22/7/2014 - This year's Venice Days (Giornate degli Autori) selection announced

A press conference was held today in Rome at the Casa del Cinema by Venice Days (Giornate degli Autori). During the press conference, the 2014 selection was unveiled, along with the announcement of the LUX Prize 2014, the initiatives of the 28 Times Cinema programme and the MIU MIU "Women's Tales" project - the latter aiming to highlight the work of women in cinema.

This year's Venice Days selection, much like last year, is quite global and is dominated by world premieres.


- EL 5 DE TALLARES by Adrián Biniez (Argentina) - world premiere
- RETOUR A ITHAQUE by Laurent Cantet (France) - world premiere
- BEFORE I DISAPPEAR by Shawn Christensen (US/UK)
- MESSI by Alex de Iglesia (Spain)
- THE DINNER by Ivano de Matteo (Italy) - world premiere
- LES NUITS D'ETE by Mario Fanfani (France) - world premiere
- PATRIA by Felice Farina (Italy) - world premiere
- METAMORPHOSES by Christophe Honoré (France) - world premiere
- BETWEEN 10 AND 12 BY Peter Hoogendoorn (Belgium/France/Netherlands) - world premiere
- ONE ON ONE by Kim Ki-Duk (South Korea)
- THE FAREWELL PARTY by Sharon Maymon, Tal Granit (Israel) - world premiere
- THE GOOB by Guy Myhill (UK) - world premiere
- LABOUR OF LOVE by Adityavikram Sengupta (Bengali/India) - world premiere
- THE HAVE ESCAPED by Jukka Pekka Valkepaa (Finland/Netherlands) - world premiere

       

SPECIAL EVENTS

- 9x10 NOVANTA by Marco Bonfanti, Claudio Giovannesi, Alina Marazzi, Pietro Marcello, Sara Fgaier, Giovanni Piperino, Costanza Quatriglio, Paola Randi, Alice Rohrwacher, Roland Sejko (Italy) - world premiere
- THE SHOW MAS GO ON by Ra di Martino (Italy) - world premiere
- THE LACK by Masbedo (Italy) - world premiere
- FIVE STAR by Keith Miller (US)


MIU MIU

- #7 SPARK AND LIGHT by So Yong Kim
- #8 SOMEBODY by Miranda July


CLICK HERE TO READ ABOUT THE LUX PRIZE SELECTION


The Venice Film Festival will be running from the 27th of August to the 6th of September 2014. Other festival selections will be announced in the course of the next few days.