(ANSA) - ROME, JUL 26 - Mothers courage, political cinema with stories of old and new regimes, gender violence, out of competition music and of course much more in the Venice 78 poster presented today by the director Alberto Barbera and the president of the Biennale Roberto Cicutto. Five Italians in competition, all highly anticipated and prestigious titles: It was the hand of God, by Oscar winner Paolo Sorrentino, Quirido io by Mario Martone on the great Eduardo Scarpetta played by Toni Servillo, Freaks Out by Gabriele Mainetticon Claudio Santamaria and Pietro Castellitto, Il buco by Michelangelo Frammartino from an extraordinary Italian venture of speleology and Latin America, a thriller by the D'Innocenzo brothers with Elio Germano.
The Venice Film Festival, 1-11 September, will have a world premiere among others Spencer by Pablo Larraine, Dunedi Denis Villenueve, The power of dog by Jane Campion, Competencia oficial with Penelope Cruz and Antonio Banderas, the announced opening with Pedro Almodovar and his Madre Paralelas, the debut of Maggie Gyllenhaal as director with TheLost Daughter by Elena Ferrante with Olivia Colman, the new film by Ridley Scott (not House of Gucci which is not ready) this will hit only some of the titles. In the out of competition a lot of music: film about Leonard Cohen and his legendary song Halleluja, about EzioBosso, about Fabrizio De André.
An edition that aspires to the no carbon certification, turning green, to become the first festival to adopt it. On everything and everyone the Covid anxiety that President Cicutto did not deny at all, "we will follow all the indications, after the exceptional edition of last year we thought something more relaxed but it is not so, we thought the green would calm us but it is not so" . (HANDLE).
