Venice Film Festival 2020 lineup announced; Cate Blanchett joins as Jury, Daniele Luchetti’s Lacci selected for opening night

The Venice Film Festival has unveiled the complete lineup for the 77th edition on Tuesday, 28 July. This will be the first big international film festival to take place since the outbreak of COVID-19 pandemic. (Click here for LIVE updates on coronavirus outbreak) According to Deadline , the Venice Film Festival 2020 will be held from 2 to 12 September in the Lido. This year, the president of the main competition jury is Cate Blanchett. Venetian director Andrea Segre’s documentary Molecole, made in Venice when it was in lockdown, will be screened as the pre-opening night film on 1 September. Variety says that the Out-of-Competition opener this year in the festival will be Italian director Daniele Luchetti’s anatomy of a marriage drama - Lacci. The film stars Alba Rohrwacher and Luigi Lo Cascio as the couple in crisis. Indiewire reports Lacci is the first Italian title to open the festival in 11 years. The last Italian opener was in 2009 when Giuseppe Tornatore’s Baarìa was screened in the festival. Chloe Zhao’s Nomadland , starring Frances McDormand, will premiere across the major fall film festivals in an alliance forged by the Venice, Toronto, New York and Telluride festivals. [caption id=“attachment_8647441” align=“alignnone” width=“640”] A still from Nomadland. Twitter[/caption] The report further adds that main selection for the film festival this year will split into three sections - Venezia 77 (aka the main competition), Out of Competition, and Horizons. The titles that will be shortlisted for the main competition will contest for the Golden Lion. The other jury members who will be joining Blanchett are director Veronika Franz, filmmaker Joanna Hogg, Italian writer and novelist Nicola Lagioia, filmmaker Christian Petzold, Romanian director CristiPuiu, and French actress Ludivine Sagnier. Director Claire Denis will be heading the Horizons jury alongside Oskar Alegria, Francesca Comencini, Katriel Schory, and Christine Vachon (USA). Opening Night Lacci, Daniele Luchetti (Out of Competition) Competition/Venezia 77 In Between Dying, directed by HilalBaydarov Le SorelleMacaluso, directed by Emma Dante The World to Come, Mona Fastvold Nuevo Orden, Michel Franco Lovers, Nicole Garcia Laila In Haif_a, Amos Gitai Dear Comrades, Andrei Konchalovsky Wife of a Spy, Kiyoshi Kurosawa Sun Children, Majid Majidi Pieces of a Woman, Kornel Mundruczo Miss Marx, Susanna Nicchiarelli Padrenostro, Claudio Noce Notturno, Gianfranco Rosi Never Gonna Snow Again, Malgorzata Szumowska The Disciple, Chaitanya Tamhane And Tomorrow the Entire World, Julia Von Heinz Quo Vadis, Aida? JasmilaZbanic Nomadland, Chloe Zhao Out of Competition (Fiction) Lasciami Andare, Stefano Mordini Mandibules, Quentin Dupieux Love After Love, Ann Hui Assandira, Salvatore Mereu The Duke, Robert Michell Night in Paradise, Park Hoon-Jung Mosquito State, Filip Jan Rymsza Out of Competition (Non-Fiction) Sportin’ Life, Abel Ferrara Crazy, Not Insane, Alex Gibney Greta, Nathan Grossman Salvatore – Shoemaker of Dreams, Luca Guadagnino Final Account, Luke Holland La Verite Su La Dolce Vita, GiussepePedersoli Molecole, Andrea Segre NarcisoEm Ferias, directed by Renato Terra and Ricardo Calil Paolo Conte, Via Con Me, directed by Giorgio Verdelli Hopper/Welles, directed by Orson Welles C_ity Hall, directed by Frederick Wiseman Out of Competition (Special Screenings) Princess Europe, directed by Camille Lotteau 30 Monedas (Episode One), directed by Alex De La Iglesia Omelia Contadina, directed by AlicaRohrwacher and JR Horizons Apples, Christos Nikou La Troisieme Guerre, Giovanni Aloi Milestone, Ivan Ayr The Wasteland, Ahmad Bahrami The Man Who Sold His Skin, Kaouther Ben Hania I Predatori, Pietro Castellitto Mainstream, Gia Coppola Genus Pan, Lav Diaz Zanka Contact, Ismael El Iraki Guerre E Pace, Martina Parenti and Massimo D’Anolfi La Nuit Des Rois, Philippe Lacote The Furnace, Roderick Mackay Careless Crime, ShahramMokri Gaza Mon Amour, Tarzan Nasser and Arab Nasser Selva Tragica, Yulene Olaizola Nowhere Special, Uberto Pasolini Listen, Ana Rocha De Sousa The Best Is Yet to Come, Wang Jing Yellow Cat, Adilkhan Yerzhanov