Venice Film Festival 2019: Joaquin Phoenix's Joker, Brad Pitt's Ad Astra to compete for Golden Lion at Biennale

The lineup for the upcoming Venice Film Festival, which takes place from 29 August to 7 September, was announced on 25 July in Rome. Hirokazu Kore-eda’s The Truth will open the event . Starring Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche and Ethan Hawke, this is Kore-eda’s first non-Japanese project and the follow-up to his Palme d’Or-winning film  Shoplifters . The Burnt Orange Heresy by Giuseppe Capotondi is the closing film. [caption id=“attachment_5252181” align=“alignnone” width=“825”] Joaquin Phoenix as the Joker on set of Todd Phillips’ upcoming film. Image via Twitter[/caption] Here is a list of the films that will be screened at the 76th edition of Venice Film Festival Competition The Perfect Candidate - Haifaa Al-Mansour About Endlessness - Roy Anderson Wasp Network -  Olivier Assayas Marriage Story - Noah Baumbach Guest of Honor - Atom Egoyan Ad Astra - James Gray A Herdade - Tiago Guedes Gloria Mundi - Robert Guediguian Waiting for the Barbarians - Cio Guerra Ema - Pablo Larrain Saturday Fiction - Lou Ye Martin Eden - Pietro Marcello The Mafia Is No Longer What It Used to Be - Franco Maresco The Painted Bird - Vaclav Marhoul The Mayor of the Rione Sanità - Mario Martone Babyteeth - Shannon Murphy Joker - Todd Phillips An Officer and a Spy - Roman Polanski The Laundromat - Steven Soderbergh No 7 Cherry Lane - Yonfan Out of Competition (Fiction) Seberg - Benedict Andrews Vivere - Francesca Archibugi Mosul - Matthew Michael Carnahan Adults in the Room - Costa-Gavras The King - David Michod Tutto Il Mio Folle Amore - Gabriele Salvatores Out of Competition (Non Fiction) Woman - Yann Arthus-Bertrand, Anastasia Mikova Roger Waters Us + Them - Sean Evans, Roger Waters I Diari Di Angela – Noi Due Cineasti. Capitolo Secondo - Yervant Gianikian Citizen K - Alex Gibney Citizen Rosi - Didi Gnocchi, Carolina Rosi The Kingmaker -Lauren Greenfield State Funeral - Sergei Loznitsa Collective - Alexander Nanau 45 Seconds of Laughter -Tim Robbins Out of Competition (Special Screenings) No One left Behind - Guillermo Arriaga Il Pianeta in Mare - Andrea Segre Electric Swan - Konstantina Kotzamani Irreversible - Gaspar Noe Zerozerozero - Stefano Sollima The New Pope - Paolo Sorrentino Never Just a Dream: Stanley Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut - Matt Wells Eyes Wide Shut - Stanley Kubrick Horizons Zumiriki - Osker Alegria Blanco En Blanco - Theo Court Mes Jours De Gloire - Antoine De Bary Pelican Blood - Katrin Gebbe Un Fils - Mehdi M Barsaouli Nevia -Nunzia De Stefano Moffie -Oliver Hermanus Hava, Maryam, Ayesha - Sahraa Karimi Rialto - Peter Mackie Burns The Criminal Man - Dmitry Mamuliya Revenir - Jessica Palud Giants Being Lonely - Grear Patterson Verdict - Raymund Ribay Gutierrez Balloon - Pema Tseden Just 6.5 - Saeed Roustaee Shadow of Water - Sasidharan Sanal Kumar Sole - Carlo Sironi Madre - Rodrigo Sorogoyen Atlantis - Valentyn Vasyanovych