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The Golden Lion, the top prize at the Venice Film Festival starting on September 2, will be awarded to a film among 18 entrants from around the world.
Here are the running movies:
– ‘Le Sorelle Macaluso’ (The Macaluso Sisters): Italy –
Five sisters in Palermo remember, discuss and tell secrets while they meet again at a family funeral in the Emma Dante film.
– ‘The world to come’: USA –
In Mona Fastwold’s 19th century New York, Abigail (Katherine Waterston) tends a farm with her husband (Casey Affleck) but falls in love with a neighbor.
– ‘New Order’ (New Order): Mexico / France –
A dystopian film by Michel Franco describes the social and economic disparity in Mexico, as a wealthy family seeks to escape the chaos of daily life.
– ‘Amants’ (Lovers): France –
Nicole García’s film tells the story of Lisa and Simon, lovers who cross paths again three years after Simon fled Paris.
– ‘Laila in Haifa’: Israel / France –
Five stories of women are woven together over the course of a night at a Haifa club. As one of the few spaces where Israelis and Palestinians can mix, director Amos Gitai makes the place itself a protagonist.
– Dorogie Tovarischi! (Dear comrades!): Russia –
Based on the true story of a 1962 labor strike in Novocherkassk, USSR, in which Soviet troops shot 26 protesters. Andrei Konchalosky’s film retells events that were kept secret until the 1990s.
– ‘Spy No Tsuma’ (wife of a spy): Japan –
Against the backdrop of the impending World War II and invasion of Manchuria, a wife’s love for her Kobe merchant husband is put to the test when another woman enters the scene in Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s film.
– ‘Khorshid’ (Children of the Sun): Iran –
Ali and his friends have small jobs and are struggling to support their families. Majid Majidi’s film explores what happens when Ali learns of an underground treasure.
– ‘Pieces of a Woman’: Canada / Hungary –
Martha and Sean (Vanessa Kirby and Shia LaBeouf) are a Boston couple whose baby dies during a home birth. Director Kornel Mundruczo shows how the grieving Martha navigates her relationships with her husband and mother (Ellen Burstyn) as she confronts the midwife (Molly Parker) in court.
– ‘Miss Marx’: Italy / Belgium –
Susanna Nicchiarelli tells the story of Eleanor, the youngest daughter of Karl Marx, who fought for the rights of workers and women and the abolition of child labor.
– ‘Padrenostro’: Italy –
10-year-old Valerio’s life is turned upside down when he and his mother witness a terrorist attack on their father. But director Claudio Noce explores how a chance encounter with a rebellious boy changes their lives.
– ‘Nocturne’: Italy / France / Germany –
Filmed over three years on the borders of Iraq, Kurdistan, Syria and Lebanon, Gianfranco Rosi’s documentary follows people trying to improvise an existence despite the violence that surrounds them.
– ‘Sniegu Juz Nigby Nie Bedzie’ (Never Gonna Snow Again): Poland / Germany –
A mysterious masseur from Ukraine, Zhenia becomes a guru of a spiritually barren gated community in this film by Malgorzata Szumowska and Michal Englert.
– ‘The disciple’: India –
Director Chaitanya Tamhane tells the story of Sharad, pursuing his dream of becoming an Indian classical vocalist amid the chaos of life in the sprawling metropolis of Mumbai.
– ‘And tomorrow the whole world’: Germany / France –
In Julia von Heinz’s film, Luisa and her anti-fascist group wonder how far they are willing to go to combat hatred after a wave of racist attacks hits Germany.
– ‘Quo vadis, Aida?’: Bosnia-Herzegovina –
Based on true events in 1995 in Bosnia. Aida is a translator at Srebrenica who works for United Nations peacekeepers. When the Bosnian Serb army invades, she and thousands more seek safety in the Dutch UN camp in Jasmila Zbanic’s film.
– ‘Nomadland’: United States –
Director Chloe Zhao tells the story of Fern (Frances McDormand), who leaves her impoverished Nevada town in her truck to earn a living as a modern nomad.
– ‘In Between Dying’: Azerbaijan / United States –
Davud is a restless young man on a journey of self-discovery through Hilal Baydarov’s film, getting ahead of the men who are after him. When his journey ends at home, Davud finds the love he’s looking for, but is it too late?
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