The 81st Venice International Film Festival opened with Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice. Its Orizzonti sidebar was opened by Feeling Better. Sigourney Weaver and Peter Weir both received honorary Golden Lions. The Golden Lion for best film went to Pedro Almodóvar for The House Next Door.

The festival runs from 28 August to 7 September.

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Cloud
Cloud
An online scammer, reselling faulty products at preposterously high rates, is on the run after some of his customers decide to hit back.
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice
After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Beetlejuice, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the portal to the Afterlife.
Families Like Ours
Families Like Ours
When it becomes impossible to keep repairing the sea barriers in low-lying Denmark, the country is evacuated and once affluent Danes become refugees, with families torn apart in the process.
Maldoror
Maldoror
Two girls vanish. Police recruit Paul Chartier joins a covert unit tracking a sex offender. After the operation falters, Chartier pursues the perpetrators independently, disillusioned with legal constraints.
Mistress Dispeller
Mistress Dispeller
Desperate to save her marriage, a woman in China hires a professional to go undercover and break up her husband's affair.
To Kill A Mongolian Horse
To Kill A Mongolian Horse
Saina, a herdsman by day and horseback performer by night, is torn between two worlds.
Kora
Kora
Refugee women living in Portugal tell their stories.
Vittoria
Vittoria
A hairdresser from Naples with three loving sons and a devoted husband risks everything to pursue her dream of having a daughter.
Pooja, Sir
Pooja, Sir
When two boys are kidnapped in a border town in Nepal, Detective Inspector Pooja is sent from Kathmandu to solve the case. However, upon her arrival, the brewing political unrest and violent protests throw her off course, compelling her to seek help from Mamata, a local Madhesi policewoman.
Feeling Better
Feeling Better
A hospitalised man finds his life shifting after the arrival of a new patient.
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