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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