Veniceparallel section Giornate degli Autori (GdA) has unveiled the selection for its 20th edition running from August 30 to September 9, featuring a surprise short by Celine Sciamma, a new feature byTeona Strugar Mitevskaas well as a tribute to late Canadian director Jean-Marc Vallee.
The line-up spans 10 films in competition, seven special events, eight titles in Venetian Nights as well as a special day-long event devoted Vallee and the cinema of Quebec, with a screening of a restored 4K copy of his 2005 coming-of-age dramaC.R.A.Z.Y..
Highlights of the competition include Canadian filmmaker Ariane Louis-Seizes quirky vampire taleHumanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person; Atlas Mountains-set ensemble theatre group road movieBackstageby directorial duo Afef Ben Mahmoud and Khalil Benkirane;Through The Night, in which Belgian director Delphine Girard expands her Oscar-nominated shortA Sister, andSidonie In Paris, starring Isabelle Huppert as a writer mourning the death of husband who travels to Kyoto.
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Portuguese director Joao Pedro Rodrigues is heading the jury, made up of participants in the European Parliaments 27 Times Cinema program.
The GdA Directors Award comes with a cash prize of 20,000, to be split equally between the filmmaker and the films international distributor.
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Tommaso Santambrogios black and white competition titleOceans Are The Real Continentswill open this years edition while period satireCOUP!, starring Peter Sarsgaard and directed by Austin Stark and Joseph Schuman, is the closing film, playing Out of Competition.
In other sections, Celine Sciamma, who was previously a GdA president of the jury, will present a surprise short film entitledThis Is How A child Becomes A Poet as Special Event
Other Special Events include21 Days Until The End Of The Worldby Teona Strugar Mitevska(God Exists, Her Name Is Petrunya,The Happiest Man in The World) and Palestinian-French director Lina Soualems documentaryBye Bye Tiberias, exploring her mother actress Hiam Abbasss journey from the Galilee to Europe and the strong female family she left behind.
GdA also continues its partnership with the Miu Miu fashion house to show two shorts made under the auspices of its Womens Tale initiative, which this year includeEye Two Times Mouthby Mexican directorLila Aviles, who was in Berlin this year withTotem.
The nature of this years lineup is modeled on the idea of choice and that moment when life forces us to decide whether to go in one direction or another, said Artistic Director Gaia Furrer.
The key word and underlying theme of the films on our lineup, is crossroad: a term that could hardly be more appropriate to define the work our filmmakers are doing, and our own efforts as well, as we step into our twenties.
All the films selected, with all their thematic or formal eclecticism still dialogue with each other, intermingle, and carry on a shared discourse.
Official Competition
- denotes first films eligible for the $100,000 Luigi De Laurentiis Lion of the Future Award
OUT OF COMPETITION
SPECIAL EVENTS
Miu Miu WomensTales
Venetian Nights
Special Screening/Special presentation
Special Screenings/Dialogues With Auteurs
(Screening as a tribute to Jean-Marc Vallee in collaboration with SODEC and the Delegation of Quebec in Rome)
