The Venice Film Festival opens

Today, September 2, an out-of-currency show of the 3D triller of the Icelandic director Balthazar Cormacura Everest (Everest) will open the 72nd Venice International Film Festival. In the main competitive program - “Francophony” of Alexander Sokurov.

The film tells about the salvation of Louvre masterpieces during the German occupation of Paris. “Francophony is an artistic research using documentary and game methods. - told the director "Interfax." “This is not only French or German history - this is world history, it is the world experience of world mistakes and their overcoming, the story of amazing events and measures, with the help of which it was possible to save the country and the art of the Louvre.”

In total, the main prize of the festival, the Golden Leo, is the 21 film : this year:

• “Francophony. Louvre under the German occupation ”(Francofonia, France-Germania-Niderland), dir. Alexander Sokurov;
• "Margarita" (Marguerite, France-Chean-Belgia), dir. Xavier Dzhannoli;
• "Rabin, last day" (Rabin, The Last Day, Israel-France), dir. Amos guita;
• "Big Splash" (a Bigger Splash, Italy-France), dir. Luka Guadaninino;
• "Endless River" (The Endless River, South Africa), dir. Oliver Hermanus;
• "Girl from Denmark" (The Danish Girl, Great Britain-Ssha), dir. Tom Hopper;
• "Anomaliza" (anomalisa, USA, animated), dir. Charlie Kaufman, Duke Johnson;
• “Waiting” (l'Ttesta, Italy-franca), dir. Pierrot Messina;
• “For your sake” (Per Amor Vostro, Italy-France), dir. Giuseppe M. Gaudino;
• "11 minutes" (11 minut / 11 minute, Poland-Irland), dir. Hedgehogs Skolimovsky;
• "Clan" (El Clan, Argentina-Speech), dir. Pablo Trapero;
• "Ermine" (l'Hermine, France), dir. Christian Vincent;
• "Hippo" (Beixi Moshuo / Behemoth, PRC-France), dir. Zhao Lyan;
• "Madness" (Abluka / Frenzy, Türkiye-France) dir. Emin Elper;
• “In search of Grace” (Looking for Grace, Australia), dir. Sue Brooks;
• “Remember” (Remember, Canada-France), dir. Atom of Egoyan;
• "Equal" (Equals, USA), dir. Drake Dorimus;
• "Beasts of no National, USA), dir. Carey Fukunaga;
• "Dog heart" (Heart of a Dog, USA), dir. Lori Anderson;
• “Blood from my blood”, dir. Marco Belllocko;
• "From afar" (Desde Allá, Venezuela-Mexico), Lorenso Vigas.

The owners of the Venice Film Festival will choose an international jury, chaired by the Mexican director Alfonso Kuaron .

In the parallel program “Horizons”, 18 full -length and 14 short films compete. Among them are Sergey Loznitsa’s documentary “Event” about the August coup of 1991, the film by Ukrainian director Evgeny Athenaevsky “Winter on Fire” about protests in Kiev in 2013-2014, the drama of Scott Cooper “ Black Mass” with Johnny Depp and thriller Daniel Alfredson Me ) C Anthony Hopkins, notes TASS .

In addition, in Venice, the world premiere of the documentary of Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow de Palma ( De Palma ) will be held, and the film “Venetian classics”selected the film by Sergey Eisenstein and Dmitry Vasiliev “Alexander Nevsky” (1938).

The 72nd Venice International Film Festival will last until September 12. At the closure, the comedy “Mr. Six” ( Lao Pao Er / Mr. Six ) will be shown.