John Woo's MANHUNT Among 3 New Films Added to Venice Film Festival Line-Up

The world premieres of three new films round out the program of the 74th Venice International Film Festival (August 30 - September 9), directed by Alberto Barbera and organized by the Biennale, chaired by Paolo Baratta. The three films completing the program of the 74th Venice Film Festival are:

ZHUIBU (MANHUNT) - The much-awaited return of John Woo to the crime thriller movies which made him famous, The Killer and Hardboiled. A contemporary remake of a Japanese classic of the genre, it's the story of a Chinese man who is framed for murder in Japan; he tries to clear his name as he dodges a manhunt organized by the Japanese police and the attacks of mysterious killers. John Woo (A Better Tomorrow, Face/Off) received the Golden Lion for Career Achievement in Venice in 2010. The film will be presented Out of Competition.

L'ORDINE DELLE COSE - The film by Andrea Segre (Shun Li and the Poet, First Snowfall) tells the story of Corrado, a policeman who is a member of a task force running the system which controls the flow of immigrants. Corrado is sent to coordinate a delicate mission in Libya, where he meets Swada, a young Somali woman who is trying to rejoin her husband in Finland. The film will be presented in Special Screenings.

L'ENIGMA DI JEAN ROUCH A TORINO - CRONACA DI UN FILM RATÉ - The film by Marco di Castri, Paolo Favaro and Daniele Pianciola is a documentary about a true "laboratory of ideas" and the film it generated: Enigma. The documentary reconstructs the two years between the arrival of Jean Rouch and the project's conclusion, and is told through the voices of its protagonists as they dialogue with extraordinary material: over 20 hours of making-of. The film will be presented in the competitive section Venezia Classici - Documentaries.

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