Wim Wenders

The Venice International Film Festival is the oldest film festival in the world, dating back to 1932. Considered the most prestigious international film festival, it takes place in early fall, typically in August or September, and now, a little more than a month away from this year’s festivities, they have revealed their complete line-up of films.

Alicia Vikander is in final negotiations to star opposite James McAvoy in the Wim Wenders romantic thriller Submergence. The film is based on the novel of the same name by J.M. Ledgard.

The pic follows two lovers separated by thousands of miles and engaged in dangerous situations, who find comfort in their memories of their intense romance the previous Christmas. McAvoy will play James Moore, a man who endures captivity by jihadist fighters in Somalia.

A writer tries, over the span of 12 years, to come to terms with accidentally hitting a child with his car.

Logline: After her father passes away, an aspiring trapeze artist follows a cryptic letter he had written to her long ago, leading her to a goldmine in the far-flung California desert. Upon her arrival, she finds herself at the gates of “The Beautiful Place,” a house where retired vaudeville stars Jimmy and Dixie Riggs live together, and soon realizes that her father’s letter was guiding her to a reward far more valuable than gold.

Logline: Centers on two former lovers, one a British intelligence agent and the other a scientist.

With 63 total entries announced, which will become the final nominations?

Logline: When a young woman embarks on a quest to get to the bottom of an old family secret she encounters a pair of retired Vaudeville stars and in the process their lives are changed.

Logline: While driving aimlessly around the outskirts of town after a trivial domestic quarrel, Tomas accidentally hits and kills a child. The accident marks him for the next twelve years, as we follow the event’s implosion in Tomas’ everyday life.

Logline: Centers on a Japanese man who guides Americans through the seedy Japan nightlife, and finds himself slowly being sucked into the strange world of his last client as he hypnotizes lowly sex workers, lies about everything, and may or may-not have been involved in dismembering a local schoolgirl – something the guide finds himself suspiciously drawn to discovering on his own.