Overview
- The selection underscores a shift toward politically driven and socially conscious storytelling in this year’s festival lineup.
- Julia Roberts will make her Lido red-carpet debut with Luca Guadagnino’s 'After the Hunt', which will screen out of competition.
- Jude Law leads the in-competition thriller 'The Wizard of the Kremlin' as Vladimir Putin in Olivier Assayas’s latest film.
- Competition entries feature new works by Kathryn Bigelow, Jim Jarmusch, Guillermo del Toro plus Giorgos Lanthimos.
- George Clooney returns with his comedy 'Jay Kelly', and Dwayne Johnson headlines Benny Safdie’s MMA biopic 'The Smashing Machine'.