Before the Venice Film Festival, which starts on August 30, The Hollywood Reporter’s chief film critic David Rooney has listed his top 10 most anticipated films for the festival. They are listed below:

• EL CONDE

Chilean director Pablo Larraín returns to horror with a dark comedy about Augusto Pinochet, the former dictator of Chile, reimagined as a vampire living in isolation while continuing his brutality. The film focuses on his existential crisis after he turns 250.

• EVIL DOES NOT EXIST

Oscar-winning director Ryusuke Hamaguchi will present the story of a single father and his daughter living in a rural village near Tokyo. The film will reflect the ideals of connecting and living in harmony in nature with the pushing of Japanese capitalism and gentrification of rural areas.

• FERRARI

Michael Mann presents the story of Italian sportscar entrepreneur Enzo Ferrari, based on Brock Yates’ 1991 biography. Adam Driver plays ex-Formula 1 driver, who in the summer of 1957 loses both his son with his wife Laura (Penélope Cruz) and is battling the potential loss of his company. The film will focus on a singular race that has the power to make or break the Ferrari forever.

• THE KILLER

David Fincher directs an action thriller based on a graphic novel series, starring Michael Fassbender as the titular character. a hired assassin who quarrels with his bosses after he nearly dies. The ensuing fight leads him on a worldwide manhunt that makes him question himself.

• MAESTRO

Bradley Cooper directs this biopic about American composer and conductor Leonard Bernstein (Cooper) and his wife, actress Felicia Montealegre (Carey Mulligan). Despite her knowledge of his homosexuality and affairs, their marriage endured for 27 years. 

• MEMORY

Michel Franco’s drama stars Jessica Chastain and Peter Sarsgaard as people who meet after years apart while at their high school reunion and follows them as they struggle to trust each other enough to form a relationship. 

• ORIGIN

Ava DuVernay adapts the best-seller, Caste: The Origins of Our Discontent, which examines the way racist hierarchical divisions have shaped America in the past and continue to shape the country in the current era.

• POOR THINGS

Yorgos Lanthimos adapts this 1992 novel Poor Things, about a woman in the 19th century who is brought back to life by a scientist before running off with a degenerate lawyer in search of freedom.

• PRISCILLA

Sofia Coppola’s biopic portrait of Priscilla Presley, which centers on the wife of King of Rock ‘n’ Roll Elvis Presley, who she met when he was 27 and she was 14. Cailee Spaeny plays Priscilla in what is being described as “a breakout performance of remarkable force.”

• THE PROMISED LAND

Nikolaj Arcel reunites with Mads Mikkelsen for this depiction of a soldier’s quest to find wealth by cultivating in Jutland. However, he makes an enemy of a local landowner by taking in the man’s runaway servants.