Thursday, July 28, 2016

Portuguese Marco Martins in the Horizons section of Venice – Daily News – Lisbon

Tom Movies Ford, Kusturikca and Malick in the festival’s official competition, announced today.

St. George , the new film by Marco Martins, will be in the official selection at the 73rd Venice International Film Festival Film – Orizzonti International Competition, one parelela competitive section, more experimental films, the festival which takes place between 31 August and 10 September.

according to the statement of producer, Filmes do Tejo, St George is a look at the intervening years the troika in Portugal and the financial crisis that hit our country. “Crossing the fiction to the documentary (making use of a wide cast of non-professional actors) the film focuses on the story of a boxer, long-term unemployed to accept a job in a difficult collection company to pay its own debts “.

actor Nuno Lopes, who had worked with Marco Martins Alice , returns to be protagonist in the St George . Beatriz Batarda, Gonçalo Waddington, Carla Maciel and Mariana Nunes also part of the cast.

In the Horizons section, Marco Martins will compete with films like Ce qui nous éloigné , Wei Hu with Isabelle Hupert (France), or Samedi Cinema, Mamadou Dia (Senegal). See the complete list of the films in this section on the official Biennale website.

Also according to the producer, this movie will be the only Portuguese representative at the event and also marks the return of director at the Venice Film Festival after the short film a Year More Long , written with Tonino Guerra, have been in official competition in 2006.

However, there will still two more films in Venice co-produced by the Portuguese Paulo Branco (Movies Leopard): the beautiful days of Aranjuez , the German Wim Wenders director (in competition) and never Benoit Jacquot, which will be shown out of competition.

The Venice Film Festival opens with La La Land , Damien Chazelle, with Ryan Gosling and Emma Stone, to be presented in competition. The closing will appear The Magnificent Seven, Antoine Fuqoa, already out of competition

This is the list, released today, the films will be in Venice.

in competition (official selection):
The Bad Batch , Ana Lily Amirpour (USA)
Une Vie , Stéphane Brizé ( France / Belgium)
La La Land , Damien Chazelle (USA.)
The Light Between Oceans , Derek Cianfrance (USA / Australia / New Zealand )
El Ciudadano Ilustre , Mariano Cohn, Gaston Duprat (Argentina / Spain)
Spira Mirabilis , Massimo D ‘Anolfi, Martina Parenti (Italy / Switzerland)
The Woman Who Left , Lav Diaz (Philippines)
La Salvaje Region , Amat Escalante (Mexico)
nocturnal Animals , Tom Ford (USA)
Piuma , Roan Johnson (Italy)
Paradise , Andrei Konchalovsky (Russia / Germany)
Brimstone , Martin Koolhoven (Holana / Germany / Belgium / France / United Kingdom / Sweden)
on The Milky Road , Emir Kusturica (Serbia / UK / US)
Jackie , Pablo Larrain (US / Chile)
Voyage of Time , Terrence Malick (USA / Germany)
El Ciego Christ , Christopher Murray (Chile / France) *
Frantz , François Ozon (France)
Questi Giorni Giuseppe Piccioni (Italy)
Arrival , Denis Villeneuve (USA)
Les Beaux Jours D “Aranjuez , Wim Wenders (France / Germany)

Out of competition:
the Young Pope (episodes 1 & amp; 2), Paolo Sorrentino (Italy / France / Spain / USA)
The Bleeder , Philippe Falardeau (US / Canada)
The Magnificent Seven , Antoine Fuqua (USA)
Hacksaw Ridge , Mel Gibson (USA / Australia)
The Journey , Nick Hamm (UK)
never , Benoît Jacquot (France / Portugal)
Gantz: the , Yasushi Kawamura (Japan)
the Age of Shadows , Jee-woon Kim (South Korea)
Mount , Amir Naderi (Italy / US / France)
Tommaso , Kim Rossi Stuart (Italy)

documentaries :
Our War , Bruno Chiaravalloti (Italy / USA)
I Called Him Morgan , Kasper Collin (Sweden / USA)
One More Time with Feeling , Andrew Dominik (UK)
Austerlitz , Sergei Loznitsa (Germany)
Al Cielo Assault , Francesco Munzi (Italy)
Safari , Ulrich Seidl (Austria / Denmark)
American Anarchist , Charlie Siskel (USA)
Planetarium , Rebecca Zlotowski (France / Belgium)

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