Dueling festival lineups! It seems that for every announcement for the Toronto International Film Festival lineup comes a competing (and often overlapping) one from Venice. Here we're collecting the finalized Venice lineups so far. (Above image: Philippe Garrel's A Burning Hot Summer.)
Competition
- The Ides of March (George Clooney, USA) (opening night)
- 4:44 Last Day on Earth (Abel Ferrara, USA)
- Alps (Yorgos Lanthimos, Greece)
- A Burning Hot Summer (Philippe Garrel, France)
- Carnage (Roman Polanski, France/Germany/Spain/Poland)
- Chicken With Plums (Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud, France/Belgium/Germany)
- A Dangerous Method (David Cronenberg, Canada)
- Dark Horse (Todd Solondz, USA)
- The Exchange (Eran Kolirin, Israel/Germany)
- Faust (Alexander Sokurov, Russia)
- Himizu (Sion Sono, Japan)
- Killer Joe (William Friedkin, USA)
- Life without Principle (Johnnie To, HK)
- Quando la notte (Cristina Comencini, Italy)
- Seediq Bale (Wei Desheng, Taiwan)
- Shame (Steve McQueen, UK)
- Terraferma (Emanuele Crialese, Italy)
- Texas Killing Fields (Ami Canaan Mann, USA)
- Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (Tomas Alfredson, Italy)
- L'ultimo terrestre (Gipi, Italy)
- A Simple Life (Ann Hui, China/HK)
- Wuthering Heights (Andrea Arnold, UK)
Out of Competition
- Vivan las Antipodas! (Victor Kossakovsky, Germany/Argentina/Netherlands/Chile/Russia)
- La folie Almayer (Chantal Akerman, Belgium/France)
- The Moth Diaries (Mary Harron, Canada/Ireland)
- W.E. (Madonna, UK)
- Il villaggio di cartone (Ermanno Olmi, Italy)
- Wilde Salome (Al Pacino, USA)
- Contagion (Steven Soderbergh, USA)
- The Sorcerer and the White Snake (Tony Ching Siu-tung, China/HK)
- Giochi d'estate (Rolando Colla, Switzerland/Italy)
- La Desintegration (Philippe Faucon, Belgium)
- Alois Nebel (Thomas Lunak, Czech Republic/Germany)
- Eva (Kike Maillo, Spain/France)
- Scossa (Francesco Maselli, Carlo Lizzani, Ugo Gregoretti, & Nino Russo, Italy)
- La cle des chants (Claude Nuridsany & Marie Perennou, France)
- Tormented (Takashi Shimizu, Japan)
- Marco Bellocchio, Venezia 2011 (Pietro Marcello, Italy)
- La meditazione di Hayez (Mario Martone, Italy)
- Tahrir 2011 (Tamer Ezzat, Ahmad Abdalla, Ayten Amin & Amr Salama, Egypt)
- The End (Collective Abounabbara, Syria)
- Vanguard (Collective Abounabbara, Syria)
- Evolution (Megaplex 3D) (Marco Brambilla, USA)
- Damsels in Distress (Whit Stillman, USA) (closing night)
Orizzonti
- Cut (Amir Naderi, Japan)
- L'oiseau (Yves Caumon, France)
- Hail (Amiel Courtin-Wilson, Australia)
- Nocturnos (Edgardo Cozarinsky, Argentina)
- Amore carne (Pippo Delbono, Italy/Switzerland)
- I'm Carolyn Parker: The Good, the Mad and the Beautiful (Jonathan Demme, USA)
- Sal (James Franco, USA)
- Whores' Glory (Michael Glawogger, Austria/Germany)
- Die Herde des Herrn (Romuald Karmakar, Germany)
- Stateless Things (Kim Kyungmook, South Korea)
- Swirl (Helvécio Marins Jr. & Clarissa Campolina, Brazil/Spain/Germany)
- Photographic Memory (Ross McElwee, USA)
- L'envahisseur (Nicolas Provost, Belgium)
- Shock Head Soul (Simon Pummell, Netherlands/UK)
- Two Years at Sea (Ben Rivers, UK)
- Aims of the Blind Horse (Gurvinder Singh, India)
- The Orator (Tusi Tamasese, Somao)
- Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbors (Rirkrit Tiravanija, Thailand/Mexico)
- Verano (José Luis Torres Leiva, Chile)
- Kotoko (Shinya Tsukamoto, Japan)
- Le petit poucet (Marina de Van, France)
- Swan (Teresa Villaverde, Portugal)
- The Sword Identity (Xu Haofeng, China)
- Would You Have Sex with an Arab? (Yolande Zauberman, France)
Venice Days
- Another Silence (Santiago Amigorena, France/Canada/Brazil/Argentina)
- My Name is Ki (Ladzek Dawid, Poland)
- Ruggine (Daniele Gaglianone, Italy)
- Guilty (Vincent Garenq, France)
- All Our Desires (Philippe Lioret, France)
- Love and Bruises (Lou Ye, France)
- Historias. que so existem quando lembradas (Julia Murat, Brazil/France)
- Twilight Portrait (Angelina Nikonova, Russia)
- Io sono li (Andrea Segre, Italy/France)
- Last Winter (John Shank, Belgium, France)
- Café de Flore (Jean Marc Vallée, Canada/France)
- Habibi (Susan Youssef, Palestine/United Arab Emerates/Netherlands)
Venice Days Special Events
- Testimony (Shlomi Elkabetz, Israel/France)
- Cuba in the Age of Obama (Gianni Minà, Italy)
- Crazy Horse (Frederick Wiseman, France/USA)
- Voi siette qui (Francesco Matera, Italy)
- The Emperor of California (Luis Trenker, 1936)
Venice Days Open Space
- La penna di Hemingway (Renzo Carbonera, Italy)
- Hit the Road, Nonna (Duccio Chiarini, Italy)
- The Forgotten World Cup (Lorenzo Garzella & Filippo Macelloni, Italy/Argentina)
- Radici (Carlo Luglio, Italy)
- Dietro il buio (Giorgio Pressburger, Italy)
- Più come un Artista (Elisabetta Pandimiglio, Italy)
- Valdagno, Arizona (Pyoor, Italy/USA)
Retrospective: Orizzonti 1961-1978
- Anna (Alberto Grifi, 1972-1975)
- Il potere (Augusto Tretti, 1972)
- In punto di morete (Mario Garriba, 1971)
- I parenti tutti (Fabio Garriba, 1967)
- Voce del verbo morire (Mario Garriba, 1970)
- Sul davanti fioriva una magnolia (Paolo Breccia, 1968)
- La quieta febbre (Romano Scavolini, 1964)
- Diario beat (Romano Scavolini, 1967)
- Attacco (Romano Scavolini, 1970)
- LSD (Romano Scavolini, 1968-1970)
- Reflex (Mario Schifano, 1964)
- Ferreri (Mario Schifano, 1966-1969)
- Souvenir (Mario Schifano, 1967)
- Film (Mario Schifano, 1967)
- Fotografo (Mario Schifano, 1966-1969)
- Vietnam (Mario Schifano, 1967)
- Vieni dolce morte (Paolo Brunatto, 1967-1968)
- Bis (Paolo Brunatto, 1966)
- Hermitage (Carmelo Bene, 1967)
- Il canto d'amore di Alfred Prufrock (Nico D'Alessandria, 1967)
- Il respiro (Alex Rupp, 1964)
- The City (Alex Rupp, 1961)
- Zoomm, Track! (Mario Carbone, 1968)
- Kappa (Nato Frascà, 1965-1966)
- Soglie (Nato Frascà, 1978)
Controcampo Italiano Feature Films
- Scialla! (Francesco Bruni, Italy)
- Maternity Blues (Fabrizio Cattani, Italy)
- Qualche nuvola (Saverio Di Biagio, Italy)
- Cose dell'altro mondo (Francesco Patierno, Italy)
- Cavalli (Michele Rho, Italy)
- Tutta colpa della musica ( Ricky Tognazzi, Italy)
Controcampo Italiano Documentaries
- Black block (Carlo Augusto Backschmidt, Italy)
- Piazza Garibalid (Davide Ferrario, Italy)
- Pugni chiusi (Fiorella Infascelli, Italy)
- Out of Tehran (Monica Maggioni, Italy)
- Pasta nera (Alessandro Piva, Italy)
- Quiproquo (Elisabetta Sgarbi, Italy)