The Venice International Film Festival is in the process announcing the lineup for its 71st edition. Here's what we know so far:
COMPETITION
The Cut (Fatih Akin)
A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (Roy Andersson)
99 Homes (Ramin Bahrani)
Tales (Rakhshan Bani E'temad)
La rancon de la gloire (Xavier Beauvois)
Hungry Hearts (Saverio Costanzo)
Le dernier coup de marteau (Alix Delaporte)
Pasolini (Abel Ferrara)
Manglehorn (David Gordon Green)
Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance (Alejandro González Iñárritu)
Three Hearts (Benoît Jacquot)
The Postman's White Nights (Andrei Konchalovsky)
Il Giovane Favoloso (Mario Martone)
Sivas (Kaan Mujdeci)
Anime Nere (Francesco Munzi)
Good Kill (Andrew Niccol)
Loin des hommes (David Oelhoffen)
The Look of Silence (Joshua Oppenheimer)
Nobi (Shinya Tsukamoto)
Red Amnesia (Wang Xiaoshuai)
OUT OF COMPETITION
Joe Date. Photo by Evan Dickson.
Words with Gods (Guillermo Arriaga, Emir Kusturica, Amos Gitai, Mira Nair, Warwick Thornton, Hector Babenco, Bahman Ghobadi, Hideo Nakata, Alex de la Iglesia)
She's Funny That Way (Peter Bogdanovich)
Dearest (Peter Ho-sun Chan)
Olive Kitteridge (Lisa Cholodenko)
Burying the Ex (Joe Dante)
Perez. (Edoardo De Angelis)
La zuppa del demonio (Davide Ferrario)
The Sound and the Fury (James Franco)
Tsili (Amos Gitai)
La trattativa (Sabine Guzzanti)
The Golden Era (Ann Hui)
Revivre (Im Kwon-taek)
The Humbling (Barry Levinson)
The Old Man of Belem (Manoel de Oliveira)
Italy in a Day (Gabriele Salvatores)
In the Basement (Ulrich Seidl)
The Boxtrolls (Anthony Stacchi, Annable Graham)
Nymphomaniac Volume II, Director's Cut (Lars von Trier)
HORIZONS
Theeb (Naji Abu Nowar)
Line of Credit (Salome Alexi)
Senza Nessuna Pieta (Michele Alhaique)
Cymbeline (Michael Almereyda)
On the Bride's Side (Antonio Augugliaro, Gabriele del Grande, Khaled Soliman Al Nassiry)
Near Death Experience (Benoît Delépine, Gustave Kervern)
Le vita oscena (Renato De Maria)
Reality (Quentin Dupieux)
Goodnight Mommy (Veronika Franz, Severin Fiala)
Hill of Freedom (Hong Sang-soo)
Bypass (Duane Hopkins)
The President (Mohsen Makhmalbaf)
Belluscone, una storia siciliana (Franco Mersco)
Nabat (Elchin Musaoglu)
Heaven Knows What (Josh Safdie, Ben Safdie)
These Are the Rules (Ognjen Svilicic)
Court (Chaitanya Tamhane)
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Binguan (Xin Yukun, China)
Dancing with Maria (Ivan Gergolet, Italy/Argentina/Slovenia)
Flapping in the Middle of Nowhere (Nguyễn Hoàng Điệp, Vietnam/France/Norway/Germany)
The Market (Diego Bianchi, Italy)
Melbourne (Nima Javidi, Iran)
No One's Child (Vuk Ršumović, Serbia)
40-Love (Stéphane Demoustier, France/Belgium)
Villa Touma (Suha Arraf, Palestine)
The Council of Birds (Timm Kröger, Germany)
VENICE DAYS
El 5 de Talleres (Adrián Biniez, Argentina)
Retour a ithaque (Laurent Cantet, France/Belgium)
Before I Disappear (Shawn Christensen, United States/UK)
Messi (Alex De la iglesia, Spain)
The Dinner (Ivano De Matteo, Italy)
Les Nuits D'Ete (Mario Fanfani, France)
Patria (Felice Farina, Italy)
Metamorphoses (Christophe Honoré, France)
Between 10 and 12 (Peter Hoogendoorn, Belgium/France/Netherlands)
One on One (Kim Ki-duk, South Korea)
The Farewell Party (Sharon Maymom & Tal Granit, Israel)
The Goob (Guy Myhill, UK)
Labour of Love (Adityavikram Sengupta, Bengali/India)
They Have Escaped (Jukka Pekka Valkepaa, Finland/Netherlands)
9x10 Novanta (Marco Bonfanti, Claudio Giovannesi, Alina Marazzi, Pietro Marcello and Sara Fgaier, Giovanni Piperno, Costanza Quatriglio, Paola Randi, Alice Rohrwacher, Roland Sejko, Italy)
The Show MAS Go On (Rä di Martino, Italy)
The Lack (Masbedo, Italy)
Five Star (Keith Miller, United States)