Venice Film Festival announces first additions to 2017 lineup

Organizers of the Venice Film Festival have announced the first lineup of movies slated to compete in the world’s oldest film festival.

Venice Film Festival chief, Alberto Barbera, unveiled on Friday the lineup for the 74th running of the Venice International Film Festival.

The Venice Film Festival is scheduled to take place from August 30 – September 9 in Venice, Italy.

The world’s oldest film festival features a competition section (Horizons) as well as other sections, including Out of Competition Fiction, Out of Competition Documentaries, Out of Competition Special Events, Cinema in the Garden, Special Documentary Screenings, Biennale College and Venice Classics (Documentary).

Below are the first additions to the Venice 2017 lineup, including:

Opening Night Films

‘Downsizing’, directed by Alexander Payne (in competition)

‘Human Flow’, directed by Ai Weiwei

‘Mother!’, directed by Darren Aronofsky

‘Suburbicon,’ directed by George Clooney

‘The Shape Of Water,’ directed by Guillermo del Toro

‘Linsulte,’ dir.  Ziad Doueiri

‘Downsizing’, directed by Alexander Payne

Horizons (Competition)

‘Disappearance’, Ali Asgari

‘Especes Menacees’, directed by Gilles Bourdos

‘The Rape of Recy Taylor’, directed by Nancy Buirski

‘Caniba’, directed by Lucien Castaing-Taylor, Verena Paravel

‘Les Bienheureux’, directed by Sofia Djama

‘Marvin’, directed by Anne Fontaine

‘Invisible’, directed by Pablo Giorgelli

‘Brutti e Cattivi’, directed by Cosimo Gomez

‘The Cousin’, directed by Tzahi Grad

‘The Testament’, directed by Amichai Greenberg

‘No Date, No Signature’, directed by Vahid Jalilvand

‘Los Versos del Olvido’, directed by Alireza Khatami

‘The Night I Swam’, directed by Damien Manivel, Igarashi Kohei

‘Nico, 1988’, directed by Susanna Nicchiarelli

‘Krieg’, directed by Rick Ostermann

‘West of Sunshine’, directed by Jason Raftopoulos

‘Gatta Cenerentola’, Alessandro Rak, Ivan Cappiello, Marino Guarnieri, Dario Sansone

‘Under the Tree’, directed by Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurdsson

‘La Vita in Comune’, directed by Edoardo Winspeare

The Venice Film Festival or Venice International Film Festival, founded in 1932, is the oldest film festival in the world and one of the "Big Three" film festivals alongside the Cannes Film Festival and Berlin International Film Festival.

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