Venice Film Festival 2008: Out of Competition Line-Up

2008 Venice Film Festival – Out of Competition Screenings

Paolo Benvenuti Puccini e la fanciulla — Italy, 84'

Riccardo Moretti, Tania Squillarlo, Giovanna Daddi, Debora Mattiello, Federica Chezzi

Joel Coen, Ethan Coen Burn After Reading — USA, 95'

George Clooney, Brad Pitt, Frances McDormand, John Malkovich, Tilda Swinton

Claire Denis 35 Rhums — France / Spain, 100'

Alex Descas, Grégoire Colin, Nicole Dogue, Mati Diop

JIA Zhangke Heshang aiqing (Cry me a river) (short film) — China / Spain / France, 19'

Tao Zhao / Hongmei Wang

Minoru Kawasaki Girara no gyakushu / Samitto kiki ippatsu! (Monster X Strikes Back: Attack the G8 Summit!) — Japan, 98'

Natsuki Kato, Kazuki Kato, Hirohisa Nakata, Susumu Kurobe

Photo: Gelareh Kiazand

Abbas Kiarostami Shirin — Iran, 92'

Juliette Binoche, Mahnaz Afshar, Niki Karimi

José Mojica Marins Encarnação do Demônio — Brazil, 90'

José Mojica Marins, Débora Muniz, Raymond Castile

Mario Monicelli Vicino al Colosseo c'è Monti (short film) — Italy, 22'

(documentary)

Nonzee Nimibutr Puen yai jom sa lad (Queens of Langkasuka) — Thailand, 147'

Ananda Everingham, Jarunee Suksawat, Sorapong Chatri

Manoel de Oliveira Do Visível ao Invisível (short film) — Brazil / Portugal, 7'

Leon Cakoff, Ricardo Trepa

Agnés Varda Les Plages d'Agnès — France, 100'

(documentary)

Fabrice du Welz Vinyan — France / UK / Belgium, 95'

Emmanuelle Béart, Rufus Sewell

Out of Competition – Special Event

Adriano Celentano Yuppi Du (1975) — Italy, 125'

Adriano Celentano, Charlotte Rampling, Claudia Mori, Gino Santercole

Out of Competition – Events

Domenico Modugno Tutto è musica (1963) — Italy, 97'

Domenico Modugno, Franco Franchi, Ciccio Ingrassia

Tito Schipa Jr. Orfeo 9 (1973) — Italy, 82'

Tito Schipa Jr., Renato Zero, Loredana Bertè

Piero Tellini Nel blu dipinto di blu (Volare) (1959) — Italy, 104'

Domenico Modugno, Giovanna Ralli, Vittorio De Sica, Franco Migliacci

Ferrán Alberich Bajo el Signo de las Sombras (1984) — Spain, 31'

(documentary)

Youssef Chahine Bab el-hadid (1958) — Egypt / France, 90'

Farid Shawqi, Hend Rostom, Youssef Chahine, Abdel Aziz Khalil, Naima Wasfy

Vittorio De Sica Ladri di biciclette (1948) — Italy, 93'

Lamberto Maggiorani, Enzo Staiola, Lianella Carell, Elena Altieri, Gino Saltamerenda

Lorenzo Llbobet Gracia Vida en Sombras (1947) — Spain, 90'

Fernando Fernán Gómez, María Dolores Pradera, Isabel de Pomés, Alfonso Estela

Masahiro Makino (above), Hiroshi Inagaki Kettô Takadanobaba (1937) — Japan, 64'

Tsumasaburo Bando, Tokuma Dan, Ryosuke Kagawa, Takashi Shimura

Pier Paolo Pasolini, Giuseppe Bertolucci La rabbia di Pasolini — Italy, 84'

(documentary)