Alberto Barbera presided over a lengthy press conference Thursday morning, during which he announced the stacked lineup for this year’s Venice Film Festival, which runs from September 2-12.

Scroll down for the full list of titles. 

The lineup is expansive, with several big names returning to the festival across its many strands. However, studio titles are notably absent, continuing the trend from Cannes, which studios also largely skipped. 

In competition, Casey Affleck will debut Company, his latest film as a director. The film has previously been described as a “gothic horror.” South Korean filmmaker Lee Chang-Dong returns to feature filmmaking with Possible Love, his first film since Burning (2018). Japanese filmmaker Hirokazu Koreeda lands at Venice with Look Back, his second festival title of 2026; The filmmaker was also at Cannes in May with Sheep in the Box.

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Martin McDonagh returns to Venice with Wild Horse Nine, his first feature since The Banshees of Inisherin, which won Best Screenplay and Actor at Venice in 2022 before landing nine Oscar noms. Veteran Italian filmmaker Nanni Moretti returns to Venice with a film for the first time since 1989 with the feature Succederà Questa Notte, which stars Louis Garrel. Documentary filmmaker Lance Oppenheim will debut his first fiction film, Primetime, starring Robert Pattinson. The film follows Chris Hansen in 2006 as he sets out to make TV history with To Catch a Predator. Pattinson plays the NBC Dateline correspondent who made a name for himself catching suspected child predators with the help of law enforcement and a team of decoys pretending to be minors online.

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Out of Competition, Paul Schrader will screen a new project titled The Basics of Philosophy starring Jack Huston and Sofia Boutella. The film is said to follow a repressed philosophy professor who has been grappling with lingering guilt over a decision from his past when the victim suddenly returns to his life. Venice regular Luca Guadagnino will be on the Lido this year but not with his OpenAI feature Artificial. The Italian filmmaker will instead screen his long-gestating Bernardo Bertolucci documentary Joie De Vivre, which runs seven hours long. Wim Wenders is also out of competition with a doc on the Swiss architect Peter Zumthor. Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace’s doc on the comeback of rock band Oasis, titled Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger, will also debut on the Lido.

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Elsewhere, Laura Poitras will debut a short she shot with Rachel Mueller titled They’re Here. The film features never-before-seen footage of the protests in Minnesota against Trump’s controversial ICE raids. As previously announced, Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is heading this year’s Competition jury, will screen Flesh Impact, a tribute to Marilyn Monroe on her centenary; the film stars Dakota Johnson and Ellen Burstyn. Italian filmmaker Alina Marazzi will debut her first feature in a decade, La Ragazza Con La Leica, while Georgian filmmaker Levan Koguashvili returns with Guria, a black-and-white feature set in western Georgia. Former Red Sea Film Festival head Kaleem Aftab is among the film’s producers.

The festival has already announced that this year’s opening title will be Danny Boyle’s Ink. The film, starring Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce and Claire Foy, will screen September 2 in the Sala Grande at the Palazzo del Cinema on the Lido. Boyle directs the feature from a screenplay written by James Graham (Dear England), based on his Tony-nominated play. O’Connell stars as The Sun newspaper editor Larry Lamb, with Pearce as Rupert Murdoch and Foy as Jules Davies. 

Announcing Ink earlier this summer, Barbera described it as an “account of publisher Rupert Murdoch’s acquisition of the daily newspaper The Sun, which he entrusted to the unscrupulous Larry Lamb, turning it into Britain’s best-selling tabloid at the expense of its rival The Mirror.”

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The festival’s closing title will be Dio ride, written and directed by Giovanni Veronesi (The King’s Musketeers). The film will screen out of competition. Pierfrancesco Favino, Silvio Orlando, Alma Noce, Francesco Gheghi, Maurizio Lombardi, Paolo Rossi and Carlo Cecchi star.

George Clooney and Ellen Burstyn will be the recipients of the Venice Film Festival’s Golden Lion for lifetime achievement this year. Gyllenhaal will be joined on the Competition jury by Kaouther Ben Hania, Daniel Blumberg, Francesco Casetti, Xavier Giannoli, Shahrbanoo Sadat and Johnnie To.

Here’s the lineup:

Competition

Ink
Dir: Danny Boyle

Company
Dir: Casey Affleck

A Bit Of Light
Dir: Ali Asgari

Ritorno A Buenos Aires
Dir: Marco Bechis

Un Bon Petit Soldat
Dir: Stephane Brize

Il Fuoco Che Ti Porti Dentro
Dir: Edoardo De Angelis

Woman Unknown
Dir: May el-Toukhy

Bucking Fastard
Dir: Werner Herzog

A Place To Heal
Dir: Cedric Kahn

Dau
Dir: Ilya Khrzhanovsky

Look Back
Dir: Hirokazu Koreeda

Possible Love
Dir: Lee Chang-Dong

Wild Horse Nine
Dir: Martin McDonagh

Succederà Questa Notte
Dir: Nanni Moretti

Primetime
Dir: Lance Oppenheim

The Echo Chamber
Dir: Andrea Pallaoro

Un Peu Avant Minuit
Dir: Nicolas Pariser

L’Estranea
Dir: Paolo Strippoli

Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?
Dir: Shinya Tsukamoto

Bunker
Dir: Florian Zeller

Orizzonti

La Ragazza Con La Leica
Dir: Alina Marazzi

The Burning Giants
Dir: Phuttiphone Aroonpheng

What Belongs To Others
Dir: Grzegorz Debowski

Una Storia
Dir: Anna Foglietta

La Citta Dei Vivi
Dir: Edoardo Gabbriellini

Moragheb
Dir: Mohsen Gharaei

Too Much Sugar
Dir: Robert Greene

The Difficult Bride
Dir: Rubaiyat Hossain

La Maison Du Vent
Dir: Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu

I Figli Della Scimmia
Dir: Tommasco Landucci

A Day In The Life Of Jo: Chapter Phaedra
Dir: Jacqueline Lentzou

Oasis
Dir: Jannis Lenz

Until The Day Ends
Dir: Jelena Maksimovic

La Moula
Dir: Jerome Pierrat

Lovers In The Blue Night
Dir: Anuparna Roy

Un Détour Par Diane
Dir: Ann Sirot, Raphael Balboni

The Color Of The Sun
Dir: Xavier Tera

Eklipse
Dir: Manuel Wetscher

Big Little Things
Dir: Michelle Zhou

Venice Open — Out Of Competition, Fiction

Dio Ride
Dir: Giovanni Veronesi

Nessum Dolore
Dir: Giani Amelio

Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors
Dir: Lav Diaz

Father Joe
Dir: Barthelemy Grossmann

Scherzetto
Dir: Mario Martone

Place To Be
Dir: Kornel Mundruczo

No Paradise If You Are Killed By A Woman
Dir: Halkawat Mustafa

Arrested Memory
Dir: Sabu

The Basics Of Philosophy
Dir: Paul Schrader

Un Bon Avocat
Dir: Tristan Seguela

Jupiter
Dir: Alexandre Smia

Venice Open — Out Of Competition, Film on Films

Juso Per Ferie
Dir: Karen Di Porto

Nino — Un Film Su Nino Rota
Dir: Walter Fasano

The Pervert’s Guide To Utopias
Dir: Sophie Fiennes

Joie De Vivre
Dir: Luca Guadagnino

Twist And Shoot Mister Suzuki
Dir: Yves Montmayeur

Intermission
Dir: Yonfan

Venice Open — Out Of Competition, Non-Fiction

Be Brave
Dir: Francesco Carrozzini

What Love Builds
Dir: Russell Crowe

Burgundy
Dir: Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw

Musk
Dir: Alex Gibney

The Road To Jericho
Dir: Amos Gitai

Citizen Osama
Dir: Ahmed Hassouna

Union Town
Dir: Barbara Kopple

Holy Wood Dust
Dir: Victor Kossakovsky

Letters From The Silenced Country
Dir: Andrei Kutsila

Biografia De Jorge Luis Borges
Dir: Mariano Llinás

My Undesirable Friends: Part 1 — Exile
Dir: Julia Loktev

Boatbuilders
Dir: Luke Lorentzen

Imperium
Dir: Sergei Loznitsa

Shumei — The Living Legacy Of Kabuki
Dir: Takashi Miike

Queer Edward II
Dir: Theo Rollason

Oasis: Don’t Look Back In Anger
Dir: Dylan Southern, Will Lovelace

Dust
Dir: Tsai Ming-Liang

Everest: The Other Side
Dir: Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin

From Inside Out — The Architecture Of Peter Zumthor
Dir: Wim Wenders

Venice Open — Out Of Competition, Series

Peccato
Dir: Valerio Vestoso

Venice Open — Out Of Competition, Short Films

Flesh Impact
Dir: Maggie Gyllenhaal

Wild Asparagus
Dir: Avi Mograbi

They’re Here
Dir: Laura Poitras, Rachel Lauren Muller

Special Screening

Dai Nostri Inviati
Dir: Giuseppe Giannotti, Enrico Salvatori, Nicoletta Berardi

Venice Spotlight

Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing
Director: Erik Shirai

Conversations With The Sea
Dir: Muayad Alayan

Hombre Al Agua
Dir: Gael Garcia Bernal

Serpenti
Dir: Roberto De Paolis Maino

Furies
Dir: Rami Kodeih

Guria
Dir: Levan Koguashvili

Ground Floor
Dir: Gabor Reisz

Eu Contez
Dir: Alina Serban