81st Venice International Film Festival

The 81st annual Venice International Film Festival will be held from 28 August to 7 September 2024, at Venice Lido in Italy. Tim Burton's Beetlejuice Beetlejuice will open the festival on 28 August 2024.

French actress Isabelle Huppert will serve as Jury President for the main competition. Italian actress and model Sveva Alviti will host the opening and closing ceremony.

Australian filmmaker Peter Weir and American actress Sigourney Weaver will receive the Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement during the festival.

Main Competition (Venezia 81)

 * Isabelle Huppert, French actress - Jury President
 * James Gray, American filmmaker
 * Andrew Haigh, British flmmaker
 * Agnieszka Holland, Polish filmmaker
 * Kleber Mendonça Filho, Brazilian filmmaker, producer and film critic
 * Abderrahmane Sissako, Mauritanian filmmaker
 * Giuseppe Tornatore, Italian filmmaker
 * Julia von Heinz, German filmmaker
 * Zhang Ziyi, Chinese actress

Horizons (Orizzonti)

 * Debra Granik, American filmmaker and cinematographer - Jury President
 * Ali Asgari, Iranian filmmaker and producer
 * Soudade Kaadan, Syrian filmmaker
 * Christos Nikou, Greek filmmaker
 * Tuva Novotny, Swedish actress and director
 * Gábor Reisz, Hungarian filmmaker
 * Valia Santella, Italian filmmaker

Luigi de Laurentis Award for Debut Film

 * Gianni Canova, Italian film critic and Rector of the Università IULM in Milan - Jury President
 * Ricky D’Ambrose, American filmmaker
 * Barbara Paz, Brazilian actress, filmmaker, visual artist and producer
 * Taylor Russell, Canadian actress
 * Jacob Wong, Hong-Kong film festival curator and project market director

Venice Classics

 * Renato De Maria, Italian filmmaker - Jury President

Venice Immersive

 * Celine Daemen, Dutch director of transdisciplinary art - Jury President
 * Marion Burger, French production designer
 * Adriaan Lokman, Dutch artist

Background
Expected world premieres, in competition or in sidebars sections, includes: Luca Guadagnino's Queer, Pedro Almodovar's The Room Next Door, Pablo Larrain's Maria, Todd Phillips’ Joker: Folie à Deux, Lucrecia Martel's Chocobar, Walter Salles' I’m Still Here, Julian Schnabel's In the Hand of Dante, Brady Corbet's The Brutalist, Justin Kurzel's The Order, Zoran and Ludovic Boukherma's And Their Children After Them, Fabio Grassadonia and Antonio Piazza's Iddu, Xavier Beauvois' La Vallée des Fous, Pietro Marcello's Duse, Sebastian Lelio's The Wave, Delphine and Muriel Coulin’s The Quiet Son, Tom Tykwer's The Light, Emmanuel Mouret's Une Chose et Son Contraire, Dea Kulumbegashvili's Those Who Find Me, Maura Delpero's The Mountain Bride, Yeo Siew Hua's Stranger Eyes and Gabriele Salvatores’ Napoli.

Out of Competition
The following films were selected to be screened out of competition:

Orizzonti
The following films were selected to the Orizzonti main competition:

Orizzonti Extra
The following films were selected to the Orizzonti Extra section:

Orizzonti Short Films International Competition
The following films were selected to compete for the Orizzonti Award for Best Short Film, assigned by the Jury of the Orizzonti section:

Venice Classics
Venice Classics is the section that since 2012 has presented world premiere screenings at the Venice Film Festival of restorations of film classics carried out over the past year by film archives, cultural institutions and production companies around the world. The section usually also presents a selection of documentaries about cinema. Director and screenwriter Renato De Maria will chair the Jury of Film Students which – for the eleventh year – will award the Venice Classics prizes for the respective competitions for Best Restored Film and for the Best Documentary About Cinema. The Jury chaired will be composed of 24 students. The following films were selected to the Venice Classics section:

Venice Immersive
The Venice Immersive is entirely devoted to immersive media and includes all XR means of creative expression, from 360° videos to XR works of any length, including installations and virtual worlds. The following projects were selected for the XR - Extended Reality section of La Biennale di Venezia:

Out of Competition
The out of competition slot of Venice Immersive presents an international selection of works that have been released or premiered elsewhere since the last edition of the Venice International Film Festival:

Final Cut in Venice
Final Cut in Venice is the festival program that has been providing since 2013 support in the completion of films from African and Middle East countries. The following seven work-in-progress films have been selected for the 12th edition of Final Cut in Venice:

Giornate degli Autori
The following films were selected to be screened in Giornate degli Autori:

Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement

 * Peter Weir
 * Sigourney Weaver