Venice Movie Competition inventive director Alberto Barbera is about to unveil the lineup for the occasion’s upcoming 82nd version, which is predicted to be filled with buzzy awards hopefuls.

Final 12 months’s Venice Silver Lion winner, “The Brutalist” by Brady Corbet, scored three Oscars whereas Walter Salles’ “I’m Nonetheless Right here,” which had scooped Venice’s finest screenplay prize, received for finest worldwide characteristic movie.

“La Grazia,” a love story that re-teams Oscar-winning Italian director Paolo Sorrentino with “The Nice Magnificence” actor Toni Servillo, has been set because the pageant’s beforehand introduced opening movie and also will compete for the fest’s high prize the Golden Lion.

Increasing specialty streamer and distributor Mubi will probably be flying its flag, having acquired “La Grazia” forward of its launch. Mubi boss Efe Cakarel asserted final month that one other high-profile title he acquired, Jim Jarmusch’s triptych image “Father Mom Sister Brother,” starring Cate Blanchett had Adam Driver, had additionally landed a Lido competitors slot.

This 12 months’s Golden Lion profession achievement honorees are iconoclastic German director Werner Herzog — whose physique of labor includes “Aguirre, the Wrath of God,” “Fitzcarraldo” and Nosferatu the Vampyre” — and legendary “Vertigo” star Kim Novak. 

Two-time Oscar winner Alexander Payne will preside over the principle jury. Oscar-nominated Brazilian actress and author Fernanda Torres (“I’m Nonetheless Right here”), outstanding Iranian auteur Mohammad Rasoulof (“The Seed of the Sacred Fig”), Palme d’Or-winning Romanian director-writer-producer Cristian Mungiu (“4 Months, 3 Weeks and a couple of Days”), French director Stéphane Brizé (“Out of Season”), Italian director Maura Delpero (“Vermiglio”) and Chinese language actor and producer Zhao Tao (“Caught by the Tides”) will probably be becoming a member of Payne as competitors jurors.

The 82nd version of Venice will run Aug. 27-Sept. 6. 

See the total lineup under.

OPENING FILM

“La Grazia,” Paolo Sorrentino

COMPETITION

OUT OF COMPETITION – SERIES

OUT OF COMPETITION – NON-FICTION

OUT OF COMPETITION — SPECIAL SCREENINGS

HORIZONS

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