Venice Film Festival Director Marco Muller has announced at a press conference in Rome that the line-up for the next film festival, the oldest in the world, is to be held at Lido di Venezia from the 2 to the 12 of September, 2009. There are five first feature films in competition. The Jury’s president this year will be Ang Lee. Other members include Sandrine Bonnaire, Liliana Cavani, Joe Dante, Anurag Kashyap and Luciano Ligabue.
Here are the films in competition:
FATIH AKIN – SOUL KITCHEN (Germany, 99′)
Adam Bousdoukos, Moritz Bleibtreu, Birol Uenel
GIUSEPPE CAPOTONDI – LA DOPPIA ORA (Italy, 95′)
Ksenia Rappoport, Filippo Timi, Giorgio Colangeli
POU-SOI CHEANG – YI NGOI (ACCIDENT) (China – Hong Kong, 89′)
Louis Koo, Richie Jen, Michelle Ye
PATRICE CHÉREAU – PERSÉCUTION (France, 100′)
Romain Duris, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Jean Hugues Anglade, Alex Descas
FRANCESCA COMENCINI - LO SPAZIO BIANCO (Italy, 96′)
Margherita Buy, Guido Caprino, Salvatore Cantalupo
CLAIRE DENIS – WHITE MATERIAL (France, 100′)
Isabelle Huppert, Nicolas Duvauchelle, Isaach De Bankolé
JACO VAN DORMAEL – MR. NOBODY (France),
Jared Leto, Diane Kruger, Sarah Polley
TOM FORD – A SINGLE MAN (USA, 99′)
Colin Firth, Julianne Moore, Matthew Goode
JESSICA HAUSNER – LOURDES (Austria, 99′)
Sylvie Testud, Léa Seydoux, Bruno Todeschini
WERNER HERZOG – BAD LIEUTENANT: PORT OF CALL NEW ORLEANS (USA, 121′)
Nicolas Cage, Eva Mendes, Val Kilmer, Michael Shannon
JOHN HILLCOAT – THE ROAD / Usa, 112′
Charlize Theron, Viggo Mortensen, Guy Pearce, Robert Duvall
VIMUKHTI JAYASUNDARA – AHASIN WETEI (BETWEEN TWO WORLDS) / Sri Lanka, 80′
Thusitha Laknath, Kaushalya Fernando, Huang Lu
AHMED MAHER – AL MOSAFER (THE TRAVELLER) / Egitto, 125′
Omar Sharif, Cyrine AbdelNour, Khaled El Nabawy
SAMUEL MAOZ – LEVANON (LEBANON) / Israele, 92′
Yoav Donat, Itay Tiran, Oshri Cohen
MICHAEL MOORE – CAPITALISM: A LOVE STORY / Usa, 120′
(documentario)
SHIRIN NESHAT – ZANAN-E BEDUN-E MARDAN (WOMEN WITHOUT MEN) / Germania, 95′
Pegah Feridon, Shabnam Tolouei, Orsi Tóth, Arita Shahrzad
MICHELE PLACIDO – IL GRANDE SOGNO / Italia, 101′
Riccardo Scamarcio, Jasmine Trinca, Luca Argentero, Laura Morante, Silvio Orlando
JACQUES RIVETTE – 36 VUES DU PIC SAINT LOUP / Francia, 84′
Jane Birkin, Sergio Castellitto, André Marcon, Jacques Bonnaffé
GEORGE ROMERO – SURVIVAL OF THE DEAD / Usa, 90′
Alan Van Sprang, Kenneth Walsh, Devon Bostick, Kathleen Munroe
TODD SOLONDZ – LIFE DURING WARTIME / Usa, 96′
Ciarán Hinds, Shirley Henderson, Allison Janney, Charlotte Rampling, Ally Sheedy, Michael Kenneth Williams
GIUSEPPE TORNATORE – BAARÌA / Italia, 150′
Francesco Scianna, Margareth Madè, Raoul Bova, Enrico Lo Verso, Michele Placido, Vincenzo Salemme, Monica Bellucci, Laura Chiatti
SHINYA TSUKAMOTO – TETSUO THE BULLET MAN / Giappone, 80′
Eric Bossick, Akiko Monou, Shinya Tsukamoto
YONFAN – PRINCE OF TEARS / Cina – Taiwan, Hong Kong, 120′
Chih-Wei Fan, Terri Kwan, Joseph Chang, Kenneth Tsang
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