Overview

• Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly screens in competition with George Clooney and Adam Sandler, with Clooney already on the Lido for the premiere.
• Yorgos Lanthimos presents Bugonia starring Emma Stone, a dark comedy about two conspiracy-obsessed relatives who abduct a powerful CEO.
• László Nemes competes with Orphan, a 1957 Budapest drama in which a Jewish boy faces a man who claims to be his father.
• Werner Herzog’s Ghost Elephants shows out of competition, tracing Dr. Steve Boyes’s decade-long search in Angola after the director received a career Golden Lion.
• Parallel sections feature Carolina Cavalli’s Il rapimento di Arabella in Orizzonti with Benedetta Porcaroli and Chris Pine, and Nicolangelo Gelormini’s La Gioia in Giornate degli Autori inspired by the Gloria Rosboch case.