2015 Venice Film Festival Lineup Announced

On the heels of yesterday’s Toronto Film Festival announcement, this morning we get the lineup for the 2015 Venice Film Festival and, as always, there’s a little crossover with some films set to premiere on the Lido ahead of their Toronto (and/or Telluride premieres).

Some of the titles not screening at Toronto (at least not yet) that will premiere at Venice include Baltasar Kormakur‘s Everest, which is serving as the opening night film, Drake DoremusEquals starring Kristen Stewart, A Bigger Splash from Luca Guadagnino, Go With Me directed by Daniel Alfredson, Dito Montiel‘s Man Down, Amy Berg‘s Janis as well as a new, 16-minute short film from Martin Scorsese titled The Audition and a Brian De Palma documentary directed by Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow. There’s also buzz building for The Childhood of a Leader directed by Brady Corbet and starring Robert Pattinson and Bérénice Bejo.

Notable crossover titles with Toronto include The Danish Girl, Black Mass, Spotlight, Beasts of No Nation, Remember and Anomalisa.

The fest runs from September 2-12, check out the complete lineup below.

Opening Film

  • Everest (dir. Baltasar Kormákur)

Closing Film

  • Mr. Six (dir. Hu Guan)

In Competition

  • Frenzy (dir. Emin Alper)
  • Heart of a Dog (dir. Laurie Anderson)
  • Sangue del mio sangue (dir. Marco Bellocchio)
  • Looking For Grace (dir. Sue Brooks)
  • Equals (dir. Drake Doremus)
  • Remember (dir. Atom Egoyan)
  • Beasts of No Nation (dir. Cary Fukunaga)
  • Per amor vostro (dir. Giuseppe M. Gaudino)
  • Marguerite (dir. Xavier Giannoli)
  • Rabin, the Last Day (dir. Amos Gitai)
  • A Bigger Splash (dir. Luca Guadagnino)
  • The Endless River (dir. Oliver Hermanus)
  • The Danish Girl (dir. Tom Hooper)
  • Anomalisa (dir. Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson)
  • L’attesa (dir. Piero Messina)
  • 11 Minutes (dir. Jerzy Skolimowski)
  • Francofonia (dir. Aleksandr Sokurov)
  • The Clan (dir. Pablo Trapero)
  • Desde alla (dir. Lorenzo Vigas)
  • L’hermine (dir. Christian Vincent)
  • Behemoth (dir. Zhao Liang)

Out of Competition

  • Go With Me (dir. Daniel Alfredson)
  • Non essere cattivo (dir. Claudio Caligari)
  • Black Mass (dir. Scott Cooper)
  • Spotlight (dir. Thomas McCarthy)
  • La calle de la Amargura (dir. Arturo Ripstein)
  • The Audition (dir. Martin Scorsese) [short film]

Documentary Out of Competition

  • Winter On Fire (dir. Evgeny Afineevsky)
  • De Palma (dir. Noah Baumbach & Jake Paltrow)
  • Janis (dir. Amy Berg)
  • The Event (dir. Sergei Loznitsa)
  • Fli uomini di questa città io non li conosco (dir. Franco Maresco)
  • L’escercito più piccolo del mondo (dir. Gianfranco Pannone)
  • Afternoon (dir. Tsai Ming-liang)
  • In Jackson Heights (dir. Frederick Wiseman)
  • Human (dir. Yann Arthus-Bertrand)

Orrizonti

  • Madame Courage (dir. Merzak Allouache)
  • A Copy of My Mind (dir. Joko Anwar)
  • Pecore in erba (dir. Alberto Caviglia)
  • Tempete (dir. Samuel Collardey)
  • The Childhood of a Leader (dir. Brady Corbet)
  • Italian Gangster (dir. Renato De Maria)
  • Wednesday, May 9 (dir. Vahid Jalilvand)
  • Mountain (dir. Yaelle Kayam)
  • A War (dir. Tobias Lindholm)
  • Interrogation (dir. Vetri Maaran)
  • Free In Deed (dir. Jake Mahaffy)
  • Boi Neon (dir. Gabriel Mascaro)
  • Man Down (dir. Dito Montiel)
  • Why Hast Thou Forsaken Me? (dir. Hadar Morag)
  • Un monstruo de mil cabezas (dir. Rodrigo Plá)
  • Mate-me por favor (dir. Anita Rocha Da Silveira)
  • Taj Mahal (dir. Nicolas Saada)
  • Interruption (dir. Yorgos Zois)

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