The five films include Il signore delle formiche (The Lord of the Ants) by Gianni Amelio, Bone and All by Luca Guadagnino, Chiara by Susanna Nicchiarelli, Monica by Andrea Pallaoro and L’immensità (Immensity) by Emanuele Crialese.
The festival will open with American director Noah Baumbach’s latest film, White Noise, which follows an American family’s quest for happiness in an uncertain world.
The film is an adaptation of Don DeLillo’s bestselling eponymous novel and stars Adam Driver, Greta Gerwig and Don Cheadle.
Baumbach premiered his last film, Marriage Story, at the festival in 2019.
“It’s a great privilege to open the 79th Venice International Film Festival with White Noise,” Festival Director Alberto Barbera said.
“Baumbach has made an original, ambitious and compelling piece of art, which encompasses aspects of the dramatic, the ironic and the satirical.
“The result is a film that examines the obsessions, doubts and fears that consumed us in the 1980s, that integrates very clear references to our contemporary reality.”
