(Venice Luigi Noera with the kind collaboration of Marina fearful and Annamaria Stramondo- Photos are published courtesy of the Biennale)

A little over a month and will open the edition 2019 directed by Alberto Barbera in a general climate of expectations for the films in competition.

We already know that La Verite KORE-EDA HIROKAZU will open the 76th Show

We had the pleasure to attend the press conference where the director wanted to minimize his work humbly. But we must acknowledge that managed to double (nautical term that is well suited) the Cannes Film Festival. Netflix will also be an effect, but we are proud of such an achievement in Italy and struggling to recover. The same has mentioned the possibility in the coming days of the other films in competition. We'll see.

Soon we will let you know our comments on the choices made in two competitive selections with the SIC and the GDA which splendidly Venice. Meanwhile, we propose the video of the press conference along with the titles in competition.

Here are links to the crowded Press Conference:

Part 1 – Biennale College and Section VR

Part 2 – Section Sconfini

Part 3 – #VENEZIA76 -ORIZZONTI

OPENING FILM – PEUKANBLUf (ucan BLOOD) KATRIN GEBBE

con Nina Hoss, Katerina Lipovska, Adelia-Constance John Ocleppo / Germany, Bulgaria /121′

ZUMIRIKI OSKAR ALEGRIA Spain / 122′

BIK ENEICH – A SON di M MEHDI. Bahrishaoul

con Sami Bouajila, Najla Ben Abdallah, Youssef Khemiri, Noomene Hamda, SIa h Msaddek, Med Ali Ben Jemaa / Tunisia, France, Lebanon, Qatar /96′

WHITE BLANK di THÉO COURT

Alfredo Castro, Lars Rudolph, Lola Rubio, Esther Vega, Alejandro Goic, Ignacio

Ceruti / Spain, Chile, France, Germany / l60′

MY glory days di Antony de Bary

con Vincent Lacoste, Emmanuelle Devos, Christophe Lambert, Noee Lives, Damien Chapel / France / 98′

NEVIA of NUNZIA DE STEFANO

with Virginia Apicella, Pietra Montecorvino, Rosi Cooperation, Pietro Ragusa, Franca Abategiovanni, Simone Borelli / Italy / 86′

Pansy di OUVER HERMANUS

con Kai Luke Brummer, Ryan de Villiers, Matthew Vey, Stefan Entertainment, Hilton Pelser / Sud Africa, UK /99′

HA of A, MARYAM, A YESHA di SAHRAA KARIMI

with Arezoo Ariapoor, Fereshta Afshar, Hasiba Ebrahimi / Afghanistan /86′

RIALTO di PETER MACKIE BURNS

con Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, Tom Glynn-Carney, Monica Dolan, Sophie Jo Wasson, Scott Graham, Michael Smiley I Ireland, UK /90′

BOROTMOKMEDI (THE CRIMINAL MAN) di DMITRY MAMULIYA

with Giorgi Petriashvili, Madonna Chachkhiani, Natalia Jugheli, Nukri Revishvili, Your lisa Zemskov, Anna Talakvadze / Georgia, Russia /135′

BACK di ]ESSICA PALUD

con Niels Schneider, Adele Exarchopoulos, Patrick Assumçao, Hélène Vincent, Franck Falise, Jonathan Couzinié / France / 76′

GIANTS BEING LONELY di GREAR P A TTERSON

con Jack Irving, Ben Irving, Lily Gavin, Amalia Culp, Gabe Fazio / USA /81′

QIQIU (BALLOON) di PEMA TSEDEN

con Sonan Wangmo, Jinpa, Yangshik Tso / China / 102′

VERDICT di RA YMUND RIBA Y GUTIERREZ

con Max Eigenrnann, Kristoffer King, Jordhen Suan, Rene Durian / Philippines / 100′

METRI SHESHO NIM (JUST 6.5) di SAEED ROUST AEE

con Payman Maadi, Navid Mohammadzadeh, Parinaz Izadyar, Farhad Aslani, Hooman cobea / Iran / 135′ –

CHOLA (SHADOW OF WATER) di SASIDHARAN SANAL KUMAR

with Joju George, Nirnisha Sajayan, Akhil Viswanath / India / 120′

CARLO SUN SIRONI

Sandra con Drzymalska, Claudius Segaluscio, Barbara Ronchi, Bruno Buzzi / Italy, Poland / 102′

MOTHER di RODRIGO Sorogoyen

Marta Nieto, Jules Porier, Alex Brendemiihl, Anne Consigny, Frédéric Pierrot, Guillaume Arnault I Spain, France I 130′

ATLANTIS di ALENTYN V V ASY ANOVYCH

con Andriy Rymaruk, Liudmyla Bileka, Vasyl Antoniak I Ukraine I 106′

Part 4 – OUT OF COMPETITION – (NO FICTION)

Part 5 – OUT OF COMPETITION Special Events and TV Series

Part 6 – OUT OF COMPETITION FICTION

Part 7 – #VE76 COMPETITION

THE TRUTH – OPENING FILM of KORE-EDA HIROKAZU

con Catherine Deneuve, Juliette Binoche, Ethan Hawke, Clementine Grenier, Ludivine Sagnier / France, Japan / 106′

THE PERFECT CANDIDATE of HAIFAA AL-MANSOUR

con Mila Alzahrani, Dy, Nourah AI Awad, Khalid Abdulrhim / Saudi Arabia, Germany / 101′

Of the infinite (ABOUT ENDLESSNESS) of ROY ANDERSSON

Jane con-Ege Ferling, Martin Serner, Bengt Bergius, Tatiana Delaunay, Anders J:-tellstréim, Thore piano / Svezia, Germany, Norway / 73′

WASP network reported OLIVIER ASSA YAS

with Penelope Cruz, Ana de Armas, Edgar Ramirez, Wagner Moura, Gael Garda Bernal, Leonardo Sbaraglia / France, Belgium / 123′

MARRIAGE STORY of NOAH BAUMBACH

con Scarlett, Adam Driver, Laura Dern, Alan Alda, Ray Liotta, Julie Hagerty /USA / 135′

GUEST OF HONOUR of ATOM EGOYAN

con David Thewlis, DC agreed Olivcira, Luke Wilson, Rossif Sutherland / Canada / 105′

AD ASTRA of JAMES GRAY

with Brad Pitt, Tommy Lee Jones, Ruth Negga, Liv Tyler, Donald Sutherland / USA

AHERDADE of JAMES GUEDES

Albano Jer6nimo, Sandra Faleiro, Miguel Borges, Ana da Costa Vilela, Joao Vicente, Joao Pedro Mamede / Portugal, France / 166′

GLORY OF THE WORLD of Robert Guédiguian

Ariane Roundworm, Darroussin, Gérard Meylan, Ana’is Demoustier, Robinson Stévenin, Lola Naymark / France, Italy / 107′

WAITING FOR THE BARBARIANS of CIRO GUERRA

con Mark Rylance, Johnny Depp, Robert Pattinson, Gana Bayarsaikhan, Greta Scacchi!

Italy / 104′

MOTHER of PABLO LARRAiN

Mariana Di Girolamo, Garcia Bemal available / Chile / 102′

LAN XIN DA OF COURSE YUAN (SATURDA Y FICTION) di LOUYE

con Gong Li, Mark Chao, Joe Odagiri, Post l Greggory, Tom Wlaschiha, Huang Xiangli Cina / 126′

MARTIN EDEN di PIETRO MARCELLO

Luca Marinelli, Jessica Cressy, Denise Sardisco, Vincenzo Nemolato, Marco Leonardi, Autilia Ranieri / Italy, France / 125′

NOT THE MAFIA IS MORE THAN ONCE of Franco Maresco –

Letizia Battaglia, Ciccio Mira / Italy / J 05′

THE P AlNTED BIRD of The ACLA In MARHOUL

Petr con Boilers;lr, Udo Kier, Lech Dyblik, Jitka Čvančarová, Stellan Skarsgard, Harvey Keitel, Julian Sands / Czech Republic, Ukraine, Slovakia / 169′

THE MAYOR OF THE DISTRICT HEALTH of MARIO MARTONE

Francesco Di Leva, , Massimiliano Gallo, Roberto De Francesco, Adriano Pantaleo, Daniel passage, Giuseppe Gaudino / Italy / 115′

BABY TEETH of SHANNON MURPHY

Eliza ScanJen, Toby Wallace, Essie Davis, Ben Mendelsohn / Australia / 120′

JOKER The TODD PHILLIPS

con Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De iro / USA / 118′

l’ACCUSE of ROMA N POLANSKI

con Jean Dujardin, Louis Garrel, Emmanuelle Seigner, Grégory Gadebois / France, Italy / 126′

THE LAUNDROMAT of STEVEN SODERBERGH

con Meryl Streep, Gary Oldman, Antonio Banderas, Jeffrey Wright, Schoenaerts, James Cromwell, Sharon Stone / USA / 95′

JI YUAN TAl QI HAO (NO.7 CHERRY LANE) of YONFAN

Sylvia Chang rumors, Zhao Wei, Alex Lam, Kelly Yao / animation / Hong Kong /125

In the other last known news it is that the two main juries will be conducted by two women: Argentina's Lucrecia Martel and Italian Susanna Nicchiarelli Horizons winner in two seasons ago with Nico 88. The President of the Jury Prize Opera Prima is actually the beloved Emir Kusturica