“Nonostante”, “September 5th” will open the “Venice Horizon” sidebar

The 81st Venice International Film Festival has announced the opening night films for the Horizons and Horizons Extra competition.

althoughthe second feature film from Italian director Valerio Mastandrea (2018 ride) will begin the Horizons competition portion on August 28th. September 5Tim Fehlbaum’s historical drama about the 1972 Munich Olympics, starring Peter Sarsgaard, John Magaro and Ben Chaplin.

September 5 Focusing on a sports broadcast team who suddenly find themselves covering a hostage crisis, the Palestinian armed group Black September infiltrates the Olympic Village, kills two members of the Israeli Olympic team, and takes nine others hostage hostage. teachers lounge Breakthrough Leonie Benesch also co-stars. Feilbaum is best known for his science fiction novels hell (2011) and colony (2021).

September 5 Produced by Berghaus Wöbke Filmproduktion and Projected Picture Works in association with Constantin Film and ERF Edgar Reitz Filmproduktion. Feilbaum, Philip Trauer, Thomas Warbook, Sean Penn, John Ella Palmer and John Wildermuth serve as producers. Republic Pictures owns the rights to the film outside German-speaking Europe and sells the film worldwide.

although feature perfect stranger It stars Valerio Mastandrea as a man hospitalized with a long-term illness, content to live in isolation only to find his comfortable routine upended by an angry new patient (Truman Actress Dolores Fonzi refuses to accept her condition. Starring Lino Musella, Giorgio Montagnini, Justin Alexander Kolovkin, Barbara Ronchi, Luca Lionello. Produced by Viola Prestieri and Valeria Golino although HT Film partners, Francesco Tatò and Oscar Glioti partners at Damocle, and Moreno Zani and Malcom Pagani partners at Tenderstories at Rai Cinema. BiM Distribuzione will distribute the film in Italy.

“The opening of the festival means that films are open to the public,” Mastandrea said. “I’m taking this as an opportunity to publish a story that has been my own for so long, and I hope it becomes everyone’s story.”

Separately, Venice has also unveiled this year’s poster (see below). The colorful image was designed by renowned Italian illustrator and artist Lorenzo Mattotti, the man behind seven recent Venice posters. A woman in a bright red cloak rides a large statue through the city’s legendary lagoon.

Mattotti said the image was inspired by an unforgettable event at the 1981 Venice Carnival, when a real elephant roamed the narrow streets of Venice, symbolizing the festival’s role as a crossroads for global cinema, The elephant represents “the history of memory and cinema: parties, parades, shows!'”

The 81st Venice Film Festival will announce its full competition lineup on Tuesday, July 23.