The Venice Film Festival will announce its lineup a few weeks from now, but there has been much speculation about all the possible titles that will premiere this coming August at the Lido. Based on online speculation, intel and sources, I have 11 titles which have been confirmed by a few in-the-know as cinches to premiere there:
Martin Eden (Pietro Marcello)
Gloria Mundi (Robert Guédiguian)
Ema (Pablo Larrain)
Ford vs Ferrari (James Mangold)
The Truth (Hirokazu kore-eda)
About Endlessness (Roy Andersson)
MalmKrog (Christian Puiu)
Ad Astra (James Gray)
Qui Ridio io (Mario Martone)
The Salt of Tears (Philippe Garrel)
Vitalina Varela (Pedro Costa)
Joker (Todd Phillips)
The Aeronauts (Tom Harper)
A Rainy Day in New York (Woody Allen)
The following are possibilities:
First Cow (Kelly Reichardt)
The Laundromat (Steven Soderbergh)
Lucy in the Sky (Noah Hawley)
Uncut Gems (The Safdie brothers)
Jojo Rabbit (Taika Waititi)
Nomadland (Chloe Zhao)
Untitled Noah Baumbach (Noah Baumbach)
Little Women (Greta Gerwig)
Dry Run (Todd Haynes)
The King (David Michod)