Venice Film Festival’s September 5 lineup features Moretti, Oasis and Pattinson

Nanni Moretti, Robert Pattinson, and Oasis’s Liam and Noel Gallagher lead the Venice Film Festival program for September 5, a day combining competition titles with documentaries and films addressing conflict and history.

Moretti returns to the Lido after 37 years with “Succederà questa notte,” the first of five Italian films competing at the festival. Inspired by stories by Eshkol Nevo, the film features Louis Garrel, Jasmine Trinca, Hippolyte Girardot and Angela Finocchiaro. Moretti describes its themes as “stories that speak of love, encounters and abandonments, but also of parents and adult children and all those bonds that accompany us, more or less silently, throughout our lives.”

Robert Pattinson stars in Lance Oppenheim’s “Primetime,” another film competing for the Golden Lion. It tells the true story of a journalist who hunts pedophiles. The film is scheduled for the Sala Grande at 5 p.m.

The red carpet will also welcome British rock with Liam and Noel Gallagher for “Oasis: Don’t Look Back in Anger,” an out-of-competition documentary by Dylan Southern and Will Lovelace. It follows the band’s reunion and the tour that brought them around the world, using their first joint interviews in more than 25 years and previously unseen rehearsal footage.

Outside the competition, Amos Gitai’s “The Road to Jericho” addresses the conflict in the Middle East through a mix of fiction and documentary. Sergei Loznitsa’s “Imperium” uses archive footage filmed by Italian directors between 1970 and 1973 to portray places and people in the Soviet Union of that era. Venice Spotlight features Roberto De Paolis Maino’s “Serpenti,” about a man who kills his wife but cannot manage to get himself arrested.

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They are stories that speak of love, encounters and abandonments, but also of parents and adult children and all those bonds that accompany us, more or less silently, throughout our lives.