Venice, politics takes the festival

(ANSA) - ROME, AUGUST 13 - It's a record. Of the eighteen films competing in this 77th International Film Festival (2-12 September) more than half, ten of them, are of political background. There is really everything from Marx's daughter to class struggles in a dystopian Mexico, from the tragedy of the dismemberment of Yugoslavia to the effects of a terrorist attack in Italy in the 1980s.
    MISS MARX by Susanna Nicchiarelli tells the life on the edge of one of the daughters of the philosopher and economist, Eleanor.
   Brilliant and passionate, she fought for women's rights and the abolition of child labor. WIFE OF SPY by KiyoshiKurosawa is set in Japan in 1940. A merchant from Kobesi travels to Japanese-occupied Manchuria. FATHER by Claudio Noce is inspired by the director's childhood and by the assassination attempt on his father, deputy police chief in December 1976. AND TOMORROW THE ENTIRE WORLD by Julis Von Heinz has in the background Germany is hit by a series of neo-fascist terrorist attacks. NUEVO ORDEN by Michel Franco tells about the class struggle in Mexico.
    With QUO VADIS, AIDA? by Jasmila Zbanic we are in 1995, during the wars that led to the dismemberment of Yugoslavia. SUN CHILDREN by Majid Majidi tells about 12-year-old Ali and his three friends who work hard to survive and support their families by committing petty criminals to make money fast. NOTTURNO by Gianfranco Rosi was shot over three years in Syria, Iraq, Kurdistan and Lebanon. LAILA IN HAIFA by AmosGitai takes place in a nightclub in Haifa frequented by Israelis and Palestinians.
    DEAR COMPANIONS! by Andrei Konchalovsky takes us to the USSR, Novocherkassk, 1962. Lyudmila, a member of the local communist party, is a militant fundamentalist. During a demonstration, the woman witnesses a counter-demonstration shooting ordered by the government to suppress the strike: an event that will change her world forever. (HANDLE).