Azi se da startul celei de-a 73-a editii a celui mai vechi festival de film din lume – Festivalul de Film de la Venetia care va avea loc intre 31 august – 10 septembrie.

 Ca in fiecare editie, selectia este valoroasa si cuprinde cateva nume mari ale cinematografiei mondiale precum Emir Kusturica, Francois Ozon, Terrence Malick, Wim Wenders, Mel Gibson, s.a.  Din pacate, spre deosebire de Cannes, unde am avut o participare generoasa, in cadrul acestui festival avem o singura productie romaneasca, scurtmetrajul Prima noapte, regizat de Andrei Tanase.

Presedintele juriului din acest an este regizorul american Sam Mendes iar membrii sunt Laurie Anderson, Gemma Arterton, Giancarlo De Cataldo, Nina Hoss, Chiara Mastroianni, Joshua Oppenheimer, Lorenzo Vigas sau Zhao Wei.

Filmul din deschidere este musicalul La La Land, in regia lui Damian Chazelle, cu Ryan Golsing si Emma Stone, in rolurile principale.

Festivalul dedica aceasta edtitie regizorilor Abbas Kiarostami si Michael Cimino, care au decedat in luna iulie iar petrecerea ce preceda Ceremonia de deschidere a fost fost anulata de organizatori, in semn de respect pentru victimele cutremurului care a lovit Italia.

Iata titlurile filmelor care vor avea premiera in aceasta edtiei:

Competitie
Arrival – Denis Villenueve (US)
The Bad Batch – Ana Lily Amirpour (US)
The Beautiful Days of Aranjuez – Wim Wenders (France, Germany)
Brimstone – Martin Koolhoven (Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, France, UK, Sweden)
El Ciudadano Ilustre – Mariano Cohn and Gaston Duprat (Argentina, Spain)
El Cristo Ciego – Christopher Murray (Chile, France)
Frantz – François Ozon (France)
Jackie – Pablo Larrain (US, Chile)
La La Land – Damien Chazelle (US)
The Light Between Oceans – Derek Cianfrance (US, Australia, New Zealand)
La Region Salvaje – Amat Escalante (Mexico)
Nocturnal Animals – Tom Ford (US)
On the Milky Road – Emir Kusturica (Serbia, UK, US)
Paradise – Andrei Konchalovsky (Russia, Germany)
Piuma – Roan Johnson (Italy)
Questi Giorni – Giuseppe Piccioni (Italy)
Spira Mirabilis – Massimo D’Anolfi and Martina Parenti (Italy, Switzerland)
Une Vie – Stephan Brizé (France, Belgium)
Voyage of Time – Terrence Malick (US, Germany)
The Woman Who Left – Lav Diaz (Philippines)
 

In afara competitiei – Fictiune
The Age of Shadows – Kim Jee-woon (South Korea)
The Bleeder – Philippe Falardeau (US, Canada)
Dark Night – Tim Sutton (US)
Gantz:O – Yasushi Kawamura (Japan)
Hacksaw Ridge – Mel Gibson (US)
A Jamais – Benoit Jacquot (France, Portugal)
The Journey – Nick Hamm (UK)
The Magnificent Seven – Antoine Fuqua (US)
Monte – Amir Naderi (Italy, US, France)
Planetarium- Rebecca Zlotowski (France, Belgium)
Tommaso – Kim Rossi Stewart (Italy)
 

In afara competitiei – Documentar
American Anarchist – Charlie Siskel (US)
Assalto al Cielo – Francesco Munzi (Italy)
Austerlitz – Sergei Loznitsa (Germany)
I Called Him Morgan – Kasper Collin (Sweden, US)
Our War – Bruno Chiaravallotti, Claudio Jampaglia, Benedetta Argentieri (Italy, US)
One More Time with Feeling – Andrew Dominik (UK)
Safari – Ulrich Seidl (Austria, Denmark)
 

Orizzonti
Big Big World – Reha Erdem (Turkey)
Bitter Money – Wang Bing (China)
Boys in the Trees – Nicholas Verso (Australia)
Dawson City: Frozen Time – Bill Morrison (US, France)
Die Einsiedler – Ronny Trocker (Germany, Austria)
Gukuroku – Ishikawa Kei (Japan)
Home – Fien Troch (Belgium)
Kekszakallu – Gaston Solnicky (Argentina)
King of the Belgians – Peter Brosens, Jessica Woolworth (Belgium, Netherlands, Bulgaria)
Liberami – Federica Di Giacomo (Italy, France)
Malaria – Parviz Shahbazi (Iran)
Maudit Poutine – Karl Lemieux (Canada)
Il Più Grande Sogno – Michele Vannucci (Italy)
Reparer les vivants – Katell Quillevere (France, Belgium)
Sao Jorge – Marco Martins (Portugal, France)
Tarde Para la Ira – Raul Arevalo (Spain)
Through the Wall – Rama Burshtein (Israel)
White Sun – Deepak Rauniyar (Nepal, US, Qatar, Netherlands)

Revenim cu informatii pe 10 septembrie cand vom avea si lista castigatorilor.