Overview

• Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly screens in competition starring George Clooney — who skipped the press conference due to a sudden sinus infection but was expected on the red carpet — alongside Adam Sandler, Laura Dern, Billy Crudup, Greta Gerwig and Alba Rohrwacher.
• Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia reunites him with Emma Stone for a dark comic tale involving conspiracy theorists who target a powerful CEO.
• László Nemes returns to the main competition with Orphan, set in 1957 Budapest and focused on a Jewish boy confronted by a man claiming to be his father.
• Werner Herzog’s new documentary Ghost Elephants plays out of competition after his career Golden Lion, following Dr. Steve Boyes’s search in Angola for an elusive herd.
• Parallel sections feature Italian premieres: Orizzonti presents Carolina Cavalli’s Il rapimento di Arabella with Benedetta Porcaroli and Chris Pine, while Giornate degli Autori screens Nicolangelo Gelormini’s La Gioia inspired by the Gloria Rosboch case.