The Venice Film Festival unveiled July 22 the official line-up for its upcoming edition. Two Italian documentaries feature in Competition (incl Gianfranco Rosi’s Sotto le Nuvole), while 19 play Out of Competition. Nine docs are selected for Classics. This year, Alexander Payne will serve as the President of the Jury which also includes Stéphane Brizé, Maura Delpero, Cristian Mungiu, Mohammad Rasoulof, Fernanda Torres and Zhao Tao. The 82nd Venice FF takes place August 27 to September 6.
COMPETITION DOCUMENTARIES
- Sotto le Nuvole by Gianfranco Rosi
- Un Film Fatto per Bene by Franco Maresco
OUT OF COMPETITION – NON-FICTION
- Baba Wa Al-Qadhafi (My Father and Qaddafi) by Jihan K
- Broken English by Jane Pollard & Iain Forsyth
- Cover-Up by Laura Poitras & Mark Obenhaus
- Director’s Diary by Aleksandr Sokurov
- Ferninando Scianna — Il Fotografo Dell’ombra by Roberto Andò
- Ghost Elephants by Werner Herzog
- Hui Jia (Back Home) by Tsai Ming-liang
- I Diari di Angela — Noi Due Cineasti. Capitolo Terzo by Yervant GIanikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi
- Kabul, Between Prayers by Aboozar Amini
- Kim Novak’s Vertigo by Alexandre Philippe
- Marc by Sofia by Sofia Coppola
- Notes of a True Criminal by Alexander Rodnyansky & Andriy Alferov
- Nuestra Tierra by Lucrecia Martel
- Remake by Ross McElwee
- The Tale of Sylian by Tamara Kotevska
OUT OF COMPETITION – FILM & MUSIC
- Francesco de Gregori by Stefano Pistolini
- Newport and the Great Folk Dream by Robert Gordon
- Nino. 18 Giorni by Toni D’Angelo
- Piero Pelù. Rumore Dentro by Francesco Fei
CLASSICS – DOCUMENTARIES ABOUT CINEMA
- Boorman and the Devil by David Kittredge
- Elvira Notari: Oltre Il Silenzio by Valerio Ciriaci
- Holofiction by Michal Kosakowski
- Louis Malle, Le Révolté by Claire Duguet
- Mata Hara by Joe Beshenkovsky & James Smith
- Megadoc by Mike Figgis
- Memoria de los Olivados by Javier Espada
- Sangre del Toro by Yves Montmayeur
- The Ozu Diaries by Daniel Raim
DOCUMENTARIES IN CRITICS WEEK
- Waking Hours by Federico Cammarata, Filippo Foscarini
