Here are the titles that will compete for the 2023 Golden Lion.
Six Italians.
Bastarden
Directed by Nikolai Arcel
Cast: Mads Mikkelsen, Amanda Collin, Simon Bennebjerg, Melina Hagberg, Kristin Kujat Thorp, Gustav Lind / Denmark, Germany, Sweden / 127′
Dogman
Directed by Luc Besson
Cast Caleb Landry Jones, Jojo T. Gibbs, Christopher Denham, Clemence Schick, Grace Palma / France / 114′
La bete
Directed by Bertrand Bonello
Cast Léa Seydoux, George MacKay / France, Canada / 146′
Seasonal snack
Directed by Stefan Brize
Actors Guillaume Canet, Alba Rohrwacher / France / 115′
Aeneas
Directed by Pietro Castellitto
Cast: Pietro Castellitto, Giorgio Quarzo Guaracio, Benedetta Porcaroli, Chiara Noschese, Giorgio Montanini, Adamo Dionisi, Matteo Branchiamore, Cesare Castellitto, Sergio Castellitto / Italy / 115′
Owner
Directed by Bradley Cooper
Cast: Carey Mulligan, Bradley Cooper, Matt Bomer, Maya Hawke, Sarah Silverman, Josh Hamilton, Scott Ellis, Gideon Glick, Sam Nivola, Alexa Swinton, Miriam Shore / USA / 129′
Priscilla
Directed by Sofia Coppola
Cast: Caylee Spaeny, Jacob Elordi, Dagmara Dominczyk / USA, Italy / 110′
Finally dawn
Directed by Saverio Costanzo
Cast: Lily James, Rebecca Antonachi, Joe Keery, Rachel Sennott, Alba Rohrwacher, Willem Dafoe / Italy / 140′
Commander
Directed by Edoardo De Angelis
Actors Pierfrancesco Favino, Massimiliano Rossi, Johan Heldenberg, Arturo Muselli, Giuseppe Brunetti, Gianluca Di Gennaro, Johannes Viriks, Silvia D’Amico, Paolo Bonacelli / Italy / 120′
Ljubo
Directed by Giorgio Wrights
Cast: Franz Rogowski, Christophe Sermet, Valentina Belle, Noemi Besédes, Cecilia Steiner, Joel Basman, Filippo Giulini, Alessandro Zappella / Italy, Switzerland / 175′
Source
Directed by Ava DuVernay
Cast: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, Jon Bernthal, Vera Farmiga, Nicy Nash-Betts, Audra McDonald, Nick Offerman, Connie Nielsen / USA / 135′
Murderer
Directed by David Fincher
Cast: Michael Fassbender, Tilda Swinton, Charles Parnell, Arliss Howard, Kerry O’Malley, Sophie Charlotte, Emiliano Pernia, Gabriel Polanco / USA / 118′
Memory
Directed by Michel Franco
Cast: Jessica Chastain, Peter Sarsgaard, Brooke Timber, Merritt Wever, Elsie Fisher, Jessica Harper, Josh Charles / Mexico, USA / 100′
I am the captain
Directed by Matteo Garrone
Cast Seydou Sarr, Mustafa Fall / Italy, Belgium / 121′
Aku wa sonzai shinai (Evil does not exist)
Directed by Ryusuke Hamaguchi
Cast Hitoshi Omika, Ryo Nishikawa, Ryuji Kosaka, Ayaka Shibutani / Japan / 106′
Zielona granica (Green border)
Directed by Agnieszka Holland
Cast Jalal Altawil, Maya Ostaszewska, Tomasz Wlosok, Behi Janati Atay, Mohamad Al Rashi, Dahlia Naus / Poland, Czech Republic, France, Belgium / 147′
Die Theorie von Allem
Directed by Timm Kroeger
Cast Jan Bülow, Olivia Ross, Hanns Zieschler, Gottfried Breitfuss, David Bennent, Philipp Graber / Germany, Austria, Switzerland / 118′
Poor things
Directed by Yorgos Lanthimos
Cast: Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Rami Youssef, Christopher Abbott, Susie Bemba, Jerrod Carmichael, Katherine Hunter, Vicki Pepperdine, Margaret Qualley, Hanna Shigulla / UK / 141′
El Conde
Directed by Pablo Larrain
Cast: Jaime Wadell, Gloria Münchmeier, Alfredo Castro, Paula Luchsinger / Chile / 110′
ferrari
Directed by Michael Mann
Cast: Adam Driver, Penélope Cruz, Shailene Woodley, Sarah Gadon, Gabrielle Leone, Jack O’Connell, Patrick Dempsey / USA / 130′ (pictured)
Slowly
Directed by Stefano Sollima
Cast: Pierfrancesco Favino, Toni Servillo, Valerio Mastandrea, Adriano Giannini, Gianmarco Franchini, Francesco Di Leva, Lorenzo Adorni, Silvia Salvatori / Italy / 127′
Kobeta Z…
Directed by Malgorzata Szumowska, Michal Englert
Cast Malgorzata Gajewska-Krzysztofik, Joanna Kulig, Bohumila Bayor, Mateusz Weclawek / Poland, Sweden / 132′
Holly
Directed by Fien Troch
Cast: Catalina Gerarts, Felix Heremans, Hi Verstraete, Serdi Faki Alici, Els Dekequelie / Belgium, Netherlands, Luxembourg, France / 102′