Overview

• The 82nd Mostra launched on August 27 with Paolo Sorrentino’s eleventh feature, La Grazia, starring Toni Servillo as a fictional Italian president.
• Netflix backs several headline titles in the lineup, including La Grazia, Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly with George Clooney, Guillermo del Toro’s Frankenstein and Kathryn Bigelow’s A House of Dynamite.
• The competition brings a star-driven slate featuring filmmakers such as Baumbach, Jim Jarmusch and Benny Safdie, whose The Smashing Machine features Dwayne Johnson.
• Werner Herzog received an honorary Golden Lion and is presenting Ghost Elephants, a documentary filmed in Angola.
• The festival runs through September 6 under a jury led by Alexander Payne, while opening day saw a small Venice4Palestine protest urging a stance on the Gaza war.