Overview

• On August 28, Venice’s competition lineup featured Noah Baumbach’s Jay Kelly, Yorgos Lanthimos’s Bugonia and László Nemes’s Orphan.
• George Clooney did not attend the Jay Kelly press conference due to acute sinusitis, with Baumbach noting that even stars get sick.
• Bugonia reunites Lanthimos and Emma Stone in a tragicomic tale about conspiracy-obsessed cousins targeting a powerful CEO.
• Orphan, inspired by experiences from Nemes’s family history, is set in 1957 Budapest and follows a Jewish boy confronted by a man claiming to be his father.
• Werner Herzog received a career tribute with the out‑of‑competition screening of Ghost Elephants, as sidebars showcased Italy’s Il rapimento di Arabella (Orizzonti) and La Gioia (Giornate degli Autori).