersson" | Sweden, Germany, Norway | |
| Ad Astra | data-sort-value="Gray" | United States | ||
| Babyteeth | data-sort-value="Murphy" | Australia | ||
| The Domain | A Herdade | data-sort-value="Guedes" | Portugal, France | |
| Ema | data-sort-value="Larraín" | Chile | ||
| Gloria Mundi | data-sort-value="Guédiguian" | France | ||
| Guest of Honour | data-sort-value="Egoyan" | Canada | ||
| Joker | data-sort-value="Phillips" | Todd Phillips | United States | |
| The Laundromat | data-sort-value="Soderbergh" | United States | ||
| The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be | La mafia non è più quella di una volta | data-sort-value="Maresco" | Italy | |
| Marriage Story | data-sort-value="Baumbach" | United States, United Kingdom | ||
| Martin Eden | data-sort-value="Marcello" | Italy, France | ||
| The Mayor of Rione Sanità | Il sindaco del Rione Sanità | data-sort-value="Martone" | Italy | |
| No.7 Cherry Lane | 繼園臺七號 | data-sort-value="Yonfan" | Hong Kong, China | |
| An Officer and a Spy | J'accuse | data-sort-value="Polanski" | France, Italy | |
| The Painted Bird | Nabarvené ptáče | data-sort-value="Marhoul" | Czechia, Slovakia, Ukraine | |
| The Perfect Candidate | المرشحة المثالية | data-sort-value="al-Mansour" | Saudi Arabia | |
| Saturday Fiction | 兰心大剧院 | data-sort-value="Lou" | China | |
| The Truth (opening film) | La vérité | data-sort-value="Kore-eda" | Japan, France | |
| Waiting for the Barbarians | data-sort-value="Guerra" | Italy, United States | ||
| Wasp Network | data-sort-value="Assayas" | France, Brazil, Spain, Belgium | ||
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:[9] [7] [10]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fiction | ||||
| Adults in the Room | data-sort-value="Costa-Gavras" | France, Greece | ||
| The Burnt Orange Heresy (closing film) | data-sort-value="Capotondi" | United Kingdom, Italy | ||
| The King | data-sort-value="Michôd" | United Kingdom, Hungary | ||
| Mosul | data-sort-value="Carnahan" | United States | ||
| Seberg | data-sort-value="Andrews" | United States, United Kingdom | ||
| To Live | Vivere | data-sort-value="Archibugi" | Italy | |
| Volare | Tutto il mio folle amore | data-sort-value="Salvatores" | ||
| Non Fiction | ||||
| 45 Seconds of Laughter | Tim Robbins | United States | ||
| Citizen K | Alex Gibney | United Kingdom, United States | ||
| Citizen Rosi | Didi Gnocchi, Carolina Rosi | Italy | ||
| Collective | Colectiv | Alexander Nanau | Romania, Luxemburg | |
| I diari di Angela - Noi due cineasti. Capitolo secondo | Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi | Italy | ||
| The Kingmaker | Lauren Greenfield | United States | ||
| Il pianeta in mare | Andrea Segre | Italy | ||
| Roger Waters | United Kingdom | |||
| State Funeral | Sergei Loznitsa | Netherlands, Lithuania | ||
| Woman | Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Anastasia Mikova | France | ||
| Special screenings | ||||
| Electric Swan | Konstantina Kotzamani | France, Greece, Argentina | ||
| Eyes Wide Shut | Stanley Kubrick | United Kingdom, United States | ||
| Irréversible - Inversion intégrale | Gaspar Noé | France | ||
| Never Just a Dream: Stanley Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut | Matt Wells | United Kingdom | ||
| The New Pope (episodes 2 and 7) | Paolo Sorrentino | Italy, France, Spain | ||
| No One Left Behind | Guillermo Arriaga | Mexico | ||
| ZeroZeroZero (episodes 1 and 2) | Stefano Sollima | Italy | ||
The following films were selected for the Horizons (Orizzonti) section:[7] [11]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Main Competition | ||||
| A Son | بيك نعيش | data-sort-value="Barsaoui" | Mehdi Barsaoui | Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar |
| Atlantis | Атлантида | data-sort-value="Vasyanovych" | Valentyn Vasyanovych | Ukraine |
| Back Home | Revenir | data-sort-value="Palud" | France | |
| Balloon | 气球 | data-sort-value="Tseden" | China | |
| White on White | Blanco en blanco | data-sort-value="Court" | Théo Court | Spain, Chile, France, Germany |
| The Criminal Man | ბოროტმოქმედი | data-sort-value="Mamuliya" | Dmitry Mamuliya | Georgia, Russia |
| Giants Being Lonely | data-sort-value="Patterson" | Grear Patterson | United States | |
| Hava, Maryam, Ayesha | data-sort-value="Karimi" | Afghanistan | ||
| Just 6.5 | متری شش و نیم | data-sort-value="Roustayi" | Iran | |
| Mother | Madre | data-sort-value="Sorogoyen" | Spain, France | |
| My Days of Glory | Mes jours de gloire | data-sort-value="de Bary" | Antoine de Bary | France |
| Moffie | data-sort-value="Hermanus" | South Africa | ||
| Nevia | data-sort-value="De Stefano" | Nunzia De Stefano | Italy | |
| Pelican Blood | Pelikanblut | data-sort-value="Gebbe" | Germany, Bulgaria | |
| Rialto | data-sort-value="Mackie Burns" | Peter Mackie Burns | Ireland | |
| Shadow of Water | ചോല | data-sort-value="Sasidharan" | India | |
| Sole | data-sort-value="Sironi" | Carlo Sironi | Italy | |
| Verdict | data-sort-value="Ribas Gutierrez" | Raymund Ribay Gutierrez | Philippines | |
| Zumiriki | data-sort-value="Alegría" | Óskar Alegría | Spain | |
| Short films – In competition | ||||
| After Two Hours, Ten Minutes Had Passed | Nach zwei Stunden waren zehn Minuten vergangen | Steffen Goldkamp | Germany | |
| Austral Fever | Fiebre austral | Thomas Woodroffe | Chile | |
| Darling | Saim Sadiq | Pakistan, United States | ||
| Delphine | Chloé Robichaud | Canada | ||
| The Diver | Jamie Helmer, Michael Leonard | France, Australia | ||
| Dogs Barking at Birds | Cães que ladram aos pássaros | Leonor Teles | Portugal | |
| Give Up the Ghost | Zain Duraie | Jordan, Sweden | ||
| Kingdom Come | Sean Robert Dunn | United Kingdom | ||
| Sand | Morae | Kim Kyung-rae | South Korea | |
| Sh_t Happens | David Štumpf, Michaela Mihályi | Czech Republic, Slovakia | ||
| Superheroes Without Superpowers | Supereroi senza superpoteri | Beatrice Baldacci | Italy | |
| The Tears Thing | Le coup des larmes | Clémence Poésy | France | |
| Roqaia | Diana Saqeb Jamal | Afghanistan, Bangladesh | ||
| Short films – Out of competition | ||||
| Condor One | Kevin Jerome Everson | United States | ||
| GUO4 | Peter Strickland | Hungary | ||
The following films were selected to be screened in the Venice Classics section:[12] [13] [14]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Restored classic films | ||||
| Crash (1996) | data-sort-value="Cronenberg" | Canada | ||
| The Criminal Life of Archibaldo de la Cruz (1955) | Ensayo de un crimen | data-sort-value="Buñuel" | Mexico | |
| Death of a Bureaucrat (1966) | La muerte de un burócrata | data-sort-value="Gutiérrez Alea" | Cuba | |
| Ecstasy (1933) | Extase | data-sort-value="Machatý" | Gustav Machatý | Czechoslovakia |
| Francisca (1981) | data-sort-value="De Oliveira" | Portugal | ||
| The Grim Reaper (1962) | La commare secca | data-sort-value="Bertolucci" | Italy | |
| The House Is Black (1962) | خانه سیاه است | data-sort-value="Farrokhzad" | Iran | |
| The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957) | data-sort-value="Arnold" | United States | ||
| Maria Zef (1981) | data-sort-value="Cottafavi" | Italy | ||
| Mauri (1988) | data-sort-value="Mita" | New Zealand | ||
| New York, New York (1977) | data-sort-value="Scorsese" | United States | ||
| Out of the Blue (1980) | data-sort-value="Hopper" | Canada, United States | ||
| The Red Snowball Tree (1973) | Калина красная | data-sort-value="Shukshin" | Soviet Union | |
| Sodrásban (1964) | data-sort-value="Gaál" | Hungary | ||
| The Spider's Stratagem (1970) | Strategia del ragno | data-sort-value="Bertolucci" | Italy | |
| The Hills of Marlik (1964) | تپههای مارلیک | data-sort-value="Golestan" | Iran | |
| Tiro al piccione (1961) | data-sort-value="Montaldo" | Italy | ||
| Tomorrow Is My Turn (1960) | Le Passage du Rhin | data-sort-value="Cayatte" | France, West Germany, Italy | |
| Way of a Gaucho (1952) | data-sort-value="Tourneur" | United States | ||
| The White Sheik (1952) | Lo sceicco bianco | data-sort-value="Fellini" | Italy | |
| Documentaries on cinema | ||||
| 800 Mal Einsam - Ein Tag mit dem Filmemacher Edgar Reitz (2019) | Anna Hepp | Germany | ||
| Andrey Tarkovsky: A Cinema Prayer | Andrey Tarkovsky Jr. | Russia | ||
| Babenco - Alguém tem que ouvir o coração e dizer: parou | Bárbara Paz | Brazil | ||
| Boia, maschere e segreti: L'horror italiano degli anni sessanta | Steve Dalla Casa | Italy | ||
| Fellini fine mai | Eugenio Cappuccio | |||
| Fulci for Fake | Simone Scafidi | |||
| Life As a B-movie: Piero Vivarelli | Fabrizio Laurenti, Niccolò Vivarelli | |||
| Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist | Alexandre O. Philippe | United States | ||
| Se c'è un aldilà sono fottuto: Vita e cinema di Claudio Caligari | Simone Isola, Fausto Trombetta | Italy | ||
The following films were selected for the Sconfini section:[15] [16]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| American Skin | data-sort-value="Parker" | United States | |||
| Beyond the Beach: The Hell and the Hope | data-sort-value="Parker" | Graeme A. Scott, Buddy Squires | United Kingdom | ||
| Chiara Ferragni – Unposted | data-sort-value="Amoruso" | Elisa Amoruso | Italy | ||
| Effetto domino | data-sort-value="Rossetto" | Alessandro Rossetto | |||
| Once More Unto the Beach | Il varco | data-sort-value="Ferrone" | Federico Ferrone, Michele Manzolini | ||
| The Scarecrows | Les épouvantails | data-sort-value="Bouzid" | Tunisia, Morocco, Luxembourg | ||
The following films were selected for the 34th Venice International Critics' Week (Italian: Settimana Internazionale della Critica):[17]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In competition | ||||
| All This Victory | Jeedar el sot | data-sort-value="Ghossein" | Ahmad Ghossein | Lebanon, France, Qatar |
| Parthenon | Partenonas | data-sort-value="Kvedaravičius" | Mantas Kvedaravičius | Lithuania, Ukraine, France |
| The Prince | El príncipe | data-sort-value="Muñoz" | Sebastian Muñoz | Chile, Argentina, Belgium |
| Psychosia | Psykosia | data-sort-value="Grahtø" | Marie Grahtø | Denmark, Finland |
| Rare Beasts | data-sort-value="Piper" | United Kingdom | ||
| Scales | Sayidat al Bahr | data-sort-value="Ameen" | Shahad Ameen | United Arab Emirates, Iraq, Saudi Arabia |
| Tony Driver | data-sort-value="Petrini" | Ascanio Petrini | Italy, Mexico | |
| Special events – Out of competition | ||||
| Bombay Rose (opening film) | Gitanjali Rao | India, United Kingdom, France | ||
| Sanctorum (closing film) | Joshua Gil | Mexico, Dominican Republic, Qatar | ||
The following films were selected for the 16th edition of the Giornate degli Autori section:[18]
| English title | Original title | Director(s) | Production country | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| In Competition | ||||
| 5 is the Perfect Number | 5 è il numero perfetto | data-sort-value="Igort" | Italy, Belgium, France | |
| Arab Blues | Un divan à Tunis | data-sort-value="Labidi Labbé" | Manele Labidi Labbé | Tunisia, France |
| Beware of Children | Barn | data-sort-value="Haugerud" | Norway, Sweden | |
| A Bigger World | Un monde plus grand | data-sort-value="Berthaud" | France, Belgium | |
| Corpus Christi | Boże Ciało | data-sort-value="Komasa" | Jan Komasa | Poland, France |
| La Llorona | sort-value="Bustamante" | Jayro Bustamante | Guatemala, France | |
| Lingua Franca (opening film) | data-sort-value="Sandoval" | United States, Philippines | ||
| The Long Walk | ບໍ່ມີວັນຈາກ | data-sort-value="Do" | Laos | |
| Only the Animals | Seules les bêtes | data-sort-value="Moll" | France, Germany | |
| You Will Die at Twenty | ستموت في العشرين | data-sort-value="Alala" | Amjad Abu Alala | Sudan, France, Egypt, Germany, Norway |
| They Say Nothing Stays the Same | ある 船頭 の 話 | data-sort-value="Bustamante" | Japan | |
| Out of competition | ||||
| Time of the Untamed (closing film) | Les chevaux voyageurs | Bartabas | France | |
| Special events | ||||
| Burning Cane | Phillip Youmans | United States | ||
| House of Cardin | P. David Ebersole, Todd Hughes | |||
| Mondo Sexy | Mario Sesti | Italy | ||
| My Brother Chases Dinosaurs | Mio fratello rincorre i dinosauri | Stefano Cipani | Italy, Spain | |
| Il prigioniero | Federico Olivetti | Italy | ||
| Scherza con i fanti | Gianfranco Pannone | |||
| Miu Miu Women's Tales | ||||
| Hailey Gates | Italy, United States | ||
| Lynne Ramsay | Italy, United Kingdom | ||
The following official awards were presented at the 76th edition:[19]
An Officer and a Spy, by Roman Polanski
Roy Andersson for About Endlessness
Ariane Ascaride for Gloria Mundi
Luca Marinelli for Martin Eden
The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be by Franco Maresco
The following collateral awards were conferred to films of the autonomous sections: