Rome (AFP)

Here are the 21 films in competition for the Golden Lion of the 76th Venice Film Festival which will take place from August 28th to September 7th:

- "The Truth", from the Japanese Hirokazu Kore-Eda (opening film)

- "The Perfect Candidate" by Saudi woman Haifaa Al-Mansour

- "About Endlessness" by Sweden's Roy Andersson

- "Wasp Network" by Olivier Assayas of France

- "Marriage Story" by American Noah Baumbach

- "Guest of Honor" by Canadian Atom Egoyan

- "Ad Astra" by American James Gray

- "A Herdade" by Portuguese Tiago Guedes

- "Gloria Mundi" by French Robert Guédiguian

- "Waiting For The Barbarians" by Colombian Ciro Guerra

- "Ema", from Chilean Pablo Larrain

- "Lan xin da ju yuan" ("Saturday fiction") of Chinese Lou Ye

- "Martin Eden", from the Italian Pietro Marcello

- "The Mafia No Piu Quella Di Una Volta" (The Mafia is not what it was), from the Italian Franco Maresco

- "The Painted Bird", Czech Vaclav Marhoul

- "Il Sindaco Del Rione Sanita" by the Italian Mario Martone

- "Babyteeth", from the Australian Shannon Murphy

- "Joker" by American Todd Phillips

- "I accuse", of the French-Polish Roman Polanski

- "The Laundromat" by American Steven Soderbergh

- "No. 7 Cherry Lane", Yonfan (Hong Kong)

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