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Italian cinema takes off with Bones and All by Luca Guadagnino, starring Timothée Chalamet in what is an adaptation of a novel by Camille DeAngelis. Marginalization is also a theme in Romain Gavras’ Athena, set in the Parisian banlieue. American documentarist Frederick Wiseman participates with a historical fictional story, Un couple, inspired by the correspondence between Leo Tolstoy and his wife, Sophia. In the ‘Italian’ cohort is Abel Ferrara’s Padre Pio, screened at Venice Days, starring Shia LaBeouf. The Orizzonti section speaks the language of women with Isabelle Huppert appearing in The Sitting Duck and with The Happiest Man in the World by Macedonian director Teona Strugar Mitrevska, a story of love and war set in the Sarajevo of the late twentieth century. Out of competition, Steve James’ documentary A Compassionate Spy, on the story of American physicist turned Soviet spy Theodore Hall.
MARCELLO MASTROIANNI AWARD FOR AN EMERGING ACTOR/ACTRESS: Taylor Russell
An adaptation of Camille DeAngelis’ novel of the same name, Bones and All is the story of a disturbing first love: that of Maren, a young woman who lives at the margins ...
The modern tragedy of Romain Gervais, written with Ladj Ly (the director of 2019 Les Misérables, Jury Prize at Cannes). The film zeroes in on the clash between police and young activists in the Parisian banlieue. A few hours after the death of a young man un...
Fictional debut for the renowned American documentarist, the film has been made while the director was confined in his country home due to the pandemic. At the centre of the story is versatile actress, director, and screenwriter Nathalie Boutefeu and the correspondence between...
Abel Ferrara tells Padre Pio’s story when, at the end of World War I, young Italian soldiers go back to San Giovanni Rotondo. Church and rich landowners rule the economy of this poor and violent land, families are desperate and men are victorious but shattered. Padre Pio arr...
Written by Fadette Drouard and Jean-Paul Salomé as an adaptation of Caroline Michel-Aguirre’s book La Syndacaliste, the film tells the real story of Maureen Kearney, who in 2012, became an informer about classified information that threatened the French nuclear ind...
When they meet at a speed date event in Sarajevo, Asja and Zoran don’t seem to be looking for the same thing. She is a single woman in her forties looking for love, while Zoran is a banker who is looking for redemption after an episode he was involved in 1993, during the war...
United States, 1944. World War II has been going on for five years, and the American and British feel pressed to fund research and development the next big thing in war effort. This is how the Manhattan Project came about, a projected intended at delivering the first ...
