Venice Days Lineup Puts Spotlight on Women’s Stories

The Giornate Degli Autori , simply known as Venice Days, has unveiled its 2024 lineup.

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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

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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

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