omg 21 films in competition this year at the Venice Film Festival. I was told that before my film, Delivery, no greek film had been accepted in 15 years!
So the website of the festival just released the official run down:
Venezia 61 – In competition
Gianni AMELIO Le chiavi di casa (Italy France Germany) – 105′
Kim Rossi Stuart, Charlotte Rampling, Andrea Rossi
Alejandro AMENÁBAR Mar adentro (Spain) – 125′
Javier Bardem, Belen Rueda, Lola Dueñas
Guido CHIESA Lavorare con lentezza (Italy) – 111′
Claudia Pandolfi, Valerio Mastandrea, Tommaso Ramenghi, Marco Luisi
Claire DENIS L’intrus (France) – 125′
Michel Subor, Béatrice Dalle, Grégoire Colin
Arnaud DESPLECHIN Rois et reine (France) – 150′
Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Devos, Catherine Deneuve, Noémie Lvovsky
Amos GITAI Promised Land (Israel France) – 90′
Anne Parillaud, Hanna Schygulla, Rosamund Pike, Diana Bespechni
Jonathan GLAZER Birth (USA) – 100′
Nicole Kidman, Lauren Bacall, Anne Heche, Danny Huston
HOU Hsiao-hsien Café Lumière (Japan) – 104′
Yo Hitoto, Tadanobu Asano
IM Kwon-taek Ha-ryu-in-saeng (Korea) – 105′
Cho Seung-woo, Kim Min-sun, Yoo Ha-joon
JIA Zhangke Shijie (China Japan) – 120′
Zhao Tao Chen Taisheng
Mike LEIGH Vera Drake (UK) – 125′
Imelda Staunton, Phil Davis, Peter Wight
Marziyeh MESHKINI Stray Dogs (Iran) – 93′
Gol Ghoti, Zahed, Twiggy
Hayao MIYAZAKI Howl’s Moving Castle (Japan) – 119′
Animation movie, voices: Chieko Baisho, Takuya Kimura, Akihiro Miwa
Mira NAIR Vanity Fair (USA) – 140′
Reese Witherspoon, Eileen Atkins, Bob Hoskins, Jonathan Rhys-Meyers
François OZON 5×2 (Cinq fois deux) (France) – 90′
Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Françoise Fabian, Michael Lonsdale
Nikos PANAYOTOPOULOS Delivery (Greece) – 100′
Thanos Samaras, Alexia Icatsiki, Dimitris Imelos
Michele PLACIDO Ovunque sei (Italy) – 85′
Barbora Bobulova, Stefano Accorsi, Stefano Dionisi, Violante Placido
Svetlana PROSKURINA Udalionnyj dostup (Russia) – 85′
Dana Agisheva, Elena Rufanova, Vladimir Ilyin
Todd SOLONDZ Palindromes (USA) – 95′
Ellen Barkin, Jennifer Jason Leigh, Stephen Adly Guirgis
Wim WENDERS Land of Plenty (Germany) – 114′
John Diehl, Michelle Williams
Greg ZGLINSKI Tout un hiver sans feu (Switzerland) – 88′
Aurélien Recoing, Marie Matheron, Gabriela Muskala, Blerim Gjoci