Films up for Golden Lion

The following 21 films will
compete for the Golden Lion at the 65th Venice Film Festival
from August 27 to September 6, organisers said on Tuesday:
- THE WRESTLER by Darren Aronofsky - USA
- THE BURNING PLAIN by Guillermo Arriaga - USA
- IL PAPA' DI GIOVANNA by Pupi Avati - Italy
- BIRDWATCHERS by Marco Bechis - Italy
- L'AUTRE by Patrick Mario Bernard, Pierre Trividic - France
- HURT LOCKER by Kathryn Bigelow - USA
- IL SEME DELLA DISCORDIA by Pappi Corsicato - Italy
- RACHEL GETTING MARRIED by Jonathan Demme - USA
- TEZA by Haile Gerima - Ethiopia / Germany / France
- BUMA NYJ SOLDAT (PAPER SOLDIER) by Aleksey German Jr. -
Russia
- SueT by Semih Kaplanoglu - Turkey / France / Germany
- AKIRES TO KAME (ACHILLES AND THE TORTOISE) by Takeshi
Kitano - Japan
- GAKE NO UE NO PONYO (PONYO ON CLIFF BY THE SEA) by Hayao
Miyazaki - Japan
- VEGAS: BASED ON A TRUE STORY by Amir Naderi - USA
- THE SKY CRAWLERS by Oshii Mamoru - Japan
- UN GIORNO PERFETTO by Ferzan Ozpetek - Italy
- JERICHOW by Christian Petzold - Germany
- INJU, LA B TE DANS L'OMBRE by Barbet Schroeder - France
- NUIT DE CHIEN by Werner Schroeter - France / Germany /
Portugal
- GABBLA (INLAND) by Tariq Teguia - Algeria / France
- DANGKOU (PLASTIC CITY) by Yu Lik-wai - Brazil / China /
Hong Kong / China / Japan.
Last year's Golden Lion went to Ang Lee's LUST, CAUTION.