Venice Film Festival Introduction - page 2

06-08-2008 11:09

The film is the first from the pair since winning Best Picture and Best Director at this year's Oscars for No Country For Old Men and it stars George Clooney, Brad Pitt, John Malkovich and Oscar winner Tilda Swinton.

The festival opens on 27th August and the winner will be announced on 6th September.

Competition Films The Wrestler - Darren Aronofsky (U.S., France)

The Burning Plain - Guillermo Arriaga (U.S.)

Il Papa di Giovanna - Pupi Avati (Italy)

Birdwatchers - Marco Bechis (Italy)

The Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow (U.S.)

L’Autre - Patrick Mario Bernard, Pierre Trividic (France)

Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow (U.S.)

Il Seme della discordia - Pappi Corsicato (Italy)

Rachel Getting Married - Jonathan Demme (U.S.)

Teza - Haile Gerima (Ethiopia, Germany, France)

Paper Soldier - Aleksey German Jr. (Russia)

Sut - Semih Kaplanoglu (Turkey, France, Germany)

Achilles and the Tortoise - Takeshi Kitano (Japan)

Ponyo on Cliff by the Sea - Hayao Miyazaki (Japan)

Vegas: Based on a True Story - Amir Naderi (U.S.)

The Sky Crawlers - Oshii Mamoru (Japan)

Perfect Day - Ferzan Ozpetek (Italy)

Jerichow - Christian Petzold (Germany)

Inju, the Beast in the Shadows - Barbet Schroeder (France)

Nuit de Chien - Werner Schroeter (France, Germany, Portugal)

Inland - Tariq Teguia (Algeria, France)

Plastic City Yu Lik-wai (Brazil, China, Hong Kong/China, Japan)

FemaleFirst Helen Earnshaw