Venice Film Festival competition line-up
  
Among 21 films contending for the Golden Lion are Queer with Daniel Craig playing a gay American (left), Joker: Folie à Deux starring Lady Gaga and Joaquin Phoenix (centre), and Maria with Angelina Jolie playing Maria Callas
  

And Their Children After Them 	France	Dirs. 		Ludovic Boukherma, Zoran Boukherma

April 				Georgia, France, Italy 	Dea Kulumbegashvili

Babygirl 			United States 		Halina Reijn
 
Battleground 			Italy 			Gianni Amelio

The Brutalist 			United Kingdom 		Brady Corbet
 
Diva Futura 			Italy 			Giulia Louise Steigerwalt

Harvest 			UK, U.S, Ger, Greece, Fr Athina Rachel Tsangari
 
I’m Still Here 			Brazil, France 		Walter Salles

Joker: Folie À Deux 		United States 		Todd Phillips
 
Kill The Jockey 		Arg, Mex, Sp, Den, U.S. Luis Ortega

Love 				Norway Dag 		Johan Haugerud
 
Maria 				Italy, Germany, U.S. 	Pablo Larrain

The Order 			U.S., Canada 		Justin Kurzel
 
Queer 				U.S., Italy 		Luca Guadagnino

The Quiet Son 			France 			Delphine Coulin, Muriel Coulin
 
The Room Next Door 		Spain 			Pedro Almodovar

Sicilian Letters 		Italy, France 		Fabio Grassadonia, Antonio Piazza
 
Stranger Eyes 			Sing, Tai, France, U.S. Yeo Siew Hua

Three Friends 			France 			Emmanuel Mouret
 
Vermiglio 			Italy, France, Belgium 	Maura Delpero

Youth (Homecoming) 		France, Lux, Neth 	Wang Bing
 

Sources: Venice 2024, Screen Daily 
Pictures: Lewis Knight, Warner Bros., Pablo Larraín 
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