Rome, July 28 - Organisers announced at a press conference in Rome on Thursday that three Italian films will be gunning for the main Golden Lion award at the 73rd Venice Film Festival .
They are Roan Johnson's "Piuma" (Feather), Giuseppe Piccioni's "Questi Giorni" (These Days), and "Spira Mirabilis", a documentary by Massimo D'Anolfi and Martina Parenti.
Another contender for the top prize at the world's oldest film festival is "La La Land", written and directed by Damien Chazelle and starring Emma Stone, Ryan Gosling, John Legend and J. K. Simmons (supporting actor Oscar winner for Chazelle's "Whiplash").
Other Golden Lion hopefuls include Wim Wenders'" Les Beaux Jours D'Aranjuez", Francois Ozon's "Frantz", Emir Kustica's "On the Milky Road" and Tom Ford's "Nocturnal Animals" starring Jake Gyllenhaal.
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