The Venice Film Festival website just released the official list of 21 films in competition this year.
I’m told Delivery is the first Greek film in this category in 15 years!

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, Errikos Litsis

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