The Giornate Degli Autori, simply known as Venice Days, has unveiled its 2024 lineup.
The independently run event, which takes place alongside the Venice Film Festival, will this year follow a theme of creatures “poised over an abyss, walking a tightrope.” “To reach the other side, or else to escape from something behind them, or just because, seen from above — lost in time, lost in space — things look very different,” event organizers said.
The only Italian title in competition is Ciro De Caro’s Taxi Monamour, about two women who lose their way yet stubbornly persist in living life as they wish. Dutch filmmaker Jan-Willem Van Ewijk’s third feature film, Alpha., follows a troubled father-son relationship set high in the Swiss Alps.
French filmmaker Marie Losier revisits the feminist singer and performer Peaches and a 14-year-long friendship in Peaches Goes Bananas, shot over the course of 17 years, while the directorial debut of Shahab Fotouhi, Boomerang, is a sociological take on relationships in current-day Tehran.
The closing film is Italy’s Basileia by Isabella Torre, the story of treasure hunters and the places in which they stash their troves, with the help of ethereal nymphs.
See the full lineup below:
Official Competition
Alpha., Jan-Willem van Erik
The Antique, Rusudan Glurjidze
Boomerang, Shahab Fotouhi
Manas, Marianna Brennand
Sanatorium Under the Sign of the Hourglass, Stephen and Timothy Quay
The Book of Joy, Camille Lugan
Super Happy Forever, Kohei Igarashi
Sugar Island, Johanné Gómez Terrero
Taxi Monamour, Ciro De Caro
To Kill a Mongolian Horse, Xiaoxuan Jiang
Out of Competition
Basileia, Isabella Torre
Special Events
Open Couple, Federica Di Giacomo
Soul of the Desert, Mónica Taboada-Tapia
Kora, Cláudia Varejão
Possibility of Paradise, Mladen Kovačević
Peaches Goes Bananas, Marie Losier
Sudan, Remember Us, Hind Meddeb
Women’s Tales Project (shorts), in collaboration with Prada’s Miu Miu
I Am the Beauty of Your Beauty, I Am the Fear of Your Fear, Chui Mui Tan
The Miu Miu Affaire, Laura Citarella
