Venice Film Festival reveals line-up, including 'Dune', 'Last Duel' and 'Spencer'

The Venice Film Festival has announced the line-up for its 78th event, which kicks off in September. The festival will open with Pedro Almodovar's drama Parallel Mothers , which will debut in the competition, running for the top prize, the Golden Lion. The official line-up also includes the highly awaited world premiere of Denis Villeneuve’s sci-fi Dune , which was partly shot in Abu Dhabi and Jordan and stars Timothee Chalamet. Other high-profile titles include Pablo Larrain’s Spencer ; Paolo Sorrentino’s The Hand Of God ; Michel Franco’s Sundown ; Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter ; Gaston Duprat and Mariano Cohn’s Official Competition ; Jane Campion’s The Power Of The Dog ; Stephane Brize’s Un autre monde ; and Ana Lily Amirpour’s Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon. From the Arab world, three films have been selected. Egyptian director Mohamed Diab's coming feature Amira , set in Palestine, has been selected in the Horizons category. Mounia Akl's Costa Brava , starring Palestinian actor Saleh Bakri ( The Present , Wajib ) and Oscar-nominated director and actress Nadine Labaki ( Capernaum ), has also been selected. It will be screened as part of the new section called Horizons Extra. Syrian director Diana El Jeiroudi's documentary Republic of Silence will have its world premiere at the competition. Oscar-winning director Bong Joon-ho will head the competition jury. Other judges are Oscar-winning director Chloe Zhao , who won last year's Golden Lion for Nomadland , as well as Cynthia Erivo, Virginie Efira, Sarah Gadon, Saverio Costanzo and Alexander Nanau. The event will run from Wednesday, September 1 until Saturday, September 11. Opening Night Parallel Mothers , Pedro Almodovar (in competition) Competition/Venezia 78 Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon , Ana Lily Amirpour Un autre monde , Stephanie Brize The Power of the Dog , Jane Campion America Latina , Damiano D’Innocenzo and Fabio D’Innocenzo L’evenement , Audrey Diwan Official Competition , Gaston Duprat and Mariana Cohn Il buco , Michelangelo Frammartino Sundown , Michel Franco Illusions Perdues , Xavier Giannoli The Lost Daughter , Maggie Gyllenhaal Spencer , Pablo Larrain Freaks Out , Gabriele Mainetti Qui rido io , Mario Martone On the Job: The Missing 8 , Erik Matti Leave No Traces , Jan P. Matuszynski Captain Volkonogov Escaped , Natasha Merkulova and Aleksey Chupov The Card Counter , Paul Schrader The Hand of God , Paolo Sorrentino Reflection , Valentyn Vasyanovych La caja , Lorenzo Vigas Out of Competition (Fiction) Il bambino nascosto , Roberto Ando (closing film of the festival) Les Choses humaines , Yvan Attal Ariaferma , Leonardo di Costanzo Halloween Kills , David Gordon Green La scoula cattolica , Stefano Mordini Old Henry , Potsy Ponciroli The Last Duel , Ridley Scott Dune , Denis Villeneuve Last Night in Soho , Edgar Wright Scenes From a Marriage (Episodes 1-5), Hagai Levi Out of Competition (Non-Fiction) Life of Crime 1984-2020 , Jon Alpert Tranchees , Loup Bureau Viaggio nel crepuscolo , Augusto Contento Republic of Silence , Diana El Jeiroudi Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song , Daniel Geller and Dayna Goldfine Storia di un impiegato , Roberta Lena Django & Django , Luca Rea Ezio Bosso. Le cose che restano , Giorgio Verdelli Out of Competition (Special Screenings) Le 7 giornate di Bergamo , Simona Ventura Il cinema al tempo del Covid , Andrea Segre Out of Competition (Short Films) Plastic Semiotic , Radu Jude The Night , Tsai Ming-Liang Sad Film , Vasili Horizons/Orizzonti Les promesses , Thomas Kruithof Atlantide , Yuri Ancarani Miracle , Bogdan George Apetri Pilgrims , Laurynas Bareisa Il paradiso del pavone , Laura Bispuri The Falls , Chung Mong-Hong El hoyo en la cerca , Joaquin del Paso Amira , Mohamed Diab A Plein Temps , Eric Gravel 107 Mothers , Peter Kerekes Vera Dreams of the Sea , Kaltrina Krasniqi White Building , Kavich Neang Anatomy of Time , Jakrawal Nilthamrong El otro Tom , Rodrigo Pla and Laura Santullo El Gran Movimiento , Kiro Russo Once Upon a Time in Calcutta , Aditya Vikram Sengupta Rhino , Oleg Sentsov True Things About Me , Harry Wootliff Inu-Oh , Masaaki Yuasa Horizons/Orizzonti Extra Land of Dreams , Shirin Neshat and Shoja Azari Costa Brava , Mounia Akl Mama, I’m Home , Vladimir Bitokov Ma nuit , Antoinette Boulat La ragazza ha volato , Wilma Labate 7 Prisoners , Alexandre Moratto The Blind Man Who Did Not Want to See Titanic , Teemu Nikki La macchina delle immagini di Alfredo C , Roland Sejko

Venice Film Festival reveals line-up, including 'Dune', 'Last Duel' and 'Spencer'

Three films from the Arab world have also made it to the selection