A year ago, a couple of films of intense local interest — “Spotlight’’ and “Black Mass’’ — debuted at the Venice Film Festival.

“Spotlight,’’ director Tom McCarthy’s movie about The Boston Globe’s prize-winning series exposing the priest abuse scandal in the Boston Archdiocese, premiered to sustained applause in Italy and went on to win the Oscar for best picture.

This week, the lineup for the 2016 Venice Film Festival was announced, and it again includes a film that’s likely to interest folks in the Bay State, if not beyond. It turns out “Jackie,’’ a biopic of sorts about former first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, will have its world premiere in Venice, whose festival runs from Aug. 30 to Sept. 10.

The film, starring Oscar winner Natalie Portman in the title role, is the first English-language film by celebrated Chilean director Pablo Larraín, whose credits include “No,’’ “The Club,’’ and the forthcoming “Neruda.’’

Not a lot is known about the film, which apparently focuses on the days after President John F. Kennedy’s assassination in 1963. The cast includes Peter Sarsgaard as Robert Kennedy, as well as Billy Crudup, Greta Gerwig, and Max Casella. Asked about “Jackie’’ earlier this year, while he was still editing it, Larraín said: “I don’t know exactly where it is, but I can tell you for sure that it won’t be a classic biopic.’’

Meanwhile, two other films of local interest will screen this fall at the Toronto International Film Festival. They are “Bleed for This,’’ starring Miles Teller as Rhode Island-bred boxer Vinnie Pazienza, and “Manchester by the Sea,’’ director Kenneth Lonergan’s small-town family drama starring Michelle Williams, Casey Affleck, and Kyle Chandler.