Venice 2021: Netflix and HBO join film festival line-up
David Farnor | On 26, Jul 2021
Netflix and HBO are heading to Venice this September, with both streamers joining the line-up for the film festival, which was unveiled today.
Netflix is no stranger to the Lido, having debuted films there in the past such as The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Marriage Story, Roma and The Other Side of the Wind. This year, it will be bringing Italian helmer Paolo Sorrentino’s latest film, The Hand of God, which will be having its world premiere in competition. It will also debut The Power of the Dog, Jane Campion’s latest starring Kirsten Dunst and Benedict Cumberbatch, plus 7 Prisoners, directed by Alexandre Moratto, starring Christian Malheiros and Rodrigo Santoro, and produced by Ramin Bahrani and Fernando Meirelles.
HBO, meanwhile, will be bringing its similarly star-studded new take on Dune, starring Timothée Chalamet and Zendaya, which will have its world premiere out of competition. It will also debut its new series Scenes from a Marriage, based on the classic film of the same name, from Hagai Levi and starring Oscra Isaac and Jessica Chastain.
They set the tone for the 12-day event, which runs from 1st September to 11th September and boasts a wealth of blockbusting star power. The festival opens with Pedro Almodóvar’s Parallel Mothers, starring Penelope Cruz and will feature Spencer, Pablo Larraín’s Princess Diana biopic starring Kristen Stewart, Maggie Gyllenhaal’s The Lost Daughter, starring Olivia Colman, Dakota Johnson, and Jessie Buckley, and Edgar Wright’s Last Night in Soho, starring Anya Taylor-Joy and Matt Smith. Other debuts include Ridley Scott’s The Last Duel, starring Matt Damon, Adam Driver and Jodie Comer, Ana Lily Amirpour’s Mona Lisa and the Blood Moon, starring Kate Hudson, David Gordon Green’s Halloween Kills, starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Schrader’s The Card Counter, starring Oscar Isaac, Tiffany Haddish and Willem Dafoe, and Harry Wootliff’s True Things, starring Ruth Wilson and Tom Burke.
The jury for the festival will be headed up by Bong Joon-Ho and include Nomadland director Chloé Zhao. The whole event will follow Cannes in unfolding in person, with Covid-19 safety restrictions, such as passes requiring vaccinations or negative test results and social distancing, in place. Here’s the full film line-up:
In competition
Madres Paralelas (directed by Pedro Almodovar)
Mona Lisa And The Blood Moon (directed by Ana Lily Amirpour)
Un Autre Monde (directed by Stéphane Brizé)
The Power Of The Dog (directed by Jane Campion)
America Latina (directed by Damiano D’Innocenzo, Fabio D’Innocenzo)
L’Evénement (directed by Audrey Diwan)
Competencia Oficial, dirs: Gaston Duprat, Mariano Cohn)
Il Buco (directed by Michelangelo Frammartino)
Sundown (directed by Michel Franco)
Illusions Perdues (directed by Xavier Giannoli)
The Lost Daughter (directed by Maggie Gyllenhaal)
Spencer (directed by Pablo Larrain)
Freaks Out (directed by Gabriele Mainetti)
Qui Rido Io (directed by Mario Martone)
On The Job: The Missing 8 (directed by Erik Matti)
Leave No Traces (directed by Jan P Matuszynski)
Captain Volkonogov Escaped, dirs: Natasha Merkulova, Aleksey Chupov)
The Card Counter (directed by Paul Schrader)
The Hand Of God (directed by Paolo Sorrentino)
La Caja (directed by Lorenzo Vigas)
Reflection (directed by Valentyn Vasyanovych)
Out of competition
Il Bambino Nascosto (directed by Roberto Ando)
Les Choses Humaines (directed by Yvan Attal)
Ariaferma (directed by Leonardo Di Costanzo)
Halloween Kills (directed by David Gordon Green)
La Scuola Cattolica (directed by Stefano Mordini)
Old Henry (directed by Potsy Ponciroli)
The Last Duel (directed by Ridley Scott)
Dune (directed by Denis Villeneuve)
Last Night In Soho (directed by Edgar Wright)
Life Of Crime 1984-2020 (directed by Jon Alpert)
Tranchées (directed by Loup Bureau)
Viaggio Nel Crepuscolo (directed by Augusto Contento)
Republic Of Silence (directed by Diana El Jeiroudi)
Hallelujah: Leonard Cohen, A Journey, A Song, dirs: Daniel Geller, Dayna Goldfine)
Deandré#Deandré Storio Di Un Impiegato (directed by Roberta Lena)
Django & Django (directed by Luca Rea)
Ezio Bosso. Le Cose Che Restano (directed by Giorgio Verdelli)
TV
Scenes From A Marriage (Episodes 1-5) (directed by Hagai Levi)
Other screenings
Le 7 Giornate Di Bergamo (directed by Simona Ventura)
La Biennale Di Venezia: Il Cinema Al Tempo Del Covid (directed by Andrea Segre)
Orrizonti
Les Promesses (directed by Thomas Kruithof)
Atlantide (directed by Yuri Ancarani)
Miracle (directed by Bogdan George Apetri)
Pilgrims (directed by Laurynas Bareisa)
Il Paradiso Del Pavone (directed by Laura Bispuri)
The Falls (directed by Chung Mong-Hong)
El Hoyo En La Cerca (directed by Joaquin Del Paso)
Amira (directed by Mohamed Diab)
A Plein Temps (directed by Eric Gravel)
107 Mothers (directed by Peter Kerekes)
Vera Dreams Of The Sea (directed by Kaltrina Krasniqi)
White Building (directed by Kavich Neang)
Anatomy Of Time (directed by Jakrawal Nilthamrong)
El Otro Tom, dirs: Rodrigo Pla, Laura Santullo)
El Gran Movimento (directed by Kiro Russo)
Once Upon A Time In Calcutta (directed by Aditya Vikram Sengupta)
Rhino (directed by Oleg Sentsov)
True Things (directed by Harry Wootliff)
Inu-Oh (directed by Yuasa Masaaki)
Orrizonti extra
Land Of Dreams, dirs: Shirin Neshat, Shoja Azari)
Costa Brava (directed by Mounia Akl)
Mama I’m Home (directed by Vladimir Bitokov)
Ma Nuit (directed by Antoinette Boulat)
La Ragazza Ha Volato (directed by Wilma Labate)
7 Prisoners (directed by Alexandre Moratto)
The Blind Man Who Did Not Want To See Titanic (directed by Teemu Nikki)
La Macchina Delle Immagini Di Alfredo C (directed by Roland Sejko)
Biennale college: cinema
Al Oriente
Nuestros Dias Mas Felices
La Santa Piccola
The Cathedral
Mon Pere, Le Diable
La Tana
Biennale college: VR
Lavrynthos