Overview

• The 82nd edition runs August 27 to September 6 on the Lido and opens with Paolo Sorrentino’s La Grazia starring Toni Servillo, with the top prize to be awarded on September 6.
• Netflix reenters the fray with three competition titles: Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein, Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite and Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly.
• Julia Roberts makes her Venice debut in Luca Guadagnino’s After the Hunt, while George Clooney returns in Baumbach’s Jay Kelly.
• Political flashpoints feature in Olivier Assayas’s The Wizard of the Kremlin with Jude Law as Vladimir Putin and Kaouther Ben Hania’s The Voice of Hind Rajab set in Gaza.
• Auteurs in contention include Yorgos Lanthimos with Bugonia, Jim Jarmusch, Park Chan-wook and others, reinforcing Venice’s role as an early Oscar barometer.