WERNER SCHROETER-NUIT DE CHIEN-VENICE 65 RED CARPET

German Film maker Werner Schroeters Nuit de chien, set in an imaginary country torn apart by ...civil war, features a French cast and is a French/German/Portuguese co-production.


Films in Competition line-up (Venice 65):

The Wrestler - Darren Aronofsky (US)
The Burning Plain - Guillermo Arriaga (US)
Il papà di Giovanna - (Italy)
BirdWatchers - Marco Bechis (Italy)
LAutre - Patrick Mario Bernard, Pierre Trividic (France)
Hurt Locker - Kathryn Bigelow (US)
Il seme della discordia - Pappi Corsicato (Italy)
Rachel Getting Married - Jonathan Demme (US)
Teza - Haile Gerima (Ethiopia/Germany/France)
Paper Soldier - Aleksey German Jr. (Russia)
Süt - Semih Kaplanoglu (Turkey/France/Germany)
Achilles and the Tortoise - Takeshi Kitano (Japan)
Ponyo on Cliff by the Sea - Hayao Miyazaki (Japan)
Vegas: Based on a True Story - Amir Naderi (US)
The Sky Crawlers - Oshii Mamoru (Japan)
Un giorno perfetto - Ferzan Özpetek (Italy)
Jerichow - Christian Petzold (Germany)
La Bête dans lombre - Barbet Schroeder Inju (France)
Werner Schroeter - Nuit de chien (France/Germany/Portugal)
Inland - Tariq Teguia (Algeria/France)
Plastic City - YU Lik-wai (Brazil/China/Hong Kong/Japan)
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Venice 2008 - Competition: Italian nomadism, French noir, new German cinema.
Europe (represented mostly by Italy, France and Germany), quality US films, Japanese animation and a comeback from Africa make up the heart of the official competition of the upcoming Venice Film Festival (August 27 - September 6)...
The Italian titles vying for the Golden Lion are, in fact, those conjectured by the local press in recent days: Il papà di Giovanna by Pupi Avati, on the dramatic relationship between a father (a failed artist) and his daughter; Marco Bechis BirdWatchers, on the tensions between rich white landowners and the Indians in Brazils Mato Grosso do Sul (which Muller called an example of nomad cinema); Pappi Corsicatos Il seme della discordia, based on a story by Heinrich von Kleist from which Eric Rohmer made his The Marquise of O; Ferzan Ozpeteks A Perfect Day, 24 hours in the simple but unique lives of a group of characters.

US cinema is represented by brilliant and original filmmakers such as Kathryn Bigelow (Hurt Locker), Jonathan Demme (Rachel Getting Married), Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler), while the Coen brothers will open the festival with the out-of-competition Burn After Reading and Mexican screenwriter Guillermo Arriaga directs Charlize Theron and Kim Basinger in his feature debut The Burning Plain.

The competition will feature two French films and four co-productions. Patrick Mario Bernard and Pierre Trividic are taking to the Lido the fantasy thriller LAutre, while Barbet Schroeder returns to fiction after his documentary Terrors Advocate [trailer] with a thriller shot in Tokyo, Inju. German maestro Werner Schroeters Nuit de chien, set in an imaginary country torn apart by civil war, features a French cast and is a French/German/Portuguese co-production.

New German cinema is present in Christian Petzolds Jerichow, which promises crime, passion and deep emotions. Also co-produced by France and Germany is Süt by Turkeys Semih Kaplanoglu and Teza by Ethiopian director Haile Gerima. The latter, along with Algerina title Gabbla (Inland) by Tariq Teguia, marks the comeback of a continent trascurato as of late by the wests largest festivals.

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