Three French films have been selected for Competition at the next Venice International Film Festival which will take place from 1 through 11 September, 2021. Stéphane Brizé will present Another World, Audrey Diwan, Happening, and Xavier Giannoli, Lost Illusions.
A return to Competition in Venice for Stéphane Brizé, who had presented A Woman's Life there in 2016. Another World brings together the couple Vincent Lindon/Sandrine Kiberlain (whom the filmmaker had directed in Mademoiselle Chambon) and continues his exploration of the world of the contemporary workplace with this tale in which a business executive is confronted with his directors' contradictory demands
Audrey Diwan, for her second film after Losing It, has adapted Annie Ernaux's novel for Happening, the story of an abortion in France in 1963.
Lastly, with Lost Illusions, Xavier Giannoli has adapted Balzac's novel and traces the famous journey of a young provincial poet (played by Benjamin Voisin) once he "comes up to the capital." It's the third time that the director has presented a film in Competition in Venice, after Superstar in 2012 and Marguerite in 2015.
In addition to these three majority-French films, five other minority-French coproductions are among the 21 titles selected for Competition, including new films by Michelangelo Frammartino and Michel Franco.
Finally, still in Official Selection, but Out of Competition, Yvan Attal will present his seventh feature film, Les Choses humaines. Two French documentaires also join the Out of Compétition strand: Trenches by Loup Bureau, and Republic of Silence by Diana El Jeiroudi, coproduced with Germany.
All the French films presented at the
78th Venice International Film Festival
Official Selection
Competition
- Another World by Stéphane Brizé
- Happening by Audrey Diwan
- Lost Illusions by Xavier Giannoli
- America latina by Damiano D'Innocenzo and Fabio D'Innocenzo (minority-French production)
- Sundown by Michel Franco (minority-French production)
- Il buco by Michelangelo Frammartino (minority-French production)
- Leave no Traces by Jan Pawel Matuszynski (minority-French production)
- Captain Volkonogov Escaped by Natasha Merkulova, Alexei Chupov (minority-French production)
Out of Competition
- Les Choses humaines by Yvan Attal
- Trenches by Loup Bureau
- Journey into the Twilight by Augusto Contento
- Republic of Silence by Diana El Jeiroudi (minority-French production)
- Il bambino nascosto by Roberto Andò (minority-French production)
Orizzonti
- Full Time by Éric Gravel
- Promises by Thomas Kruithof
- Atlantide by Yuri Ancarani (minority-French production)
- Le Grand Mouvement by Kiro Russo (minority-French production)
- Anatomy of Time by Jakrawal Nilthamrong (minority-French production)
- White Building by Kavich Neang (minority-French production)
- Once Upon a Time in Calcutta by Aditya Vikram Sengupta (minority-French production)
Orizzonti Extra
- My Night by Antoinette Boulat
- Costa Brava, Lebanon by Mounia Akl (minority-French production)
Orizzonti / Short films
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Critics' Week 2021
Official Selection
Special screenings
- The Last Chapter by Gianluca Matarrese (minority-French production)
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Giornate degli Autori 2021
Selection
- Madeleine Collins by Antoine Barraud
- Out Of Sync, de Juanjo Giménez (minority-French production)
- You Resemble Me by Dina Amer (minority-French production)
- Anatomy by Ola Jankowska (minority-French production)
Special Events
Notti Veneziane
- Sons of Cain by Keti Stamo
- With or Without You by Stefano Sardo (minority-French production)
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