Four EU-Supported Films Will Compete for the Golden Lion at the 77Th Venice Film Festival

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Four EU-supported ﬁlms will compete for the Golden Lion at the 77th Venice Film Festival

The 77th edition of the Venice International Film Festival is taking place from 2 to 12 September 2020. Twelve ﬁlms supported by Creative Europe MEDIA will be competing in diﬀerent sections, and four of them aim for the Golden Lion. In addition, industry professionals will discuss how to foster recovery and build resilience in the audiovisual sector during a digital European Film Forum.

European Commission

Visual with stills of the MEDIA-supported ﬁlms competing in the festival of Venice

MEDIA-supported ﬁlms in Venice

Venezia 77 competition

Amants (Lovers) by Nicole Garcia ŚNIEGU JUŻ NIGDY NIE BĘDZIE (Never Gonna Snow Again) by Małgorzata Szumowska Quo Vadis, Aida? By Jasmila Zbanic Notturno (Nocturnal) by Gianfranco Rosi

Orizzonti competition

Apples by Christos Nikou La nuit des rois by Philippe Lacôte Nowhere Special by Uberto Pasolini Venice VR Expanded

Kinshasa Now by Marc-Henri Wanjberg Smagen af sult (A taste of hunger) by Christoﬀer Boe and David Adler

Finally, on the fringes of the Venice Film Festival, there are two independent events also rewarding high quality cinema. In both of them MEDIA-supported ﬁlms are present:

Giornate degli Autori

Spaccapietre (The Stonebreaker) by Gianluca and Massimiliano De Serio

Venice International Film Critics Week

The Rossellinis by Alessandro Rossellini Shorta by Anders Ølholm and Frederik Louis Hviid

Creative Europe MEDIA has invested over EUR 670.000 in the development and distribution of these twelve ﬁlms.

European Film Forum

This year’s European Film Forum in Venice will take place online on 4 September and will address what can be done to foster recovery and build resilience in the European audiovisual sector. The digital event aims to take stock of the situation for Europe’s audiovisual ecosystem during the past very challenging months, and look at the future, discussing ways to ensure immediate recovery, but also long-term competitiveness of this key industry.

More information about the event, including the agenda.

Also in the context of dialogue with stakeholders, MEDIA is organising a closed digital roundtable on the same day in morning (4 September, at 11am) focusing on inmersive content. It will be an opportunity to discuss the current state of the industry, the future of immersive technologies and how to create opportunities to establish European leadership in the ﬁeld of immersive content.

MEDIA-funded projects in Venice 2020

Besides the ﬁlms competing in the festival, Creative Europe MEDIA funds other projects taking place during the Venice Film Festival with the main goal of supporting the audiovisual professionals and their works.

Venice Gap Financing Market & Venice VR Market: two markets whose aim is to enable producers and directors to complete their projects. The Biennale College – Cinema: a strategic programme for training new filmmakers from all around the world. The Biennale College - Virtual Reality: an innovative programme to fully explore the aesthetic and narrative opportunities offered by VR, providing filmmakers and creative professionals from a wide range of backgrounds with the skills to prepare them to fully engage with 360° interactive immersive future. VOD Market Day: one day of public conferences, B2B meetings and networking, gathering VoD platforms, film professionals and tech companies working with online distribution, but also open to journalists, public institutions and other professionals interested in knowing more the VoD sector. Festival Scope: a platform screening films from the best film festivals, La Biennale included. The ‘Venice Sala Web’ will allow online users to discover a selection of 15 films streamed simultaneously after their presentation on the Lido from 2 to 22 September.