{"id":954082,"date":"2026-07-23T13:50:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:50:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/954082\/"},"modified":"2026-07-23T13:50:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-23T13:50:16","slug":"venice-film-festival-2026-lineup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/954082\/","title":{"rendered":"Venice Film Festival 2026 Lineup"},"content":{"rendered":"

\n\tAlberto Barbera presided over a lengthy press conference Thursday morning, during which he announced the stacked lineup for this year\u2019s Venice<\/a> Film Festival, which runs from 2-12 September.\u00a0Scroll down<\/strong> for the full list of titles.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tThe lineup is expansive, with several big names returning to the festival across its many strands. However, studio titles are notably absent, continuing the trend from Cannes, which studios also largely skipped.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tIn competition, Casey Affleck will debut Company, his latest film as a director. The film has previously been described as a \u201cgothic horror\u201d.\u00a0South Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-Dong returns to feature filmmaking with Possible Love, his first film since Burning (2018). Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda lands at Venice with Look Back, his second festival title of 2026. The filmmaker was also at Cannes in May with Sheep in the Box. <\/p>\n

\n\tMartin McDonagh returns to Venice with Wild Horse Nine, his first feature since The Banshees of Inisherin, which won Best Screenplay and Actor at Venice in 2022 before landing 9 Oscar noms. Veteran Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti returns to Venice with a film for the first time since 1989. The feature is Succeder\u00e0 Questa Notte and stars Louis Garrel. Documentary filmmaker Lance Oppenheim will debut his first fiction film, Primetime, starring Robert Pattinson. The film follows Chris Hansen in 2006 as he sets out to make TV history with\u00a0To Catch a Predator.\u00a0Pattinson plays the NBC\u00a0Dateline\u00a0correspondent who made a name for himself catching suspected child predators with the help of law enforcement and a team of decoys pretending to be minors online.<\/p>\n

\n\tOut of Competition, Paul Schrader will screen a new project titled The Basics of Philosophy starring Jack Huston and Sofia Boutella. The film is said to follow a repressed philosophy professor who has been grappling with lingering guilt over a decision from his past when the victim suddenly returns to his life. Venice regular Luca Guadagnino will be on the Lido this year but not with his OpenAI feature Artificial. The Italian filmmaker will instead screen his long-gestating Bernardo Bertolucci documentary Joie De Vivre. The film runs seven hours long. Wim Wenders is also out of competition with a doc on the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace\u2019s doc on the comeback of rock band Oasis, titled Oasis: Don\u2019t Look Back In Anger, will also debut on the Lido.<\/p>\n

\n\tElsewhere, Laura Poitras will debut a short she shot with Rachel Mueller titled They\u2019re Here. The film features never-before-seen footage of the protests in Minnesota against Trump\u2019s controversial ICE raids. As previously announced, Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is heading this year\u2019s Competition jury, will screen Flesh Impact, a tribute to Marilyn Monroe on her centenary. The film stars Dakota Johnson and Ellen Burstyn. Italian filmmaker Alina Marazzi will debut her first feature in a decade. The project is titled La Ragazza Con La Leica; Georgian filmmaker Levan Koguashvili returns with Guria, a black-and-white feature set in western Georgia. Former Red Sea Film Festival head Kaleem Aftab is among the film\u2019s producers.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe festival has already announced that this year\u2019s opening title will be Danny Boyle\u2019s Ink. The film, starring Jack O\u2019Connell, Guy Pearce and Claire Foy, will screen on September 2 in the Sala Grande at the Palazzo del Cinema on the Lido.\u00a0Boyle directs the feature from a screenplay written by James Graham (Dear England), based on his Tony-nominated play Ink. O\u2019Connell stars as The Sun newspaper editor Larry Lamb with Pearce as Rupert Murdoch. Claire Foy is Jules Davies.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\n\tAnnouncing the title earlier this summer, Barbera described the title as an \u201caccount of publisher Rupert Murdoch\u2019s acquisition of the daily newspaper The Sun, which he entrusted to the unscrupulous Larry Lamb, turning it into Britain\u2019s best-selling tabloid at the expense of its rival, The Mirror.\u201d<\/p>\n

\n\tThe festival\u2019s closing title will be Dio ride, written and directed by Giovanni Veronesi (The King\u2019s Musketeers). The film will screen out of competition. Pierfrancesco Favino, Silvio Orlando, Alma Noce, Francesco Gheghi, Maurizio Lombardi, Paolo Rossi and Carlo Cecchi star in the film.<\/p>\n

\n\tGeorge Clooney and Ellen Burstyn will be the recipients of the Venice Film Festival<\/a>\u2019s Golden Lion for lifetime achievement this year. Gyllenhaal will be joined on the Competition jury by Kaouther Ben Hania, Daniel Blumberg, Francesco Casetti, Xavier Giannoli, Shahrbanoo Sadat, and Johnnie To.<\/p>\n

\n\tThe festival will run from September 2 \u2013 12.<\/p>\n

\n\tCompetition<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tInk
Dir: Danny Boyle<\/p>\n

\n\tCompany
Dir: Casey Affleck<\/p>\n

\n\tA Bit Of Light
Dir: Ali Asgari<\/p>\n

\n\tRitorno A Buenos Aires
Dir: Marco Bechis<\/p>\n

\n\tUn Bon Petit Soldat
Dir: Stephane Brize<\/p>\n

\n\tIl Fuoco Che Ti Porti Dentro
Dir: Edoardo De Angelis<\/p>\n

\n\tWoman Unknown
Dir: May el-Toukhy<\/p>\n

\n\tBucking Fastard
Dir: Werner Herzog<\/p>\n

\n\tA Place To Heal
Dir: Cedric Kahn<\/p>\n

\n\tDau
Dir: Ilya Khrzhanovsky<\/p>\n

\n\tLook Back
Dir: Hirokazu Koreeda<\/p>\n

\n\tPossible Love
Dir: Lee Chang-Dong<\/p>\n

\n\tWild Horse Nine
Dir: Martin McDonagh<\/p>\n

\n\tSucceder\u00e0 Questa Notte
Dir: Nanni Moretti<\/p>\n

\n\tPrimetime
Dir: Lance Oppenheim<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Echo Chamber
Dir: Andrea Pallaoro<\/p>\n

\n\tUn Peu Avant Minuit
Dir: Nicolas Pariser<\/p>\n

\n\tL\u2019Estranea
Dir: Paolo Strippoli<\/p>\n

\n\tMr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?
Dir: Shinya Tsukamoto<\/p>\n

\n\tBunker
Dir: Florian Zeller<\/p>\n

\n\tOrizzonti
<\/strong>La Ragazza Con La Leica
Dir: Alina Marazzi<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Burning Giants
Dir: Phuttiphone Aroonpheng<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat Belongs To Others
Dir: Grzegorz Debowski<\/p>\n

\n\tUna Storia
Dir: Anna Foglietta<\/p>\n

\n\tLa Citta Dei Vivi
Dir: Edoardo Gabbriellini<\/p>\n

\n\tMoragheb
Dir: Mohsen Gharaei<\/p>\n

\n\tToo Much Sugar
Dir: Robert Greene<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Difficult Bride
Dir: Rubaiyat Hossain<\/p>\n

\n\tLa Maison Du Vent
Dir: Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu<\/p>\n

\n\tI Figli Della Scimmia
Dir: Tommasco Landucci<\/p>\n

\n\tA Day In The Life Of Jo: Chapter Phaedra
Dir: Jacqueline Lentzou<\/p>\n

\n\tOasis
Dir: Jannis Lenz<\/p>\n

\n\tUntil The Day Ends
Dir: Jelena Maksimovic<\/p>\n

\n\tLa Moula
Dir: Jerome Pierrat<\/p>\n

\n\tLovers In The Blue Night
Dir: Anuparna Roy<\/p>\n

\n\tUn D\u00e9tour Par Diane
Dir: Ann Sirot, Raphael Balboni<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Color Of The Sun
Dir: Xavier Tera<\/p>\n

\n\tEklipse
Dir: Manuel Wetscher<\/p>\n

\n\tBig Little Things
Dir: Michelle Zhou<\/p>\n

\n\tVenice Open \u2014 Out Of Competition, Fiction<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tDio Ride
Dir: Giovanni Veronesi<\/p>\n

\n\tNessum Dolore
Dir: Giani Amelio<\/p>\n

\n\tLet Us Through, Dear Ancestors
Dir: Lav Diaz<\/p>\n

\n\tFather Joe
Dir: Barthelemy Grossmann<\/p>\n

\n\tScherzetto
Dir: Mario Martone<\/p>\n

\n\tPlace To Be
Dir: Kornel Mundruczo<\/p>\n

\n\tNo Paradise If You Are Killed By A Woman
Dir: Halkawat Mustafa<\/p>\n

\n\tArrested Memory
Dir: Sabu<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Basics Of Philosophy
Dir: Paul Schrader<\/p>\n

\n\tUn Bon Avocat
Dir: Tristan Seguela<\/p>\n

\n\tJupiter
Dir: Alexandre Smia<\/p>\n

\n\tVenice Open \u2014 Out Of Competition, Film on Films
<\/strong>Juso Per Ferie
Dir: Karen Di Porto<\/p>\n

\n\tNino \u2014 Un Film Su Nino Rota
Dir: Walter Fasano<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Pervert\u2019s Guide To Utopias
Dir: Sophie Fiennes<\/p>\n

\n\tJoie De Vivre
Dir: Luca Guadagnino<\/p>\n

\n\tTwist And Shoot Mister Suzuki
Dir: Yves Montmayeur<\/p>\n

\n\tIntermission
Dir: Yonfan<\/p>\n

\n\tVenice Open \u2014 Out Of Competition, Non-Fiction
<\/strong>Be Brave
Dir: Francesco Carrozzini<\/p>\n

\n\tWhat Love Builds
Dir: Russell Crowe<\/p>\n

\n\tBurgundy
Dir: Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw<\/p>\n

\n\tMusk
Dir: Alex Gibney<\/p>\n

\n\tThe Road To Jericho
Dir: Amos Gitai<\/p>\n

\n\tCitizen Osama
Dir: Ahmed Hassouna<\/p>\n

\n\tUnion Town
Dir: Barbara Kopple<\/p>\n

\n\tHoly Wood Dust
Dir: Victor Kossakovsky<\/p>\n

\n\tLetters From The Silenced Country
Dir: Andrei Kutsila<\/p>\n

\n\tBiografia De Jorge Luis Borges
Dir: Mariano Llin\u00e1s<\/p>\n

\n\tMy Undesirable Friends: Part 1 \u2014 Exile
Dir: Julia Loktev<\/p>\n

\n\tBoatbuilders
Dir: Luke Lorentzen<\/p>\n

\n\tImperium
Dir: Sergei Loznitsa<\/p>\n

\n\tShumei \u2014 The Living Legacy Of Kabuki
Dir: Takashi Miike<\/p>\n

\n\tQueer Edward II
Dir: Theo Rollason<\/p>\n

\n\tOasis: Don\u2019t Look Back In Anger
Dir: Dylan Southern, Will Lovelace<\/p>\n

\n\tDust
Dir: Tsai Ming-Liang<\/p>\n

\n\tEverest: The Other Side
Dir: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin<\/p>\n

\n\tFrom Inside Out \u2014 The Architecture Of Peter Zumthor
Dir: Wim Wenders<\/p>\n

\n\tVenice Open \u2014 Out Of Competition, Series
<\/strong>Peccato
Dir: Valerio Vestoso<\/p>\n

\n\tVenice Open \u2014 Out Of Competition, Short Films
<\/strong>Flesh Impact
Dir: Maggie Gyllenhaal<\/p>\n

\n\tWild Asparagus
Dir: Avi Mograbi<\/p>\n

\n\tThey\u2019re Here
Dir: Laura Poitras, Rachel Mueller<\/p>\n

\n\tSpecial Screening
<\/strong>Dai Nostri Inviati
Dir: Giuseppe Giannotti, Enrico Salvatori, Nicoletta Berardi<\/p>\n

\n\tVenice Spotlight<\/strong><\/p>\n

\n\tSumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing
Director: Erik Shirai<\/p>\n

\n\tConversations With The Sea
Dir: Muayad Alayan<\/p>\n

\n\tHombre Al Agua
Dir: Gael Garcia Bernal<\/p>\n

\n\tSerpenti
Dir: Roberto De Paolis Maino<\/p>\n

\n\tFuries
Dir: Rami Kodeih<\/p>\n

\n\tGuria
Dir: Levan Koguashvili<\/p>\n

\n\tGround Floor
Dir: Gabor Reisz<\/p>\n

\n\tEu Contez
Dir: Alina Serban<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Alberto Barbera presided over a lengthy press conference Thursday morning, during which he announced the stacked lineup for…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":939032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[9],"tags":[171,67,132,68,9176,30989],"class_list":["post-954082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-entertainment","tag-united-states","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-venice","tag-venice-film-festival"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116969618024965233","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=954082"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/954082\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/939032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=954082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=954082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=954082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}