HERE ARE THE TEN FILMS NOT TO BE MISSED AT THE VENICE FILM FESTIVAL! - ACTUALITY

Here are the 10 films not to be missed at the Venice Film Festival. Find out why

The billboard of the Venice Film Festival 2015 is as always very rich and promising. Between author films, world premieres and documentaries, it is difficult to extricate oneself from the film offers that will perhaps only later arrive in cinemas.

Certainly, from 2 to 12 September, during the Festival, there will be interesting films, full of stars and expected scandals. Here is our choice of 10 movies not to be missed, with lots of motivation!

1. Black Mass

2. Equals

In the near future, society will be devoid of feelings and emotions, and everything will be quiet and peaceful. In such a world, feelings become a dangerous disease, and when Silas, an illustrator, becomes "sick", he realizes he has feelings for his colleague Nia, who is also "sick". The two will only have to flee in order to survive.

Why see it: the couple of runaways in love is composed of Kristen Stewart and Nicolas Hoult, and why for once science fiction is linked to romanticism.

3. Blood of my blood

Two stories, one from the past and one from the present, intertwine in a mysterious way. In the past, two twin brothers, a soldier and a priest, are seduced by a nun, who is walled up alive in the prisons of a small town in Lombardy. In the present, a ministerial inspector will discover the existence of the Count, who lives only at night in the place where there were prisons.

Why see it: the return of Marco Bellocchio, in competition, with a disturbing story and a touch of the supernatural.

4. For your sake

Anna has a precarious job, two children, and a usurer husband whom she would like to get rid of. But her "sin" is letting herself go, not having done anything to change things. Will she succeed?

Why see it: the protagonist is Valeria Golino, one of the best Italian actresses around.

5. A bigger splash

Luca Guadagnino returns to direct a film with Tilda Swinton afterwards I am the love. This is the remake of The pool, a 1968 film starring Alain Delon and Romy Schneider. A strange quartet meets during a holiday in Pantelleria: a rock star (Swinton), her partner photographer (Matthias Schoenaerts), an ex and friend of hers (Ralph Fiennes) and her young daughter (Dakota Johnson).

Why see it: for the cast and director, and why it promises sparks ...

6. The Danish girl

Copenhagen, 1920. An illustrator (Alicia Vikander) asks her husband to pose for her, because he has no models available. Then the man poses more and more often as a model, realizing that he likes himself very much in female guise. Finally she decides to change sex, becoming the first transsexual in history.

Why See It: Based on a true story about the first case of surgical sex reassignment, it is played by Eddie Redmayne, Academy Award winner for The theory of everything as Stephen Hawking.

7. Everest

The film is inspired by the true story of the disastrous Everest expedition of a group of climbers in 1996, during which many met their deaths. The exhibition opens out of competition as a world premiere on 2 September.

Why see it: It marks the return of the disaster movie (in 3D) and has a stellar cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Josh Brolin, Robin Wright, Keira Knightley, Emily Watson.

8. Spotlight

Another film not to be missed, due to the tension and delicacy of the theme. It is inspired by the cases of pedophilia by the clergy in Massachusetts, which a few years ago shocked the American press, the Catholic Church and all of society.

Why see it: for the delicate, important theme to address, and for a respectable cast: Mark Ruffalo, Rachel MacAdams, Michael Keaton, Liev Schreiber.

9. Don't be bad

Claudio Caligari, who recently passed away, is a cult director who unfortunately had only managed to make two films, both of which have become an obsession with cinephiles: Toxic love And The smell of the night. His experimentation with genre films, his in-depth look at places and situations, the craftsmanship on images have made him an "exception in the panorama of Italian cinematographic authors. Valerio Mastandrea produces the latest Caligari film: the director returns to Ostia as in Toxic love and tells the "good life" between crime, drugs, powerful cars and dangers.

Why see it: it's the third and final film by a cult director.

10. Anomalise

'Anomalisa is the story of a man paralyzed by the banality of his life. "This is how the director and author Charlie Kaufman (screenwriter of If you leave me I delete you And Confessions of a Dangerous Mind by George Clooney). A girl, however, will push the man to try other ways.

Why see it: because it's by Kaufman, another cult author, and because it's a stop motion animated film.