Venice Film Festival Reveals 2026 Lineup (Updating Live)

The Venice Film Festival is about to reveal its 2026 lineup, promising a plethora of buzzy titles from international directors.

Like Cannes this year, Venice is expected to have a lighter Hollywood presence than in previous editions. But that does not mean there won’t be a robust roster of awards contenders.

As previously announced, the festival will open with the world premiere of Danny Boyles “Ink,” which will also compete for the festival’s prestigious Golden Lion. The 1960s-set biographical drama stars Guy Pearce as divisive business magnate Rupert Murdoch and Jack O’Connell as Larry Lamb, the editor of Murdoch-owned U.K. tabloid The Sun. Netflix recently acquired the U.S. rights to the film.

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Closing Venice this year is “Dio Ride,” the latest work from Italian filmmaker Giovanni Veronesi, in the out of competition section. The film, whose title translates to “God Laughs,” stars Pierfrancesco Favino (“Maria,” “World War Z”) as a friar in 17th-century Tuscany who manages to speak about God in a more joyful way. However, his light-hearted approach provokes the hostility of the church.

“The Bride” and “The Lost Daughter” director Maggie Gyllenhaal is set to preside over the competition jury, the third woman to do so in the past five years following Isabelle Huppert, Julianne Moore and Cate Blanchett. She will be joined by Hong Kong filmmaking giant Johnnie To, Tunisian director Kaouther Ben Hania, Afghan filmmaker Shahrbanoo Sadat, French director and screenwriter Xavier Giannoli, “The Brutalist” composer Daniel Blumberg and U.S.-based Italian film academic Francesco Casetti.

George Clooney and Ellen Burstyn will be honored with lifetime achievement awards.

The 83rd Venice Film Festival runs from Sept. 2 to 12.

See the full lineup below, updating live.

COMPETITION

“Ink,” Danny Boyle (opening film)

“Company,” Casey Affleck

“Kami Nour” (“A Bit of Light”), Ali Asgari

“Ritorno a Buenos Aires,” Marco Bechis

“Un Bon Petit Soldat” (“A Good Little Soldier”), Stéphane Brizé

“Il Fuoco Che Ti Porti Dentro,” Edoardo De Angelis

“Kvinde Ukendt” (“Woman Unknown”), May El-Toukhy

“Bucking Fastard,” Werner Herzog

“15/18 (A Place to Heal),” Cèdric Kahn

“Dau,” Ilya Khrzhanovsky

“Look Back,” Hirokazu Kore-eda

“Ga-Neung-Han Sa-Rang” (“Possible Love”), Lee Chang-Dong

“Wild Horse Nine,” Martin McDonagh

“It Will Happen Tonight,” Nanni Moretti

“Primetime,” Lance Oppenheim

“The Echo Chamber,” Andrea Pallaoro

“Un Peu Avant Minuit” (“A Bit Before Midnight”), Nicolas Pariser

“L’Estranea,” Paolo Strippoli

“Mr. Nelson, Did You Kill People?,” Shinya Tsukamoto

“Bunker,” Florian Zeller

VENICE OPEN (OUT OF COMPETITION — FICTION)

“Dio Ride,” Giovanni Veronesi (closing film)

“Nessun Dolore” (“No Pain”), Gianni Amelio

“Makikiraan Po” (“Let Us Through, Dear Ancestors”), Lav Diaz

“Father Joe,” Barthélémy Grossmann

“Scherzetto” (“Trick”), Mario Martone

“Place to Be,” Kornél Mundruczó

“No Paradise if You Are Killed by a Woman,” Halkawat Mustafa

“Arrested Memory,” Sabu

“The Basics of Philosophy,” Paul Schrader

“Un Bon Avocat,” Tristan Séguéla

“Jupiter,” Alexander Smia

OUT OF COMPETITION — NON-FICTION

“Be Brave,” Francesco Carrozzini

“What Love Builds,” Russell Crowe

“Burgundy,” Michael Dweck, Gregory Kershaw

“Musk,” Alex Gibney

“The Road to Jericho,” Amos Gitai

“Al Mowaten Osama” (“Citizen Osama”), Ahmed Hassaouna

“Union Town,” Barbara Kopple

“Holy Wood Dust,” Victor Kossakovsky

“Listy” (“Letters From the Silenced Country”), Andrei Kutsila

“Biografía De Jorge Luis Borges,” Mariano Llinás

“My Undesirable Friends: Part II – Exile,” Julia Loktev

“Boatbuilders,” Luke Lorentzen

“Imperium,” Sergei Loznitsa

“Shumei – The Living Legacy of Kabuki,” Takashi Miike

“Queer Edward II,” Theo Rollason

“Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger,” Dylan Southern, Will Lovelace

“Dust,” Tsai Ming-Liang

“Everest: The Other Side,” Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi, Jimmy Chin

“From Inside Out — The Architecture of Peter Zumthor,” Wim Wenders

SPECIAL SCREENING

“Dai Nostri Inviati. La Rai Racconta La Mostra del Cinema di Venezia 2001-2012,” Giuseppe Giannotti, Enrico Salvatori, Nicoletta Berardi

FILM ON FILMS

“Juso Per Ferie,” Karen Di Porto

“Nino – Un Film Su Nino Rota,” Walter Fasano

“The Pervert’s Guide to Utopias,” Sophie Fiennes

“Joie De Vivre,” Luca Guadagnino

“Twist and Shoot Mister Suzuki,” Yves Montmayeur

“Intermission,” Yonfan

OUT OF COMPETITION — SHORTS

“Flesh Impact,” Maggie Gyllenhaal

“Halayon” (“Wild Asparagus”), Avi Mograbi

“They’re Here,” Laura Poitras, Rachel Mueller

OUT OF COMPETITION — SERIES

“Peccato,” Valerio Vestoso

HORIZONS

“La Ragazza Con La Leica,” Alina Marazzi (opening film)

“Yak Mai” (“The Burning Giants”), Phuttiphong Aroonpheng

“Cudze Rzeczy” (“What Belongs to Others”), Grzegorz Dębowski

“Una Storia,” Anna Foglietta

“La Città Dei Vivi,” Edoardo Gabriellini

“Moragheb” (“Falling House”), Mohsen Gharaei

“Too Much Sugar,” Robert Greene

“The Difficult Bride,” Rubaiyat Hossain

“La Maison Du Vent,” Auguste Bernard Kouemo Yanghu

“I Figli Della Scimmia,” Tommaso Landucci

“Mia Mera Sti Zoi Tis Tzo: Kefalaio Faidra” (“A Day in the Life of Jo: Chapter Phaedra”), Jaqueline Lentzou

“Oase” (“Oasis”), Jannis Lenz

“Do Kraja Dana” (“Until the Day Ends”), Jelena Maksimović

“La Moula,” Jérôme Pierrat

“Lovers in the Blue Night,” Anuparna Roy

“Un Détour Par Diane,” Ann Sirot, Raphaël Balboni

“The Color of the Sun,” Xavier Tera

“Eklipse,” Manuel Wetscher

“Huangyan Shenghuo” (“Big Little Things”), Michelle Zhou

VENICE SPOTLIGHT

“Sumo: Spirit Weighs Nothing,” Erik Shirai

“Hiwar Ma’ Albahr” (“Conversation With the Sea”), Muayad Alayan

“Hombre Al Agua,” Gael García Bernal

“Serpenti,” Roberto De Paolis Maino

“Furies,” Rami Kodeih

“Guria,” Levan Koguashvili

“Földszint” (“Ground Floor”), Gábor Reisz

“Eu Contez” (“I Matter”), Alina Șerban

Elsa Keslassy contributed to this report.