Venice Film Festival 2008 - Competition Line-Up

Venice Film Festival 2008 - Competition Line-Up

Darren Aronofsky The Wrestler — USA, 105′

Mickey Rourke, Marisa Tomei, Evan Rachel Wood

Guillermo Arriaga The Burning Plain — USA, 147′

Charlize Theron, Kim Basinger, Joaquim de Almeida

Pupi Avati Il papà di Giovanna — Italy, 104′

Silvio Orlando, Alba Rohrwacher, Francesca Neri, Ezio Greggio, Serena Grandi

Marco Bechis BirdWatchers — Italy / Brazil, 108′

Claudio Santamaria, Alicélia Batista Cabreira, Chiara Caselli, Abrisio Da Silva Pedro

Patrick Mario Bernard, Pierre Trividic L’Autre — France, 97′

Dominique Blanc, Cyril Gueï, Peter Bonke, Christèle Tual

Kathryn Bigelow Hurt Locker — USA, 131′

Ralph Fiennes, Guy Pearce, David Morse, Jeremy Renner

Pappi Corsicato Il seme della discordia — Italy, 85′

Caterina Murino, Alessandro Gassman, Martina Stella, Michele Venitucci, Isabella Ferrari

Jonathan Demme Rachel Getting Married — USA, 116′

Anne Hathaway, Debra Winger, Rosemarie Dewitt, Bill Irwin, Tunde Adebimpe

Haile Gerima Teza — Ethiopia / Germany / France, 140′

Aron Arefe, Abiye Tedla, Takelech Beyene

Aleksey German Jr. Bumanyj soldat (Paper Soldier) — Russia, 116′

Chulpan Khamatova, Merab Ninidze, Anastasya Shevelyova

Semih Kaplanoglu Süt — Turkey / France / Germany, 102′

Melih Selcuk, Basak Koklukaya

Takeshi Kitano Akires to kame (Achilles and the Tortoise) — Japan, 119′

Beat Takeshi, Kanako Higuchi, Yurei Yanagi, Kumiko Aso

Hayao Miyazaki Gake no ue no Ponyo (Ponyo on Cliff by the Sea) — Japan, 101′

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Amir Naderi Vegas: Based on a True Story — USA, 102′

Mark Greenfield, Nancy La Scala, Zach Thomas

Mamoru Oshii The Sky Crawlers — Japan, 122′

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Ferzan Özpetek Un giorno perfetto — Italy, 95′

Isabella Ferrari, Valerio Mastandrea, Valerio Binasco, Nicole Grimaudo, Stefania Sandrelli

Christian Petzold Jerichow — Germany, 93′

Nina Hoss, Benno Fürmann, Hilmi Sözer

Barbet Schroeder Inju, la Bête dans l’ombre — France, 105′

Magimel Benoît, Minamoto Lika, Shun Sugata, Maurice Bénichou, Ryo Ishibashi

Werner Schroeter Nuit de chien — France / Germany / Portugal, 110′

Pascal Greggory, Bruno Todeschini, Amira Casar, Jean-François Stevenin

Tariq Teguia Gabbla (Inland) — Algeria / France, 140′

Kader Affak, Ines Rose Djakou, Ahmed Benaïssa, Fethi Ghares, Kouider Medjahed, Djalila Kadi-Hanifi

YU Lik-wai Dangkou (Plastic City) — Brazil / China / Hong Kong / Japan, 118′

Joe Odagiri, Anthony Wong, Huang Yi, Jeff Chen

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