Venice Film Festival unveils titles

The 73rd Venice Film Festival announced its lineup on Thursday in Rome. The full list:

The 73rd Venice Film Festival announced its lineup on Thursday (July 28) in Rome. The official selections will include 55 features -- and these will be a mix of cinema that is both star driven and auteur heavy.

Natalie Portman stars in Jackie which has been directed by Pablo Larraín. (Venice Film Festival)

The festival -- the oldest in the world having begun in 1932 -- will take place from August 31 to September 10 on the quaint little island of Lido that overlooks Venice’s San Marco Square across the lagoon.

The main competition will have 19 movies which will vie for the Golden Lion.

Apart from these, there will be 17 films playing out of competition and 19 in the section called Orizzonti or Horizons.

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Some of the Competition titles include Tom Ford’s Nocturnal Animals, Pablo Larrain’s Jacqueline Kennedy biopic Jackie and Michael Fassbender romance The Light Between Oceans. Besides these, there will be three Italian movies.

Among the celebrated authors whose works will be on show are Terrence Mallick, Lav Diaz, Emir Kusturica and Francois Ozon.

The festival will open with Damien Chazelle’s La La Land and will close with Antoine Fuqua’s Magnificent Seven.

The full list:

CompetitionLa La Land (USA) Damien ChazelleOpening filmThe Bad Batch (USA) Ana Lily AmirpourUne Vie (Fra-Bel) Stéphane BrizéThe Light Between Oceans (USA-Aust-NZ) Derek CianfranceEl ciudadano ilustre (Arg-Spa) Mariano Cohn, Gastón DupratSpira mirabilis (Ita-Swi) Massimo D’anolfi, Martina ParentiAng Babaeng Humayo (The Woman Who Left) (Phi) Lav DiazLa región salvaje (Mexico) Amat EscalanteNocturnal Animals (USA) Tom FordPiuma (Italy) Roan JohnsonRai (Paradise) (Rus-Ger) Andrei KonchalovskyBrimstone (Neth-Ger-Bel-Fra-UK-Swe) Martin KoolhovenNa mlijecnom putu (On the Milky Road) (Ser-UK-USA) Emir KusturicaVoyage of Time (USA-Ger) Terrence MalickEl Cristo ciego (Chl-Fra) Christopher MurrayFrantz (Fra-Ger) François OzonQuesti giorni (Ita) Giuseppe PiccioniArrival (USA) Denis VilleneuveLes beaux jours d’Aranjuez (3D) (Fra-Ger) Wim WendersJackie (USA-Chi) Pablo Larrain

Out of CompetitionThe Young Pope (episodes 1+2) (Ita-Fra-Spa-USA) Paolo SorrentinoSpecial eventPlanetarium (Fra-Bel) Rebecca ZlotowskiSpecial screeningFictionThe Magnificent Seven (USA) Antoine FuquaClosing filmThe Bleeder (USA-Can) Philippe FalardeauHacksaw Ridge (USA-Aus) Mel GibsonThe Journey (UK) Nick HammÀ jamais (Fra-Por) Benoît JacquotGantz:O (Jap) Kawamura YasushiMiljeong (The Age of Shadows) (S Kor) KIM Jee woonMonte (Ita-USA-Fra) Amir NaderiTommaso (Ita) Kim Rossi Stuart

Non-FictionOur War (Ita-USA) Bruno Chiaravalloti, Claudio Jampaglia, Benedetta ArgentieriI Called Him Morgan (Swe-USA) Kasper CollinOne More Time with Feeling (3D) (UK) Andrew DominikAusterlitz (Ger) Sergei LoznitsaAssalto al cielo (Ita) Francesco MunziSafari (Aus-Den) Ulrich SeidlAmerican Anarchist (USA) Charlie SiskelOrizzontiTarde para la ira (Spa) Raúl ArévaloKing Of The Belgians (Bel-Neth-Bul) Peter Brosens, Jessica WoodworthThrough The Wall (Laavor Et Hakin) (Isr) Rama BurshteinLiberami (Ita-Fra) Federica di GiacomoBig Big World (Koca Dünya) (Turk) Reha ErdemGukoroku (Japan) Ishikawa KeiMaudite Poutine (Can) Karl LemieuxSão Jorge (Por-Fra) Marco MartinsDawson City: Frozen Time (USA-Fra) Bill MorrisonRéparer les vivants (Fra-Bel) Katell QuillévéréWhite Sun (Nep-USA-Qat-Neth) Deepak RauniyarMalaria (Ira) Parviz ShahbaziKékszakállú (Arg) Gastón SolnickiHome (Bel) Fien TrochDie Einsiedler (Ger-Aust) Ronny TrockerIl più grande sogno (Ita) Michele VannucciBoys in the Trees (Aus) Nicholas VersoKu qian (Bitter Money) (HK-Fra) Wang BingDark Night (USA) Tim Sutton