“Sunset” (“Napszallta”)the new film from Oscar-winning Hungarian director Laszlo Nemes, will have its debut in competition at the Venice Film Festival which runs Aug. 29-Sept. 8.
“Sunset” takes place in Hungary’s capital just before World War I. The film tells the story of Irisz Leiter, a young woman orphaned at an early age. She returns to Budapest seeking work in a hat store her parents used to own and discovers she has an older brother.
Hungary’s National Film Fund said in a statement that “Sunset” also will be shown at the Toronto International Film Festival in September.
Nemes’ first feature film, “Son of Saul,” set in the Nazi’s Auschwitz death camp, won the 2016 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, as well as the top prize at the Cannes Film Festival in 2015.
The Venice fest’s opening night film will be director Damien Chazelle’s “First Man,” telling the story of astronaut Neil Armstrong. It is screening in competition at the festival. Screening out of competition is director Bradley Cooper’s “A Star is Born.”
Other notable films in competition at Venice include the Coen brothers’ “The Ballad of Buster Scruggs,” Alfonso Cuaron’s “Roma,” Paul Greengrass’ “22 July,” Luca Guadagnino’s “Suspira,” and Mike Leigh’s “Peterloo.”
The festival also has an extensive lineup of VR projects.
Here’s a rundown of projects to be showcased:
Venice Film Festival–IN COMPETITION
THE MOUNTAIN
Director Rick Alverson
Main Cast Tye Sheridan, Jeff Goldblum, Hannah Gross, Denis Lavant, Udo Kier / USA
DOUBLES VIES
Director Olivier Assayas
Main Cast Guillaume Canet, Juliette Binoche, Vincent Macaigne, Nora Hamzawi, Christa Théret, Pascal Greggory / France
THE SISTERS BROTHERS
Director Jacques Audiard
Main Cast Joaquin Phoenix, John C. Reilly, Jake Gyllenhaal, Riz Ahmed / France, Belgium, Romania, Spain
FIRST MAN
Director Damien Chazelle
Main Cast Ryan Gosling, Jason Clarke, Claire Foy / USA
THE BALLAD OF BUSTER SCRUGGS
Director Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
Main Cast Tim Blake Nelson, James Franco, Liam Neeson, Tom Waits, Bill Heck, Zoe Kazan, Tyne Daly, Brendan Gleeson / USA
VOX LUX
Director Brady Corbet
Main Cast Natalie Portman, Jude Law, Raffey Cassidy, Stacy Martin, Jennifer Ehle / USA
ROMA
Director Alfonso Cuarón
Main Cast Yalitza Aparicio, Marina de Tavira, Marco Graf, Daniela Demesa, Carlos Peralta, Nancy García / Mexico
22 JULY
Director Paul Greengrass
Main Cast Anders Danielsen Lie, Jonas Strand Gravli, Jon Øigarden, Isak Bakli Aglen, Seda Witt, Maria Bock, Thorbjø Harr / Norway, Iceland
SUSPIRIA
Director Luca Guadagnino
Main Cast Dakota Johnson, Tilda Swinton, Mia Goth, Chloë Grace Moretz / Italy
WERK OHNE AUTOR
Director Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Main Cast Tom Schilling, Paula Beer, Sebastian Koch, Saskia Rosendahl, Oliver Masucci / Germany
THE NIGHTINGALE
Director Jennifer Kent
Main Cast Aisling Franciosi, Sam Claflin, Baykali Ganambarr, Damon Herriman, Harry Greenwood, Ewen Leslie, Michael Sheasby, Charlie Shotwell / Australia
THE FAVOURITE
Director Yorgos Lanthimos
Main Cast Olivia Colman, Emma Stone, Rachel Weisz, Nicholas Hoult, Joe Alwyn / United Kingdom, Ireland, USA
PETERLOO
Director Mike Leigh
Main Cast Rory Kinnear, Maxine Peake, Pearce Quigley, David Moorst, Rachel Finnegan, Tom Meredith / United Kingdom, USA
CAPRI-REVOLUTION
Director Mario Martone
Main Cast Marianna Fontana, Reinout Scholten van Aschat, Antonio Folletto, Gianluca Di Gennaro, Eduardo Scarpetta, Jenna Thiam, Ludovico Girardello, Lola Klamroth, Maximilian Dirr, Donatella Finocchiaro / Italy, France
WHAT YOU GONNA DO WHEN THE WORLD’S ON FIRE?
Director Roberto Minervini
Main Cast Judy Hill, Dorothy Hill, Michael Nelson, Ronaldo King, Titus Turner, Ashley King, Kevin Goodman, The New Black Panthers Party for Self Defense / Italy, USA, France
NAPSZÁLLTA (SUNSET)
Director László Nemes
Main Cast Juli Jakab, Vlad Ivanov / Hungary, France
FRÈRES ENNEMIS
Director David Oelhoffen
Main Cast Matthias Schoenaerts, Reda Kateb, Adel Bencherif, Sofiane Zermani, Nicolas Giraud, Marc Barbe, Sabrina Ouazani, Gwendolyn Gourvenec / France, Belgium
NUESTRO TIEMPO
Director Carlos Reygadas
Main Cast Carlos Reygadas, Natalia López, Eleazar Reygadas, Rut Reygadas, Phil Burgers / Mexico, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden
AT ETERNITY’S GATE
Director Julian Schnabel
Main Cast Willem Dafoe, Rupert Friend, Oscar Isaac, Mads Mikkelsen, Mathieu Amalric, Emmanuelle Seigner, Niels Arestrup / USA, France
ACUSADA
Director Gonzalo Tobal
Main Cast Leonardo Sbaraglia, Mariana Espósito, Inés Estevez, Daniel Fanego, Gerardo Romano / Argentina, Mexico
ZAN (KILLING)
Director Shinya Tsukamoto
Main Cast Sousuke Ikematsu, Yu Aoi, Tatsuya Nakamura, Shinya Tsukamoto, Ryusei Maeda / Japan
OUT OF COMPETITION
UNA STORIA SENZA NOME
Director Roberto Andò
Main Cast Micaela Ramazzotti, Renato Carpentieri, Laura Morante, Alessandro Gassmann / Italy, France
LES ESTIVANTS
Director Valeria Bruni Tedeschi
Main Cast Valeria Bruni Tedeschi, Pierre Arditi, Valeria Golino, Noémie Lvovsky, Yolande Moreau, Laurent Stocker, Riccardo Scamarcio / France, Italy
A STAR IS BORN
Director Bradley Cooper
Main Cast Lady Gaga, Bradley Cooper, Andrew Dice Clay, Dave Chappelle, Sam Elliott / USA
MI OBRA MAESTRA
Director Gastón Duprat
Main Cast Guillermo Francella, Luis Brandoni, Raúl Arévalo, Andrea Frigerio / Argentina, Spain
A TRAMWAY IN JERUSALEM
Director Amos Gitai
Main Cast Noa Ahinoamam Nini, Mathieu Amalric, Hana Laslo, Yael Abecassis, Pippo Delbono, Yuval Scharf, Karen Mor, Lamis Amar, Mustafa Masi / Israel, France
UN PEUPLE ET SON ROI
Director Pierre Schoeller
Main Cast Gaspard Ulliel, Adèle Haenel, Olivier Gourmet, Luis Garrel, Izïa Higelin, Noémie Lvovsky, Céline Sallette, Denis Lavant / France, Belgium
LA QUIETUD
Director Pablo Trapero
Main Cast Martina Gusman, Bèrènice Bèjo, Graciela Borges, Edgard Ramirez, Joaquim Furríel / Argentina
DRAGGED ACROSS CONCRETE
Director S. Craig Zahler
Main Cast Mel Gibson, Vince Vaughn, Tory Kittles / Canada, USA
YING (SHADOW)
Director Zhang Yimou
Main Cast Deng Chao, Sun Li, Zheng Kai, Wang Qianyuan, Wang Jingchun, Hu Jun, Guan Xiaotong, Wu Leo / China
NON FICTION
A LETTER TO A FRIEND IN GAZA
Director Amos Gitai
Israel
AQUARELA
Director Victor Kossakovsky
Great Britain, Germany
EL PEPE, UNA VIDA SUPREMA
Director Emir Kusturica
Main Cast Pepe Mujica / Argentina, Uruguay, Serbia
PROCESS
Director Sergei Loznitsa
Netherlands
CARMINE STREET GUITARS
Director Ron Mann
Canada
ISIS, TOMORROW. THE LOST SOULS OF MOSUL
Director Francesca Mannocchi, Alessio Romenzi
Italy, Germany
AMERICAN DHARMA
Director Errol Morris
Main Cast Stephen K. Bannon / USA, Great Britain
INTRODUZIONE ALL’OSCURO
Director Gastón Solnicki
Main Cast Gastón Solnicki / Argentina, Austria
1938 DIVERSI
Director Giorgio Treves
Italy
NI DE LIAN (YOUR FACE)
Director Tsai Ming-liang
Main Cast Lee Kang Sheng / Chinese Taipei
MONROVIA, INDIANA
Director Frederick Wiseman
USA
SPECIAL EVENTS
THEY’LL LOVE ME WHEN I’M DEAD
Director Morgan Neville
USA
THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND
Director Orson Welles
Main Cast John Huston, Oja Kodar, Peter Bogdanovich, Susan Strasberg, Norman Foster / USA
SPECIAL SCREENINGS
L’AMICA GENIALE
Director Saverio Costanzo
Main Cast Elisa Del Genio, Ludovica Nasti, Margherita Mazzucco, Gaia Girace / Italy, Belgium
IL DIARIO DI ANGELA – NOI DUE CINEASTI
Director Yervant Gianikian
Main Cast Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi / Italy
VENICE VIRTUAL REALITY
COMPETITION – INTERACTIVE
MAKE NOISE
Director May Abdalla
Main Cast Nikki Amuka-Bird / Great Britain
THE UNKNOWN PATIENT
Director Michael Beets
Main Cast Lily Sullivan / Australia
BUDDY VR
Director Chuck Chae
Main Cast Yena Jang / South Korea
UMAMI
Director Landia Egal, Thomas Pons
Main Cast Amaury La Burthe, Eimi Kawahara / France
ECLIPSE
Director Astruc Jonathan, Favre Aymeric
France
THE HORRIFICALLY REAL VIRTUALITY
Director Marie Jourdren
Main Cast Josh Jefferies, Robin Berry / France
SPHERES: CHORUS OF THE COSMOS
Director Eliza McNitt
USA, France
A DISCOVERY OF WITCHES – HIDING IN PLAIN SIGHT
Director Kim-Leigh Pontin
Main Cast Teresa Palmer, Matthew Goode, Adetomiwa Edun / Great Britain
THE ROAMING – WETLANDS
Director Mathieu Pradat
Main Cast Stephen Harrison, Nicolas Pradat, Beatrice Mujdei, Barbara Weber Boustani, Avant Strangel / France, Great Britain, Belgium
KOBOLD
Director Max Sacker, Ioulia Isserlis
Main Cast David Bredin, Nick Holaschke, Garry Lane / Germany
AWAVENA
Director Lynette Wallworth
Main Cast Hushahu Yawanawa, Tata Yawanawa / USA, Brazil, Australia
COMPETITION – LINEAR
EVEN IN THE RAIN
Director Lindsay Branham
USA, Central African Republic
ANGELŲ TAKAIS (TRAIL OF ANGELS)
Director Kristina Buozyte
Lithuania, Belarus
X-RAY FASHION
Director Francesco Carrozzini
USA, Denmark, India
HALF LIFE VR – SHORT VERSION
Director Robert Connor
Main Cast Amanda Åkesson, Sarah-Jane Brodbeck, Frida Hambreus / Sweden
CROW: THE LEGEND
Director Eric Darnell
Main Cast John Legend, Constance Wu, Liza Koshy, Tye Sheridan, Sarah Eagle Heart, Randy Edmonds, Diego Luna, Oprah Winfrey / USA
AGE OF SAIL
Director John Kahrs
Main Cast Ian McShane, Cathy Ang / USA
MINDPALACE
Director Carl Krause, Dominik Stockhausen
Main Cast Anthony Paul, Maximilian Allgeier / Germany
BALLAVITA
Director Gerda Leopold
Main Cast Bianca Kraml, Thomas Kraml, Haymon Buttinger / Austria, Germany
BORDERLINE
Director Assaf Machnes
Main Cast Indal Kabada, Alan Godying, Tom Kroszynski / Israel, Great Britain
SHENNONG: TASTE OF ILLUSION
Director Li Mi, Zheng Wang
China
THE GREAT C
Director Steve Miller
Main Cast Niamh Wilson, Jonathan Koensgen, Camilla Scott / Canada
L’ÎLE DES MORTS
Director Benjamin Nuel
Main Cast Richard Doust / France
HOME AFTER WAR
Director Gayatri Parameswaran, Felix Gaedtke
Iraq, Germany, USA
MADE THIS WAY: REDEFINING MASCULINITY
Director Elli Raynai, Irem Harnak
Main Cast Elijah Miley, Devyn Farries / Canada
LUCID
Director Pete Short
Main Cast Jaleh Alp, Nicky Goldie, Peter Landi / Great Britain, Australia
WU ZHU ZHI CHENG VR (THE LAST ONE STANDING VR)
Director Jiwen Wang, Yang Liu
China / 10’
FRESH OUT
Director Sam Wey, Fangchao Tao
China, USA
1943: BERLIN BLITZ
Director David Whelan
Ireland, Great Britain
ROOMS
Director Christian Zipfel
Germany
OUT OF COMPETITION – BEST OF VR – INTERACTIVE
VR_I
Director Gilles Jobin, Caecilia Charbonnier, Sylvain Chagué
Main Cast Victoria Chiu, Susana Panadés Diaz, Diya Naidu, Tidiani N Diaye, Gilles Jobin / Switzerland
OUT OF COMPETITION – BEST OF VR – LINEAR
BATTLESCAR
Director Nico Casavecchia, Martín Allais
Main Cast Rosario Dawson / France, USA
ARDEN’S WAKE: TIDE’S FALL
Director Eugene YK Chung
Main Cast Alicia Vikander, Richard Armitage / USA
GHOST IN THE SHELL: VIRTUAL REALITY DIVER
Director Higashi Hiroaki
Main Cast Elizabeth Maxwell, Christopher Sabat, Jad Saxton / Japan
ISLE OF DOGS: BEHIND THE SCENES (IN VIRTUAL REALITY)
Director Paul Raphaël, Félix Lajeunesse
Main Cast Bryan Cranston, Bill Murray, Edward Norton, Liev Schreiber, Jeff Goldblum, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton, Bob Balaban / Canada, Great Britain, USA
KEKKON YUBIWA MONOGATARI VR (TALES OF WEDDING RINGS VR)
Director Sou Kaei
Main Cast Akari Kito, Takumi Satou, Kouichi Souma / Japan
OUT OF COMPETITION – BIENNALE COLLEGE CINEMA – LINEAR
IN THE CAVE
Director Ivan Gergolet
Main Cast Maruša Majer, Bruno Serban, Claudia Sfetez / Italy
ELEGY
Director Marc Guidoni
Main Cast Robert William Bradford, Madalina Constantin, Dan Rosson, Walter Dickerson, Julie Judd, Kester Lovelace, Charles Morillon, Natalia Pujszo, Gaya Verneuil / France
METRO VEINTE: CITA CIEGA
Director Maria Belen Poncio
Main Cast Delfina Diaz Gavier, Cristobal Lopez Baena / Argentina
SELYATAĞI (FLOODPLAIN)
Director Deniz Tortum
Main Cast Okan Bozkuş, Berk Akman, Turgut Ekinci, Çağdaş Akar, Nihat Can Tinas / Turkey
